Last weekend we managed to scamper on up in to the hills, not the craziest of all starts to the season but getting days and a wee article in May is a way to start. Check the full thing at the NZsnowboard.com post.
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During the 2011 winter, I produced a series of snowboarding videos “The Clubbies” about the lifestyle and riding that goes on in a number of small and obscure ski fields in the South Island of New Zealand, great places with very interesting stories and some awesome snow. The series was three episodes long with each episode three to five minutes long. The series was designed to break the mind set of the club ski fields or as they are affectionately known as a place you might take a trip to once a season and that it was this big thing to go there to a place where you can ride everyday and make a season with a group of other like minded snowboarders.
The clubbies can be an intimidating place, deeper in the mountains where skiing is still the norm and many of the occupants having been there since they were young if not multiple generations and lifts technical to ride many snowboarders feel uneasy before getting to the day lodge, we opened the series up in this way with one of the opening comments having an old time skier referring to us as “gays on trays” before we build into why we are there.
Since this series snowboarding has grown and evolved and continues to become more common place at the clubbies.
The Featured Video above is the first episode.
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For one of the Snow Show TV shows I filmed and edited during the 2012 winter I travelled from Tekapo to Wanaka with two of New Zealand’s best snowboarders, Will Jackways & Abby Lockhart, as well as their dog and documented the travels along the way, the show is about the lifestyle of riding as much as the tricks. All of my Snow Show eps are here.
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I’ve been cutting away on this clip for Ben from across the ocean. The internet opens up nice little options like being able to quickly and easily help someone out like this to do the editing on a piece of footage that you wouldn’t otherwise have the chance to film.
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Piece two of my piece a week series comes from one of the main areas I have been spending time at the moment, almost everyday we wake up and go drive the mountain passes, toge, around the area and look for locations to film. A simple concept but not always the easiest.
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I’ve just booked in flights to Japan, I leave in two weeks today and plan on taking a camera and seeing how far I can go. Theres going to be something fun in this adventure for sure.
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This has been something that I should have dealt with before now but I finally had a need to get one done pretty quick so I grabbed a whole bunch of what I’ve been up to for the past year and cut it up. Now I just have to go shoot some more and get something better but there are plenty of plans in the works for that.
And right around the same time Liam has been cutting the Film Inc Media reel. This was something he shot on the day after Snow Park closed and wasn’t sure what to do with it but I think it show a lot of what he’s up to as the main filmer for Film Inc, the guy just shots and edits a crazy amount.
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I woke up this morning to an unexpected surprise, on of our recent clips on Film Inc Media got picked up by the Red Bull Facebook and sent out to their 32 million followers. They threw a guy out of space last week and now they post our stuff, I’m stoked, Liam Hall did most of the work, he filmed and edited. Tim Herbert rode good, Kaleb Weston was running the long lens and I had some 50mm shots. Check the vid for yourself Tim at Snowpark 2012.
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As the CHILL Series continued through the mountains we made it to Craigieburn for a whole lot more skiing. Cam McD’s ollie to pillow is one of the interesting lines I’ve seen any skier take, let alone in a comp.
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