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You never know till you go 10-11 season

by schmuck
Sep 25th 2011 - 0 comments

The 10-11 season in alaska was a little on the rough side.  Little snow and terrible snow pack cause for one of the worst seasons i've had in alaska.  But in November and early December we were on top of the game skiing great stuff.  This movie is a look at the good time of the season where shred was at full force.  The edit was made by luke tanaka, and feature riding from Downtown Girdwood residents Josh Randich, Deven Williams, and Ray Reeves, and of corse Luke Tanaka, Nick Madison, David Bacon and few others. Shots Locations at: like i'd tell you find your own spotshttp://vimeo.com/29455727 there she is enjoy

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New Zealand Trip

by schmuck
Sep 16th 2011 - 0 comments

I just got back home after travelling for more than thirty hours straight! For the past three and a half week I was on a ski trip to New Zealand with Finnish Halfpipe Ski Team. This time our crew consisted of me, Kalle Hilden, AJ Kemppainen and our coach Janne Hiltula. NZ turned out to be great except for my sore knee, which forced me to take it easy for a few days. Other than that, I managed to get some good days on snow and even learned a couple of new tricks. Check out Finnish Halfpipe Ski Team's page http://finnishhalfpipe.wordpress.com/ and AJ Kemppainen's personal site http://www.skiwithaj.com/ for more stories, photos and videos.

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Loyalty, A Ski Movie by 4FRNT, is Live Online September 26

by schmuck
Sep 14th 2011 - 0 comments

It's that time of year again, ski movie season.
As the leaves change, and there's that distinct crispness in the air, everyone goes looking for their ski stoke.
This year we are throwing our hat into the ring with Loyalty, a Ski Movie by 4FRNT. It's a great look into 4FRNT as a rider-owned and rider-inspired company. 
The official World Premier is happening Saturday night at evo in Seattle, showing along with Level 1's After Dark. Wiley Miller will be there, along with his brand new ski, the YLE.
After that, Loyalty will be coming home to Salt Lake on Saturday the 24th where we are parntering with Sherpas Cinema to bring you All.I.Can with the Salt Lake premier of Loyalty showing beforehand. This show will be nuts, so if you're in Salt Lake, don't miss it.
The following Monday, we'll be launching Loyalty out into the wild for free online viewing, and free downloads. We'll have it on 4FRNT TV as well as formatted for iPod, iPad and your own computer.
We're so excited to have the opportunity to make the movie, and we know you'll love it.
Get the goods at 4frnt.com/loyalty

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GAH Freeride Ski Touring Camps

by schmuck
Sep 13th 2011 - 0 comments

 Golden Alpine Holiday (GAH) is hosting Freeride Ski Touring camps this December. GAH's backcountry lodges are the perfect location for early season ski touring, I have skied/filmed with MSP at the GAH lodges 60 days over the 5 season and have yet to experience bad snow conditions. Test out my touring freeride set up: two lengths of 4FRNT Renegades and a pair of next years 187 HOJI's, with demo Dynafit Bindings matched up with progressive glue-less Gecko skins! Prize packages from Smith Optics and Arc'teryx! These camps are a perfect opportunity to ski some early season powder, test out brand new 4FRNT skis, gain some backcountry knowledge, work on your touring and freeriding skills and have a great time in the mountains with some friends providing you with an excellent start to your season!  Check out GAH's link for more details: http://www.goldenalpineholidays.com/community/Blog/Freeride-Ski-Touring-...   Check out my last years athlete edited segment from MSP's film "The Way I See It", Note: the first half of this segment was filmed exclusively at GAH!http://www.skimovie.com/index.php/athlete-edits/*Look for the GAH segment in MSP's new film "Attack Of La Nina" on tour starting September 17th!!! Cheers, Eric

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Nurmes Water Ramps

by schmuck
Sep 9th 2011 - 0 comments

Hello there. I've been hitting water ramps at a town called Nurmes in eastern Finland. My family's summer home is located just a mile away from the ramp so it's always been easy to practice here. I've been here for almost two months, but haven't written about it because of my incapability of taking any pictures of the ramp to support my story. And as we know, there's no good blog without good pictures. I guess I've been too excited about jumping and constantly forgotten to take my camera to a session. Anyway, today I came up with a brilliant idea. I remembered that I do have a picture of the ramp, just not the most recent one, and as everything here in Nurmes looks just about the same as it did two years ago (when this particular picture was taken) I figured that nobody would notice the difference. Here it is, Matti Räty.
I posted this photo because that was the only one I had. But now that it's done, I got kind of interested in why I actually have only one photo. I've never been particularly keen on taking photos of my life. Why? Because I like living my life much more than documenting it. I've seen people ruining their holidays because of the constant stress of getting every single moment filmed. What's the point of visiting a museum and look pieces of art though a camera lens, when perfect pictures of all those works are available on the museums webpage? Or have you been to a rock concert recently and been amazed by that massive amount of cellphones and digital cameras pointing towards the stage? For me it seems like people are not even having fun at concerts anymore, because everyone's so focused on their own documenting "performance". Search any band on YouTube and you'll find hundreds of shitty quality videos of live gigs constantly interrupted by drunken people, or by other filmers desperately trying to raise their camera hands just an inch higher. How cool is that?

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Quiver Killer Inserts

by schmuck
Sep 9th 2011 - 0 comments

Since I became involved with ski production I have wanted the ability to incorporate threaded inserts for mounting bindings applications. Obviously there are many varying factors that prevent the use of pre installed inserts in current ski production within the ski industry:
-Variety of binding hole patterns between binding brands and differences between boot sole lengths from size to size directly effect hole placements are the main limiting factors.
I have been dreaming of the day when skiers would be able to utilize threaded inserts technology to mount skis for years:
-The ability to interchanged one set of bindings between multiple sets of skis would be awesome.
-Being able to move your toe piece mounting potion, forward/back to adjust boot centre mount potion and experiment with the "sweet spot" on your skis to match your personal preference.
-The necessity for a versatile setup has now grown exponentially with the recent success/acceptance of Dynafit/Tech touring bindings, the ability to swap Alpine bindings with Tech on a single pair of skis is paramount.
This dream is now a reality thanks to Quiver Killer's beautifully crafted stainless steel inserts, welcome to the future of binding mounting technology!!!I just installed my first pair of Quiver Killer's into a pair of my Renegades for a set of Dynafit's new Radical FT 12 binding and am very exited!
The installation process was pretty straight forward, I used a drill press to drill out my original screw holes as well as tap/thread the new larger holes for the inserts. Quiver Killer recommends using a drill press for these two steps of the installation process to assure drilling/threading straight holes for best results.
There is something to be said about tightening your binding screws and feeling a decisive end stopping point, no worries about over tightening and striping the holes you just drilled in your skis. Quiver Killer has a variety of M5 (metric) stainless steel machine screws, that they sell in sets specifically for binding models/brands, no guess work involved.
Anyway just wanted to share this exciting new product. I was extremely happy to discover that something that I had been thinking a lot about over the past few years already exists and is available. It kind of takes some of the fun out of the idea but it also eliminates all guess work/experimentation from the process but also allows me to test them out that much sooner. I will keep you posted on future developments on Quiver Killer's, I recommend you check them out for yourself at:
http://www.quiverkiller.com
Cheers,
Eric Hjorleifson

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Announcing the 4FRNT Team Movie - Loyalty

by schmuck
Sep 9th 2011 - 0 comments

 
4FRNT Skis is excited to officially announce our year-long movie project. About this time last year we sat down with a bunch of our athletes and staff and came up with the idea to create a 4FRNT Team movie. After the success of last year's Tech Talk series we knew we had the ability to create an entire movie, we just needed the right equipment and planning.
Over the summer we started the task of getting a professional video camera kit, setting up a dedicated editing station, and working out athlete and shot lists. We also got a half-dozen GoPro HDs from the folks at GoPro which were great to send off with athletes on their different trips and adventures. We are also collaborating with other film companies we have relationships with in order to get footage above and beyond what we were able to shoot ourselves. 
Here's the teaser for the movie. Stay tuned over the summer for more trailers, and for the whole movie to be released in the Fall.
 

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A Visit to Spy Headquarters

by schmuck
Sep 9th 2011 - 0 comments

 








SO I MADE A VISIT FOR MY FIRST TIME TO THE SPY HEADQUARTERS, LOCATED IN CARLSBAD CA...
THIS IS A ROUGH CUT OF THEIR IN HOUSE CATALOG, YOURS TRULY IN THE MIX
KEVIN CASILLO IS THE SNOW SEGMENT MANAGER AND WAS THE ONE TO SHOW ME AROUND FOR THE DAY.  BIG THINGS COMING OUT NEXT WINTER IN THIER EYEWEAR... THREE NEW GOGGLE FRAMES TO DROP IN THE NEXT YEAR AND A HALF! SO PUMPED TO BE A PART OF SUCH AN AMAZING COMPANY...








 

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COC!!

by schmuck
Sep 9th 2011 - 0 comments

 
So ive arrived in canada for another epic summer at Camp of Champions! I'll be coaching for sessions B,C, and D, but for session A i got to just shred around. Long story short I did a little feature for the new rope tows. 
Check it out!
 

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CR Johnson Healing Center

by schmuck
Aug 31st 2011 - 54 comments

Here's an inside look at the brand new CR Johnson Healing Center from High Fives Non-Profit Foundation, which just opened in Truckee, California.

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Setting Their Sights

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Aug 30th 2011 - 56 comments

Toy Soldier Productions founder Justin Brodin talks about the dark horse success of Come Find Us, what to expect from their sophomore movie, Set Your Sights, and the Montana-based film crew's plans for the future.

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Swatch Skiers Cup

by schmuck
Aug 29th 2011 - 53 comments

In the first ever big mountain and backcountry slopestyle team match play event, Europe will challenge the Americas in Valle Nevado, Chile from September 5th - 12th at the inaugural Swatch Skiers Cup.

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Groundwork Trailer

by schmuck
Aug 27th 2011 - 44 comments

Brotherhood Films releases the trailer for their first film, Groundwork, which was recently selected to be part of the amateur division at the International Freeski Film Festival.

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Powder Magazine's 40th Anniversary

by schmuck
Aug 25th 2011 - 86 comments

This winter is Powder Magazine's 40th anniversary, and to commemorate their milestone year, skiing's most iconic magazine is currently offering a special discount on subscriptions...