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Edgework: A short piece from CBS news on the famous Kitzbühel downhill, the legendary, ice-coated course that has wiped out the best downhillers in history. Skiing this course in competition makes you a part of a very exclusive club; winning the race makes you a legend. Enjoy. See you at the bottom. Our annual Winter …
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Edgework: Editors note: The video that accompanies this text is no longer available. Instead, you can find an 8 part series on the Jackson Hole Airforce at Youtube.com….sorry but these things happen. Another full length classic, “Swift.Silent.Deep” is “the story of the Jackson Hole Air Force”, a rather legendary group of skiers who were pushed …
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Edgework: Got to love this one. “A Fast Piece of Furniture” is an iceboating film that’s fun from the title to the end. It’s the story of America’s first 15 Meter Iceboat. The plans (and the sail) came from Estonia and Bill Bucholz was the driving force behind the project. Great ice sailing photography and you …
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Edgework: How about a morning wake up run? Try this short video on for size. It’s called “Cliffed Out” and features Owen Leeper. The video was produced/sponsored/supported by Spyder, Bolle’, Icelantic, BOLD Custom Ski Poles, and SnowCru (a free ski tracking for iOS and Android). It was shot and produced in Jackson Hole, Wyoming and …
Edgework: She is the real thing. Mikaela Shiffrin, not yet even 21 years old (Born March 25, 1995), is leading the FIS World Cup Ski Racing championships. Mikaela is a slalom/giant slalom specialist, and at one point in the 2016-2017 season, she had won seven straight slalom races. Currently, she is ranked number 1 Overall …
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Edgework: There once was a skiing magazine called Edgework. The staff of The Nightshift produced it and when we decided to do something digital on skiing, we brought the name back. It was not like any other skiing magazine because it covered territory that other magazines did not, with an attitude that other skiing magazines …
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Edgework: Something new to the Winter Film Festival…in the past, all of the videos and films have been on skiing and snowboarding. Today, something new: a video on the rather amazing winter sport of ice boating. It’s a short introductory video but will get you ready for upcoming films and videos on ice boating. Ice …
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Edgework: How about one more long video to top off Saturday’s program for the Winter Film Festival (WFF). This one, “Take it Easy” is sponsored/produced by Quicksilver, 3M, Snowboarder Magazine and Method Snowboarding Magazine. It is–as you surmised based on the names of the sponsors–centered on snowboarding, which is a that deserves equal air time …
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Edgework: Today, the Winter Film Festival goes deep with a series of films, long and short, on powder skiing. Powder is to skiing what clay courts are to tennis–the purest expression of the sport (downhill competitors might disagree but…still…it’s pretty much the Holy Grail for most skiers). Several decades ago, a very good friend of …
Edgework: A short but good on essential knowledge for skiers: where to place the binding on your ski. This one is produced with the emphasis on freestyle skiing. It’s information you should know before you put a new set of bindings on your new skis (or your old ones for that matter). The video is …
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