Press Clippings: Harold Ramis passed away this week. He was 69 and one of the funniest men on earth…..think about that for a second: one of the funniest men on earth. There are many other, wonderful tributes to Ramis in the media now and there’s no need to repeat what’s being said elsewhere here. So, …
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Olympic Highlights : Get Lucky
Press Clippings: Who would have thought of this…The Red Army Choir (officially known as the Alexandrov Ensemble–which includes not just the Men’s Choir, but an orchestra and a dance ensemble)singing Daft Punk’s “Get Lucky” , a wonderfully decadent Western Capitalist dog song, at the opening ceremonies to the Olympic Games. You cannot make this stuff …
Olympic Briefing: Pushing The Limits
Press Clippings: After the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics end on this Sunday, the world’s winter sports contestants, enthusiasts, coaches, suppliers, and supporters will return home, many to the slopes of their own town, and–in some cases–to a totally different form of skiing: extreme skiing (called “off-piste” in Europe), conducted out of bounds on steep terrain …
Olympic Briefing: The Last Slalom Runs
Press Clippings: On Saturday, the 22 of February, the last Alpine event of the 2014 Sochi Olympics will take place: the men’s slalom. The women’s slalom is already completed and we have a new prodigy on the top of the podium–Mikaela Schiffrin–and now its time for the men to make their runs. Bode Miller will …
Olympic Film Festival: Lindsey Vonn, Slalom Slo-Mo
Press Clippings: Lindsey Vonn is not at the Sochi Winter Olympics, but she is not forgotten, for a variety of reasons. Seeing Lindsey on the air as an expert commentator on skiing is just fine, but seeing Lindsey on the slopes is the best possible view of her. Above, a nice slo-motion film of Lindsey …
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Olympic Film Festival: Women’s Ski Cross
Press Clippings: One thing about the skiing world: if the guys can do it, the girls can do it. That means downhill-for-downhill, parallel snowboard GS-for-parallel snowboard GS, GS-for-GS, Slalom-for-Slalom and, yes, Ski Cross-for-ski-cross. Ski Cross is, admittedly, widely entertaining and more-than-moderately addictive. So there’s women’s ski cross as well as men’s. Here’s a short video …
Olympic Film Festival: Women's Ski Cross
Press Clippings: One thing about the skiing world: if the guys can do it, the girls can do it. That means downhill-for-downhill, parallel snowboard GS-for-parallel snowboard GS, GS-for-GS, Slalom-for-Slalom and, yes, Ski Cross-for-ski-cross. Ski Cross is, admittedly, widely entertaining and more-than-moderately addictive. So there’s women’s ski cross as well as men’s. Here’s a short video …
The Third Annual Winter Film Festival: Inside Ski
Edgework: There is a lot of attention in ski technique given to the outside ski but even as important as that ski is in turn initiation, the other 50% of the action is happening on the inside ski. Here’s a short instruction piece, with Josh Foster, on the what, why, and how of using the inside …
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The Third Annual Winter Film Festival: The Steeps
Edgework: If you ski the back country or go helicopter skiing, you’re going to be skiing deep and steep. Being good on the steeps is a necessary technical skill, for both safety and enjoyment. In keeping with our Winter Film Festival series for 2016, here’s the first of several videos on good technique for skiing …
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How to Ski Cliff Drops
Edgework: You’re going off a cliff if you ski the backcountry or drop in from a helicopter. It’s going to happen and it’s a part of the sport. Sometimes you’re going to seek out the cliff and sometimes it’s going to show up right in front of you. So…deal with it. Here’s how. The …