| | | A truck just doesn't appear to be in the right place for him to land into and then just happen to have a snow ramp in it so he can ski off of the top when the truck stops. So of course it was scripted. This is how all extreme sports videos are.
But this doesn't make it any less real. Markus Eder is a world freestyle champion. And nothing in the video is special effects. I used to be a damn good skier, and I don't think I could go through that cave and not be hurt, even if I wasn't doing any flips and were just trying to get through. And you know the cave scene must have been done only once, because otherwise the icicles would have been broken when they filmed it. The same goes for the castle. Going through it and not banging against the walls is not easy.
Here's a little blurb about that film:
There are many skiers out there, including some of the biggest names, claiming that Markus Eder is the best all-around skier in the world right now. His new video, ‘The Ultimate Run’, has been seen by millions of people already, but Markus says he made edit to show his skiing to other skiers.
“I have never had a segment where I could show all of my skiing. The closest I got was a season edit, with all shots coming together, but I never had street in there.”
When shooting with Scott Gaffney —for MSP's Ruin and Rose— Markus did get invited to the park shoot, but he says he “never really had everything in there at once". Riding the resort is what I do most and that’s also what I like the most. Just to randomly go skiing, really getting the legs burning and hitting all those side-hits. Skiing from top to bottom, straight down the lift.”
“I actually first tried to shoot this project with Gaffney, in 2015, so six years ago. Gaffney also loves skiing and he loves every part of skiing. I dislocated my shoulder at the very first shoot. He'd had come over to Europe and the idea was much simpler back then. It was much more ‘shoot what we find’. Years went by and other things ended up taking priority for me.”
The 2019 FWT Champion did really want to make the edit with Gaffney “I’ve learned so much from him and he’s an amazing filmer, super creative. But the ideas became so complex, it was going to take a long time to film. I would have had to take over a lot of the production side as well.”
Luckily, he’d already shot with Legs of Steel for several years too, “they’re also awesome and super passionate about skiing. Ultimately, I had to just be like ‘I’m sorry Gaffney'..."
"The script and ideas of what I wanted to do, were quite elaborate, but at the beginning, we thought the filming would be much easier than it turned out to be. I went to Legs of Steel and the way they’re set up is it’s all freelance filmers and they try to find the best crew to fit the project. They hit up Christoph Thorsen and he was super down from the beginning. He really pushed the filming side of it. He’s been shooting for Legs of Steel for around seven years, doing the droning. I knew him from that, so I knew he’s cool! I was stoked when he was stoked."
More at newschoolers.com They will also show some behind the scenes photos of how they built the stuff and what the filming was like. |
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