![]() ![]() ![]() Johan’s blistering assault on the terrain saw him merge the venn diagram of two elements of snowboarding in a way that hadn’t been done before. When you see Mark McMorris riding with the boys in the Oakley film, he’s learning how to adapt to the terrain the same goes for Markus Kleveland, in Japan with Eero Ettala, and Heikki Sorsa. It wasn’t so much that Johan learnt how to ride terrain on this trip, it was like he found the terrain he was made to ride, and he attacked it instead of learning how to survive in it. It’s sort of difficult to explain the seismic shift that Johan made on snowboarding with this part. The edit where a group of riders take a rookie into the backcountry to teach ’em a lesson is an oft replicated, but rarely as well executed as the arrival of a young Swede in Alaska in 1995.Ī young in the tooth freestyle ripper by the name of Johan Olofsson, was taken under the tutorage of the Standard Films crew to star in their film ‘TB5’. Just some dudes, a heli, a guide and more balls than a pingpong tournament.įrom the early pioneers like Craig, Johan and Noah to the modern day magic of Travis and Gigi, check out some of the gnarliest descents of the 20th and 21st century. In the days before action cameras and RED cams, some would argue that it’s mellower than some of the mountains tackled today, we however believe those years in the mid-to-late 90’s were the heydays of big line riding. There’s no denying that the riders over the next few pages have earnt their place in the rarefied air from Alaska to the Himalaya’s to the Southern Alps in New Zealand. It’s the dream that people lose themselves in for the rest of their lives sleeping in a campervan, pooling money for heli time and becoming far more acquainted with America’s 49th state than anyone should ever have to.īecoming a ‘good’ big mountain rider is no easy task, as we said, most people spend their lives trying to attain the standard of legends and unfortunately, sometimes the mountains cash in on these lives. LINES will also be submitted for selection at the Sundance Festival in Park City, Utah (USA).There’s little in snowboarding that compares with charging down the face of a mountain. The European premiere is to be held at ISPO in Munich.Īn extensive Billabong Bus Tour featuring LINES will be going to major cities and snow resorts in Europe and USA in February-March 07 LINES will be released in January 2007 in the USA, at the SIA in Las Vegas. LINES is filmed in HD and 16 mm, and also features exclusive archive footage from the early days in Alaska up until today, provided by the most recognized snowboard film companies such as Standard Films and CinemaSeoane. "LINES will take the spectators through a wide range of emotions, from excitement of watching spectacular footage of knife-ridge helicopter drops, steep descents and huge jumps, to laughter brought by classic situations, but also drama with amazing life stories, accomplishments and lost friends" (Note: broadcast on FOX Network's Fuel TV, featured the legends of surfing, snowboarding and skateboarding) Quinta Films have capitalized on their experience on producing the much-acclaimed TV series to incorporate an artistic and cinematographic twist to the snowboard action "Today, the progression of freestyle snowboarding is coming to a peak and everybody agrees to say that the only possible evolution is to bring technical freestyle into natural terrain, the ultimate form of snowboarding." LINES shows the evolution of big mountain riding from the late 80's with the legendary riding of Noah Salasnek, Mike Ranquet or Tom Burt to today's innovative and technical freestyle brought to the big lines by a new generation of riders (Wolle Nyvelt, Romain De Marchi, Jonaven Moore, Travis Rice) to name a few. "I've always wanted to share what I've been fortunate to live and experience for the past 15 years, the magnificence of the mountains and surrounding nature, the friendships and stories, the fears and dangers". LINES, produced by Quinta Films, in collaboration with Absinthe Films and Billabong, is an intimate and in-depth vision of big mountain snowboarding, its heroes and their lifestyle, as seen through the eyes of one of its most illustrious participants, 1999 King of the Hill and Verbier Extreme Champion Axel Pauporté. "Today, big mountain snowboarding is not just a bunch of old guys doing mellow powder turns but young riders bringing freestyle into big lines." Axel Pauporté. LINES, an Axel Pauporté film about Big Mountain Snowboarding
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