Good Riding Videos

[Eomer]

Basically looking for some suggestions on some good freeriding type videos, specifically on the skiing side. I like some variation and don't mind if there's some boarding in there, but I'm a skier and am kind of wanting to use the videos almost to "study" their moves and stuff. As far as what kind of footage, again I like variety. A good combination of freeriding down ridiculous cliffs and schutes along with some good freestyle shit off 50 foot table tops would be just peachy.

[Eomer]

Cmon someone must know of some decent videos out there. For clarity's sake, I am talking of "riding" in relation to flying down the side of a mountain with boards of some sort attached to your feet, and not of equestrian gayness (although honestly, my bud was into that shit and got so much fucking tail).

[Dr. Rubicite]

Riding horses is definitely NOT gay. It was good enough for my forefathers, it's good enough for me. Besides, you trying to call this man gay?



EDIT: You probably should've named your thread good skiing videos, just for future reference.

[Eomer]

But that's not entirely accurate, as I didn't want to limit it to just skiing, but also boarding. Me and my friends are a mixed group, and we just call it "riding."

Damn you :/

[Eomer]

Ended up buying a boxed set of Ski Movie 1-3 from Matchstick productions (www.skimovie.com). While it's still at least 5 months till I can ride again (barring flying to South America, which honest to god is tempting), these videos at least let me get a bit of a fix. Awesome movies from start to finish, no cheesey Warren Miller style narration for the most part, just awesome skiing with sweet music, as well as other stuff like base jumping, snowmobiles, dirt bikes, and so on.

Seth Morrison and McConkey are unfucking real. I mean, it's impressive to see Tanner Hall throw down 1440's when he's a fucking teenager, but there's just something so goddamn impressive about the lines those guys will ride down, and the cliffs they'll do double or triple backflips off. If you fall in the park, big deal, you might break something but you'll most likely walk away. All it takes is one misjudged turn to get hit by your own sluff/avvy and you're pretty much fucked, and may or may not be coming back up for air.

Johnny Mosely is pretty impressive too, more just cause he looks so smooth throwing down ridiculous inverts and rotations.

Probably the highlight of the videos was cliff jumping on Baffin Island way up North. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cliff

Condidering a truly vertical drop, Mount Thor on Baffin Island in Arctic Canada is the highest at 1,370m (4,500 ft) high in total (the top 480 m (1,600 ft) is overhanging). This is said to give it the longest purely vertical drop on Earth at 1,250 m (4,100 ft).

Unfuckingreal

[Fammaden]

Originally Posted by Eomer

Probably the highlight of the videos was cliff jumping on Baffin Island way up North. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cliff



Unfuckingreal

You're saying he just shoves himself off the side of those fuckers on skis and lives?

[Eomer]

Oh no, it was base jumping basically. They all had chutes. The videos don't only have skiing, there's lots of other shit like massive swings underneath bridges, jumping out of helis and doing 10 flips, that type of stuff.

The Baffin Island thing was unreal just because of how long the freefall was, and the camera shot they have at the end looking waaaaaay the fuck up to top from the bottom.

[aychamo_aycono]

lol, who's that short faggot on the horse?



(JUST KIDDING)