Ski Movies Need Skiers – Sorry Athletes!
My ski movies on the couch are a far cry from what Richard Permin gets up to in this powder and park fest. This season’s athelete trailers from MSP have been particularly classy. I think the visual impact has been helped – just a little bit, by the Nina winter that buried the western USA’s mountains deeper than Pompeii after Vesuvius! One of the things I like about young Mr Permin is that he seems pretty gob smacked that it’s him that’s about to be choppered up the hill to star in a film doing what he obviously loves best of all.
With Europe suffering a serious lack of the white stuff last winter, Richard Permin’s choice to head to the States certainly turned out to be the the right one. This trailer has him flying across all sorts of country. Some of the big wall skiing looked pretty ferocious with huge drop offs into man deep powder. And these are only the leftovers, in this footage! The terrain park skiing didn’t really do anything for me personally, however eerie the slow motion interplay of rotors and rotating skier might have been. What did it for me in this little video was the huge faces that were run. Look out in the final couple of minutes for the razor’s edge. Permin took the crest of an incredibly narrow ridge with steep rocky drops either side and somehow managed to keep his skis on top and avoid the ”a cheval” nutcracker scenario. It ain’t something I’ll be trying any time soon.
“Attack of La Niña” Athlete Extra – Richard Permin from MSP Films on Vimeo.
Whatever your taste in skiing or boarding movies, this season’s crop of leftover clippings still manages to put to shame (almost) some of those 80′s nonsenses that supposedly told a story. MSP and their TGR rivals as well as the other video gangs out there last winter have produced an incredible crop of ski movies this year; so buy them, watch them, dream them and then get out and track some snow!
Tags: athlete trailer, big wall, richard permin, ski movies, skiing, Terrain
