Comments on: Parkour-style urban skiing

By: Logolepsy

Logolepsy — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 18:56:00 +0000

This segment is now available on Vimeo in glorious HD!
http://vimeo.com/32863936
(this version, by the way, it is almost 5 minutes)

By: doug rogers

doug rogers — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 00:19:00 +0000

Well, I knew it wasn’t the flat plains of Ontario, though the snow looked familiar. And it wasn’t Whistler.

By: My Full Name

My Full Name — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 12:24:00 +0000

Here is a working mirror of the video: http://m80.tv/v/urban-skiing/

By: kb1

kb1 — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 07:09:00 +0000

Likely the reason they’ve pulled this clip is that it’s an edit in its entirety that’s going around with the Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour right now. It was probably bootlegged from there.
Until they realize the error of their ways (or you decide to buy the whole film via iTunes) enjoy this unrelated video, also from JP Auclair: http://vimeo.com/5027363

By: cato9

cato9 — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 04:10:00 +0000

Great, its been pulled. Here i am, ready to be entertained by a snippet that may well encourage me to buy the movie, since it sounds awesome. Oh well, too bad.

By: jmv

jmv — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 02:23:00 +0000

I just liked the cameo of the BC Transit bus at the end. Nice camerawork too; tracking and panning downhill in an urban environment is tricky!

By: Thomas Heald

Thomas Heald — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 01:02:00 +0000

“I thought I was going to get to watch an exciting video about a cool new sport I’ve never heard of.”
Um, it’s still skiing, but yes very exciting stuff.

By: zebbart

zebbart — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 00:13:00 +0000

Shoot, I thought I was going to get to watch an exciting video about a cool new sport I’ve never heard of, but the copyright holder took it down. Well, I guess all I can do now is spend 10 or 15 minutes hunting for the thing I don’t know anything about, then find out how to order a copy in the mail and send them a check for it so that in a week or two I can watch whatever this was about. Yep, that’s what I’ll do since the copyright holder does not want me to see how cool this is prior to making that investment. Smart.

By: MashTheStampede

MashTheStampede — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 23:59:00 +0000

There’s something about a video having been taken down that turns on a rabid desire in me to find a working copy and watch it, no matter what it is.

By: Florian Bösch

Florian Bösch — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 23:29:00 +0000

Give Infamous (copyright claim footshooting fame) Entertainment some love, will ya?

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Infamous-Entertainment/181436156470
http://infamousentertainment.com/

By: eldritch

eldritch — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 23:27:00 +0000

That was FAST. Less than a day? What?

By: Cowicide

Cowicide — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 23:22:00 +0000

This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by Infamous Shoot Yourself in The Foot Entertainment Idiots.

By: Florian Bösch

Florian Bösch — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 22:45:00 +0000

“This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by Infamous Entertainment”

By: LordBlagger

LordBlagger — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 22:05:00 +0000

Great – so long as they are rental skis!

By: Andrew Parker

Andrew Parker — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 22:00:00 +0000

From the the film “All I Can” by the Rocky Mountain Sherpas. This sequence is filmed in Rossland I believe.

http://sherpascinema.com/

By: Spor

Spor — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 21:33:00 +0000

Also important to note that this is someone who has likely not paid a Canadian dime for skis in over a decade…

By: OtherMichael

OtherMichael — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 21:32:00 +0000

That’s some serious wax.

By: oneonethreefour

oneonethreefour — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 21:30:00 +0000

You guys calling the whole thing Nelson are gonna cause a riot! Trail, Rossland, Nelson. And oddly, I didn’t know thing one about the video before clicking, but I knew by the roadsigns it was BC… and the covered walkways are definitely Trail.

By: Spor

Spor — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 21:15:00 +0000

JP Auclair has been killing it as one of the early pioneers of free-skiing. A member of the original Salomon free-skiing team, one of the first corporate sponsored endeavors to promote this progression in skiing.

here’s another great video of him: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMkVCdW0NIA
There are tons more…

Now: can I express my pet peeve about referring to all unfamiliar gymnastic sports as ‘parkour style-’ this-or-that? I don’t expect everyone to be well versed in the swiftly changing naming conventions of new and evolving sports, but parkour is its own thing, not some sort of base category for all other sports to be compared to. Carry on….

By: Jaye Sunsurn

Jaye Sunsurn — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 20:57:00 +0000

Not 100% but commenters are saying Nelson BC as the location, I have never been there to confirm (it looked Canadian, but I was assuming Quebec until I saw the BC Transit bus)

By: liquidstar

liquidstar — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 20:51:00 +0000

Danger Will Robinson! Seriously though, think the ability to do this should qualify as a superpower.

By: doug rogers

doug rogers — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 20:45:00 +0000

D’oh! And the city is…?

By: georgebailey

georgebailey — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 20:44:00 +0000

Just watching that broke my clavicle.

By: Joshua Bardwell

Joshua Bardwell — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 20:44:00 +0000

British Columbia, Canada?

By: oneonethreefour

oneonethreefour — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 20:42:00 +0000

That’s my bus! doug, your hints are… covered stairways, belching smokestacks… looks like Trail, Rossland, and the bus is in Uphill Nelson. West Kootenays!

By: doug rogers

doug rogers — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 20:30:00 +0000

BC Transit bus at the end…. Location?

By: bo1n6bo1n6

bo1n6bo1n6 — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 19:59:00 +0000

I’m not a skier but that was badass…we used to build snowboard jumps in our yards but this is on a whole other level, great filming too.