Northern Escape's steep camp offers a backstage pass to the art of big mountain riding. One of the tricks of the trade Yvan - our guide with Northern Escape and film crew program manager is the use of the digital camera.
"At at resort and you see a big line you'd like to hit, use your digital camera and take some great shots of the line from below," he recommends. "Than on the chair lift bring up that photo again to say, “ok so there is that tree as my marker, I want to hit it on skiers left, there is this small pillow drop there or little cliff here, which ever you were interested in hitting. This way when you get up and into the line, you have the exact markers there so you know which way to hit it.”
Sabourin was explaining to use that his guys from the movies that he caters to will take dozens upon dozens of shots, from below, from above and from the chopper and analyze them tirelessly over days to they understand and know their line in and out.
As a snowboarder, I have had to be cautious about just how much weight I am putting into my turns when on something with a mighty pitch.
“About two weeks ago up at our other steep camp there was this one snowboarder who was out of Australia, he’d take a pitch that might have a potential to slide and he’d do these really hard auger turns on it, as if we was surfing off a wave. We had to work with him to say, lighten up your turns, more flow to it, so that way you won't create a slide,” suggests Sabourin
the steep adventures continue
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