Strictly have had a productive year, producing a trilogy of banger films.
Each ski has a topsheet designed by Icelantic and Strictly rider, designer, Sam Winship.
The venture, spearheaded by Andrew Mildenberger and Gavin Rudy, has been a blessing to the community.
For Parker, the Saba Pro 117 is his weapon of choice for slaying pillows and stomping pow landings.
It’s the best ski Ive ever been on hands down.
Its definitely a big ski but I love it, it rips.
The guys at Icelantic have always been so down with what weve [Strictly] been doing.
He has some banger shots inWildcardalthough an injury during filming curtailed his season somewhat.
He told me about the progression to filming more backcountry and how it links with the birth of Strictly.
I grew up in southwest Colorado, so I always skied pow.
That year we went on a trip filming and had this idea to make a movie.
Andrew had done some filming with Pete Koukov.
We all kind of came together and made Strictly Business.
We had a co-premiere with the street boys, with Banged Up!
Ill probably have a street pair and a mountain pair and that’ll get me through the season.
Just higher quality because they showed us how to use cameras properly.
Patrick Ring came and filmed, Carson Kerr and Seamus Flanagan too so we had a good crew.
That was probably my favorite trip because we were rolling so deep and everyone was having a good time.
In 1995 he broke the record for the most consecutive baseball games played.
This is definitely a ski that isnt done justice by photos.
I think in hand these are going to be beautiful.
Sam Winship was the creative force behind the pitch of the ski.
I’ve been working with this medium for some time trying to see whats possible.
They ended up being two related but different thematic collections of images, some are more legible than others.
I was trying to create this overall mood of something that has been distorted, disregarded, and torn.
Its almost abandoned-looking; theres kind of an absence in both of them.
Calvin and Parker’s topsheets side-by-side
The skis definitely have a certain mood to them.
This ski ties together several amazing tales that are still being told.
The three films this year are all insane.
check that to catch them when they drop, the guys have done awesome things yet again this year.
Photos by Sam Winship & Drew Clark
