I have never had a segment where I could show all of my skiing.
Riding the resort is what I do most and thats also what I like the most.
Just to randomly go skiing, really getting the legs burning and hitting all those side-hits.
Skiing from top to bottom, straight down the lift.
I actually first tried to shoot this project with Gaffney, in 2015, so six years ago.
Gaffney also loves skiing and he loves every part of skiing.
I dislocated my shoulder at the very first shoot.
He’d had come over to Europe and the idea was much simpler back then.
It was much more shoot what we find.
Years went by and other things ended up taking priority for me.
But the ideas became so complex, it was going to take a long time to film.
I would have had to take over a lot of the production side as well.
They hit up Christoph Thorsen and he was super down from the beginning.
He really pushed the filming side of it.
Hes been shooting for Legs of Steel for around seven years, doing the droning.
I knew him from that, so I knew hes cool!
I was stoked when he was stoked."
They did learn valuable lessons from that first year.
We started off just filming everything.
At the start, we just took every opportunity possible.
Then Covid came around and a lot of the stuff we built we didnt even get to hit.
We took more time scoping everything, figuring out how long each shot was going to be.
The second year, we knew which features to shoot, so didnt waste time shooting extra hits.
He had the idea sorted, more of a solid plan and there was a team to produce it.
And luckily, most of the spots in the edit are very close to Markuss actual house!
So thats been an idea for six years.
I liked that theres some pretty heavy urban stuff there.
My dad was actually born in that castle, so thats quite a nice personal note too.
Its five minutes from my parents house.
Im pretty stoked about Zermatt.
That whole section looks perfect in the video, but it was actually quite a hassle.
It was a super low snow year and there was ice sticking out everywhere, glacier cracks were opening.
The shots are great, I think, but it could have been easier.
I hit the cliff every year.
Theres a bunch of lines that Ive skied on myGo ProPOVs, so theyre in there.
Whenever there was fresh snow, Id just hammer them back-to-back-to-back.
So, this was the perfect occasion!
Klausberg -his home resort- were very accommodating, as he had already shot quite a bit there.
We had built our own park and done quite a few projects.
They needed people to put the gondolas back in because the resort was shut down all season.
We were always quite a small crew, so that made it a lot easier.
Whenever we needed a sled or a snowcat to build something, we always got it.
We definitely didnt overdo it; we didnt want to spend too much time on the mountain.
We just waited for those good days, where we knew wed get something.
So, we didnt want to burn our chances.
Each section, and jot down of skiing, has a different style and mood of the music.
Picking the music definitely wasnt easy!
The music was a huge deal.
Its insane to think how much thought you’re free to put into music.
I knew that I wanted classical music at the beginning.
My original idea was to have it composed especially for it.
Music, editing and everything was all teamwork ofLegs of Steeland Christoph.
The music was definitely teamwork.
Now, you might as well give it one more view…
https://www.newschoolers.com/videos/watch/1016212/The-Ultimate-Run
