The Angry Intern Video Reviews—I Ride Park City
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- October 03 2008
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The Angry Intern Video Reviews—I Ride Park City
Riders: Torstein Horgmo, Shaun White, Heikki Sorsa, Eero Ettala, Aaron Biittner, Scotty Arnold, Dan Brisse, Stevie Bell, Bode Merrill, Mason Aguirre, Erin Comstock, Pat Moore, Torah Bright, Drew Fuller, Ryo Aono, Hampus Mossesson, Jakob Wilhelmson.
With an all-star cast including Park City’s eight team riders and nine worthy guest shreds, this video is packed full of top-of-the-line progression. It has everything from the opening images of Shaun White boosting in the halfpipe, showing off his signature Olympic/X Games gold worthy tricks, to the ending shots of big up-and-comers like Torstein Horgmo spinning every possible spin off massive features. The movie has a great variety of snowboarding, considering it was filmed only at Park City. To make up for the lack of location variety, multiple filming angles were explored, with a variety of angles on all shots using ladders, zip lines, and choppers. The soundtrack is full of catchy upbeat 80s tunes that just make you want to shred.
Some details—Eero Ettala bagged the opening part, and rightfully so, with mind-blowing combos on and off Park City’s jibs, highlighted by a smooth jaw-dropping 450-frontside-boardslide to fakie. Heikki follows Eero’s part with his own creative one-footed sketchy shredding. Standout Bode Merrill had some bangers off the massive booters in the park and his part is highlighted by a smooth backside rodeo to front boardslide. Erin Comstock and Torah Bright represented the ladies well. Erin’s jibbing skills put most dudes to shame, and Torah Bright highlighted her well-known sick pipe skills. Both girls took a run at the shack gap with steezed out spins. Torstein Horgmo cleans up with his long section and can be called the master of switch backside spins with everything up to a massive heli shot of a 1260. Torstein doesn’t limit these spins to just the park as he stomps a switch-backside 720 and 900 into some pow. Keep in mind—he just began boosting in the backcountry last season with his first hit being in Idaho’s backcountry.
This crispy clear video filmed in HD will definitely tempt you to take a trip to Park City. The video shows that Park City is a legit resort accommodating every kind of riding possible … where were those pow landings at anyway? It’ll also give every rider a new list of tricks to stomp this year while jibbing, bonking, boosting, or even buttering.
We’ll give it two and a half ass-kickers. (Out of a possible four).
And here’s a quick Q&A with Park City’s man of many talents Jim Mangan
What’s the hardest part of making a movie at Park City?
The hardest part is really working two jobs during the winter. I’m working my normal job with Park City Mountain Resort as The Director of Action Sports and then producing, directing, and filming a movie. Things can get pretty hectic and you definitely lose a lot of sleep, but in the end it’s totally worth it!
What’s the most rewarding part?
The most rewarding part is that I’m constantly being creative and learning something new every day whether it’s learning more about cameras and equipment or different angles to shoot or becoming a better editor. It may sound cliche, but with hard work and passion comes the reward and it always makes it worthwhile.
Who has standout parts in you opinion?
I’d have to say Torstein Horgmo, Bode Merrill, Eero and Heikki, Dan Brisse, and our female knockout, Erin Comstock.
There’s so much fun and amazing riding it’s hard to say…. The snowboarding world should watch out for Bode Merrill. I think he’s the most underrated rider on the planet!
Single most banging trick?
That’s tough! Either Torstein’s switch back 12 or a surprise and somewhat circusy trick that Bode does, but I think everyone has a different opinion. A lot the other rider’s have some pretty sick shit.
Tell us about the cable cam. How it’s set up, and what you think it
adds to the movie?
I worked with this company called Fly Cam and laid out for them how I wanted to use their system. They had never set up a cable cam this long, but they were excited about the challenge. We set up a 2000 foot long cable cam in the park and an 800 foot long cable cam over the pipe.
It just worked out so well, especially in the park. It makes that audience feel like they’re right there riding it. I shot it much tighter than what you’d see at big events. It has a way different feel to it. It gives the movie a fast pace and really good flow.
What plans does Park City have for next season? Any improvements in the
works?
We are really going to focus on our parks! We’ve expanded our Jonesy’s Park, which will be the medium park this year and virtually run top to bottom of the Bonanza 6-Pack High Speed Lift. We’ve doubled our park crew and added 30 new rails and box features, which gives us around 70 rails and boxes total. We’ve also implemented a new High Speed Quad at the base area, which goes up to the middle of the mountain. This will free up our Payday Lift, which services King’s Crown Superpark and our Bonanza Lift, which services Jonesy’s Medium Park for our park shredders to enjoy shortened lift lines.
And finally, why do you ride Park City?
You want the real answer? Park City has the hottest chicks!
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October 3rd, 2008 at 12:36 pm
This is better than any Vp Debate
October 3rd, 2008 at 12:37 pm
This is better than any VP Debate.
October 3rd, 2008 at 6:47 pm
Bring back Poulin!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
October 4th, 2008 at 1:47 am
“And finally, why do you ride Park City?
You want the real answer? Park City has the hottest chicks!s”…
ha ha ha ha turn it up buddy, the chicks there are more like car parking spots, the best ones are taken and the only ones left are handicap.
October 4th, 2008 at 12:47 pm
hah. wack vid. yeah all they do it build exclusive blocked off stuff to film and ride. this has no reflection of how it really is to ride there. not at all. this might actually make it look fun, but place is loose. crowded, beat ass lips to everything, no flow. pc, not fun. should just call it PS. park shitty.
October 4th, 2008 at 6:01 pm
that is true if u ant the first one there its trashed out park crew is lazy! everything good is blocked of and dont try to build somethin your self they will kick u out for to weeks bull shit i ride canyons
October 5th, 2008 at 3:26 am
Park City was dope last season. Had super fun. The Canyons wasn’t even rideable until Late February.
October 5th, 2008 at 3:34 am
best vid i’ve seen this year…makes me want to snowboard more than anything else out there. I ride pc for sure.
October 5th, 2008 at 3:45 am
PC’s park was soooo much fun last season. most def the best in utah.
October 5th, 2008 at 6:10 pm
I’d take PC over any midwest resort, even if their lips are beat to shit
October 5th, 2008 at 10:32 pm
park city’s jumps have always been the best. much love. i bought the video and watch it like 3 times a day. it’s really fun. the soundtrack is super sick. it only has one 80’s song. not all 80’s, which is good, the guy who wrote this article should watch it again
October 6th, 2008 at 3:47 pm
Bode Merrill is by far the most under the radar kid in the industry. Hope things work out for him soon. I see him in PC all the time and he is the nicest kid ever and rides harder than the rest of the guys up there. Not sure what happened at Nitro but he is better than all the new guys that they brought on by a long shot. Noticed that he had a ton of other boards in the video?
October 6th, 2008 at 4:23 pm
Bode is sick and a super nice dude but you can’t say he’s better than austin smith. Rumor has it that things shut down with Nitro and People because he was hyping Levitation Project while filming for People i.e. asking for left over footy to use in the Levitation flick.
And PC is hella dop if your into two out of the three parks being closed for filming, ski jump lips, and no down rails. If this sounds fun to you than come on down! The one thing that keeps me stoked on riding PC is that it really forces you to make your own fun cause the features are either not fun or not safe (usually both). Hopefully Jim will step his game up this season and get the park back to the pristine form is was in 4 or so years ago.
October 6th, 2008 at 5:23 pm
Probably a good move because Levitation seems like a bunch of friends working together as opposed to a bunch of assholes in it for themselves. Pc Vid was really cool.
October 6th, 2008 at 9:00 pm
Anybody got some song info? It’s all Arcade Firey and I like it.
October 6th, 2008 at 10:06 pm
wow people who hate on pc for the parks being closed are retarted, They shut down the parks very rarely and when they do its on like a monday at 3 and they film til dark and almost every resort does for a park shoot. and its super crowded over holidays not everyday, but yet again what resort isnt, and no down rails? have you even ever been to park city?
October 7th, 2008 at 4:54 pm
Wow that driving scene by Shaun White….amazing
October 7th, 2008 at 5:40 pm
park city was super fun last season….it really wasn’t closed at all. rode there all season long. fun as hell. you all need to ride different areas to really see how fun pc is. Breck keeps it tight, but they never change anything up. i give pc respect for always making things new and different. they’re definitely under a microscope by everyone
October 18th, 2008 at 12:41 pm
chris I think most people would say that one 15ft down bar and a stair feature outta 50+ boxes and rails constitutes a “no down rails” call. they set up a dope double down line with like 2 weeks left in jonesys but thats a bit late for the number one park in the known universe (according to tws).
October 18th, 2008 at 12:43 pm
almost as progressive as the Jeremy Jones running scene in Picture This
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September 5th, 2009 at 12:39 am
The perfect break for skiers wishing to escape for some superb skiing!