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New movie traces history/development of snowboarding
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Universal Pictures have announced the US release in December of 'First Descent' - a documentary movie which tells the story of snowboarding from the 70s, through to today.
Here's what the PR blurb says:
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First Descent spotlights a handful of snowboarding's early pioneers (including Shawn Farmer, Nick Perata and Terje Haakonsen) and some of snowboarding's current stars (Shaun White and Hannah Teter) and literally takes them to the edge-the snow blanketed mountains of Alaska-where these five icons face some of the most challenging and hard-core natural terrain on the planet.
The five come for different reasons-Perata and Farmer to see if they still have what it takes, Haakonsen to add another credit to his Big Mountain resume, and White and Teter to undertake their first Big Mountain ride ever-
and yet they seek to challenge themselves to accomplish the best snowboarding feat of their lives.
If this movie is half as good as 'Dogtown and the Z Boys', the film that authenticated the history of skateboarding, it should be a must.
Here's the full news release:
PR Newswire.
Somewhere I've got an original Super 8 cine cassette of Dimitrije Milovich, inventor of the Winterstick, snowboarding in Utah in about 1977. It'll be super interesting to see some other 70s footage, because this was all pre-bindings and pre-boots, in terms of specialised equipment. The snowboards looked nothing like modern-day snowboards, either.
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An update on the above: I don't know whether the movie ever hit cinemas in the States, but it seems it's available on DVD from 21 February.
Here's some updated news from
Yahoo!
And a website for the movie, with a trailer:
www.firstdescentmovie.com
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Thanks David... It looks AWSOME dood
Looks possibly like the Feb 21 release date is a US release... will have to try and track it down
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thanks David, as Osh said it looks really good!
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Looks possibly like the Feb 21 release date is a US release... will have to try and track it down