all it takes is lots of prayer....
ok maybe not
ok maybe not
How do you end up in snowmobile films?
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Just come out to one of the shootout's, or Yama fest, Alpine ride ect. Pull a nasty line or drop a huge drop and you will get noticed. This is my fifth season riding and I have been in at least one vidioe every year since I started mountain riding. Don't tell anyone this though, but I could not even side hill my 1st. year and I still made it into a Vid when the season was over. The first time you get to go and film you will be a little overwhelmed at what is being climbed or jumped, I no I was. Just go out and ride hard, if you do you never know who's watching. Cheers RIP.
TTT, More advice for us young ones.
Ask Santa for a film appearance. He can hook you up, no doubt.
i met phatty at the spokane snow show, he was pretty cool about all this, is he part owner of boondockers or something?
also, anyone remember BJ Murray in the older 2scs films on his fairly stock mountain max and viper mtn, he was doing most of the riding they do in the films today, aside from the vertical chutes that only a turbo or big bore two stroke can pull.
also, anyone remember BJ Murray in the older 2scs films on his fairly stock mountain max and viper mtn, he was doing most of the riding they do in the films today, aside from the vertical chutes that only a turbo or big bore two stroke can pull.
Just do you...
Just go out and do your own thing. I don't doubt what you are saying but if you're any good at all, people will come to you. You won't have to go to anybody. Take care. Stormin' Normin.
Just go out and do your own thing. I don't doubt what you are saying but if you're any good at all, people will come to you. You won't have to go to anybody. Take care. Stormin' Normin.
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Shred Master
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MaxMod this is funny because I have always wondered the same thing and am the same age well turning 17. Well, all i can say is practice pracitce practice... My tounger brother anf i after school every day ride our dirt bikes as much as we can doing anything that is challenging like riding in gravel pits and anything stupid and has it ever paid off. We snowmobile in B.C around merritt area and the other riders cant believe how young we are until we take off our helmets. Some people have told us we have got to be probably soem of the best teenage riders around. I got a D7 piped canned reeds ported head mod and my bro has a 900 rmk.I have always been the one nobody can follow through the trees and my little bro just tries to pull every hill in sight. All you need is a good paying job like I have and pracitce your but off
Just ride for yourself, don't worry about impressing boy-freinds. I imagine most of the good riders could care less about what others think of them, they do it for themselves. If someone wants to film you, great, but don't get all goofy about it. If your all about showing off for others and that's what makes you something, then you will end up disappointed because you'll never be good enough. Push yourself to do better but don't get all hung up on other people's opinions of you.
Also Cameron Elliot in the first couple slednecks. He could tear it up with his mtn. max.
ive decided there needs to be equal oppurtunity, because there is tons of undiscovered talent out there. If anyone wants to come ride with us on a shoot where ever we are this season, you are more than welcome to come give it a shot. just pm me
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Clarke673
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Some of you guys haven't realized how much work is put into making a movie...
First off, you have to pay for your $12,000 sled, that takes most middle to up class people 1/4 of a year of work just to get that far. For some one younger it might take several years.
Don't forget about health insurance. A Helicopter ride out of the mountains is about $25,000 these days so unless you want to be the only kid at the senior prom talking about how he is $30,000 in debt because he couldn't get health insurance and he didn't quite get the "rotation" he needed.
You obviously need a truck, trailer, gas money for your truck, gas money for your sled, a separate savings about set aside just for sled parts and stuff that you brake.
You have to be very flexible and i hope your standards aren't to high as well. I ain't got the money so i will be sleeping in my truck most of the winter when im riding lol.
All that comes to nothing if you don’t got the balls to do 200 feet, pull backflips or 50 foot drops. ( you really don't need to land it, if you wreck its better anyways)
Don't forget, you can 't jump and have good footage if its storming. Most guys will go to a town that is storming and just sit in they'r hotel rooms until the sun comes out and they get some good weather to film... That could be 5 hours, a day, or a week.
If your still working on the talent aspect... fine then! Help build the jumps. With 4 guys working on a jump, it can take you 4-5 hours to make a good one and honestly you have to wait a night or two before the jump gets good.
Ok you made it through your seasons of riding with your film crew. So far you spent $12,000 buying your new sled, $1000 in riding gear, another $1000 in service and broken parts, and lets say $2000 on gas.
Then you get to sit in front of a computer for hours on end editing, editing, looking up some info, editing, finding some good songs, editing, trying to come up with an original theme, editing, getting special effects done, editing, and maybe some more editing. It takes hundreds of hours to put something like a 2scs movie together.
Just ask acs47x how long it took him to make his 4 min long trailers.
I don't want to discourage you guys form trying it but thats what i have seen and let me tell you its not hte easy life you think it might be. Think of hte great people that have died this year! Blair Morgan, a guy who gots his own snow cross video game is paralyzed from landing wrong on his dirt bike in the off season. He will never ever stand on a podium again, he will never win another race, he will likely never ride a sled again, and likely will simply fade away, i doubt any of us will be talking about him or even remember him in say 5 years.
It’s a reality you have to live with! Ohh and by the way, just to let you know, most women don't like men who are never home, always working or "wasting time" with they'r friends.
So be prepared to work your *** off, have no money, few friends, and a hell of a lot of fun.
Just remember how many kids out there want ot be the next Chris Brandt or Paul Thacker, 99% will never ever be even know about. If you can live with all that and cna push your self then you might just have a chance.
IMO, there is a lot more money in owning a business in the sport then trying to be in a film company. Make a good life out side hte sport then work your way back in. Most of the good riders right now are all 22-30 so you still got some time.
First off, you have to pay for your $12,000 sled, that takes most middle to up class people 1/4 of a year of work just to get that far. For some one younger it might take several years.
Don't forget about health insurance. A Helicopter ride out of the mountains is about $25,000 these days so unless you want to be the only kid at the senior prom talking about how he is $30,000 in debt because he couldn't get health insurance and he didn't quite get the "rotation" he needed.
You obviously need a truck, trailer, gas money for your truck, gas money for your sled, a separate savings about set aside just for sled parts and stuff that you brake.
You have to be very flexible and i hope your standards aren't to high as well. I ain't got the money so i will be sleeping in my truck most of the winter when im riding lol.
All that comes to nothing if you don’t got the balls to do 200 feet, pull backflips or 50 foot drops. ( you really don't need to land it, if you wreck its better anyways)
Don't forget, you can 't jump and have good footage if its storming. Most guys will go to a town that is storming and just sit in they'r hotel rooms until the sun comes out and they get some good weather to film... That could be 5 hours, a day, or a week.
If your still working on the talent aspect... fine then! Help build the jumps. With 4 guys working on a jump, it can take you 4-5 hours to make a good one and honestly you have to wait a night or two before the jump gets good.
Ok you made it through your seasons of riding with your film crew. So far you spent $12,000 buying your new sled, $1000 in riding gear, another $1000 in service and broken parts, and lets say $2000 on gas.
Then you get to sit in front of a computer for hours on end editing, editing, looking up some info, editing, finding some good songs, editing, trying to come up with an original theme, editing, getting special effects done, editing, and maybe some more editing. It takes hundreds of hours to put something like a 2scs movie together.
Just ask acs47x how long it took him to make his 4 min long trailers.
I don't want to discourage you guys form trying it but thats what i have seen and let me tell you its not hte easy life you think it might be. Think of hte great people that have died this year! Blair Morgan, a guy who gots his own snow cross video game is paralyzed from landing wrong on his dirt bike in the off season. He will never ever stand on a podium again, he will never win another race, he will likely never ride a sled again, and likely will simply fade away, i doubt any of us will be talking about him or even remember him in say 5 years.
It’s a reality you have to live with! Ohh and by the way, just to let you know, most women don't like men who are never home, always working or "wasting time" with they'r friends.
So be prepared to work your *** off, have no money, few friends, and a hell of a lot of fun.
Just remember how many kids out there want ot be the next Chris Brandt or Paul Thacker, 99% will never ever be even know about. If you can live with all that and cna push your self then you might just have a chance.
IMO, there is a lot more money in owning a business in the sport then trying to be in a film company. Make a good life out side hte sport then work your way back in. Most of the good riders right now are all 22-30 so you still got some time.
We are coming out with our first HD movie this year. Its going to include freestyle, hillcross, snocross, boondocking, and basically everything you can possibly do in the backcountry!!! It basically going to have every aspect of riding, so it can relate to every type of rider! This will be our first full film and we are hoping for a good year for snow along with racing! We can definitely let everyone know where we'll be filming before we go out so that anyone that wants to show their stuff can do so!!!! First film session will be over Thanksgiving....it will be either Duluth snocross or if anywhere out west gets nailed before then we will be traveling west!!!
Let it snow!!!!
-Nutz
Let it snow!!!!
-Nutz
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Shred Master
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i agree with you on that and i dont try to show off i just wanna become a pro one day and i push myslef too far somtimes and do stuff i dont think i can so i improve i do this for myself and dont let what people say to me go to my head...yah it makes me fell good when they tell me im good but dont think i am because i know there are people better than me but i just wanna get better and just learn from the pros
I'll be the devil in the room.
I really think, little short homemade moves are going to become hotter than the big movies. Sorry, but a properly put together website, full of good 4 minute moves is the future. At least I see those as the competition.
I really think, little short homemade moves are going to become hotter than the big movies. Sorry, but a properly put together website, full of good 4 minute moves is the future. At least I see those as the competition.
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