Nike ACG Team Blog : News from the snowbard team

Gary and I went over to Zermatt last week to hook up with the Absinthe crew to shoot Gary's Nike ACG sweet spot. They arrived on the wednesday morning and began shooting straight away with a heli to get some intro and location shots. I arrived on Thursday morning in the pouring rain to find them heading back to Zurich to do some green screen shooting with all sorts of hi-tech camera equipment.

The advantage of the pouring rain was that up top is was dumping 50cm of snow which meant that when we went up on Friday everything was pristine white, the down side was that the pipe was full of snow. This meant that the morning was spent watching the pipe dragon shape the pipe for us. The driver did a great job and Gary was super happy with it.

 Gary rode super good nailing all the shots, it is going to look epic as the guys were doinig some filming on high speed cameras which is going to give us some great slo-mo shots.

It was my first time up in Zermatt and seeing the Matterhorn. It is an amazing place and perfect for a sweet spot, I was totally blown away with the location.

At the end of the day unfortunately Gary took a slam on a FS 1080 and knocked himself out for a couple of seconds. He was then fine although he couldnt remember anything of the day at all so we took him down to the doctor to get him checked out and stay there with them overnight. The good news is that he was fine the next day however we figured that we had got enough shots in the bag so everyone headed home.

Thanks to Gary and the Absinthe crew for pulling it all together, I think it is going to be a great sweet spot and I am looking forward to it.

 G