The Pirate Log #1 - All photos by Lucci
This is the first entry in our Merry Pirate Log on Method. With
luck, me hearty's, it will not be the last entry! For the rest
of this season we hope to have weekly updates - but being Pirates
and all, we won't promise anything!
Here, the latest updates of what happened to us while shooting
and to give you a sneak preview of the latest photos. As you might
have heard, our first movie, 'SHOOT YOUR FRIENDS!' was filmed
completely on Super8 with no computer animations or graphics.
Everything was done in analog to get the effect we were looking
for. We are doing the same for this season's video, because we
love the Super8 format. Our next movie project is called 'Pirate
Radio' and features more or less the same riders like in 'SYF!'.
Filming 'Pirate Radio' started at the first Backyard Camp in
the first week of January. In one way the weather was good, because
it was snowing, but it sucked for shooting. So, we used that time
to learn about avalanches and touch up on our back country awareness
skills. In our crew, it’s the first rule - Never go back
country without a shovel (for building kickers and saving lifes),
a probe and a Peep. During these days, we learned how to handle
the equipment. Two nice guys from SAAC taught us about dangerous
spots on the mountain and informed us how to handle certain situations
and conditions. It was a realy useful start in the season - we
recommend anybody who goes backcountry to lookinto it.
Still, from a shooting point of view it was quite shitty time.
We hadonly 1 bluebird day compounded by the whole Pirates crew
except Gigi, Bags and Hannes getting (sea)sick. So the only guys
who could ride on that 1 goodday were Hannes, Chandu, Gigi and
Lucki Draxl. Even then, Lucki wasn’t lucky at all, stomping
his first b/s 180 but slammed in the compressionand fucked up
his sholder. He was Helivaced and taken straight to Hospital.
The other actors stomped their moves without injuries. Trick of
the day came from none other than GiGi, who landed the smoothest
f/s7 ever in the last inches of the trany.
After the Backyard camp the Pirates docked in Innsbruck to shoot
astraight rail. One of the new Pirates this season is the Russian
railkiller, Mitja Fresenko, who hates olli pads in front of rails.
he landed smooth lipslides, nosepress and did it frontside.
A few days later we went to Warth, a great resort on the Arlberg
with lots of snow. Basti found the best spot ever. A natural kicker
between rocks and a nice landing that was a litle flat but Andi
Lehmann and Gigi had the power to stomp their tricks.
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