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While we are still in the summer mood here (with e.g. lots of mountain biking content) the nights are already getting longer here in the northern hemisphere…some of you might already got that first itch for the coming ski season. At least starting to train for the slopes now might probably not be a stupid idea at all?

Another sure sign of the coming autumn is the realeses of ski movie trailers from the production companies.  If you don’t have any feel for skiing at the moment, I am pretty sure you have after watching this trailer. (I thought I was totally into biking right now and  was going to write about cyclocross and cyclocross bikes but skinny tires and spandex wearing guys will wait for better time for now…)

They are not too modest at the MSP, naming the movie “CLAIM, the Greatest Ski Movie…EVER!”. Well. why shouldn’t they - big production, big budgets, the best skiers in the world. This is SKI PORN, as I already wrote last winter (about their last movie, Seven Sunny Days)

Still, what impressed me the most was the song (well, almost). I can’t believe they put THAT particular song in the trailer (Do you believe this was actually all the rage in the 80’s? In Scandinavia at least, and at least among the 12-year old school boys! Those were the days, I believe I learned my first wicked daffies and spread eagles at the pretty much same time Europe was on the top)

Ok, no more rambling, here’s the trailer, enjoy

Few observations from the trailer:

They brought back the “Saucer Boy” - great!

That floaty air at around 2.50 - pure sex. I just love stuff like that. Sure the flippy-spinny stuff is cool but nothing beats the simplicity of a big tucked up air, “sent” with some serious speed (so that you get the good trajectory, not just fall from the cliff!)

Paraglider “switch up” at around 3.47 - Holy s**t. Usually I don’t dig base/paragliding etc. stuff so much in the ski movies but that was something different & creative!

And at last but not at least…sorry, I got to do this. The real stuff, Europe performing in their home country, sometime in the mid eighties. Well, enjoy(?) also this. That guitar solo (3.34–>) is pretty damn cool, heh.

Click-if-you-dare!

(Too bad the embedding was disabled by request…but click on the link for the great clip!) 

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