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Friday, November 18, 2005
Project Evermore - European Freeride Movie
Posted by: Joscha
Directly after the big redbull district ride in Nuremberg, Marco and Peter (the heads of www.evermore.ch) expected my buddy Carlo D. and me as soon as possible for filming in Zurich. The timetable was short, so we pitched our bikes, bags and lots of Red Bull into Carlos Opel Astra and drove faster than allowed in USA to the small beautiful country. The evermore-team is a group of very professional and passionate film-,sound- and design-experts, who already filmed with Minnaar, Pritzel, Chausson...so we were really pumped shooting with them the following days.
The first mission was street-riding in Zurich by night (after the insane districtride afterhow-party and hours driving...). The session finished quickly after our last can of RedBull, but continued the next day with sweet fluid street-tech lines and was crowned with an incredible secret-spot. We've found an empty, huge and steep swimming pool (with a 10m diving platform), which had perfect banks, walls and 3m dropins. It was a great feeling to ride in such a giant, empty pool. The whole place was a great visual impact, the wheather was great, everybody happy! Just an unforgettable day!
After filming the streets of Zurich we went to Laax, a gigantic ski-resort in switzerland. During summer season this place is a huge bike park with a bunch of downhill-tracks, a fourcross and a nice slopestyle course at the bottom. The "evermore"-guys (and girls) did a great job the weeks ago, organized free access to all areas of the mountain, a shuttle and lots of shovels. But before entering the freeride mountain we had to check out a nice Hip-Jump near the lift-station. After some tables and a crooked flip to ass-bomb-landing we decided to quit the session and cruise up the mountain. Our french dudes Carmien Falco and Vince Vegas were already waiting for us up there, together with northern-germany-freeride-gun Jan Stötzer and Andrea, Jans pretty (and freezing) girlfriend. The mystic panorama on the mountain was impressively. We found an awesome place for building some huge lines. To our surprise the dirt was perfect and allowed us to build a 13m-gap over a steep and scary canyon. I chose this line as my mission and couldn't really walk anymore after this day, cause of some very rough landings on my small Nicolai UFO Slopestyle Bike. But for all that we got some great shots and had an unforgettable day with a lot of fun and adrenaline.
Thanks to the evermore.ch-team for these great days of filming. The "evermore"-release will take place in spring '06. Watch out!
