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MSP Booter at 7th Heaven

Whistler Blackcomb — Sat, 05 May 2007 00:45:13 -0400

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This past weekend, the Matchstick Production crew and Standard Films were in Whistler (when aren’t they!), and hit an enormous booter out on 7th Heaven that we built for’em. It was a few days in waiting, as our seemingly endless winter wasn’t yielding clear skies until the weekend. Lots of people were checking out the jump, thought you'd want to see it being put to good use...

The bluebird poked it’s head out Saturday & Sunday, and at sunset they totally sessioned the jump with the usual Heli buzzing around for footage. The scene was packed, 5 filmers, 5 photographers, and a hodgepodge of the world’s top skiers, among them: Jon Olsson, TJ Schiller, CR Johnson, Mark Abma, Simon Dumont, Sammy Carlson, Eric Hjorliefson, Mike Douglas and Sarah Burke. As well as top snowboarders: Eric and John Jackson, Freddy Austbo, Kazu Kokubo, Matthieu Crepel and today, Danny Kass. The jump was being filmed in HD and Super 16mm for the Matchstick Productions Fall Movie Tour, watch for it when the premieres start popping up around the continent. But the booter days isn’t all you’ll see, as this winter at Whistler has been straight up ridiculously epic, and the filmers have been lovin’ every minute of it.

Here’s some shots by the paparazzi. OK they were Heather Martin's, but she does have a budding paparazzi career ahead of her. OK she organized the whole thing and was allowed to be there, but paparazzi sounds more scandalous.

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Whistler Blackcomb — Thu, 03 May 2007 17:01:57 -0400

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Whistler Blackcomb — Thu, 03 May 2007 17:00:47 -0400

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Match Stick Productions Custom Booter Shoot

Whistler Blackcomb — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 13:19:49 -0400

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Few weeks ago we were contacted by MSP to build a gap step up for top skiers Sammy Carlson & Simon Dumont. Simon has been busy winning big $ @ pipe comps in the U.S. but Sammy was up to hit our custom booter. The gap step up was 60 feet from take off to uphill landing point. The kicker was approx 15 feet high & the uphill landing was higher @ around 25 feet.

Sammy said, “This is the best jump I have hit all year!” & based on what he was throwing down, looks like he was fully into it! The gap step up took 3 days to build by our skilled Park Grooming lead hand, Olex Iskaat. Stormy weather put the hit on hold then a final groom out made the feature ready for action this week. Sammy made the jump look effortless on every jump, blowing on lookers minds.

Park lead hand, Eric Gendron was in charge of shuttling Sammy back up to the in run start via sled so the action was fast & non stop! The shoot went into the sunset hours so expect to see some awesome footage in the next MSP film out this Fall. Big thanx to the Parks staff, leads & Olex for building & re grooming the hit so it was ideal for Sammy to hit over & over again.