This summer has been full of transitions.  Some have been gentle, others have been giant kickers.  We have been making an effort this season to get outside of the box of kayaking and shoot a number of sports.  So when I got the call from Boombox Productions to shoot the Crankworks Slopstyle event in Whistler with our cable cam, I prepared for a quick and steep transition.  Matt Maddaloni and I assured the guys that we could rig our system through the lower bone yard, capturing 3 features and using existing structures on course in under 3 hours.  The complication being that with other events running through the day, the window when the course was clear for us to string the system did not have much grace period built in.

Some of the top riders looking on

With a 6 am start we were able to get a several hundred foot line up and the camera rocking!

Filming a live event is not just any ordinary type of shoot.  It is an all or nothing spectacal that comes and goes so fast that you barely have time to blink.  We quickly moved from rigging, to testing, to the pre lim heats of the Slopestyle.  Solving just about every type of last minute problem that arises when you are under the gun along the way.  By the time the finals rolled around, we had it dialed.  The guys were cutting to us live on the Jumbotron with thousands of people looking on.  Stoked!  Here are some of the clips at GO211…