A helpless director finally lands his big break within the snowboard industry. Man power is pretty few and far between when it comes to using the dastardly bungee apparatus, so a team must be assembled. Witness the adversity and tension that piggybacks upon the entertainment brought to you by this wayward gang and their quest to create a snowboard musical.
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Wakeboard-luminary Bernhard Hinterberger visits Italy for a unique shooting
The multiple German champion, European- and World Champion in cable wakeboarding, Bernhard Hinterberger, once more delivers unique and spectacular pictures. The shoot, which took place on the 652 km long river Po – the longest river in Italy – definitely proved that wakeboarding is not only fun in combination with boats or waterski lifts and that being towed by a “Savage” lightweight airplane is just as entertaining.
Bernhard Hinterberger’s comment, when asked about this once-in-a-lifetime experience, was: „The biggest challenge was the extreme speed at which the plane pulled me across the water. Wakeboards are normally meant for speeds of around 30 to 40 km/h, but today we never went any slower than 80 to 100 km/h, as the plane needs a lot of speed to stay in the air. Because wakeboards aren’t built for such speeds, the board started to bend. This is due to the high frictional resistance. When you are going this fast you can’t even use the board’s edges because the water is as hard as rock. Riding behind the „Savage” lightweight airplane at such terrific speed certainly was an unforgettable experience!”
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“Just wanted to give you guys a taste of testing out here in Cali. Footage is from my new GoPro Hero3+ but we’re not going super hard in this clip. Just feeling out newer components and trying stuff that we learned from the day before. Just a little view into the ‘work’ that we do. Hope you like it we got a lot more footage to come.”
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La Graviere, Hossegor France – The Quiksilver Pro France resumed this morning in clean 3-4Ft surf at the primary venue of La Graviere in Hossegor. A quick deterioration of the conditions forced event organizers to call competition OFF after the completion of the fifth round which determined the eight quarter-finalists still in contention for the French crown.
Event No.8 of 10 on the ASP World Championship Tour, the Quiksilver Pro France marks an important turn towards the very end of the 2013 season and will play a vital role in the World Title race and requalification campaigns of the Top34 … More
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