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Entries Tagged as 'Featured Video'

“30 Meters | Updraft”

March 12th, 2010 · No Comments · Climb, Climbing, Climbing Video, Featured Video, Main Entry, Media, Top Stories - Hiking, Video

Fear and rock: Austrian climbers Andrea Maruna (beginning to climb again after a serious fall) and Angelika Rainer display their unbending will to battle the mountain’s mental and physical challenges.

“I think you have to listen to what you feel yourself in your own body and that is what gives you more strength than the doctors who say, ‘No, that won’t function anymore,’” Andrea Maruna.

Produced by Sebastian Woeber

“Going to California”

March 12th, 2010 · No Comments · Featured Video, Hike, Hiking, Hiking Video, Main Entry, Media, Video

Winter road trip: photographer Luke Humphrey treks from Seattle to California, capturing images of Mono Lake and Redwood, Sequoia, Yosemite, and Death Valley National Parks.

Produced by Luke Humphrey

“History of Snowboarding”

March 11th, 2010 · No Comments · Featured Video, Main Entry, Media, Snow, Snowboarding, Snowboarding Video, Video

Freestyle history lesson with snurfer creator Sherman Poppen, and interviews with three of the sport’s seminal personalities Terry Kidwell, Jake Burton, and Terje Haakonsen–as they helped shape and evolve the current day mountain culture.

The 1980s: “Snowboarding was now a lifestyle with fluorescent outwear, rounded tail snowboard designs, and plenty of rebellious motivation…”

Produced by TTRWorldTour

“Drum”

March 10th, 2010 · No Comments · Featured Video, Fly Fishing, Fly Fishing Video, Main Entry, Media, Video

The notorious, and well-respected Holeman Brothers (fly fishing captains Travis and Bryan “Bear”) like to spend a few days each January fishing the Gulf Coast for large, Louisiana redfish. Winter generally is considered prime time for hunting record-setting reds in the Biloxi Marsh and Chandeleur Islands surrounding New Orleans. Drum is World Angling’s full length movie about the guides and redfishing culture of southeastern Louisiana.

Production by World Angling Media

“Guardians of the Sea”

March 8th, 2010 · No Comments · Featured Video, Main Entry, Media, Surf, Surfing, Surfing Video, Top Stories - Surf, Video

Sheriffs of surfing’s wild west: For generations, the lifeguards of Oahu’s North Shore have pioneered a selfless spirit of helping others in need. This short film “traces the rich history of lifeguarding, going back to the legendary Duke Kahanamoku and Eddie Aikau,” in addition to profiling the modern day Pipeline, where highly skilled lifeguards protect surfers from the ocean’s unpredictable and bruising swell.

Produced by Team Explore

“Jersey Bros”

March 6th, 2010 · No Comments · Featured Video, Main Entry, Media, Surfing, Surfing Video, Video

Jersey Bros: A Surfing Life and the South Jersey Stoke: is documentary detailing the unheralded surfers and passed over locales of the Garden State. Filmmaker David McCarty writes, “It’s not about sick rides, gnarly tubes, and 40 foot walls of water. It’s about passion. It’s about sacrifice. It’s about the stoke. But mostly, it’s about surfers, in all their flawed humanity.”

Production by Hopping Frog Studios

Bouldering Through Injuries

March 4th, 2010 · No Comments · Climb, Climbing, Climbing Video, Featured Video, Hike, Main Entry, People

“If you’re a boulderer and are drawn to the tall, proud lines, it’s not a matter of whether you’re going to get hurt or not, it’s a question of when…”

The Season | Episode 3: Boulderer Anya Miller battles ACL tears, nine separate surgeries on her left knee, and the mental “tendencies” that may have contributed to her injuries.

Production by Fitz Cahall & Bryan Smith

Bull Sharks & Paddleboards

March 3rd, 2010 · No Comments · Featured Video, Fishing, Fishing Video, Main Entry, Media, Surf, Surfing, Surfing Video, Video

Rum Cay, Bahamas: Is there a good reason to hook bull sharks from a standup paddleboard? Ron Jon team rider Mikey DeTemple and friends try to answer this question with cut bait and beers.

Produced by RonJonsSurf

“Winter Project”: Season 2 | Episode 2

March 2nd, 2010 · No Comments · Featured Video, Main Entry, Media, Skiing, Skiing Video, Snow, Video

Swedish filmmakers Adam Falk and Nicke Jacobsson document riders on Stockholm handrails as part of an “urban mission.” And later–the Swiss Alps for a big powder trip.

Production by Adam Falk and Nicke Jacobsson

“The Burj Birdmen”

March 1st, 2010 · No Comments · BASE Jumping, BASE Jumping Video, Featured Video, Main Entry, Media, Sky, Video

Two men attempt a world record BASE jump off the world’s tallest building: Dubai’s Burj Khalifa, the tallest man-made structure ever built (2,717 ft).

Produced by buzzfilms