Jan 19, 2015

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Making of the Kitespain Magazine cover shot.

For those of you who didn't know last year in September I went to Canada, where I visited my good friend Sam Medysky and filmed our latest movie "Northern Fresh" (http://vimeo.com/110870698). While we were there filming Sam had the idea to also hire a photographer so we could have pictures as well from the movie, it turned out pretty cool. Josh Pietras Sam's friend from high school visited us for a few days and got some insane pictures.

The first day Josh was there we didn't had the best of luck with the conditions everyone was really nervous as we had a limited amount of time to shoot. On the second day I woke up with the wind wishing on my window and a storm of 20-25kts. We headed to the spot to set the park up and get ready to shoot. At that point I remember myself thinking more than once what am I doing here? The wind was freezing and the water was even more cold which made it even hard to perform on those new obstacles. 

Oliphant fishing islands was the main spot of the film.
Myself thinking what am I doing here? This place its too cold for kiting. 
It started raining and our 11m's GP were ready and we were putting our wetsuits on. Josh had to find a plastic bag for his Canon 5d and Steve (ESBO.tv) already had a whole ski jacket protecting his badass Sony FS700. I think we all thought that the rain was going to be an excuse to stop the shoot and wait for it to stop, but we were all excited to hit the setup and get the shots done.
I think Sam and I had been dreaming about this for a long time and the adrenaline of making it happen didn't let the cold get into our brains. We would take turns on a single kite so the other one can help with the rail if it needs to be moved or something or either watch the action.

Here it is! Double Incline rail to bonk on the traffic sign. 
 My favorite set up of the day was a "Double incline rail to bonk" on the traffic sign we had there. I managed to get a few tricks out of that one and they all felt really original and sick!
While I had my turn to rest and let Sam ride or a bit I visualized the picture. Nuclear grab of the double incline rail to bonk, the idea was to be grabbing and poking the board while also bonking the sign.


























It got the kite again and tried the trick at least 15 times, it was really hard to grab the board enough time and then bonk the sign afterwards. I didn't knew we got the shot until a couple of weeks after when Josh send me all the shots from the trip. I was stoked on it and now I'm even more happy to see that KiteSpain Magazine decided to run it on their front cover.
I hope you guys enjoyed my little peak into the making off and don't forget to check out the full movie from Canada here -> http://vimeo.com/110870698

Peace!

Canada, September 2014 / Photos Josh Pietras.

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