Our goal for Shreducation was basically the goal for all of my videos: inspire people to ride. Everyone has responsibilities to deal with, whether it's school, work, or whatever, but I think it's important to make time for what you enjoy doing. Right now with everybody back to school and winter in the air, hopefully this lights a fire to get out and go shred! Dean Tennant |
The waterfall drop was the most intimidating stunt of the video. Everything looks different on film, but in person that drop is pretty blind and the landing is sniper. It's extremely narrow for the size of the drop and not too long either. Since you couldn't see the tranny until a couple feet before take-off I took a lot of run-ups to try and gauge it. Dean Tennant |
For the final jump of the video, I think I picked Scott up at 5:00 a.m. or something ridiculous since it had to be a sunrise shot. It looks like it's a summer evening in that shot, but it's actually shot on New Year's Eve, middle of winter. We had to drive an hour to the spot and then bush-wack for a half hour through snow-covered brush to get to the jump. Scott will tell you ''it's chill,'' but it was like a death march even getting there. The jump's lip and landing were iced over and I broke up the ice with a shovel. It was really sketchy because the ground was rock-hard; even without ice it was really slippery. It wasn't easy but when everything clicks for a shot it's a great feeling. Dean Tennant |
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Mission accomplished!
Great work Scott / Dean
Even without the descriptions you can get a great sense from the filming that most of that stuff was far, far sketchier, narrower and more slimy than the awesome riding made it look
What about being a student, having to work for yourself and living in Polad with no decent trails nearby
We all should aprreciate our lives much more, anyways we're in awesome situation if we can only get our bikes and do some laps. That's not getting any better than this!
My blowing stuff ! From Dean "shredding'" abilities to Scott videography skills.. !
And those step-downs are insane, what a great video!
great motivation in hard (studying...) times!
great motivation btw!