This is something I’ve thought about for a while now. I thoroughly enjoy watching lower levels of well executed skiing, whether that be park clips or street edits. Not only do I just personally prefer style over tech anyways, but I think I like watching these style of videos a lot more simply because they’re more “relatable” or “feasible”. Like you can watch all the clips and be like ayo I can do that or ayo I could do that. Nothing to take away from the bigger guys tossing insane shit, but I think these lesser known parts, edits, etc hold a very important weight in the ski world.
Like I love love love watching street edits from smaller name guys that I’ve either never heard of or barely heard of. Nothing crazy. Just some chill 2 1/2 mins of someone hitting handrails and neat spots will do it for me. Like I said these small name parts/ edits being put out, especially street skiing, hold just as much importance in the community as say full length films being put out by big name crews like Child Labor or Strictly.
Lowkey I feel like there’s lots of kids out there mad inspired (as I am) by some of the stuff on the arsenic YouTube channel for example. Not the biggest or craziest street skiing or park edits. But they all carry a good vibe and good skiing. Like I bet kids watch these edits and see skiers just straight sliding hand rails and having a good time with their homies and get stoked as hell cause they’re like yo I can do that what’s holding me back from doing the same and getting some shots and making an edit with my homies?
TLDR the amateur and beginner side of content creation is just as important in skiing, if not more important than professional content production. Quite frankly I love it.
