A day of taking laps on groomers never has the same appeal of hunting deep backcountry powder, there’s no denying that. But there’s an undeniable charm of racing around with friends and tackling side hit after side hit after side hit. It’s just fun. So fun that we’ve all found ourselves hitting the same chair a dozen times in a day because that one run is home to a side-hit goldmine. Like a snow-covered skatepark.
Resorts across the Northern Hemisphere are celebrating planned opening days, and gearing up to spin lifts. No matter the status of your nearest chair, running or not, the beginning of a new season is here. And that’s meant a lot of time spent on YouTube lately watching full-length documentary ski and snowboard films or just flipping through shorter edits that highlight inspirational turns. This video is more of the latter, except it’s nothing but side hits. It’s 14 glorious minutes of Gimbal God following friends as they tackle any and every side hit within reach.
No face shots, no rooster tails, no figure-eights in chest-deep powder, no helicopters or snowmobiles used to access a death-defying couloir or the line of a lifetime. Just friends throwing air with the occasion snow-spraying hack. It’s a simple concept: just give people what they want.
