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by saying , “ We ’ re going to go ski street there .” I had never done a street filming trip . I grew up watching ski films , and I ’ ve seen so many street videos . I thought , “ This is my chance to go out there and do it myself .” Once we got to Japan , we had a really good time . We worked with this local kid , Koga , who was a really good skier . He showed us all the spots around there . A lot of hard work went into those days . We would go out early in the morning and try to hit two or three spots in a day . We went out there , shoveled staircases , and unburied the rails . I actually dislocated my shoulder when I was there . I took three days off , but I got right back out there and started filming again . There was also a big mountain scene in the Faction film , and I ’ m really new to big mountain skiing . Before I went out to film the big mountain part of the film , I was overseas in Georgia for the World Championships . The thing is , I didn ’ t really want to compete there — I just wanted to go film and express myself on a different side of skiing . I booked a flight home , got back to Park City , loaded my truck , and I drove right out to Wyoming . We filmed in Wyoming and Northern Utah for two-and-a-half weeks straight . We got blessed with good snow , so we had a really good time . I was with an experienced crew of guys that had been in the back country for a long time . It was nice how they pointed out lines to go ski , because I didn ’ t really know what I was doing . All these mountains are massive . You ’ re skiing out of bounds , and there ’ s pretty gnarly terrain that ’ s very avalanche-prone . We were out in the sleds on a lot of really early mornings , waking up at 5AM , going to the trailhead , skiing all day until 7PM , building jumps , and skiing lines . It was really cool , and I ’ m looking forward to doing a lot of that this year , as well . It was nice to get out of my comfort zone . I was out there hitting big , scary rails with staircases in Japan and hitting big jumps in the Wyoming backcountry . I ’ m blessed that Faction makes films like this , because a lot of ski companies nowadays don ’ t really do group projects for their teams anymore . Faction is still all about that . This is their fourth film
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