Before the Winter season finished at Nordkette’s Skyline Park, we filmed some epic snowboarders and skiers sending an epic jump (The Skyliner) for the third episode of EPIC INNSBRUCK.

The jump faces the city in such a way that from above it looks like you’ll land right in the Old Town(!), but that didn’t hold the guys back! Watch below as they take to the air above Innsbruck during this all-time spring freestyle showdown.

Go behind the scenes of the Epic Innsbruck 18-03 shoot

I was very excited to get off the phone with Quirin Müller from Nordkette when he told me that there will be a massive jump built at the Skyline Park for a photo shooting session. The park is sponsored by Blue Tomato, who also held their own film and photo shoot up there with their team riders that week.

The Jump



The shoot was part of Sane!’s Spring Break, which occurs every year at Nordkette’s Skyline Park. Riders Bjarni Thor Valdimarsosson and Alex Fischer built and shaped the Skyliner with a little help from the crew.

They used about 1000 cubic metres of snow, giving it a height of 7 metres, a width of 5 metres and a base length of about 28 metres allowing the athletes to send it 10 to 15 metres in the air. It took about 16 machine hours and 4 guys working on it for a whole day to finish it off.

The blue hour at the Skyline Park



We were waiting for the perfect weather to film, because the key to this shoot was the ‘blue hour’. Although we had to delay more than once due to the weather and clouds, it was definitely worth the wait! If you don’t know, the blue hour is the moment just after the sun has completely set where the light and colours in the sky change – it’s absolutely beautiful! In my experience there is a window of about 20-30 minutes which gives the best show.

One of my favourite shots of the whole session was of Ole Pavel. This is a screen grab of the drone shot taken by Max Boschi and his DJI Inspire 2 drone (amazing quality filming in 6K), just at the moment where the flash went off. Absolutely epic!

When on top of the mountain, the sunsets are truly breathtaking, and filming snowboarders and skiers at the same time in these conditions was just awesome.

The Athletes



Innsbruck’s snowboard gang Sane! and friends provided the talented athletes for the day.

The Skyliner jump was reserved just for us to save it’s shape, especially important in the spring as the temperatures at this time of year increase rapidly throughout the day, and the snow can get cut up.

To finish off



Even though we were there all day and past sun down, it felt like only a few hours. It was a lot of fun and I’m already looking forward to next year!

Here is the full list of athletes from the session:

Emma Lantos

Max Glatzl

Ole Pavel

Simon Pircher

Thomas Enk

Manuel Bernert

Benno Bauer

Dominik Brunner

Ethan Morgan

Peter Walchhofer

Michi Schatz

Steve Spiss

Steve Küberl

Alex Fischer

Bjarni Thor Valdimarsosson

Florian Galler

Dennis Ranalter

Thomas Trifonitchev

All photos are taken by me or are screen grabs from video, unless otherwise stated.

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