Winner of the 2012 Alaska Adventure film festival
Over the summer of 2012 the JGS crew went out to
Alyeska Resort and also deep into the backcountry 5 hours north of Anchorage. If you respect riding bikes and film, take just a few minutes out of your day and read below about the super dedicated people involved in this project that was 100% out of our own pockets. This small video was shot at Alyeska Resort, in Girdwood AK. We will be continuing to further this project with Alyeska and also in the deep backcountry of Alaska all winter and into next summer to bring you a full movie for "Alaska Downhill Brigade". Huge thanks to everyone involved and Alyeska Resort for opening the mountain for a beautiful blue bird day of filming. Expect to see much more in the near future from
JGS Concepts and
High Peaks Productions.
Thanks and Enjoy-
Design: Kristopher Brons
JGS went out a few days prior and installed a 500' cable zip line rig for following the riders down the trail bobcat. We attached a
Canon 7D and
Contour+ to the rig for filming each rider. This rig is a very technical and touchy system but because of the engineering mind of Kris Brons we were able to design an almost flawless system.
We are creating a behind the scenes video with this project to show how much work went into this out of pocket project.
This project was the most organized shoot JGS has ever planned and we are excited about the outcome. ABC and Fox news Alaska came out for the afternoon and interviewed us about the project and they will be doing a special feature on TV before the full release of the video.
Filmer | Photographer Info and links:
Below is a quick background on the people who helped make this project happen. Without the knowledge and skill of the people involved these kinds of projects would never happen. Take a second and check out some of the works from the below filmers, photographers and athletes.
Kristopher Brons is a pro snowboarder who coaches with Team BIG Alaska in the winters and also works directly with JGS Concepts with most everything we do.
Kris is a huge part of JGS Concepts. With Kris's engineering mind frame we are able to create our own custom built film equipment for a 1/4 of the cost. He has helped design and construct most of the film equipment we used making this video. Kris also has an open eye for getting the shots required in making a film. Without having Kris on our team we would not be able to fully complete the projects we have completed with the style we try so hard for.
In the future we will have another web page with some of our custom film equipment designs. We will have how to videos along with equipment for sale that everyone will be able to afford.
Scott Dickerson is a professional photographer from Homer Alaska. Scott has a beyond amazing background with photography and is a pleasure to work with. Scott also owns and operates
Surf Alaska out of Homer. Take a few minutes to check out Scott's portfolio links below, it will be well worth your time.
www.surfalaska.net
www.scottdickerson.com
Dmitry Surnin is a filmer and editor based in Anchorage Alaska. We have worked with Dmitry on a few projects over the last year. Dmitry has a natural eye for getting the shot and has extensive knowledge about cameras and editing. Dmitry did not only just help film this project but is working with us on creating the final product. With his knowledge in editing and color correction this film will be one of the best created by JGS and Associates to date.
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Mikey Huff is a photographer | filmer based out of Anchorage, AK. We have worked on many projects over the last couple years with Mikey. His attention for detail is amazing. Mikey went out of his element of photography to help us shoot behind the scenes video on this project. Without Mikey we would not have been able to capture a behind the scenes video with this project. Check out some more of Mikey's work.
Facebook/mikeyhuff
This was the first time we have worked with
Justin Frazier. Seeing his style and final products blew us away. Justin is a very driven photographer and filmer We are excited to continue working with Justin in all our future projects. If you would like to see more of Justin's work and see what drives him check out his website at:
www.frazier-photo.com
Athletes | Riders:
Riley Doyle from Anchorage Alaska is a 16 year old rider who has been riding since 2008. Riley started riding dirt jumpers at first and being influenced by Danny Macaskill started in the street scene as well.
Giant hooked him up with a 2012 STP dirt bike frame after cracking his original, so he began jumping much more. He rides his bike just about everywhere and uses the lift access out at Alyeska Resort. He has 3 bikes custom built exactly how he likes them.
Kevin Murphy moved to AK and started riding in the summer of 1999.
Kevin has worked at bike shops over the years building his passion even stronger for the sport he loves. Kevin also races mountain bikes and says he enjoys the mental and physical challenges that come with completing long distance endurance races.
Kevin recently traveled to Bend, OR with his
Giant Rep Paul LaCava to compete in a 100 mile mountain bike race.
Kyle Armbrust is a professional freestyle snowmobile athlete. Part of Kyle's summers include staying in shape and training by mountain biking. Kyle's ability's to freestyle in the professional snow machine world show in his mountain biking ability's.
Brennon Berg is a 25 year old rider from Anchorage Alaska. Brennon has been rider for two years. He rides a specialized demo 7 and mainly rides single tracks, down hill, jumps, drops and gaps.
"The world is a playground and I try to make every possible piece of terrain something fun to hit"
-Brennon Berg-
David Fozz also works at Alyeska Ski Resort on the trail crew. Fozz took a fall while our shoot and broke his had pretty bad, ending up having surgery.
We all hope for a speedy recovery so he can get back to what he loves sooner then later.
Sean Dunn grew up racing bmx in southern California. He moved to Lake Tahoe for nine years getting into downhill biking. Sean has lived in Alaska for the last four years, working and riding out at Alyeska Resort.
Sean would like to thank Paul for hooking him up with his Kona bike and the girls at crash pads out of Oregon.
Jake Young is the man behind the scenes at Alyeska Resort who builds and designs the trails. Without Jake and the trail crew, this project would have never happened.
Jake got into downhill mountain biking about 12 years ago. Back in the day he said he would push his bike up to 6,000ft in south central Alaska just to ride.
Jake worked in BC on the mountain bike trail crew before he moved back to Alaska to work with Alyeska building trails.
This is Jake's third year on the Alyeska Trail Crew and is excited to see the whole project starting to take shape.
We all would like to send out many thanks for his efforts and ideas for making the mountain bike trails at Alyeska happen and continue to grow.
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