Watch Clemens Millauer Bend The Laws Of Physics - Snowboarding Reverse
Clemens Millauer is proud to present his latest project Snowboarding Reverse and we’re sure you’ve never seen Snowboarding like this before. In an idea that his compatriot and snowboard sensation Anna Gasser described as ‘crazy’, instead of taking the traditional ski lift to the mountain station, he found a new unique way. Using a combination of winches, a skidoo and a helicopter Millauer turned his year-long dream into a reality and had the ride of his life.
The 26-year-old Olympian, who celebrated a second-place finish in the Big Air World Cup last week, said: “The feeling of going over 80kp/h uphill was really crazy. Even going 80kp/h downhill feels fast but doing it the other way around is so unnatural, it feels so much faster. The biggest challenge for me was to rethink. You are looking up to the landing and you know that you have to jump the kicker in a few seconds, the one you jumped so many times the other way around.”
Anna Gasser adds: “Clemens really has the craziest ideas. The biggest difficulty for our trick together was the right timing to hit the rail together. Additionally, it’s really distracting when someone comes your way with a lot of speed, that’s nothing you are used to in our sport.”
ADDITIONAL FACTS
- The planning for the 7-day-shooting took a full year
- The project was filmed at Shuttleberg in Flachauwinkl, Austria
- There are cameo appearances by Anna Gasser, Adrian Krainer and Nina Gigele
- The crew and the Flying Bulls discussed and prepared every detail to make sure Clemens has enough speed to ride the mountain uphill
- As you can’t simulate riding a slope uphill, the snowboarding was a real challenge and not everything worked first time
The resulting video is an action-packed performance celebrating the creativity of snowboarding. For more information and to view the video in full, visit www.redbull.com/reverse.
