Dick Barrymore chronicles the metamorphosis of freestyle aerial acrobatic skiing from 1969 to 1983. You can find this segment and other hard to find historical footage in his film "The Golden Years of Ski Films".
Bad idea. They were heavy and stiff as railroad tie. Dynastar Omsoft was the plank of choice. K2 made good skis but the cosmetics would crack off in a few weeks.
Look how long his skis are, those are like Super G skis. They were just plain old straight edge skis back then, not at all anything like what the Freestyle skis are today, much shorter and designed for forward and backward stunts. Crazy stuff, you had to be brave back then for sure, or crazy.
Was coached by John Eaves when I was 12 years old in 1975... at the Michel Daigle summer and winter camps... and also remember training with Mike Nemesvary on water ramps when he was just a few years older than me but... he made it to greatness!!! Love watching this vid on regular basis...
sound track shows influence of the seventies era revival of ragtime as the old times from 'The Sting'...and the slow motion recovery clips are brilliant images of the skier as a shock absorber leg in essence...
wow i skiid in utah from 84-87 didnt know Stein Erickson was the first skiir to do a front or that he was credited with originated the aerial sport,, cool
No, the only Barrymore movies I've been able to get are the "last of the ski bums", "The Performers" and "The Golden Years of Ski Films". Unfortunately, Dick died in August 2008, but there is an Idaho distribution address on his website. Phil Sifferman has a slide show of his funeral on the web, and therefore may know something about who now owns the company. Scott Brooksbank was also there, and may know something. Mark
@JayKayEightyEight not many people skiied that way then it was common to test gear and enter competitions at the same time and making up tricks,, these are the originators just making it up by trial and error and dealing with more unknowns- now there are so many pro skiier around the world it proper form is well know it takes decades to perfect the form and who's to say perfection is elusive..
I knew the Barrymore family, his sons and the son of his camera man. I once tried to tell his cameraman Rick Rickers, that the footage is great, but the music is horrible...I tried to point out that people in the late 70's, early 80's had astrotunes...a precursor to the walkman, that allowed them to listen to their favourite music while skiing and that no body listens to that music. Rick told me it was public domaine music , free music...I tried to suggest using music from bands that didn't records out yet, and just wanted to get their music out there ( as I was a a young musician )...Rick didn't really hear me I think...and soon...there were other ski films doing film with the music that people wanted to hear. recently I saw some of Dicks film of Blake his son put to new music...hahahaha...better late than never. Both Dick and Rick are both gone now...But I always think of this when I see these films. But happy to see them!!!!!
That's interesting TakKurtz, because apparently some of the music turns out to be copyrighted. Thus, people have to sit through an advertisement to see this video (and other Barrymore videos as well) because the UPPM-Universal music group claims it has found segments of the film with copyrighted music. For this film, they say that the segment from 5:44-6:38 has a song called "NM006_04" on it, and the segment 7:48-8:26 has the song "Strings in bondage".
Proud To be the first SPANIARD to compete on the World Cup Freestyle skiing.. The last part of the video was also my last contest TIGNES 1982. Unfortunately my ski federation don't help financially to carry on tryning properly to get over the first 10 so I quit it was to dangerous try to do triples without proper training . Bruce Bolesky Frank Beddor John Eaves Laroche brothers Nano Poutier.... Mike Nemansvary... So many hot skiers for the time
