Pro Skier JT Holmes captivates world audience with CBS 60 minutes

Ocotber 12, 2009

Pro Skier JT Holmes stars on CBS's 60 minutes Sunday night. CBS's "Birdmen" segment was an insightful look into the sport of wingsuit flying. Shane McConkey was supposed to be in the episode by was killed in a ski base jump accident last spring.

Pro Skier JT Holmes started skiing in Squaw Valley, Callifornia when he was three years old. He has gone on to star in multiple ski movies and ridden around the world. His greates moment of fame arguably came last night on CBS's 60 minutes in a feature segment titled "Birdmen". The segment had been planeed out for months between CBS, JT, and Shane McConkey. Shane was killed in a ski base wingsuit crash while filming last winter. JT and CBS decided to do the show anyways. The action sports world is always a little bit scared when main stream media comes in to cover it.

JT nailed it and CBS did it right. CBS did not chase down a bunch of horror stories associated with the base jumping or wingsuit flying. They did not over play Shane's death. JT was very well spoken and an solid representative of all of action sports. He did not look like some crazed thrill seaking lunatic that we have seen main stream sports create in the past. Instead JT portrayed a professional athlete that participated in a beautiful sport that obviously has some high risk associated with it. By the end of the episode I would imagine that most people wished they could experience the feeling of flying like these lucky "birdmen".

Here is an outtake from the show

See the complete segment at CBS's 60 Minutes website here.

Check out a discussion on the segment in the TGR forums.

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