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The standard storyline in today’s freeskiing narrative is void of depth. It lacks emotional connection, authenticity, and most significantly, meaning. How often are we, the audience, served another seeping helping of macho man balls-to-the-walls straight lines, aggressive airs, or the hastily-constructed facade of the urban skier? Where is the depth of character, the meaning behind the event, the artistry? Where is the truth?
Enter skiing’s savant and savior of its soul: Garrett “G-Funk” Russell. At the base of it all, skiing is a fulfillment of childlike joyous desires to speed across frozen canvas, the journey of the smile. The genius of Garrett’s style and creativity is his ability to summon childhood feelings and desires and translate them through the powers of his manhood and artistic process. The result is a supreme fullness. He translates the transcendent command of his body, molding it to fit his artistic vision. This communication is written in the speech of his skis upon the great snowy page. It lives within the turn. Garrett dances with the mountain with every memory from the past and hope for the future. The here and now explodes in brilliant aesthetic significance. Who he is and what he creates is one and the same. Every palpitation of his process is self-sustaining and it thickens the bedrock of his entire existence.
Watching Garrett ski is more than an event, it is an experience. By not curtailing his process to fit into contemporary skiing ideology, by only listening to the indomitable voice of his muse, Garrett obtains an unparalleled connectedness. The personal significance of the moment is so palpable in every turn the observer has no choice but to feel the weight of it’s meaning. It resonates in the heart of the audience as a deep bellow echoes into the depths of a canyon. Yet its volume increases as it bounces off the walls of the soul.
Garrett Russell is the future and it is happening right now.
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THE GARRETT RUSSELL EXPERIENCE–ANOTHER TIME, ANOTHER PLACE–EPISODE II
Brought to you by: The-House.com, Under Armour, Gear Junkie, Line Skis, SASS Global Travel, Marker Bindings, and Teton Gravity Research
Executive Producers - Paddy O'Connell & Dana Westbrock
Chief Videographer - Spencer Cordovano, spencervideo.com
Archival Footage - Colin Farrell, OPPcreative
Additional Footage - Connor Winton, SASS Global Travel
Dana Westbrock, The-House.com
Paddy O'Connell, The-House.com
Editor - Jon Riley, Teton Gravity Research
Original score by Brendan O'Connell aka Sidepart
Special Thanks: Lucas and Travis Moore, Pete Connolly, David Berg, Ben Girardi, Benny Schmitt, Mauri Cambilla, Ryan Dunfee, G Funk,and the entire SASS Family.
