2003-08-05 00:00:00, Biglines
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You may have never of heard of Josh Kjorven yet, but you'll probably agree that his priorities are in the right place. Josh is underground in film school right now, but we're confident that he'll make his mark in due time.
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name: Joshua Kjorven
age: 20
nickname: Kjorven, Canmore, JK, KJ, Shwa, Big Stick, Daddy, Ya baby I love it, no
one does it like you, good god is that thing real.
home mountain: The Lake
weapons of choice: Bandit XXX
How have you dedicated your life to the pursuit of freedom, adventure and lifestyle? That’s a really heavy question. To be perfectly honest I haven’t dedicated my life to anything besides filmmaking. I would like to believe however, that my films are dedicated to the virtues that you have listed above, the pursuit of freedom, adventure and lifestyle. I don’t really think anyone can dedicate themselves to a lifestyle. But through living adventure and freedom you shape your own lifestyle weather that be living in a van chasing storms or locked away in stuffy boardrooms with old people trying to get money to pay for a film.
Describe your best trip: past, present (last year), and future (upcoming). One of my best trips was the first sled skiing tour to Revelstoke that I did with Puskas and Hjorleifson. We went with the intention of rounding up some sick footage but ended up getting snowed out. Good for me because I got to put the camera away and ski bad for Eric and Colin because weended up getting snaked on light and didn’t end up with any useable shots. It wasn’t so much that the conditions were prime that made it a good trip, I think what made it fun was that it was a place I had never
been before and doing something new.
This year I really didn’t get a chance to go on any trips till the spring because I was in school all winter. I did get a chance to head down to Sugarbowl for some chill spring skiing. They had got 10 feet the week before but it was really heavy and it warmed up to about 10 C. So from about 11:00 till 2:00 the snow corned up and made for really fun spring skiing, plus it helped that all the time off the snow was spent in the on hill bar, ask for Tracy she’s great.
As for next year I’ve got a project that I’ve been working on for the past couple of years and hopefully next season I will able to get it off the ground. This project is not only going to change the way people look at ski films but also hopefully shed some light inward into the ski industry itself. I can’t tell you were we’re going to be shooting but I can say to the readers of Biglines you're going to be stoked and that you haven’t seen a lot of these places on film before…
What are you trying to accomplish with your skiing/snowboarding? How is this significant to our community?I think what I’m trying to accomplish with my skiing and my films is significant to the freeriding community because I’m trying to break away
from doing projects that are specifically geared to people within the community. I want to break away from the same old ski porn flicks and make films that people who have never been riding in their lives can understand and get stoked on.
The problem with the ski porn films is that after 10 minutes of seeing the most crazy airs and lines people become saturated and no longer really invest emotionally into what these riders are doing, not because they think what they're doing isn’t sick but your regular Joe who sees this stuff has no idea or reference for what has to happen mentally and physically for the riders to do what they do, that’s why they start to tune out. And it’s just because they’ve never been exposed to that side of the sport, they’ve just been bombarded by people doing cork misty 10’s for and hour. Half way through most ski flicks people who don’t ski stop watching and start talking to their buddy next to them about the party they went to last weekend. So although I think it is very important to maintain a freeride community I think that you have to be careful not to make it an exclusive league that shuts out riders based on skill level, appearance or bling. I just want to get everybody stoked on riding, everybody.
Any other comments you’d like to make? (Thank yous? Statements?…) As for thank yous I’d like send a shout out to my friends Eric Hjorleifson and Graeme Nunn who have always supported the stuff that I try to do. Colin Puskas and Kevin Hjertaas for always hooking me up and letting me know when sh#t sucked, and of course a huge thank you to Biglines for tirelessly bringing freeriding thought and culture to people all over the world, you guys rock keep it up. Finally I'd like to thank my brother Dylan and my parents if it wern't for you guys I wouldn't be livin' the dream, thank you.
Check out: Josh's Vid
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name: Joshua Kjorven
age: 20
nickname: Kjorven, Canmore, JK, KJ, Shwa, Big Stick, Daddy, Ya baby I love it, no
one does it like you, good god is that thing real.
home mountain: The Lake
weapons of choice: Bandit XXX
How have you dedicated your life to the pursuit of freedom, adventure and lifestyle? That’s a really heavy question. To be perfectly honest I haven’t dedicated my life to anything besides filmmaking. I would like to believe however, that my films are dedicated to the virtues that you have listed above, the pursuit of freedom, adventure and lifestyle. I don’t really think anyone can dedicate themselves to a lifestyle. But through living adventure and freedom you shape your own lifestyle weather that be living in a van chasing storms or locked away in stuffy boardrooms with old people trying to get money to pay for a film.
Describe your best trip: past, present (last year), and future (upcoming). One of my best trips was the first sled skiing tour to Revelstoke that I did with Puskas and Hjorleifson. We went with the intention of rounding up some sick footage but ended up getting snowed out. Good for me because I got to put the camera away and ski bad for Eric and Colin because weended up getting snaked on light and didn’t end up with any useable shots. It wasn’t so much that the conditions were prime that made it a good trip, I think what made it fun was that it was a place I had never
been before and doing something new.
This year I really didn’t get a chance to go on any trips till the spring because I was in school all winter. I did get a chance to head down to Sugarbowl for some chill spring skiing. They had got 10 feet the week before but it was really heavy and it warmed up to about 10 C. So from about 11:00 till 2:00 the snow corned up and made for really fun spring skiing, plus it helped that all the time off the snow was spent in the on hill bar, ask for Tracy she’s great.
As for next year I’ve got a project that I’ve been working on for the past couple of years and hopefully next season I will able to get it off the ground. This project is not only going to change the way people look at ski films but also hopefully shed some light inward into the ski industry itself. I can’t tell you were we’re going to be shooting but I can say to the readers of Biglines you're going to be stoked and that you haven’t seen a lot of these places on film before…
What are you trying to accomplish with your skiing/snowboarding? How is this significant to our community?I think what I’m trying to accomplish with my skiing and my films is significant to the freeriding community because I’m trying to break away
from doing projects that are specifically geared to people within the community. I want to break away from the same old ski porn flicks and make films that people who have never been riding in their lives can understand and get stoked on.
The problem with the ski porn films is that after 10 minutes of seeing the most crazy airs and lines people become saturated and no longer really invest emotionally into what these riders are doing, not because they think what they're doing isn’t sick but your regular Joe who sees this stuff has no idea or reference for what has to happen mentally and physically for the riders to do what they do, that’s why they start to tune out. And it’s just because they’ve never been exposed to that side of the sport, they’ve just been bombarded by people doing cork misty 10’s for and hour. Half way through most ski flicks people who don’t ski stop watching and start talking to their buddy next to them about the party they went to last weekend. So although I think it is very important to maintain a freeride community I think that you have to be careful not to make it an exclusive league that shuts out riders based on skill level, appearance or bling. I just want to get everybody stoked on riding, everybody.
Any other comments you’d like to make? (Thank yous? Statements?…) As for thank yous I’d like send a shout out to my friends Eric Hjorleifson and Graeme Nunn who have always supported the stuff that I try to do. Colin Puskas and Kevin Hjertaas for always hooking me up and letting me know when sh#t sucked, and of course a huge thank you to Biglines for tirelessly bringing freeriding thought and culture to people all over the world, you guys rock keep it up. Finally I'd like to thank my brother Dylan and my parents if it wern't for you guys I wouldn't be livin' the dream, thank you.
Check out: Josh's Vid
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