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Red Bull Uncorked
Red Bull Uncorked
Mark McMorris and Sebastien Toutant are two of the best in the business of slopestyle snowboarding. Their respective bags of tricks are deep enough to consistently land them on podiums at the biggest contests in the sport.
However, just because they can land the gnarliest tricks in snowboarding's history doesn't mean that they want snowboarding progessing in that direction. Red Bull Uncorked is their take on growing snowboarding creatively through the design of features rather than technical tricks.
Starting with a pen and paper, McMorris and Toutant (with a helping hand from Craig McMorris) poured out their ideas for what terrain parks could look like and brought to life a unique series of features at Grouse Mountain to showcase what happens when you focus on technical features instead of technical tricks.
“The main idea was to build fun features that you can be super creative on, or do tricks that are simple," said Toutant on the project's inception. "That’s what snowboarding’s about. It doesn’t need to be the gnarliest trick everyday.”
Adding to that, Mark McMorris said, “We need to show everybody how fun snowboarding is to get more people into the sport, because what we do on a weekend basis [at contests] is not attainable.”
Yuki Kadono of Japan, Scotty James of Australia and Canadians Mike Ciccarelli and Tyler Nicholson joined Toutant and the McMorris brothers in exploring the possibilities of Red Bull Uncorked while Anthill Films captured the action.
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