Freeskiing
Take a peek into the future of rail riding with this jaw-dropping edit from freeskiing boundary-breaker Jesper Tjäder.
Watch the Unrailistic 2.0 action edit here:
It’s been almost four years since Swedish freeski star Jesper Tjäder's Unrailistic edit was released, blowing the freeski scene's collective mind with its totally fresh and creative take on progressive rail riding.
Mixing state-of-the-game technical tricks on traditional park obstacles with completely original features such as a trampoline and a trapeze swing, Unrailistic established the young Swede as the sport's greatest innovator. But, four years is a long time in freeskiing and all hopes of a sequel seemed to have faded – until now.
I’m thinking about new tricks all the time
It's been a long time coming, but Unrailistic 2.0 is finally here. So, why the long wait? Well, as you might expect, Tjäder is a true perfectionist and this not only meant that Unrailistic 2.0 had to surpass Unrailistic in every aspect, but every single trick in it had to push the envelope of progressive freeskiing in some way.
From tricks like the Body Slide to Spin Out and obstacles like the Double Handplant to combinations of both, like the 450° onto an eight kink rail, almost everything you see in Unrailistic 2.0 is an NBD (Never Been Done). Oh, and talking about raising the bar, there's a rail in there that we're pretty sure is the highest park rail ever built.
Watch the Unrailistic 2.0 behind the scenes video below:
One of the slightly weird aspects of watching Unrailistic 2.0 is how you're seeing stuff that's never been done before and yet it looks smooth and effortless. In fact, one could almost say it looks easy. Don't be fooled: as you’ll see in the behind the scenes edit, every trick in this video took days to conceive, plan and execute, with some tricks taking well over 100 attempts to complete.
Take the Triple-S to triple-kink rail combo. Tjäder makes it look like a cakewalk, but that's a mind-bendingly difficult combo that took Tjäder 118 attempts to make. 118 tries pretty much says it all about how long it can take to reach perfection. For Tjäder, it all turns into a mind game:
It's a nice change to try something for 100 tries. In contests you only have two tries, so it's nice to do stuff where you can actually put some time into it
Check out the best Unrailistic 2.0 action shots
The result? Viewed side-by-side with Unrailistic, Unrailistic 2.0 is very different from the original and that's exactly what Tjäder intended. The riding is more technical and the obstacles more progressive. Where Unrailistic blew our minds with its quirkiness and novelty, the sequel blows our minds purely by showing us a tantalising glimpse of the future of freeskiing.
Which cameras were used to shoot Unrailistic 2.0? Find out in our behind the scenes gallery:
Or, as freeski and snowboarding filmmaker Matt Pain puts it, "What Jesper has done in this edit is light years ahead of the scene. This edit will still be relevant in 10 years time. In fact, it will probably still be light years ahead."
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