"Blizzard of AAHs" is probably the best ski movie ever made, and Greg edited it at our facility in Portland, Maine. This was our fifth movie with Greg. We had just finished our new 1" editing suite (1988), and this sequence features some title manipulations using our (at the time) new $70,000. DVE box.
BOAs brought a lot of things together: the triple star power of Schmidt, Hattrup, and Plake; some amazing photography by Bruce Benedict, the cutting-edge music of ZTT Records/Trevor Horn, and Greg's wonderful sense of style and humor.
This movie changed my life for the following 20 years. Thanks Greg.
The greatest ski movie ever made! This is why I got into skiing and work in the industry today! Plake, Schmidt, and Hattrup were my idols growing up.
My dad bought this movie on VHS when i was about 7 yrs old. I'm a snowboarder now but this is undoubtedly the movie that got me absolutely hooked on everything to do with snow and mountains! I'm buying it on DVD immediately!
Brilliant...This is a movie that inspired my family and I to take up Skiing at Cairngorm in Scotland back in the late 80's. Schmidt, Plake & Hattrup...my childhood Heroes!!!
One of the best movies of all time-not just ski movies. Greg Stump was brilliant. The skiing on those long skinny boards looks primitive, but everything else remains F’ing awesome
As a surf film maker, I always admired Greg's cutting edge soundtracks and great narrative. The skiing wasn't too bad either!
I loved watching these movies with my awesome cousin! In loving memory of Rob Chisholm Sept 1972-Oct 2013.
Awesome. Bringing back the memories!
I have yet to see a ski movie as good as this. When it came out, it was all I watched and it even changed the music I listened to for some time.
Blizzard and Maltese are the movies that started it all for me.
Fond memories. I used to watch this and his other films all night, amping up to rip on my 204 VO-Slaloms all the next day. The closest I ever came to anything like this stuff was New Hampshire's Tuckerman Ravine. But, hey, a 50 degree slope is a 50 degree slope, no matter where you are. Thanks for posting this. I miss those days.
Best ski movie ever made with the two best extreme skiers; Scot Schmidt and Glenn Plake.
And Mike Hattrup... Dont forget a vast majority of the epic skiing in this movie is Mike.
still have many of these songs on mp MP3 player!!!! Best soundtrack EVER!!!!
One of the best written/directed ski movies ever! Can't tell you how many times I would watch this before my ski sessions to get pumped. It's a legacy ski flick for sure. Thank you all who put their creativity into this film.
Best ski movie ever!
I grew up with this movie and just met Glen Plake this winter. Amazing man, amazing stories, amazing talent.
Stump's movies are what renewed my interest in music. For years I'd visit every record store I could, from Paris to Sydney, trying to get hold of some of the music he used in his films. I've pretty much found it all at this point, but it was great fun hunting for all of those records (and discovering other music along the way). Oh, and Bob Thompson is still one of my favourite guitarists ever. His playing on "Good, The Rad..." is killer. Still waiting for Maltese Flamingo on DVD!
No "probably" about it. The greatest ski film ever. A cinematic tour de force combining brilliant writing, awesome cinematography, breathtaking skiing (how did they DO that on those skinny boards we used to ride?!), and every-frame evidence that they had about as much fun as you can have making a ski movie. I have watched it at least 250 times and never will tire of it. Stump's master work. Every snowbelt home in the world should have a copy.
I'm a Maine native, ski filmmaker, and live in Vail. I'm proud of how my state of Maine has produced some of the best ski filmmakers out there, my idols!
I lived in Vail (21years) during this time and couldn't tell you how many times I watch this movie with a twelve pack!
LOVE Stump's films, they are what I grew up on - thanks for posting this!
Walked the aisle to 'Maximum Joy' a few years ago.
This takes me back to being a kid! Glen Plake was my hero....and the soundtrack was phenomenal!!! It took me forever to find what songs/artists appeared. If you're looking for the tune in this clip, it's ACT's "Absolutely Immune II (Trevor's 12 " mix). ACT is responsible for some of the other songs in this movie too (3rd Planet, Frozen Faces, etc).
Just brilliant! Fond memories of ski seasons :)
totally a classic ski film. was 18 when it came out. my ski pals git psyched on a friday night watching and then ripped it up at whistler on the saturdays.
Best intro to any ski movie EVER!
Brent Mohr gave me the CASSETTE version of the soundtrack. Still have it, inspirational! Greg, met you at Park City Live for Legend of a while back, non goatroper Portsmouth native PR. Love ya, sir. We redecorated our ski shop in Dover NH to reflect the flick's motif. Thanks for making my childhood a little more bearable, dude! Well done, you kicked ass......
Great memories..... It was my Senior year at university. "ahhhhhhhhhhh"
omg, what could be better than the best ski film ever with an equally good soundtrack!!!!
Recorded the movie onto a cassette and played it over and over on my walkman. Could recite it ! Aaaaaaah
Great movie, I have watched it way to many times, Back when K2 were made in the U.S.A. not China those were the days, Well the truth is skiing has gotten even better, Love it and I love this video, thanks for making it and posting.
Fundamental movie that drove me to the Alps, setting up as a ski pro in Val d'Isere. Awesome old film.
Still got this film on VHS, awesome.
The Greatest Ski Movie and Greatest movie soundtrack of all time.
The memories! Glen Plake was my childhood crush.
Fantastic - absolute pleasure to see this. Takes me way back I'm an old school extreme skier - used to blast everywhere on my 200cm K2 Extremes when I was a fit young man :) Would love to find clip of Scott Schmidt skiing to Seal - 'Crazy'
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best movie ever!!
Always a classic!!
Agreed - emotional almost :)
inspiration ,memories of my second season in 89/90 when plake was in courch showcasing the film !
Scot Schmidt is one of those rare skiers whom you can freeze frame at any point in any turn, and his body position is invariably one a classic Greek sculptor would struggle to do justice to. What's most striking is that there's almost never a flourish or pose, nothing is done for effect, in fact it's a struggle to isolate any move which could be dispensed with, or replaced with a better move. Every part of his body is always in transit from one ideal place to another. Nobody else in skiing I can think of came close, with the possible exception of Jerry Warren from Snowbird, who was once Ski Magazine's go-to guy for freeze-frame sequences. He, too, was a guy for whom you could pick at random any shot from a motor-drive sequence, blow it up and make a stunning poster. But Jerry was not skiing in chutes in those shoots, or dropping off cliffs. Scot must have unbelievable control over his emotions for his body language to consistently portray such phenomenal calm. Modern skiers like Candide Thovex also have this in spades, but I haven't seen any with the minimalism of Schmidt; they're all just a bit showy. The best of them look as though they're skiing to have fun; Scot looks as though he's skiing to *ski.*
@1:54 I'm not a skier but his posture and consistency is very impressive here. Michael jordan is also awesome to watch playing basketball. Fundamentally perfect footwork and movement. Watch "96 bulls mixtape"
great movie, an they did it all on long boards. Bought my K2 Extremes shortly after this flick lol. I think they were 214's
I can only imagine what these guys in their prime could do with equipment we have now. Also it really makes me laugh when people say that snowboarding was what brought on freeskiing.
GREAT MUSIC!!!!
Rob Chisholm, I was trying to think what to write, read your response, and can do no better! My life changed because some guys loved to ski and video it with great non-mainstream music. Riding in a car 7 hours to Vermont again and again with those tracks laid down on a cassette. (that's a tape you can record on you young'uns, lol) Touching so many lives for the better and I wonder if they even knew it.
@ecotahoe ha! i did the same....inspired by these movies. moved to whistler in 1991. and stayed up there for 6 years. the years JUST before they over developed it. best move i ever made. thanks stumpy for the inspiration. and it was cool hangin out with you in tommy africas ;) party party with you and ace.
This is the greatest ski movie ever made
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very very very very very very good movie of ski!!!!!thanks Ericjurg!!!have you got a little piece or the intro of maltese flamingo??bye
To this day THIS song is my absolute favorite. Bought my first pair of skis (Volkl GS) and learned how to do it thanks to this intro…
Song is dope. I just found it on KZhead a couple days ago. I used to be a big raver 20 years ago, and that track would be perfect for that scene. Never heard it before I started watching this movie this year. Some 80s songs really nail that epic sound, without degenerating into cheesiness. I wonder if the chorus is about vaccination
Thank you!!!
Plake still a ski hero 🤙🤙🤙🤙🤙🤙🤙
Rasta Stevie rules! Long live Greg Stump. I can not wait for Legend of Ahhhs!
@JFDI1my dad bought me this when i was 7 yrs old. thankyou so much for telling us where we can buy it i just went on amazon and bought it. its the most nostalgic film i could ever watch!
Glen Plake for President.
"Absolutely Immune II", to be exact (one of a couple of 12" remixes of "Absolutely Immune"). I believe it's now available on iTunes.
Grew up with this. Had the opportunity to ski with Mike and Glen in subsequent years. Bitchin nostalga here, and no stinkin helmets. yeeaaarrggh!
I dropped out of freshman year in 1988 and moved to Squaw Valley USA. Best decision I ever made.
@a147pro No, not an edit for the film. This is "Absolutely Immune II" (Trevor's 12") which was issued as a 12" single. Claudia Brücken is German but Thomas Leer is British/Scottish and the project (Act) was produced mainly by Steve Lipson (another Brit).
Pete, if you are in the UK try Amazon, it is on a two disc box set, steep and Blizzard and only a fiver, bargin. I met Plake at the London Ski show back in about 90ish, was well chuffed.
why am i on youtube watching clips of the movie i'm about to watch??? hahaha
goosebumpa...fucking goossebmps every time
AAHHHH Yezzzz!!
haha. the title caught my eye
You can download the tune from Amazon MP3... Act: Absolutely Immune (Trevor's Twelve Inch Mix)
does anyone know what the piano music at the closing credits is? would be greatly appreciated:)
It's a track called absolutely immune by Act
Don't you hate how some people saw us all having fun doing this and had to regulate the industry in a choke hold so tight that fun like this is the exception not the norm?
What has changed? I haven't been skiing since 2001
Anyone know where I can get the song " Blizzard of Ahhs" by Ted Musgrave and the G-Men?
I always wondered how Greg Stump got Trevor Horn, Jill Sinclair & ZTT/Island to contribute the music for this and other films. I mean it was great cross marketing, but I would have thought Jill would have figured out how to make some money upfront. Did they own a piece of this?
I'd have to say ripping down some narrow convex courloir is about the biggest stroker ever....
What a classic. I would love to see a clip of Telluride's town councilman Rasta Stevie...
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woooooooooo please i need that film, I had got it when i´m only 5 years on vhs but it gets lost. please if somebody could tell me where I could get it contact me please
Which old Miller movie had that segment on French Monoskiis?
Not Miller - it's probably Dick Barrymore.
Hy. What's the name of this song???
@bigkatunas You can't! I actually have a Ted M. and the G-Men cassette that my friend bought from Stump around 1990 and I'm pretty sure it has Blizzard on it. Best thing to do would be to just tape it directly off the audio output of your VCR/DVD player.
Absolutely immune. This should be the soundtrack for those who are vaccinated for Covid!
3:34 made selfie before mainstream
I think I see lots of Finnish design clothes colours here. They were made by Torstai not so far where I'm living.
If you want to know more about it, check this story out: www.thesnowalker.com/2018/12/21/from-lapland-to-the-today-show-the-club-a-story/
eh. it's not about insurance rates. anyone who wants to risk life and limb can simply sign away any right to sue. after all, it's what you do every time you purchase a lift ticket (whether you know it or not).
Ummm, does anyone else get the feeling that "The Blizzard of AAH's" sounds more like a porno?
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Act, Ted Musgrave and the G-Men, Franki Goes to Hollywood. A lot of Act.
How do you spell EXTREME? - PLAKE, STUMP, SCHMIDT....This Video put Extreme SKiing on the Map imagine if it was filmed in High Def! I met Plake at Heavenly's 50th Anniversary and he has not changed.....the original BAD BOY....the movie is now on DVD!
@theleftofnowhere Wizard of Oh Oh Ohhs
please on spanish XDDDDD if somebody could help me please!!!!!!!!!!!!!! on spanish was LA VENTISCA DE LOS AAAAH
It doesn't get better!!! Including the ski god that is Glen Plake. Please forgive the dodgy one piece's, florescent ski bases, and the so bloody long skis......