Zachary FenellExtreme SnowSled/SnowMobile Action with Team Thunderstruck
September 23rd 2008 00:04
Thunderstruck 7 arrives
Team Thunderstruck get Air - Images courtesy of bigskyx.com
Dominating the largely under discussed sport of extreme snow sledding team Thunderstruck are pioneering and over extending just what is capable on a snowmobile.
Steering their high powered machines into foreboding back country and launching them at excessive speed, this is mechanical abuse in the name of adrenalin entertainment. A dangerous, deadly vocation that has seen the members of Thunderstruck applauded as the top riders in the business.
Cross country
Their latest DVD release Thunderstruck 7 has just come out and the film is a compilation of some of the most radical and insane stunts ever attempted on these sub-Arctic transports. Conquering the Rocky Mountain back country with extreme high speed ascents, big air and a whole lot of courage and skill, this is a …
A brief review from the website idahostatesman.com by Chad Dryden
“Tightly edited with a minimum of banter (that's a good thing with extreme sports documentaries), the 75-minute film captures closeup and aerial footage of Team Thunderstruck trick-riding and speeding up seemingly impossible routes on turbo machines.
In one of the more impressive clips, Canadian Randy Swenson climbs nearly 2,500 vertical feet in 74 seconds up a rock-lined chute just 7 feet wide at the top.
It's not until the aerial camera hovers over the summit, looking down the chute Swenson just ran, that the viewer truly gets a sense of the accomplishment.
The crash-and-burn moments, meanwhile, need no additional perspective.”
In one of the more impressive clips, Canadian Randy Swenson climbs nearly 2,500 vertical feet in 74 seconds up a rock-lined chute just 7 feet wide at the top.
It's not until the aerial camera hovers over the summit, looking down the chute Swenson just ran, that the viewer truly gets a sense of the accomplishment.
The crash-and-burn moments, meanwhile, need no additional perspective.”
Thunderstruck Wipeout
From the teaser trailer below the film definitely looks exciting and coming from the land of kangaroos and vegemite, appears to be on an Alien surface only rumoured of in Thredbo.
For more information on international riders that include Joe Phelan, Randy Swenson, Ange Dyer and Australian Julio Eiguren please visit bigskyx.com.
Teaser Trailer for Thunderstruck 7
Some more Thunderstruck action this time is Thunderstruck 6
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