Last Saturday we experienced Red Bull Crashed Ice in Vieux (old) Québec with our friends Bill, Will, Wilbert and Sam. We, along with 85,000 other people (yes, it was insane) jammed ourselves around a 600m ice rink course that has steep jumps, stair steps and hairpin turns. Here’s how the Red Bull Crashed Ice website describes the event:
You know bobsled, probably the luge, and if you’ve got any Canuck in your blood then definitely a toboggan hill. Combine the best of each and throw in a bumpin’ dose of imagination and you’ve got something close to the Crashed Ice course.
I of course brought my video camera and got a couple of shots but with so many people it was incredibly difficult to get a good quantity of footage. Jesse, a friend of mine at the university, recorded the live presentation of Red Bull Crashed Ice and gave me a digital copy. So I suppose I would call the following video a remix. I cut up the footage from the TV and spliced in some of my own along with some music. It was actually more work than I expected cutting up the TV footage, I didn’t want any logos (besides the everpresent TSN watermark) or stats to show up. Hope you enjoy!
Did you get to drink any of the product?
-Kane
They were selling it everywhere but it was close to -20C and there was no way I was about to drink an ice cold red bull :)
Oh, it looks like a lot of fun…to watch. Well, maybe try skating it too but without anyone watching.