22.3
PHOTOS, INTRO CHRIS BALDRY
AND
INTERVIEWS.
IT’S A
MATTER OF OPINION, REALLY. SUBJECTIVITY. TO A LARGE GROUP OF PEOPLE IN THIS WORLD, THE IDEA OF COMBINING A COLLECTIVE EFFORT AND FOCUSING ALL THAT ENERGY INTO CARVING OUT A PLACE FOR THEMSELVES IN THE STREETS SEEMS LIKE A BAD PLAN. IT’S A SLOW BUILD. SMALL INCREMENTS OF GROWTH EACH AND EVERY YEAR WITH NO CLEAR PATH TO FOLLOW, BUT DESPITE THESE APPARENT BAD PLANS. THE BUILD HERE IS UNDENIABLE. TRONDHEIM, JUST LIKE THE ENTIRE COUNTRY, HAS SET A HIGH BAR FOR SNOWBOARDERS, CULTIVATING MULTIPLE WORLD-CLASS RIDERS FROM JUST THIS SMALL CITY ALONE. BUT THE STREETS HERE ARE A DIFFERENT ANIMAL. SO DIFFERENT, IN FACT, THAT VERY FEW NORWEGIAN CREWS HAVE BROKEN THROUGH AND MADE THEIR MARK IN THE STREETS. IN A COUNTRY WITH A RICH HISTORY OF SNOWBOARDING, BAD PLANS HAVE BEEN BUILDING SOMETHING VERY FEW HAVE DONE. OVER THE YEARS, SOME REALITIES HAVE BEGUN TO SETTLE IN. SCHOOL, MORTGAGES, FULL-TIME JOBS AND INJURIES, BUT THE COMMITMENT TO THE HUSTLE HAS NEVER WAVERED. IF ANYTHING, IT HAS GROWN, JUST LIKE THE CREW, AND IT HAS BECOME MORE FOCUSED AND MORE DELIBERATE. WITH THEIR FIFTH STREET PROJECT SET TO DROP, THE LANDSCAPE HERE IN NORWAY HAS CHANGED. THEIR INFLUENCE AND STYLE IS FELT. THE DISORDER FILMS CREW STARTED IT HERE BACK IN 2006 WITH ‘ONE TOO MANY MORNINGS’, AND WITH A HEAVY INFLUENCE FROM VIDEOGRASS, BAD PLANS HAS TAKEN THE REINS. FILMS DEDICATED TO SPOTS. THE STREET SCENE HERE IS HOME TO AN ENCOURAGING AND TIGHT COMMUNITY OF RIDERS AND CREWS. PROJECTS AND FILMS ARE POPPING UP, AND THE IDEA OF A CREW DEDICATING THEIR WINTER TO THE PURSUIT OF SPOTS ISN’T SO CRAZY ANYMORE. FOR SOME, THOSE ONCE BAD PLANS ARE NOW DAMN GOOD PLANS, BUT FOR BAD PLANS … THERE’S ONLY BAD PLANS.
106 Proofed_BAD PLANS 2.indd 106
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