BAD PLANS CO-VID

22.3

PHOTOS, INTRO AND INTERVIEWS.

CHRIS BALDRY

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.

* interview with

ANDREAS GRONG

Boss man, how are you? Got enough free time for a quick interview?

Yeah I’m good I’m good.

How many spots do you have in your spot folder?

I don’t know man. There’s a few hundred.

How many spot folders do you have?

I’ve got two main folders. One for Oslo and one for Trondheim and there’s a lot of stuff outside of those cities as well, just laying around in those same folders.

What’s your favourite city to shoot in?

Trondheim, when there’s a lot of people here. But it could be wherever if it’s good.

You’re the cat-herder behind all these movies. Going into a project, what’s your typical mindset, where’s your focus?

The focus comes later. We just try to shoot snowboard tricks we think are cool and that we like to do, and we’ll shoot that and figure out all the other shit later. You spend a lot of time looking at spots year round but that’s just the way of life I guess, and then you just start shooting when you have the time and piece it together later.

How is it to juggle shooting all your riders and trying to film a full part yourself?

Ahhhh that’s hard. You want to prioritise everybody else first. It can be difficult to shoot the stuff I want to ride, but there’s time now and then. It’s a collective effort so I gotta help out so everybody can get what they want.

Are you stoked on this latest project?

Yeah! It’s been a hectic winter though. There’s been a lot of restrictions on traveling and I go to school now so that prevented me from traveling to Oslo a lot. But when we were shooting, we were going at it, so it was maybe a bit stressful at times, but it was super when we got those weekends with like ten clips. We were working to get it done when we had time. There was a lot of other stuff going on as well. Especially for me. supportive and helps out a lot, and the hugest shoutout to Baldry.

I’m giving a shoutout to Victoria’s parents for letting me crash in their basement in the middle of a pandemic and making a crazy huge and amazing meal!

Word! And all the guys putting in hours and hours and getting snowboard tricks on film because we think it’s cool. It’s insane the effort everybody puts in when they’re at the spot, and we’re hugely thankful and grateful.

*(A)

50-50 ROOF TRANSFER TO WALLRIDE

*(B)

GAP TO ROOF

How’d you free up enough time away from Gråkallparken to film a part?

I didn’t, but I tried *laughs*. I had some friends who covered for me for a couple of days, but mostly it was Tjommi Mats who took care of the hill so I was able to go out with the guys, and that was super nice. I wish I could have done more, but it was so much fun filming this year and I’m glad I got the opportunity.

You’ve built a rail garden from the ground up in Trondheim called Gråkallparken, can you tell us a bit about it?

It’s been five years now and it’s been a pretty wild ride. It started off kind of fast, we were able to make so many rails the first year so we just started going, and we kept going, and it’s turned into a playground for teenagers, for adults, for kids. At the beginning, the most important thing for me was to build a park, get good features and just ride snowboards, but over the years I’ve been so much more focused on just having something to offer to the kids in Trondheim, and also adults. To be able to give them that opportunity to go snowboarding in a fun park has been the main aspect of it the past few years. It’s changed from building a park that’s sick, into more of a place where people can be creative and get away from everyday stress, and of course meet friends, which is maybe the most important thing. All my friends are at Gråkallen, so that’s a luxury to have people come to hang with me. I don’t know if I can call it my spot, but it’s my place, the place I want to be. Having a place where all my friends and myself can go hangout everyday the whole winter, that’s maybe the thing I think keeps it rolling. People contribute, people are there, happy, and also people are helping each other. I think that’s really cool. If there’s beginners at the hill, the most advanced riders will always be like ‘Yo, you should try this board’ or ‘you should try this trick’.

* (A) interview with STIAN KARLSEN

With so many hours put into Gråkallen, what got you motivated to film in the streets this season?

It’s such a big part of snowboarding. You use the park to learn and maybe go out and do it in the streets. It’s just a different way of snowboarding in the streets. And of course I’ve been watching all my homies, shredding, putting down parts while I was busy at Kalla. Grong has been the best motivator, pushing me to go out there and I’m super happy to go shred every time I get to do it.

What else keeps you busy?

I’m supposed to be busy with school but I’ve been neglecting it a bit. I don’t know, I think mostly snowboarding in the wintertime at least, and camping in the summertime? The work aspect of Gråkallparken keeps me pretty busy, all the other shit we have to do there, that I love to do, but the stuff that’s not snowboarding. Yeah, that keeps me busy too.

Krish my man, how are you?

Je suis tre bein merci, et toi? I’m doing really great I’m looking at the ocean right now.

You spell your name Kristoffer, so whats with the H at the end of Krish?

Good question! It started out with Sigurd and Grong and a couple of other guys calling me Krisj, but with a J at the end, and then it kind of ended up being an H instead. More than that, I don’t really know.

3D pen or 3D printer?

3D pen. You get the details.

Can you explain why so many good riders come from Trondheim?

I think it’s the energy that lies in this area. The way of living in Trondheim and being a Trønder is just pretty cool and were raised with saying ‘The Trønders against the rest’ which is ‘Trønder mot resten’.

Tell me about your NRK roof transfer.

Cool spot. Crazy spot. It was really windy that day, it was psycho.

My favourite part was Didric being stuck on top of the roof after everything was said and done.

Yeah *laughs*. Didric did a great job. He was the one that gave me the speed into the headwind. We had a great team I would say, for some psycho shit.

Let’s talk parts, do you have a strategy to filming a part? Do you try and look for a wide range of different kinds of spots or do you have certain tricks you want to showcase, or do you just go out and

* (B) interview with KRISH LERÅND

hit as many spots as you can and piece it all together during editing?

I mean, there’s so many tricks you’ve seen in parts so almost all the tricks have been done, kind of. What I think of when I film is, I want to do new stuff, I want to try to find as many spots that haven’t been found before. Find new things, not just necessarily a trick on a spot that’s been ridden a lot. When I find a spot, I get this feeling if I really like it or not. It doesn’t depend on if it’s sketchy or if it’s a trick, I mean I’ve got some tricks I want in my part, but mostly it’s the way I look at the spot and picture what I can do there and if it’s interesting for me and how I can ride snowboard on it. Not necessarily doing one trick, but doing something kind of unique.

*(C)

STINE TØNNESSEN . FRONTBOARD

How’s your summer been?

My summer has been really nice. Just finished my bachelor and been having a lot of days off, and just enjoying Oslo slowly reopening again. Drinking beers with friends and maybe taking a swim in the fjords of Oslo.

Tell me about this spot. It was the first spot you’ve shot with the Bad Plans Crew, correct?

Andreas showed me a picture and it looked so fun, I hadn’t seen anything like it. It was during a Trondheim trip, I was there with some friends and we were there to film, but I sort of had a really low energy day and I wasn’t really hyped on anything. Then at the last minute Markus and I and some of our friends decided to go up to Gråkallen to ride the last hour, and I got so much energy just from riding some laps there, so I called Andreas and said I wanted to see and maybe film the spot. You and Andreas had just come from a spot with Samuel and were happy to join me, which was really cool. I think it was after midnight when we were finished. At least it felt like that because I usually go to bed pretty early, so that was a crazy experience for me. It was the first time I had shot at night which was pretty cool. I’m so hyped with the picture, it was the first time I got a photo in the streets.

Your crew is called Sensesse, is this an all-girl crew?

Ahhhh yeah we’re mostly girls I guess, the people you best identify within the group are girls for now, but I wouldn’t say it’s all-girls exclusive, but that’s the ways it started I guess. We’re a group of friends first and foremost, and we’ve been riding together the last year, or almost all the years I’ve been boarding actually, and it’s been a really safe community to learn to snowboard. Marie wanted to develop something to invite more girls to feel comfortable in snowboarding and to create a whole safe space for everyone to feel at home, feel comfortable and push each other. Just to be a community to arrange different events and ride together, but I feel like the most important thing is that we are all very good friends. I feel like the core values are the importance of visibility and representation within the snowboarding community, showing the variety of people that snowboard, and that everyone has a place to belong and feel at home. And also have fun, of course.

Will you be filming with Bad Plans again in the future and where can we catch more clips of you in the meantime?

I’m planning to film next season as well, so yes! This season I’ve mostly filmed a project together with my Sensesse girlfriends which is to be found on the Internet after the summer. Name and more details are coming soon.

* (C) interview with STINE TØNNESSEN

ON OLD STONE BS 50-50

Didric Lothe aka Erna Solberg. Isn’t Erna Solberg the Prime Minister of Norway?

Ahhh yes. That’s correct. I am.

What are you up to right now?

Right now I’m building a concrete quarter pipe at the skatepark in Hemsedal. It’s a DIY project.

How’d you get mixed up with the Bad Plans crew?

Oh. I went to school in Gol, and Stian, Håvard and Håkon were there building Golparken. It was a very sick park we made. Then I met all the Bad Plans guys and they were hyped and I was hyped.

Have you filmed with them before or was this your first time?

Not a bunch because they live so far up north, but there’s been some trips up there to film some street. I haven’t had a full part yet, just a few clips.

Tell us about 50-50ing a 1000 year old ledge.

Ohhhh that was dark. And scary. And fun. I dunno.

Was it more or less scary than a many-kinked creeper?

I think it was the same amount of scary. The old ledge was so secure, kind of.

And fast …

Yeah. Fast as fuck! There was a stone cube in the landing. And the in run was a few pallets with a guy holding it from behind, and when you dropped you had to go for it. I decided to use the PowReaper and it goes so fast!

What’s your plans for the rest of the summer and next season?

I’m moving to Bergen this summer in August and we’ll see what happens next winter. I think I’ve got more time to go places when other people have days off… like weekends and vacations.

I know guys like that.

Yeah I know. It’ll be nice.

FS 50-50 ON NEW STEEL

FS 50-50 TO BACKLIP

*(E) *(D)

WALLIE TO PILAR BASH

Markus how are you and where you at right now?

I’m good, I’m at a place called Arendal in Southern, Norway. It’s a nice cabin place by the ocean. I’m at a summer party right now but I’m speaking to you.

When there’s snow, Trondheim or Oslo?

Oslo. I gotta say Oslo. We had an ok winter with some good snowfalls now and then, so we’ve been filming mostly here. Oslo is a bigger city than Trondheim so there’s more potential for spots, and you can go outside to Asker, to the suburbs, they have lots of spots too, and it’s where I live so I gotta say Oslo before Trondheim. I know some Trondheim people are going to be a little bit tipsy about that answer!

When you’re out looking for spots, what do you look for?

I mostly look for natural in-runs. Hills where I can get a lot of speed because I really like to get some speed into the spot, like you would on the hill. I think that’s fun and it looks cool. You can hit a long downrail super slow or you can hit it super fast … just to hit it super fast looks way sicker.

Is there a spot you’ve hit in the the past that stands out more than all the others?

Yeah there are a couple ones, but the first one I’m thinking about is a triple kink I did for Bad Plans 4, that you took a photo of as well. It’s a super steep one. I don’t think the film made it look as steep and gnarly as it was, but that one stands out. I took a super hard slam but I made it afterwards, in the heat of the moment. I couldn’t snowboard for weeks afterwards because my back hurt so much. Some great snowboarders have taken big bails on that one, doing the same trick, so that’s a benchmark for me.

You’re such a well rounded rider, what aspect of snowboarding gets you the most stoked these days?

I guess I need to vary what I’m doing because if I’m doing the same stuff all the time I get bored. I like to do some street stuff, but I also need to hit some park, I need to ride some mountains. Skating inspires me a lot. Lately I’ve been liking freeriding where people ride with high speed and a lot of power in their riding, that inspires me a lot.

How about some BTS on your under the bridge spot.

Yeah, I think Håvard set it up just because it looked cool, but he couldn’t get the speed. I was helping with Samuel’s spot, about 100 meters away, he was filming a line so I was just there helping out and Håvard couldn’t get it, and he was like “Hey Markus I think you should try.” He kind of gave it away to me. It was really nice of him. It was a really bumpy in-run where you really needed to work to get speed into it because you were traveling pretty far sideways to hit the second barrier. You had to work for the speed to get the double tap. It was a really fun spot. A real skate vibe type of spot. Shout out to Håvard for seeing the spot, finding it, and giving it away to me that was really nice of him. I was super stoked for making a double tap, like a wallie, that’s been something I’ve been thinking about before, double tapping on a wall.

Parting words?

Yeah shout out to Wietse and Andreas for filming this winter, it’s super sick. To you for taking photos. I hope people are going to watch the Bad Plans movie. And everyone who is actually out making edits and filming the street, I really appreciate that.

* (D) interview with MARKUS RUSTAD

Big Sam, how you doing?

I’m good good. Building, riding, it’s been fun. Been at Fonna since the 28th of May and skated a bunch before that.

How long have you been growing your hair for?

Quite some time. Like five, seven years or something. I cut it recently but it’s still long, it was just getting out of hand.

What was your first clip in a Bad Plans edit?

I got one in Lillehammer while they were filming for Energy In Motion. I think that was my first, under the bridge.

And you had the post-credits ender in Bad Plans 4.

Yeah the after credits clip. The make is actually from the year before, then I went back the year after to try and make it look better, and I just ended up destroying myself, losing both bindings from the board… * (E) interview with SAMUEL ÆRO

And this year the 50-50 on the C rail to BS Lip … could you provide us with a little behind the scenes knowledge on that spot?

Yeah. It was really cool, just saw the spot and it looked like a quick two-hit line. You start and the rail is pretty straight when you get into the 50, and the turn kind of comes faster and faster towards the end. Then you had to go really straight off it to be able to get the second rail. I sort of had something else in mind but it didn’t totally work out so I just ended up with the 50-50 backlip line, which you got this picture of.

Were you stoked on your winter? You were out in the streets hustling a lot!

Yeah it’s been really good, the best winter in a couple years. Finally got together with the right crew and figured stuff out. It makes it easier to get out and find something, build it and ride it, and film. So I’ve finally got that stuff sorted out now and I’ll keep grinding every winter.

22.3

DIMI SHUBIN

PHOTO. PONCHIKZ