Five months ago, Amplid opened its doors to the first intake of young talented riders to the Amplid Ambush Academy. The aim of the Academy was to find riders that were not only skilled skiers and snowboarders but also media savvy; able to produce edits and promote themselves through social media. Amplid’s partner in [...]
Peter Bauer is the co-founder of Amplid::: next level riding and despite his mountain sized workload Peter still makes the important team decisions. For the Academy members, getting their edit in front of Peter for this last challenge is a great opportunity to prove that they have what it takes to be part of the [...]
It’s time for the fourth and penultimate challenge for the Academy riders. For this challenge Cartel rider Steve Stepp wants the Academy riders to film a 60 second edit with their homies, something Steve does a lot of with the 4bi9 crew. To win this challenge the riders will need to put together a movie [...]
There are only four days to go before the Academy riders need to submit their edit for the 3rd challenge, so the pressure is on! Cartel rider John Rodosky impressed with what he’s seen from the Academy riders so far wanted the guys to step out of their comfort zone and take their freestyle riding [...]
The second AAA task, set by Amplid’s inhouse cliff seeking missile, Mr Teddy Berr, was to film a 30 second POV edit using the GoPro cameras generously provided by GoPro to the Academy athletes. Once again the bar was raised and the quality of the video submissions impressed. Videos that deserve a mention include Alex [...]
For the last week the Amplid Research Cartel has been watching through the many edits submitted by the Amplid Ambush Academy members as part of the first challenge set by McRae Williams. The challenge was to create a 60 second edit featuring 5 tricks or features in a row filmed continuously with no cuts in [...]
So submissions are in for the first Academy challenge set by Cartel rider McRae Williams and the Amplid Ambush Academy riders have done themselves proud. The task of setting the next challenge has fallen to Amplid’s Big Mountain destroyer Teddy Berr. Teddy wants the Academy riders to film a short POV edit of any line [...]