This story first appeared in print in the Winter 2020 issue of Revelstoke Mountaineer Magazine. Read the e-edition here:
It’s not only the powder that’s deep with this one. The idea behind the movie is where stuff starts to get weird, good weird.
Snowboard dad and “guiding light” Keith Martin had a dream where he was riding an octopus naked. “I’m not sure if he was naked or if the octopus was naked,” filmer and editor Nick Khattar laughs.
Khattar explains that the short is a “metaphysical look” on their snowboarding through the lens of a dream or the subconscious.
It’s funky, it’s nightmarish, but it works and it’s oh so much fun. All I know is that if I could shred like Sean Barrett, Keith Martin, Chris Curran, James Coombs, Taylor Roberts, Johan Rosen, Benoit Pageo, and Dustin Craven, I would never complain again.
The cool kids of Revelstoke are out on a ripping mission, and they won’t stop if you begged them to. Featuring fails left, right, and centre, the riders show their commitment to getting it just right, no tumble is too big. Luckily, and maybe surprisingly, no injures came out of Wasted Youth’s production last season, Khattar confirms.
Watch: Octopus Boys
Octopus Boys is a time machine of what we can start expecting from the snowboarding scene in the future. Big terrain and tricks executed so smooth skiers will second guess their life choices (but of course never admit it).
It does not look like Wasted Youth is slowing down any time soon. With La Niña around the corner, this year the team might not be able to live by their slogan: “Our passion for being in the mountains is as strong as our love for the party afterwards,” but with a diminished hangover their legs will boost them into the abyss of that backcountry kicker.
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