When Athletes Dare to Dream Like Artists

Outside Podcast

Wilderness, Sports

4.3 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2022

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Professional skier Markus Eder had a fantasy of an impossible descent that would take him across glaciers, through frozen tunnels, into a terrain park, even out of the back of a pickup truck. It made no sense. And yet somehow, over eight years, he found a way to make it happen by thinking more like an artist than an athlete. The result is [The Ultimate Run](http:// https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbqHK8i-HdA), a wildly creative stoke film that’s loaded with gnarly stunts and stands out thanks to the pure, contagious joy emanating from every frame. Somehow, we get to be inside Eder’s fantasy right along with him—which, as he tells it, is exactly what he intended.

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0:00.0	From outside magazine, this is the outside podcast.
0:15.8	So let's start our episode today in a place that the outside podcast and outside magazine
0:22.8	rarely dares to venture.
0:25.3	That's right.
0:26.3	We're headed indoors.
0:29.6	Our Tetris?
0:30.6	Sure you do.
0:32.2	And if you've ever played the game, chances are you've experienced this phenomenon.
0:36.8	Go watch out!
0:37.8	You doggedly place blocks one after the other as they fall down the screen, determined
0:43.2	to break your high score.
0:45.0	Yes!
0:46.0	You play for a long time with intense concentration.
0:50.2	And then, hours later, maybe even when you doze off.
0:54.5	To find yourself envisioning how shapes in the real world, chairs, boxes, and even people
1:01.0	could fit together, just like Tetris blocks.
1:03.3	Uh oh!
1:04.3	Uh oh!
1:05.3	Ah bummer.
1:08.6	Stay with me.
1:09.8	This is going somewhere.
1:10.8	I promise.
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