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Kevin's Moments
Full Metal Edges (Grenade, 2002) "The footage of Danny Kass from the 2002 Olympics was memorable. It was one of the biggest contests in the sport, and it was the first time I saw Olympics footage in a cool film. He did back-to-back 1080s. That was the beginning of that trick."

Stand and Deliver (Mack Dawg, 2001) "Keir Dillon did like a 19-foot McTwist at the World Superpipe Championship with his shirt off. The trick was next level, and he had just fallen hard on a previous run. The image got the cover of TransWorld, the most important magazine in snowboarding."

It's Always Snowing Somewhere (Burton, 2008) "Terje Haakonsen did a backside 360 at the 2007 Arctic Challengeit was something like 32 feet, the biggest backside air ever on a quarterpipe. We were all riding together, but everyone knew he was on this whole different level."

Follow Me Around (Mack Dawg, 2006) "Andreas Wiig's cliff drop, which got named after him. I heard a lot of talk about it, and then the movie came out and showed him doing a backside rodeo 720 on his first try. It was this enormous cliff drop. When I saw it, I was like, Damn, I need to step my game up."

Ellery's Moments
Decade (Mack Dawg, 1998) "If you watch it now, the filming is nothing special. But back then, the way they used all the cameras was insane. I remember Peter Line doing corkscrew 900s. Nobody was doing that at the time. It was the first film where you could really see the progression of riding."

Totally Board (Standard Films, 1990) "Shawn Farmer's road gap was an important moment. The run was sketchy because it was through the trees and windy. The gap was sketchy because it was over Mount Baker's highway, and the landing had tons of obstacles. It was cool and inspirational."

The Hard, The Hungry and The Homeless (Mack Dawg, 1992) "Sean Johnson's back 1080 triple grab was a trick that hadn't been done before, much less caught on film. When you see something like this, you're surprised and psyched. Nobody was doing 1080s in those days, let alone backside."

Stomping Grounds (Mack Dawg, 1996) "Ingemar Backman's backside air in the opening was crazy. It was a huge 20-foot method on a really sketchy quarterpipe. That was a really big deal: All this took place in 1996, when the conditions weren't as good as they are now. You were just kind of eyeing it."

Kevin and Ellery's Fall Flicks Preview
1) The B (Burton) Ellery: "They got the whole team together at the end of the season, which they'd never done before, and came up with this cool concept involving the letter B." Kevin: "They built what I think is a world record for the biggest pile of snow in the shape of a B, and the team went out to Tahoe and rode it at the same time."

2) Neverland (Absinthe) Kevin: "I got to go on a couple of trips to film this. It's going to be a really cool movie, with a lot of high-quality snowboarding by Travis Rice, Nicolas Muller and the top powder guys."

Read about Kevin and Ellery in the EXPN insert of ESPN: The Magazine.