Mavericks - Trailer
Preview: Special | 3m 27sVideo has Closed Captions
They came from backwoods jumps of Montana to compete on freestyle skiing's biggest stage.
Montana freestyle skiers are the mavericks of the sport. Passionate young athletes from humble backgrounds have achieved success through sheer determination. Mavericks tells the fascinating, timeless story of Montana’s freestyle legacy, through the struggles, victories, and journeys of the state’s most renowned skiers, as they share a common bond that is the unbreakable Montana spirit.
Mavericks - Trailer
Preview: Special | 3m 27sVideo has Closed Captions
Montana freestyle skiers are the mavericks of the sport. Passionate young athletes from humble backgrounds have achieved success through sheer determination. Mavericks tells the fascinating, timeless story of Montana’s freestyle legacy, through the struggles, victories, and journeys of the state’s most renowned skiers, as they share a common bond that is the unbreakable Montana spirit.
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♪♪♪ BRYON: It's intense, it's super intense.
BRADLEY: I love the word grit, BRADLEY: Passion, free, proud.
HEATHER: Self-expression.
Freestyle is the closest thing I've ever had to a religion.
BRYON: In a freestyle mogul run you can't think.
If you're thinking about the next bump it's already behind you.
ERIC: Aerials is the craziest, most ridiculous thing that a human body should be allowed to do and live to tell about.
HEATHER: Sometimes I felt like my whole self worth was on the table on display in those 27 seconds.
♪♪♪ ANDY: When we started seeing professional freestyle skiing it was just that, purely professional.
Montana was grassroots kids.
They bucked bales and they fed cows in the morning before they went up skiing.
CAMERAMAN: Darin Patzer spanking it down the moguls up here at Snowbowl Montana.
ERIC: I had to go off limits to hide from the ski patrols.
TONY: We were struggling, it was tough.
None of us had money.
BRYON We needed some cash to go to a ski camp.
Well, we'd go hustle, we'd go sell pasties, we'd do what we needed to do.
BRYON: Hey Ma!
BRYON'S MOMN: Good workout tonight.
BRYON: Oh yeah.
DONOVAN: When we stepped out there, it was just our team, which was Montana against everybody else.
CAMERAMAN: All right, let's get some air!
♪♪♪ ERIC: Someone's gettin' hurt today.
Here we go.
COMMENTATOR: Landon Gardner, ginormous heli, drops his vision a little bit and whack!
DONOVAN: I have like a torn ACL and a broken neck.
All my fingers broken, my ankles, everything's been broken.
DARIAN: You know,I've had ACL surgery on both my knees.
Broken collarbones, broken wrists, concussion.
MAGGIE: I think injury has been a really big part of self doubt.
BRADLEY: A lot of people don't realize the struggle that goes into it.
LANDON: You've gotta persevere- and I think Montanas are really good at that.
Whether you're on the eastern part of farming in a drought, you've gotta, you can't just hang up your equipment and say, we'll get em' next year.
You've got to figure out a way.
ANDY: All these people from the East coast and Colorado, they're "Montana, what's in Montana?"
But we showed em what was in Montana.
DONOVAN: We were a threat, and we were collectively a threat.
We were like, pack of wolves, you know, one of us is gonna get you all the time.
ANDY: Grassroots Montana just won a gold medal in the Olympics.
Changed everything.
BRADLEY: In the end, it's a journey.
You've worked the past 10, 15 years on this 30 second run.
COMMENTATOR: We will settle who wins world championship gold right now.
Brad Wilson, of the United States.
The toughest draw you can get in the world, Mikael Kingsbury.
BRADLEY: You have 30 seconds, you know, you have to show up for those 30 seconds, if you don't, tough luck, if you do, you're a medalist.
It's as simple as that.
