An annual collection of short films featuring some of the most extreme outdoor sports, the Radical Reels Tour travels internationally with the Banff Festival. The show will be held at Kingsbury Hall on Feb. 28 at 7 p.m.
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If the primary portion of the Banff Mountain Film and Book Festival showcases the majestic beauty and adventurous spirit of the outdoors, then the Radical Reels portion of the tour reveals its adrenaline-pumping brutality.
The Radical Reels Tour, an annual collection of short films featuring some of the most extreme outdoor sports in existence, travels internationally with the Banff Festival.
Viewers of this year?s tour will be able to see everything from wing suit flights mere feet from sheer cliff faces to competitive kayaking down double white diamond runs. Rob Jones from the Outdoor Recreation Program said the tour always brings a diverse and enjoyable set of films.
?[The tour has] everything from extreme skiing to longboarding down mountains to rock climbing, BASE jumping and paragliding,? Jones said. ?It changes every year based on what the filmmakers have submitted, but this is our seventh year, and we?ve never been disappointed.?
Each year, the Radical Reels Tour brings between eight and 12 films to Kingsbury Hall. Most of the films run less than 20 minutes, but all together, the tour usually runs at least two hours, Jones said.
Whether or not viewers of the tour have participated in any sort of outdoor sports extreme in nature or otherwise, Jones said the tour could provide a unique perspective and a chance to glimpse some of the extreme sporting going on around the world.
?It never hurts to broaden everyone?s horizons a little bit,? Jones said. ?If you?ve never been skiing before, obviously you?re not going to be inspired by somebody jumping over a 50-foot cliff to get on skis for the first time, but it might open your eyes and give you some insight as to some of the things that people are doing in these venues with these sports.?
Jones said the tour represents a chance to see some of the best athletes in the world push the very limits of what these outdoor adventures have to offer. Those who have a vested interest in participating in extreme sports will be able to see the maximum limits of their hobbies.
?For the people who are active participants in these sports, it?s kind of nice to see what the extremes are like and what boundaries are being pushed,? Jones said. ?Whether it?s somebody throwing themselves off a 70-foot cliff with nothing but skis or climbing a huge mountain and then jumping off with a parachute for BASE jumping, those are not normal people?s ?sports.? Those people that are doing those things are typically very well-trained athletes that are out pushing the boundaries, and that?s the kind of things you?re going to see at the festival.?
Jones said the last couple of years have seen the tour attract between 1,600 to 1,800 people, but with the success of this year?s Banff Festival, he hopes to see a sold-out crowd.
Kingsbury Hall will be hosting the Radical Reels Tour on Thursday at 7 p.m. as the final set of films for the 2012-2013 Banff Festival. Tickets to the event are $9.
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