Matchstick and Warren Miller used to be the two best ski movie producers in the world. But since Almost Ablaze came out it’s felt like TGR has had a stranglehold on that title. But now matchstick is back with its best movie in years, “Return to Send’er”. It’s got the old ass crazy mother fucker Mark Abma, an award winning segment from Sam Kuch, loads of style and send from Karl Fostvedt, and way too much send from Logan Pehota. They all have their own parts that are all super rad and then come together in the end for a heliskiing trip that will result in you having to make a trip to the drycleaners.
It blows my mind that Mark Abma can still send so hard at this age. He honestly makes me feel bad about myself. I’m 21 and can’t fathom going as big as he does, but he’s 39 and just cruises into huge cliffs just with a huge smile on his face because he’s a crazy hippy. He puts on an absolute clinic in this movie other than when he smashes his back on a rock.
Sam Kuch is quickly becoming my favorite skier and his part in this movie just strengthened his case.
It won him best male ski segment at if3 festival and has everybody in the world of skiing talking about him. Everybody else’s parts in this movie were rad but Sams stands alone. He’ll send anything and most likely do something fucking sick off of it. He’s the fucking man and he went fucking huge on that last donger.
Krazy Karl is the fucking guy man. He shreds so hard and is the fucking man. He has an unbelievable amount of style while going huge and is buttery as fuck.
I don’t know what’s up with all the ski movies coming out right now having huge road gaps in them but I fucking love it. And Karl goes so god damn big on this one. And watching him butter the shit out of all of those spines at the end and treating that massive backcountry mountain like a dinky little terrain park is fucking awesome.
Logan Pehota more than lives up to his name.
This kid goes so damn big, not only on skis but on snowmobiles too. When they were showing him trying to huck a backy on his sled I thought for sure he was gonna just get smooshed by his sled and die and that would be the end of the movie. But nope, he just pushed the sled off himself and went and shredded harder than I could possibly imagine. And he hit that last Donger perfectly after Sam Kuch just sent it to the fucking moon.
This movie is fucking sick.
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