(That would be footage of riders executing tricks to a soundtrack of popular music, typically hip-hop or indie rock).
He and the others, along with a professional photographer, had spent two days filming video footage of themselves hurtling down steep technical trails and executing tricks off natural features.
Among the events are the aerials competition, where skiers perform jumps and are then marked on technique, and ski halfpipe: in which skiers fly out of the slope while executing tricks in much the same way as the snowboarders do.
Slopestyle is where skiers or snowboarders head down a course and execute tricks off jumps and rails, with the tricks marked on difficulty and size.
Sniping has been around since auctions hit the Web: it began as a manually executed trick of the trade that was quickly automated with software that offered extra features.
The only story we ever wrote that attracted any considerable attention struck us as a competently executed trick; the piece we liked most, a sad story of our lost youth was admired only by a man now confined in an institution for the hopelessly insane.
You might think of a way to use your act in school, children's church, vacation bible schools, kids camps, spring and fall festivals, birthday parties (as part of a magical clown act even)... Sleight of hand, or hocus-pocus, is a cleverly executed trick, magic or deception, like conjuring a trick requiring manual dexterity.
The wheels are powered by the strength of the performers who must employ tightrope balance while executing acrobatic tricks without a harness or safety net.
Riders can use snowboard-like foot straps, and the wall provides a solid edge, like the coping and railing skaters use for balancing, grinding and executing complicated tricks.
These got their effects not by executing conjuring tricks or gravity-defying ploys but by pushing notions of reality to extremes and so establishing an intensely personal vision.
