Tricktapes.com is a site designed to exhibit the amazing talent of skiers considered to be amateurs. Just watch any big slopestyle competition (i.e. US Open, Aspen Open, Big Bear etc…) and you will notice that regular "no name" skiers push the envelope as hard as all the big names in the newschool world. Not only are these amazing skiers prevalent all across the world, but startup film companies flock to these groups of skiers due to their obvious talent.

With so many crews of excellent park skiers, how does one go about picking which amateur movie to buy in the fall? I have no clue. They are all too sick to separate from one another. Tricktapes.com makes it easy for people to watch a majority of these crews in action on one website for more than ½ the price of an hour long ski movie, with unlimited viewing year round!

Tricktapes are meant to mimic the structure of mixtapes in the hip-hop world; meaning that underground groups come together, with lower budgets, and yet still produce great quality media. In addition to giving underground skiers, cameramen, and editors an outlet to showoff their skills and generate recognition, it also expands into more fields of creativity. For all those people who have always had great movie titles, cover ideas, and different innovate film formats… The opportunity is here. Tricktapes is really the first time groups are able to demonstrate their creativity on a national scale. Differing from any existing newschool ski website, uploads will have to maintain a certain standard of quality and skill in order to be a part of the site. This is to uphold promises of high quality ski videos to subscribers and to sponsors.

Features of Tricktapes.com:

• Create a short edit (4-20 min) and do whatever you want with it. Create a spoof on a movie, showoff your home parks, travel around and session other parks, make a baller ass promo for yourself and your crew.
• Create a cover for your tricktape. This feature of the site allows for a whole new flavor of creativity in park skiing. Showoff your photoshop skills in addition to skiing and filming. You can get ideas from mixtape covers, CD covers, DVD covers, posters etc… Covers are wide open for new ideas. Got any ski videos you want to play a joke on? Why not, go ahead; it has never really been done before.
• Information displayed with each tricktape will allow members and sponsors a better glimpse at the action in each video. Want to know who the skiers are? Who are their sponsors? Where was the video filmed? What were the songs used? Get this information and more beside a tricktape during playtime.
• Represent the companies you ride for or the companies you are stoked on in the industry. Once a descent amount of sponsors are affiliated with the website members will be able to pick what company’s banner is displayed underneath their tricktape during the upload process. Ride for a particular ski company and want to help show off their newest sticks? Just select which company during your upload and you are in business! What is better than advertising a certain company’s skis beneath amazing riders who are riding on the skis being advertised?
• The Tape Rack is part of the homepage on tricktapes.com where all of the most recent tricktapes are displayed. As tricktapes fill out pages and pages full of tapes will be available. Information shown here includes tricktape title, film company, and skiers or crew.
• My Favs is a section on the homepage where members will be able to compile a library of their favorite tricktapes. Got a few good ski videos that you want to show your buddies? Organize your collection of videos for easy viewing at any time.
• 5 Star tapes will be tricktapes selected by affiliates of tricktapes.com and will be a section where top of the line videos will be organized. These videos will also be on the tape rack, but may not be on the front page anymore. The 5 Star section will keep the cream of the crop open for easy access.

Once we get the member part of tricktapes.com rolling we are going to expand into a sponsor section that will be integrated with the members of the website. Sponsors will be able to buy packages annually, which will include ad banners, text ads, and our special feature of being able to have banners play underneath people’s tricktapes. Sponsors will also be able to have various accounts so that multiple representatives can perform a range of functions.

Sponsor Features:

• Team Rosters will be available for each representative so that each time a team member is featured on the site a rep will receive a notice.
• Scouting on the website will be available for reps as they will be able to gain access to contacts for production companies or skiers, which they would like to contact.
• Props (Respect) might take place on the website; meaning that if sponsors enjoy a certain video or want to give props to a certain tricktape that they can leave a logo stating that they were interested or really enjoyed what they saw.