Located in Whistler Resort, B.C. the Kokanee Crankworx mountain bike competition is Canada’s biggest mountain bike event. Sea to Sky Cam was asked to operate a cable cam for the final slopestyle competition two years in a row. The first year we set up a 500 foot cable cam from the Monster Energy tower half way up the course to a tower located at the finish line on the Kokanee box final jump. The second year we controlled from beside the judges, high up a tower that the riders were launching off 2 feet from us into 40 feet of air.
The 20,000 spectators watched the Sea to Sky Cam video feed on several 20 foot wide jumbotrons along with another 150,000 viewers through www.Go211.com
When operating any camera at a live event you have to show consistency and a centred frame for every competitor. For a cable cam crew this is quite the challenge as the camera moves down the course (sometimes up to 1000 feet and at 70km/hr) and you need to keep up to the rider (they unpredictably speed up and slow down) and operate pan and tilt remotely at the same time. This is why cable cam is operated by two technicians unlike a jib boom that can be operated by one. Even to be switched to once we had to prove consistency to the OB Van by keeping every rider on course within our frame, every single run. This is where the Sea to Sky Cable Cam crew really show their talent. The media organizer congratulated our team by saying that we were the most affordable, professional and fastest set up time of any cable cam company they have worked with yet.
