Juho Kilkki, aka Real Skifi, never really just grabs his skis and rolls the camera. Every session is an in-depth project of some sort, whether it’s studying Newton’s Laws of Motion by launching into a lake or just figuring out how to get a session in without snow at all, and the list goes on. The guy never runs out of creative ideas for a unique freestyle skiing session. So it should be no surprise that the same mental labor goes into just scouting shoot (and stunt) locations. Take an office building that houses a local newspaper, for example.
It all started when Kilkki spotted a multi-level rooftop and got a few ideas. He needed some ladders, a drone, a winch, a group of friends, a ton of shovels…and permission to do it all, of course. From cold-calling and assuring the people on the other end of the call there’d be no liability if anybody got hurt to actually taking a few spills once he got up there, Juho gives a behind-the-scenes look at what goes into scouting a location he just has to session.