The temperature got colder, but the crowd got hotter last Friday at the premier of Rome Snowboard’s third movie The Shred Remains. Stopping at Plymouth State on their 13 city movie tour, PSU alumnus Ron Faverty, the Marketing Manager at Rome Snowboards, felt a warm welcome back as he premiered the new movie. Set up outside on the Mary Lyon green, a giant screen and projector, The Shred Remains van, and a huge crowd of people gathered around. The air was cold, but no one really cared as “Percy” the PACE pirate made his way around the crowd entertaining them while the Rome crew set up.
Before the showing, the riders and director got on stage and answered some questions that the crowd threw out of them. One person asked “Are there any skiers in the movie?” Shawn Dumont, the designer, responded with a quick “Hell no!” and the crowd rejoiced and cheered. After several shouts and heckling from the crowd and the crew asking the crowd to buy them beer, everyone finally settled down and got ready to watch the show.
Hard work in the making and two years later, Ron and the Rome team proved just how much work and time goes into creating something amazing. Featuring music from the likes of DangerMau5 and Mission of Burma, the film showed a 100-day perspective of each of the rider’s fails and triumphs in rail slides, jumps, and snow-eating wipeouts. It also showed clips from Plymouth, NH, on and “off ” the mountain, featuring Plymouth State’s very own Adam Berthiaume, winner of Rome’s 2011 Ima Betta Jibba contest and other Plymouth State students.
The video included Rome Design Syn– dicate team riders LNP, MFR, Lucas Debari, Bjorn Leines, Stale Sandbech, Rusty Ockenden, Johnny Lazz, Will Lavigne, Marie Hucal, and the AM Army. The movie demonstrated hard work, pure determination, and even went to show that girls shred just as hard as guys. Throughout the movie there were whoops, cheers, laughter, and perhaps a few tears at the wicked wipeouts of the crew on video.
Once the showing was over, the crew got on the made-up stage once again and gathered everyone around to throw swag at and to offer off the prizes that people so hopefully bought raffle tickets for. The prizes included: one girl’s board, two guy’s boards, one being an artifact and the other being an artifact rocker, four mountain season passes to Waterville Valley, day passes to Waterville, 390 boss bindings, and two backpacks filled with Rome loot. All of the proceeds from the raffle go straight to funding the completion of the Plymouth skate park located out past Rite Aid. Alec Lingiewicz, a sophomore at Plymouth State said “the Rome movie, T he Shred Remains, is probably one of the best snowboarding videos I’ve seen yet”, and everyone who chilled themselves to the bone on the Friday night is likely to agree.