This year sees the 10^th anniversary of film company Level 1. Their latest film Refresh aims to recall the memories of the previous winters and the last decade. To celebrate this they have the famous Warren Miller talking in both the intro and the conclusion of the movie. This adds a great touch to the film and helps bring back some nostalgic memories of the great Warren Miller narration from a decade ago.

Level 1 kept to their filmmaking standards, namely having a lot of park and urban as well as some backcountry. It should be mentioned that Refresh won the IF3 award for “Best jib flick” this year, and they fully deserved this win. After all they had trips to both Finland and Michigan to solely ski urban.

Will Wesson plays a key role in highlighting what Level 1 is famous for, their innovation on urban features. However, that’s not to say that they only filmed urban in this movie. The film also captures their backcountry trips to notable places such as Chamonix, Alaska, Utah, and a few others.

Refresh includes celebrated athletes like Tom Wallisch, Henrik Harlaut, and Wiley Miller, just to name a few. I believe that Level 1 always has the best and smoothest style, which is portrayed by all of their athletes. They have Tom Wallisch who has his famous afterbang style which is becoming seemingly more popular among the newschool scene. Then there is Phil Casabon who is arguably one of the smoothest skiers out there. Lastly, from a backcountry standpoint, there is Wiley Miller who is one of the smoothest backcountry skiers today.

During the park shoot at Mammoth Level 1’s athletes threw their best tricks off four awe-inspiring features, which you will have to see for yourself to believe.

Unsurprisingly, the soundtrack of this movie consisted of a lot of hip-hop music, which fit the newschool style of the movie very well. I believe that this movie is one of the better park and urban skiing movies of 2009 even though the backcountry skiing was not to the level of some of the other movies this year.

Personally I was very pleased with this movie, and believe that it is the type of film that you can watch over and over without becoming bored. Refresh is a very memorable film from a decade-long ski film production company.