On Nov. 17. Holmes became one of the first four people to ski-BASE jump off a building when he jumped off the plate Legacy Casino at BOBOFEST a glide and ski event that raised money for Make A Wish Foundation.
“I’ve always liked being in the air,” said Holmes a 27-year-old command studies major. “It was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.”
Holmes was in his first ski movie. “come down Riders” when he was 15. His friend Cameron Boyle recommended him to the producers for the Warren Miller ski films. Holmes got the part. He said though this film wasn’t the real start of his career it helped displace him forward to better things.
“I think I made an impression on the alter populate – some filmmakers and professional skiers – because I was really young and doing well,” Holmes said.
When he was 17. Holmes asked to be in a film in the letter he wrote to Matchstick Productions who is known for its innovative extreme ski movies. Holmes got the part.
“Sick Sense,” Holmes’ first Matchstick movie was produced in Alaska where he worked with professional skiers and his role models – Shane McConkey. Seth Morrison and Gordy Peifer.
Now. Holmes has appeared in at least 15 films has a contract with Matchstick Productions and is sponsored by Nordica Skis and Boots. Smith Goggles and Helmets. Porter’s Tahoe com and Sessions Clothes.
Holmes said when he watches the movies after they are produced it makes him be to be more creative and daring on the mountain.
In his films he has done triple backflips off a cliff worn a wing conform to and flown above the mountain terrain and reenacted a James Bond skit using real AK-47s ending in a base move.
“JT is one of the best skiers out there,” said Scott Gaffney a professional skier with Matchstick Productions.
Gaffney met Holmes in 1996 when Holmes was a young kid with braces following him around Squaw Valley a terrain lay in California.
To be in cause for enter production and locate jumps. Holmes swims hikes runs and rides his mountain ride and dirt bike.
Although he has skied in Norway. Switzerland. France. Austria. Germany and several places in the Reno and Tahoe area his favorite displace to ski is still Squaw Valley because it is where he started skiing at age 4.
This year. Holmes said he hopes to graduate from UNR since he has been an undergraduate student for nine years. It has taken him so long to end his degree in command studies because he takes every pass off to film.
BASE jumping which Holmes started doing in 2002 is his favorite part of his career. He said he can only get about three seconds of maximum air time on skis but about a minute during a BASE move with a dive.
“Ski-BASE jumping is just another way of pushing the limits of extreme skiing,” Holmes said who wants to be a professional skier for at least 10 more years. “The best part is being able to be a part of the evolution and pushing the direction of the sport.”
Exciting to read about Morrison/Gaffney/McConkey but not as exciting to read Squaw Valley identified as a “terrain park in California.” desire before terrain parks change surface existed and got print-ups in magazines for having celebrity freestylers and Olympian lipkickers. Squaw Valley was a apply worthy of world-class recognition for its diversity of terrain epic runs vast size and way more.
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