Joe Jay Jalbert – U.S. Ski & Snowboard Hall of Fame
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Hall of Fame Class of 2013
Joe Jay Jalbert entry into film came almost by accident. As a ski double for Robert Redford in the 1969 classic film Downhill Racer, he picked up a passion for film and in 1972 opened the doors to Jalbert Productions International. From official Olympic films, to industry product launches, to television specials, the Emmy award winning producer has over 800 productions to his credit. Jalbert’s career as a film maker has touched every aspect of the industry and has been hallmarked by innovation in bringing the sport to life around the world.
He began skiing at age five in Mullan, Idaho with racing quickly becoming his passion. He dominated PNSA racing as a four-time Junior Nationals Team member and went on to the University of Washington on an academic scholarship but was quickly recruited to ski and captained the UW ski team. He raced internationally prior to the debut of the World Cup and narrowly missed a spot on the 1968 Olympic team.
As a racer himself, Jalbert was able to tell the story of the sport from a unique perspective. In 1971 he won his first Emmy for cinematography in a CBS network feature from Sun Valley with Jean-Claude Killy and Peggy Fleming. In 1975 he won the first of 16 category titles at the International Ski Film Festival, taking best of show a year later with Just a Matter of Time a documentary on the classic 1976 Olympic downhill matchup at Innsbruck between Franz Klammer and Bernhard Russi. That film would springboard Jalbert Productions into the global spotlight starting a series of four IOC Olympic and 13 FIS World Championship official films.
Jalbert was a pioneer with his films characterized by innovative long lens slow motion and point of view (POV) camera placements – a skill he learned carrying a heavy camera down the fabled Lauberhorn in Downhill Racer. He was the first to actually mount cameras on skis for unique POV angles that captured the speed of the sport.
Not only was he a skilled filmmaker, but he found unique ways to distribute content through broadcast syndication – a field in which he remains an industry leader. He negotiated a unique partnership with the IOC and FIS to gain wide distribution for Olympic and World Championship films. For over 20 years Jalbert produced official films for the U.S. Ski Team, forging personal relationships with superstars like Picabo Street and Bode Miller.
In his career he won over 30 international film awards plus 16 category prizes at the International Ski Film Festival. He was honored by the International Ski History Association with a Lifetime Achievement Award as well as the International Ski Federation’s Journalist of the Year honor.
Career Highlights:
1960: U.S. Junior National Team
1969: Technical director and stand-in for Robert Redford in Downhill Racer
1971: Winner of Emmy for CBS Sun Valley feature
1974: Produced first of 14 FIS World Championship films
1976: First of four official Olympic films and winner of International Ski Film Festival
2002: FIS Journalist of the Year
2004: Warren Miller Modern Media Award
2007: ISHA Lifetime Achievement Award
2012: Jerry Award Winner – Ski and Snowboard Film Institute
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Hall of Fame Inductee: Jay Jalbert
One of the things that great players all share is how easy they make the game look. For every incredible move a player pulls off on a field, either in front of a crowd or on video for posterity, another dream is born. A rampaging storm of feet down a flight of stairs and into a silent backyard. Trying to replicate a move that looked so simple but required so much speed and power that it was impossible to pull off alone, much less on a lacrosse field in front of a crowd.
Lithe and powerful, Jay Jalbert was a melatonin-induced nightmare in the middle of the field during his time in Major League Lacrosse. He was the guy LSM’s dreaded covering and SSDM’s just flat out quit the game because of. It wasn’t so much that he would toy with you, but you’d feel that way after a quarter or two of him smashing into you on every ground ball. There were games where Jalbert was all but literally everywhere on the field.
Jalbert’s statistics as a pro are, in layman’s terms, demented.
He played in 62 games, scored 198 points, and collected well over 300 groundballs. He might have even had 400, but the MLL stat magicians at the time were reverse-searing the books, so no one knows what the totals were for that particular statistic. What we do know is that Jalbert was a demon on the wing that tormented endless shorties and poles alike.
His best season came in 2004 when he racked up 37 points (Jalbert never scored less than 20 goals in a full season) with 23 goals, 4 two-pointers, and 10 assists. He also snatched 78 ground balls and 15.5 penalty minutes; the man was also known for his multifarious mayhem off the ball. For good measure, he took one faceoff and won one faceoff. If you’re into that sort of thing.
In 2003, he won his first and only championship with the Lizards. The early teams in the MLL don’t get as much respect as the ones assembled later on because the league was really top-heavy with offensive talent. But that wasn’t what won championships back then and it’s not what wins them now. Consistency is the true indicator of greatness and Jalbert was nothing if not consistent.
Two-way midfielders are at an all-time premium now that the shot clock has trickled down into the college ranks. If you were wondering if players from Jalbert’s generation could hang with the superior athletes that populate current PLL rosters, the answer is, “Yes…but only some of them.” Jalbert would be one of the first players in those ranks to be chosen.
If you were looking for a player that compared to his particular style, you’d have to mush several modern players together to get the total package of what Jalbert offered as a member of the New Jersey Pride, the Long Island/New York Lizards.
Let’s start with the offensive side of the ball. A slasher with range that could get up and down the field, the easiest comp is peak Jake Froccaro. But Jalbert was a bit more versatile on the wings and ate buckets of loose groundballs in between quarters. So, mash up Froccaro with the viciousness of Zach Currier and you’re right in the sweet spot that Jalbert operated in.
Defensively, Jalbert could be deployed as a lockdown SSDM to even the speediest of dodgers. He had truly obscene lateral quickness and a tendency to instigate contact that produced violent results. Not as bellicose as Kevin Unterstein, or as physically dominant as Zach Goodrich, but just one notch below each in those categories. Jalbert was more marauder than man.
Concussions and other injuries from indoor lacrosse robbed us of more pro seasons from Jalbert. He left the game and built an entire business in the world of filmmaking and snow sports and he didn’t look back. At least, not in the way that other legends have popped their head back into the door to say “Hi.” To be fair, Jalbert was never one for cameos, despite playing in just one game in his final season, he was a consistent presence in every other season from 2001 to 2005. That’s not a long stretch, but it’s enough to be the best of the best in that time period.
That attitude and that effort are what made him stand out as one of the founders of the pro-style of play in a position that died and resurrected itself in the modern incarnation of the game.
Time has taken away the resonance that Jalbert’s name deserves in the lacrosse community. Hopefully, this recognition restores just a modicum of that reverence back. The king of both sides of the midfield stripe deserves to be celebrated now in the era of social media far more than anyone could ever understand.
Until now.
Congratulations to the greatest and most versatile midfielder in the pro game on his enshrinement into the Pro Lacrosse Hall of Fame.
All Against You — Sergey Shabohin
25 May at 18.00 exhibition pavilion Dzherelo ask for exhibitions Nasilla: Everything is against you.
Allocation:
18:00 – Dj-set Artem Yarosh
19:00 – Vladislav Plisetsky . Children of Catharsis: Condolences to the amoebas who climb the crosses or All the boys, hello, all the motherfuckers, bye .
20:00 – Whistup sound producer Maryani Klochko .
21:00 – DJ Albert Heijn . Svyatkovy Dj-set from the New Year’s Day of the artist Nikolai Karabinovich .
Piznokapitalisticheskaya medium forms a hulk through folded, rich-sharovy and mutually swindled systemic violent practices. The middle of the post-tradyanske rob these practices with the simplest and the most advanced. Grassroots violence in the Vladna becomes violent – especially for the participation of the extreme rightists, who have hardened themselves in the role of radical-passionary warehouse protest forces. At one time, the rulers of optics transform the peaceful protest in soft “liberal” forms into a blind flame of political movement, into a passive resource of discontent, which is less likely to be radicalized by violent people directly.
Roboti Sergiya Shabokhin and Nikolai Karabinovich demonstrate folding gestures between master violence, lower violence-at-the-point, non-violent protest and forms of powerful vice that may pose irno peaceful form, as well as the rhetoric of situational truth is quiet dey, which is known for between what
be called “suspicious dialogue”.
Robot by Sergiy Shabokhin “Sadi Mandragori” (2021) was inspired by the archives about the Gazenheide park near Berlin and the People’s Friendship Park and the Kiev public garden near Minsk. Illegal parties at Gazengaide under the hour of the lockdown, the selection of queer sleepers at the yogo peninsula part, boules, for the artist’s appointment, “m’yako rozignani” by the police. Gazenheide is a popular place for gay cruising (search for partners in public places) and orgies – sex clubs are closed at the hour and dark rooms, becoming one of the few free spaces for the sexual realization of non-heteronormative people. From the other side, the police did not avenge the attacks, they were not homophobically delusional, they were at the borders of the entrances to the quarantine security, and they were accompanied by slander that “animals and birds near the park also need to sleep.” At that very hour, near the Friendship of Peoples Park and the Kiev Public Garden near Minsk, a pre-election campaign was taking place, an element that was a permanent pressure on the opposition and the exchange of opportunities for agitation. Having offended the parks, they stooped in such a rank in the center of the artist’s respect. On two screens, there were parallel demonstrations of two such different contexts: illegal rave and official pickets; mild reaction of the Berlin police and aggression of the Minsk security forces; the sexuality of cruising and the energy of protest; two lines with a knot on the trees as a symbol of LGBTQ+ spilinoti and white lines on the hands as a symbol of the protest movement in Minsk; the myth about Mandragora that grew there, where a man of his own fell to the ground, and stereotypes about Belarus from their semiotics of potatoes. Move the video in such a manner, according to the words of the author, “do not change the contexts, but rather demonstrate the indefatigable help to life and the struggle for freedom in the aphids of the city’s park landscapes.”
Robot of Nikolai Karabinovich contrasts with the vital-protest direct work Shabokhin . “It’s spring time now” – a note of the promotional intensity of the movement about the catastrophe. The collapse of the pro-Russian and pro-Ukrainian forces in Odesa on January 2, 2014, the fate that ended in mass casualties near the center of the Budinka trade union center, solved the problem of describing and remembering about the strength of the new Ukrainians history, and also called, from one side, to the victoria the image of the victims in Russian propaganda, and from the other – to the formation of a specific mіstsevoї culture of non-destruction, a kind of “monument to movchannya” in the city of pozhezhi.
Performance by the artist Vladislav Plisetsky Children of Catharsis: Condolences to the amoebas who climb the crosses or I feel like a part of the Great European Motherland – that old Europe, which is easy to sleep, but We will mourn the awakening with our strength.” This is how ultra-right groupings describe themselves “Catharsis” , representatives of which wrote threats to know Vlad in social networks.
“Ok. Name me as you want me not to bent. ” Accepting their comments, I beat the “sword” out of their hands and throw them into that very “Great Europe”, until the stench goes, creeping back, and kicking pull us stinks sacrificing themselves, threatening violent deeds, slandering the eyes of people like, on their thought “we saw morality”, forgetting about yourself and about those who have no morality in violence. x comments and their names.” – Vladislav Plisetsky .
Nikolay Karabinovich (born 1988, Odessa, Ukraine) lives and works between Gent (Belgium) and Kiev. The artist works in various media, including video, sound, text and performance. In 2020 and 2018, the winners of the special prize PinchukArtCentre . In 2017 roci Karabinovich assistant curator 5th Odessa Biennale . Starting from 2019, the year of wine is taught at the Higher Institute of Technical Science ( HISK ) in Ghent. Robots were presented at M HKA – Antwerp (BE), PinchukArtCentre – Kyiv (UA), Sonsbeek Quadrennial (NL), Netwerk Aalst (BE), Museum of Modern Art , Odessa (UA)
Sergiy Shabokhin (born 1984, Novopolotsk, BSSR) – artist, curator, head editor of the portal Art Aktivist , head editor of KALEKTAR . The artist made his debut in 2009, if he became a winner of the exhibition project “Belarusian Pavilion 53 Venice Biennale” . Sergiy Shabokhin to speak about themes of art in the public space, criticism of the system of culture and history of art, categories of fear and social body in the Belarusian society. Live and work in Poznań.
Artem Yarosh – co-curator of the Biorhythm project, DJ. “I want to convey the cold, industrial mood of the victorious and different genres to ambient and electric flares to important experimental music.” 9- aesthetics and experimental pop music.
Dj Albert Heijn was born in April 1961 in Leeuwarden. Since 1986, the fate of the wines has been planning to organize parties and play like a DJ in the Benelux lands. In that hour, the wines were not successful DJs, in 1994 the wines were still a grave new beat. In 2002, a group of wines tried to organize a tribal house party. Ale zavzhdi z z pіznennyam. At the same time, the rest of the hour will be evil.
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