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    Born to fly
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    In celebration of the original ‘Godfather of Freestyle’. Born to Fly is the story of Australian Eric Hymans, one of the wild men of hot-dog skiing in the 1970s and ’80s, who lived an epic ski life.Eric Hymans isn’t a household name in today’s ski world – not in the Australian ski world he inhabited, nor in the freestyle worlds he had a hand in forming. But this engaging biography throws the spotlight on the often eyebrow-raising ski-bum culture of the early days. More than that, it’s a story of a warm-hearted, talented yet troubled man whose lack of family grounding, early exposure to drugs and desire to impress his ski-mad father sent him on a roller-coaster of partying, back-to-back ski seasons and a name as the Godfather of Freestyle.TALES FROM THE MOUNTAINThe story came about after a chance meeting in Mount Beauty, between Eric, approaching 60, and the author – a freerider, Falls Creek resident and fan of Team Red. At Eric’s bachelor pad over a bottle of Shiraz, to the backdrop of The Verbier Connection movie poster, the one-time legend tells his story. There are also accounts from Eric’s contemporaries – from Olympian Steve Lee to film-maker Trevor Avedissian, to Lynne Grosse, a major figure in the freestyle story (a former gymnast, she became Australian women’s champion two years after first putting on skis, as well as the first woman to do a double backflip on skis). Included are a collection of photos.The book features myriad mountain tales – some funny, some shocking – with Eric at the epicentre. It tells of his first break competing in bumps on the Peter Stuyvesant Freestyle Tour in Thredbo; of his job as a ‘sherpa’ in La Plagne, alongside Lynne, that led them towards movie-making with Jean-Claude Killy; and the birth of Team Red and Falls Creek’s Summit Masters bumps competition, devised by Lynne.TURBULENT TIMESThe peripheral stories are just as absorbi
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