Mike and I were skating on Monday night at the Five Bridges skatepark in Gateshead (review of park coming soon). The weather was really good, which I think sent all the skaters to the Exhibition Park over in Newcastle… the net result being that we had the place to ourselves! Sweet.
Anyway, I took some footage because (a) Mike was so close to pulling this nice move, and (b) I wanted to try some rolling shots. The video is below… in it you’ll see a hint of what’s to come in the Learning to Boardslide feature.
Also note that I’ve added some music from Snow Patrol’s new album, “Eyes Open”. I thought their first album, “Final Straw”, was excellent – and they backed it up when I saw them perform live. The new one is no different. It’s the type of music that that gets me in the mood for skating/riding – see what you think.
Gavin Hope
Sorry if the video takes a while to stream – I really need to try a few different things with compression. The file that I uploaded to YouTube was 94MB!
Mike
If i’m at work and feel like a break i check this site out first, Keep the content coming and i’ll keep coming back!
The Network
Dude, wtf is up with the 90 odd meg video. cool content but laaarge. try a fancy wmv codec to shrink it down some.
Mal
Actually, this is the first one of your vids I’ve been able to watch streaming without it stuttering along 1 second at a time. Did you use WMV in the end?
Gavin Hope
Hey Mal,no, I didn’t use WMV this time, it was still some random compression from Adobe Premiere.However, I have since had a quick go with Windows Movie maker and it took 5 minutes to get a much smaller file… that was actually better quality.So hopefully my future videos will be better for watching <>and<> streaming!
Anonymous
how did you make this whole website, and nice videos.
Gavin Hope
Hey, the main content comes from < HREF="https://www.blogger.com/start" REL="nofollow">blogger<>. I’ve made some changes to the template and added some custom styles etc. Cheers, Gav