The Pro Tour Interviews - 6/16/2008
Let me open this post by apologizing for taking so long to get these videos up. I won't bore you with the details but we had a few technical difficulties which caused a delay in bringing this footage to our viewers- mainly my Mac not wanting to import Anthony's video.
Our own site member Anthony Warren (ScarletArrow) was nice enough to fly to Georgia and film these interviews with a few of the best skiers in the world at the Mastercraft Pro Tour stop in Talking Rock, GA. He sent me a DVD of all the interviews and even eventually sent the actual MiniDV tapes to me to ensure that we got the video up despite our technical difficulties. I got the tapes today (actually, yesterday as the clock ticks past midnight) and spent the entire night cutting, editing, and tweaking the interviews on my trusty Mac Mini. The interviews were filmed in beautiful 16:9 widescreen so I did squish them a bit for the Quicktime versions.
I think Anthony did an awesome job and really went above and beyond for this site and our readers, as usual. I'd like to thank Tadd Schreiber at H2Osmosis.com for giving Anthony full "backstage access" at the tournament and arranging these interviews for us. Also, thanks to April, Natalie, Greg, and Marcus for taking the time to talk to us for these interviews. Hopefully this is just the start of a long relationship with the professional side of our sport.
On a personal note I think this MC Pro Tour is awesome. The webcasts are amazing and you can practically taste the excitement that is building around slalom skiing these days. In watching these videos over and over as I edited them, it's obvious that most of the pros want to grow the sport as much as they can. They are excited about this site and grassroots slalom. Go to the next Pro Tour Stop if it's anywhere near you, or, at the very least, tune in for the next webcast. The direction this sport is going is truly outstanding.
Also, this is only a fraction of the video that Anthony took at this tournament. I have quite a bit more footage that I want to stich together into a little short film that I hope to have up in the near future. Until then, enjoy. If you like what you see, use the comment feature to thank the pros and ScarletArrow for their contributions! Enjoy.
April Coble Eller
April Coble Eller Interview Part One (Quicktime, 2.6MB)
Natalie Hamrick
Greg Badal
Marcus Brown
Comments:
ScarletArrow, 6/17/2008: Awesome! Thanks Joel! Poor Greg, those crazy kids in the background were driving a 4-wheeler around all day with no where to go!martho, 6/17/2008: Anthony Warren... outstanding job my friend!
JoelH, 6/18/2008: Can anyone guess what skiing legend is behind the boat in the top feature picture of this blog entry?
MiracleDriver, 6/18/2008: looks like Kris LaPoint... great videos, thanks for doing that. gotta hit up one of these tour stops sometime, maybe we can do them again in Ontario...
jcriel, 6/18/2008: Great interviews. It's great to see how everyone wants to grow the sport.
martho, 6/19/2008: Hearing nattie lou say fifteenoff.com was outstanding... and it's not even my website. Nattie lou RULES!
Terry, 6/23/2008: Great job! Finally got to watch all of them. Loved Natalie's comment on expectations. So true, so true.
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