2009-08-28 Fri - Hackney Wick Drag Sprints: Second Edition

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Great second edition of Drag Sprints. Perfect site, brilliant organisation and a thrilling competition! Where was the sound system?

awesome that you shot this entirely on a camera phone and a flashlight!

I love 00:36-00:41.

OK so I was overtaken by a jogger and a couple of kids on bikes. I can live with it ;o)

that was the key moment in the footage, jogger and mtb taking the sprints by storm

Good video claus.

But my jersey really was older than he was.

Tao, I just hope you take it easy on me in a few years time:-)

Haha Will Do :)

And check out a still of ma3k in the video

I think that needs to be made into an animated gif. Something involving lasers coming out of the eyes perhaps.

hahahaha
soudns good

awesome that you shot this entirely on a camera phone and a flashlight!

thanks, it was actually shot with a flip which is a camera phone without the phone part. i was surprised myself to see how well it handles very difficult light conditions with just a little help from my hope. that's as far as the product placement goes for this one.

Normally I wouldn't have time to mess around with animated gifs, but luckily I'm less than a week away from a really important exam so I'm willing to do anything that isn't revision.

My attempt at the Ma3k animation:

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The Drag Sprints: Sponsored by HOPE!

I don't understand that gif, can I just have green laser-beams please?

Cake and I were being clever and cadging some unused rain-free space under the lee of the two lady's umbrellas who's name I cannot remember.
Clever us, we didn't have to ride half a KM and hide under a bridge.

The look in my eyes is the external manifestation of the hope against and the fear of being struck by lightning.

And there was me thinking you were just envious of the 4 of us the other side of the path crowded under AgentQuinn's very small umbrella and getting soaked!

that was a great evening, cheers Gus and Mirco for the great video

Alright chaps.
Was good to meet you all on Friday night.
Nice video too, sums up the evening nicely.
Looking forward to seeing Freddies pictures.
Are the qualifying times and a final standings going to get posted up?
Cheers and see you in the future.
_Ric

Lovely video claus. I like the rainy bit, ma3k looks ... meek.

3: 05 Obligatory slack chain comment

I like the rainy bit, ma3k looks ... meek.

Was charging the laser-beams, apparently.

ha ha only just seen this page, and the gif.

weird.

Thanks Gustav for organising it, props...and sort of ''forcing'' me to do it ;)

Had a great time.

@claus : top quality video & fast delivery. A phone which is not a phone but a camera, I want it.

Is it this one? http://www.theflip.com/
In which format/ resolution record the clips?

diapo, that's the one. as you see they come in two different sizes with either normal or HD resolution. went for the smaller size which gives me 60 min of HD recording time.

i was thinking that it was a phone. amazing!

I was looking at those Flip video cams ages ago. Good to see one in action, the results are really good!

sorry for the delay -

pics here

nice one fred!

**Qualifiers **- top eight times going through to the next round

Bryce 18:18
_Ric 18:44
taogeogheganhart 18:72
Owen Reed 18:72
Conservative Values 18:81
Dancing James 19:03
Furious Tiles (Tim) 19:03
MA3K (John) 19:22
Claus 19:56
Tom. 19.62
A Double Tap (Steve) 19:66
Phil J - BD 19:71
Che Beef (William) 19:71
Adam 20:38
Cliveo 20:41
A 20:69
606 20:81
Hoonz 21:03
Gustav 21:03
R_dy (Rudy) 21:07
Harry 21:25
Tika 21:40
Blue Quinn (Niall) 21:78
Oliver Schick 22:03
Fruit Bat 22:75

**Quarter Finals **(bold denotes win)

Owen Reed vs Conservative Values
19:21

Furious Tiles vs taogeogheganhart
18:60

Dancing James vs **_Rik **
18:60

Bryce vs MA3K
18:69

Semi Finals (bold denotes win)

_Rik vs Conservative Values
18:53

Furious Tiles vs MA3K
19:00

Mens Final (bold denotes win)

Conservative Values vs MA3K

Womens Final (bold denotes win)

Tika vs** Cynthia**
22:04

Fastest time of the night was Bryce with his qualifier apparently

Let me know if you want any of the names above changed

Thanks everyone who made it down to participate, cheer and heckle...definitely interested in running it again hopefully with audio of a more palatable variety than my screams of "allez allez allez..."

Thanks to Fred and Claus for the more permanent record of the event (memory is less than clear after the halfway point) - seeing it afterwards makes the effort put in seem really worthwhile

Brilliant work, Gus. It was a lovely event.