Video: Church Two
It is January. Winter vibes have descended upon us. The nonsensical daylight savings time has drastically limited the amount of sessions for those on the full time workweek grind. Night riding is an option but it just doesn’t provide the same sense of satisfaction. But we are lucky in North Carolina. The mild temps and lack of substantial snow keep us ridding throughout the winter. The rides are shorter, yet essential for maintaining skills from the previous season. Quietly mastering that new cornering technique until the birds start chirping and the flowers start blooming. The short rides build for the coming of Spring, Summer, and Fall. The time when the real sessions go down. With seven months of optimal temperatures in NC, enduring a few cold months chilling is nothing to fret.
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Winter allows time to let the body heal up and prepare for the coming of a new season. I feel constantly burdened by frozen daydreams about sweat beading down my forehead while chasing buddies down the trail. A hot steamy after work session crushing corners and finding new rollers to double up. The grind of the day vanishing with every pedal stroke. Then SNAP, another email pops into the inbox. A brief glance through the window drags me from fantasy to wintertime reality.
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We hope this video sparks some daydreaming of endless forest filled with technical and challenging single track, mountains, and tall trees. Accompanied by your best friends, shredding till dark, and up till midnight drinking brews Chattahoochee style.
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Cheers to swimming, sweating, ya boys, and summer daydreaming! Church.
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All photos by Derek DiLuzio www.derekdiluzio.com
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 The Church Two crew. From Left to Right: Scott Abla, Zach, Brandon, Derek, and Evan. |
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You guys are overhyping what's happening in the Church videos. Neither video in revealing some mega incredible riding locale. They're just having fun on their bikes in any way they can...skids, swaps, grinding. Being Creative.
The videos are so enticing because you can tell they're just having as much fun as you can on every square inch of singletrack they can find. Locals killing it.
These guys are like my heroes. I don't know them but I want to ride like them. They have a style that I want to emulate. I think the slow motion in this was good. I guess if you're sick of slow mo then no slow mo looks good. Anyway, I liked the detail and the beauty of oneness of man and machine that was captured here in the video that at times presented the action more slowly than it actually occurred. It was like art in motion or slo mo bike porn. My hats off to the riders and the videographers and editors on this one. I even liked the soundtrack. Was that song in Django?
Bring that film crew up to Watauga/Avery soon!
but..... I'm so fed up of over use of slow-mo.
Could we have some video that is, and LOOKS, fast?
Please?
Daylight savings time is sensical, and occurs during the summer months. Standard time is nonsensical, and occurs during the winter months. The name itself is indicative of when daylight savings time occurs. Daylight is "saved" in the summer by turning the clocks ahead one hour, thus prolonging daylight into the late(r) evening.
Sweet vid by the way.