Back to the back yard, where it all started.
Two Time Enduro World Series Champion, Richie Rude, sets his sights on blazing a new trail in the Northern Tip of New England to plant a seed for future MTB riders and bring world class mountain bike race events to his back yard at Burke Mountain.
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This trail was built by Knight Ide (in conjunction with Rude to some degree), the genius behind Victory Hill, as well as the new East Haven sector of the Kingdom Trails (and some of the kingdom trails proper as well).
I'd say Knight is by far the most creative and nuanced trail builder I know of. He seemlessly blends flow and tech, and uses as much of the natural terrain as possible. What you are left with are the trails of my dreams. Gnarly tech shoots with perfect catch berms at the bottom, mixed in with flowy lines, doubles everywhere, and good old fashioned fun.
If you haven't been up to the Northeast Kingdom recently... it's worth a visit.
My parents first introduced us to the NEK trails around 18 years ago and the Barre trails not too long after that, getting a tour by one of the trail builders and I remember hearing his name being tossed around. After riding a fair amount of North America, they're still among the best trails I've ever ridden (webbs, cow pattie, moose alley, Tody's tour, Widow Maker, etc etc) They revolutionized EC riding and that's not an exaggeration.
Thanks for the props everyone!
I was an amazing experience working with Richie on this, looking forward to part 2 ????????
I watched the video a couple more times to explain the "odd": @1:15 for instance, the rolling sound felt, TO ME, weird. I'm not questioning the quality of the work, nor the hours put in.
Btw: besides big rigs, are cable cams still a thing or have drones taken over?
And in case you missed it the above video has no sound track and is just abient sounds of the bike on trail. Maybe just captured in a level of detail and clarity than you are used to ;-)
Seriously though... RAW edits have been around for years in lots of sports and lifestyle genres and the definition is pretty broad. I think the body of work over the years speaks for the definition of what makes a raw video acceptably to be, NOT the definition on one man behind a keyboard in Poland :-)
Thankfulky it's progressed far from your desired pans and zooms on phones and gopros or we would never be getting the level of content we see now.
Cheers
@kmoter : I don't remember "raw 100" being ever presented as raw footage. Instead they were always highly polished and fast paced edits focusing on the riding with little to no filling ( i.e: rider waking up, getting to trail head, multiple angles of the same move, al that jazz). In that regard the series is perfectly consistent throughout time and sports.
Actually you can take "Raw 100" as a trademark as it's now the name of a Redbull serie ( at least on yt) and it's marketed as " that's simply raw, high-quality footage — no slow-mo, no music, no B.S."
Maybe something closer to your definition would be the Brannigan's Shredit, which was sick. But remove the music and the vibe wouldn't be the same. It would feel quite empty actually.
Even in films, when a scene is qualified as "very raw", it's processed, edited, sound engineered, color graded etc... it's just done so that you "feel it's not".
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Insane footage! How far we’ve come from the early days when any video clip at all of riding was a treat.
I like the sounds and the cinematography it’s like a national rhythm of the mountain. Sounds dope!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OU137N1hvAY
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