THOMAS' FREE SPIRITS AT BIRC VIDEO WINS!!!!

Mike Channin · Post by **Mike Channin** » Wed Nov 29, 2006 11:27 am

Thomas's Free Spirits Video from BIRC has been awarded a prize by Concept 2 for the best video (equal first with Niall's BIRC Montage)

Well done Thomas - Free Spirits are definitely on the map now!

Have to take this opportunity to say how impressed I am with the quality and standard of Thomas's productions.

If anyone hasn't yet seen them, he's also done videos for Newark and Marcus (OrangeRider)'s 100k.

I'm sure the man himself will be along shortly to post some links to them. (The Orange Rider one is available via the home page, and the two race ones can be found by searching for "Free Spirits Rowing" on youtube)

WELL DONE THOMAS!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh, and there's another youtube contest anounced in the latest C2 newsletter - so let's try and win that too!

johnglynn · Post by **johnglynn** » Wed Nov 29, 2006 12:15 pm

Excellent job Thomas

I know it's possibly elsewhere on the site but do people have links of the C2 annoncment for this thread

Video
http://www.freespiritsrowing.com/conten ... =birc-2006

paulgould · Post by **paulgould** » Wed Nov 29, 2006 12:25 pm

Well done Thomas - great work.

Paul G

Post by **Bangers** » Wed Nov 29, 2006 12:37 pm

Well done Thomas, keep this up and you could win the Model E thats on offer as a prize for the best video on the use of the erg.

Post by **Thomas W-P** » Wed Nov 29, 2006 12:56 pm

Oooh. How exciting. But how do you know this stuff? Where is it announced?

Do I win anything other than glory and honour?

I never seem to get the C2 newsletters.

Thanks for the tip Bangers - I think extreme erging has to be the subject of the film. We have until February - lets start planning.

I will start the storyboard

But I think a documentary about getting an ergo to the top of a mountain and meeting people from a website that you have never met before has got to be a winner!

Post by **Bangers** » Wed Nov 29, 2006 3:35 pm

Thomas W-P wrote:
I will start the storyboard But I think a documentary about getting an ergo to the top of a mountain and meeting people from a website that you have never met before has got to be a winner!

Rowing on top of a mountain eh, perhaps the film title could be 'VERGIGO'

ptruz · Post by **ptruz** » Wed Nov 29, 2006 4:16 pm

The videos are great....got me of my butt to row a couple of times. The videos and the rower are very motivating.

Stan · Post by **Stan** » Wed Nov 29, 2006 7:37 pm

Well done Thomas - its well deserved

Nick Shuker · Post by **Nick Shuker** » Wed Nov 29, 2006 8:03 pm

Great news Thomas well done, I think the good looking fellows in the videos helped !

Post by **Thomas W-P** » Wed Nov 29, 2006 8:06 pm

Yes, I am sure it did, and having the right lead off man is important

Mike Channin · Post by **Mike Channin** » Wed Nov 29, 2006 8:27 pm

Personally, I think it was my dying rower impersonation that did it!

(Plummy's video is even funnier, as you can see the panic from the cox when she thinks I'm gonna pass out or hurl)

Post by **Thomas W-P** » Wed Nov 29, 2006 9:03 pm

Yes, my video was always a first cut. Now I have the end of John's race and others it has been my intention to update the video.

Now it is a prize winner I don't dare

Post by **Thomas W-P** » Wed Nov 29, 2006 11:14 pm

To celebrate my win I have done a 30 second video of the end of my marathon...

...it will be public for a little while, then I will make it private since I am not sure I want the grief of students saying "sir, we saw you on youtube..." for the next 6 months.

Anyone who wants access to the private Free Spirits videos just needs to drop me a PM with their email address.

The video is available for at:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McKfMVTNHjM

P.S. Orangerider - if you want your video made private let me know...

ReducingFB · Post by **ReducingFB** » Wed Nov 29, 2006 11:28 pm

Can't think you went private within 10 minutes - and could only find Cameron Diaz, and she wasn't erging

Have to try again

RFB

Post by **Thomas W-P** » Thu Nov 30, 2006 11:10 am

No, still public - can't check at school because of the proxy filters.

But search on FreeSpirits as a keyword and you should find it.

Mike Channin · Post by **Mike Channin** » Thu Nov 30, 2006 11:18 am

Link comes up as private, and it doesn't come up on the search...

Post by **Thomas W-P** » Thu Nov 30, 2006 12:57 pm

Ah. Oops. Will sort it out when I get home.

The school proxy denies youtube for obvious reasons.

Post by **Thomas W-P** » Thu Nov 30, 2006 5:45 pm

OK, it is working now.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McKfMVTNHjM

Sorry for the mistake.

JanetS · Post by **JanetS** » Thu Nov 30, 2006 6:07 pm

You do make great vids Thomas!

V brave to vid yourself at the end of a piece that long. Respect!

Nice technique right to the end as well!

Post by **Thomas W-P** » Thu Nov 30, 2006 6:48 pm

Well - I don't plan to do it too often and Tamsin was coming out every hour to check I was still alive. She missed the bit where I had to lift my left leg out of the footrest because it was completely numb!

And Mike, I am sure that fact explains why my shins are not vertical AGAIN! Got to work on that!

Mike Channin · Post by **Mike Channin** » Thu Nov 30, 2006 7:02 pm

Shins looked better in that, from the few strokes shown. Might just be the angle, but you look to be going further forward at the catch. (Ironically, as I'd probably shorten up a bit when doing a marathon!)

Well done T W-P!

I might have to do another FM soon - has been a while...

This is post number 7000 on the forum!

ptruz · Post by **ptruz** » Thu Nov 30, 2006 8:37 pm

great to see the pics and vidoes.....

Thomas....were you the fellow who type emails while rowing (I saw you laptop in the shot)

Post by **Thomas W-P** » Thu Nov 30, 2006 10:56 pm

I can do two letters a stroke, but it is not very satisfactory and RowPro is very delicate about other apps running so I tend to avoid it!

ReducingFB · Post by **ReducingFB** » Thu Nov 30, 2006 11:13 pm

Link worked this time - Good on you. Thought you finished with more of a look of bewilderment than elation - but then again, I've never tested my arse to that extent up to now !!

RFB

Post by **Thomas W-P** » Tue Dec 05, 2006 9:06 pm

I have heard nothing about my prize

THOMAS' FREE SPIRITS AT BIRC VIDEO WINS!!!!

THOMAS' FREE SPIRITS AT BIRC VIDEO WINS!!!!

Bad Link!

Worked this time