Random Video

[Alex E]

A few months ago me and some friends went wheeling at Hollister. My good buddy and long time friend Mikey recently shared this video on my Facebook so I figured I'd post a link on here. The video is kind of quirky and really random (especially at the end) but it captures a day at Hollister pretty well. :moon:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqGrX0BeqSo

 

[1SOLOW X]

cool vid, but damn in fast forward it gave me a headache!

 

[Alex E]

Its kind of funny because wheeling is fun but watching wheeling videos is like watching paint dry. Its just not the same like it is in person. Haha the trucks sound like RC cars but the motion is like watching the beginning of Saving Private Ryan where they are getting off the boats and trying to get to the shore.

 

[Letterman]

I thought it was worth watching, don't know how many times I would want to watch it again. Maybe if I was in it or had a good friend in it I would watch it more then once.

I think you nailed it, unedited wheeling videos can be like watching paint dry! Some good editing will make up for that, ever watch the King of the Hammers videos.

I made this one from back in the early 1993, I am in it and I have good friends in it, but I can't just watch it anymore, just way too dull, slow editing, and made the mistake that I had to use almost all of the video that was shot:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZeetpkyTMc

Ten years later in 2003, I put this one together, it was nice till YouTube pulled the sound track off (

Primus - Jerry Was a Race Car Driver):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CRHQk7W8vk

Still need to make one in 2013 . . .

What I think works for wheeling videos is faster editing, keep each shot to 3 seconds. It is good to keep the sound from the video so you can hear what is going on with the seen, and edited to music. Speeding up the frame rate just makes it look like you are trying to hard to make it look intresting.

This came from over two hours of video, edited down to under five minutes:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMWaIv0DNNA

But sometimes the fast editing is just too fast, you can count 3 seconds for each shot, some should have been longer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQfAPttb25Q

 

[Alex E]

Haha I like the old video of Hollister. You know they took out all the tires because of the environmental impact but I've never seen Hollister so green in the 4x4 play ground, lol. Maybe they should put all those tires back and I like how the teeter totter thing actually worked. Now its all packed with dirt underneath and doesn't teeter or totter for crap. Looks like I'll have to enjoy my video because this morning my timing chain broke. YAY for me! If anyone has input I made a post on the OEM tech forum, damn it

 

[Letterman]

One more of the teeter totter back in 1993 in my friends Mazda 323 turbo 4x4:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQxiuYGSP9s

 

[Alex E]

I posted up some pics of my carnage...http://naxja.org/forum/showthread.php?p=245101743#post245101743

I guess no wheeling til this is fixed, lol.

 

[SteveT]

One more of the teeter totter back in 1993 in my friends Mazda 323 turbo 4x4:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQxiuYGSP9s

I had an '88 GTX...What a fun car. I kept the stock rims, but put the most aggressive rubber on it. Perfect for Colorado winter DD duty.

 

[Letterman]

I had an '88 GTX...What a fun car. I kept the stock rims, but put the most aggressive rubber on it. Perfect for Colorado winter DD duty.

I don't know that much about them, is that the turbo four wheel drive version too? Only 1300 sold in the U.S. so they could put it in the rally stock class. So much fun! Turbo speeds and 4wheel drive grip!

My friend picked that one up in Washington state, rally race ready, full cage in it and skid plates all over the underside, we should both be dead. I think I have more video of it somewhere.

 

[in4aride]

This came from over two hours of video, edited down to under five minutes:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMWaIv0DNNA

awesome video :thumbup:
looks like a real kick ass trail too! :shocked:

 

[Letterman]

awesome video :thumbup:
looks like a real kick ass trail too! :shocked:

More from that trail here:
http://www.naxja.org/forum/showthread.php?t=951812

 

[in4aride]

ah! so sick. i need to move back to nevada, so i can drive to the trails in cali! lol