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well he is great rider and everything...but...is it only me or it seems that gilles rides one location an suddenly everyone else have to ride that ( gilles born town,st blaze, cave, this place, ...)it makes video les interesting for me. dont get me wrong, i am not saying anything bad about him or riding just that it would be better if it would not seems like he is trying to copy gilless lines...

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is it only me or it seems that gilles rides one location an suddenly everyone else have to ride that

If I could get to them places I would love to ride them, but I know what you are saying.

Good solid riding from him. Agree with Ala on the music though.

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Ah Ross, you really are an argumentative kid aren't you.

In-case you were actually partaking in an honest conversation and not just trolling the hell out of the forum again I'll try and explain.

Riding videos are not just about the riding. If it was then no one would put music in them. Part of the skill in making a good riding video (other than the skill level of the rider) is the editing. A good editor would always chose a song that hasn't been used before, that's pretty much rule 1! A good editor finds a song that fits the mood of the video as a whole then will try to fit the riding to the song (so landings or moves are in time with the beat).

The BMX world has caught on and there are daily web edits that are all to a super high standard. Trials riders don't seem to put the same effort in, seems that they hear a song that's popular and is in many other videos and think that means they should use it too. It's just lazy.

To be honest I don't think you'll have read that and I expect the usual playground name calling to appear any moment.

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I'm not arguing here just telling you how I see it!

If I had the choice of watching a video with amazing riding but shit music and shit editing or one with amazing music and amazing editing but average riding I would always take the one with the amazing riding, its trials I'm interested in not video editing.

Depends on who the videos aimed at, if it's general public then editing and music is gonna be way more important

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But why not have both?

Maybe but editing isn't that easy, maybe if you spend alot of your time getting good at trials there is not time left to practice editing, not ever ones lucky enough to know some one whos great at editing!

Ali is lucky to have some one who's great at making videos for him in the form of mark w

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that is true, thanks Mark!

Before Mark, I made my last vid back in 2007, I am not great so I just stopped after that. I decided that crap videos are worse than no videos, not saying Aurelien's video is crap, but just a more of a concious effort to find an unused bit of music would have been better I think.

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You don't have to be a pro though, a little thought goes a long way.

Decent quality footage, a track that fits and some semi-decent riding will give a solid basis for a very watchable video. A few little touches like putting things in time and removing long delays/setups etc and you're onto a winner. Hardly any more thought/effort than most videos that people release, but much better to watch and a better way to showcase riding (Y)

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If anyone wants a video doing, my day-rate is 1 x box of Flame variety red, seedless grapes (ideally from Egypt, but any S.Africa country will do), and 1 x Starbucks Mocha drink. Both of these are readily available in most Sainsburys and Tesco stores.

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