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Clubroom => General Discussion => Topic started by: VMX247 on September 29, 2011, 02:30:02 pm
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MXTV presents..."2011 Crystal Brook National Championships" on Speed/Foxtel/Ozstar.
WEDNESDAY 5th October-thats six more sleeps.
8.30pm Melbourne time.
Check your local guide.
A must see to keep the ratings high or VMX may not be a priority in the future.
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YEAH BUT DONT TELL US WE WILL BE WATCHING , BUT TELL THE PEOPLE WHO SUBSCIBE AND WHOEVER NIELSON POLL WITH A DIARY :o)
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Can someone suck it off the TV and please U-tube it
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I'm on Neilsen poll but dont subscribe :'(
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Can someone suck it off the TV and please U-tube it
good chance you can see it on the MXTV website soon after it airs or MXTV channel on Youtube a few weeks later.
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Will it be on Free to Air? I'm not rich enough to have Foxtel and still live :P
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Bummer, I think that clashes with the 'Dad's Army' re-run
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730 PM Brisbane time............ On speed...........
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you tube link?
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Bummer, I think that clashes with the 'Dad's Army' re-run
From what I've seen they are very similar :D :D :D
especially the sidecars :D :D :D :D
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Hope nobody is naughty and uploads it to a 'putlocker' download file or something ;)
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i think the Thomas jones referance is the CR race when he got into a turn one tangle and then went from worse than mid pack to back into the lead in withing the first lap ;) i thats one of the races they covered.
We pitted next to each other at the speedway on the weekend and didint realise he bought himself a modern Jawa and was racing that, and he still had the gall to call my 2 valve jawa a death trap :o. BUt I said i knew what you did last summer ;)(well last month anyway - your already on the dark side buddy ) ;D ;D
He reckon he loved the CMX, reminded him why he started Riding MX 20yrs ago, people who just loved to go for a Ride - well until all the Posers and fashion police,mum and dads came into it and wrecked the sport, and he's bailed out. :(
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Watched it last night. Saw a few Heaven riders in the crowd. The track looked excellent. Well done to the organizers for putting on such a great event and on what looked to be a true classic track. Wish I was there. Noticed my favorite class Evo 250 was left on the editors floor though.
Kenneth KJ Swan
Go For It
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Very ordinary telecast of the event sorry, track did look great, and well done to the Crystalbrook club..
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I watched the Crystal Brook Nats this morning over my Coco Pops and it was great job with the interviews although I'd have liked to have seen an interview with one of the really old blokes like Col Metcher or one of his Super Seniors. Not to worry, Alison and Steves "little" boy came accross like a pop star and Freaky did a brilliant job sexing up the ugliest DT1 in captivity ;D. He also did an extremely articulate interview, so different to his online personna (no insult intended ;)). He promoted and organised this event with an enthusiasm we could all learn from.
We haven't had much TV in our 20 years history....Channel 7 did 15 minutes on the old Sportsworld Sunday sports show on the Nepean Dirt Track Nats back in the early nineties with reporter Terry Galloway (dad of Retrocross founder Shaun Galloway..2SEVEN ) doing a brilliant job with interviews and some early onbike camera stuff using Channel 7s Bathurst technology. A few years later in the late 90's one of the country networks (Maybe WIN) did a half hour piece on the Condo Greybeards event that I've only seen the once.
Let's hope that MXTV is inspired enough to repeat the coverage with next years inaugural two tierd Nats at Wyaralong Park,Qld for pre 78 and Tasmania for the Evo/Pre 90.
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Very ordinary telecast of the event sorry, track did look great, and well done to the Crystalbrook club..
I haven't seen the broadcast, but I would like to comment on this post.
The fact that MXTV had ANYONE at the Classic Titles was fantastic in my opinion.
But you have to realise that the resources that they were able to bring to bear were somewhat limited, being Macca and a camera person. So by definition, the coverage was always going to be quite limited in it's extent of coverage.
So why not just be extremely happy that our sport is getting some TV coverage rather than being so negative?
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I'm with you on that Ayjay-anything is better than what we've had.
Apart from some mags and VMX in particular, we are left out in the cold. I mentioned this after going to HBBC a couple of years back.
Congrats to MXTV for being there, but then again, so they should be really-it is MX after all and there are a few of us that do it.
We do need to find our audiance and cater to them though.
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is there a you tube link for those who haven,t got foxtell
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Congratulations to MXTV on their coverage of the Nationals. Any publicity the sport gets is great.Well done Freaky a great job both on and off the camera,lets hope this is the start of something in the way of publicity for the sport and the VMX scene.
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Very ordinary telecast of the event sorry, track did look great, and well done to the Crystalbrook club..
I haven't seen the broadcast, but I would like to comment on this post.
The fact that MXTV had ANYONE at the Classic Titles was fantastic in my opinion.
But you have to realise that the resources that they were able to bring to bear were somewhat limited, being Macca and a camera person. So by definition, the coverage was always going to be quite limited in it's extent of coverage.
So why not just be extremely happy that our sport is getting some TV coverage rather than being so negative?
I just watched it then.
IF your didnt like the coverage as bob hawk would say 'your a bum'. I thought the presentation, the interviews , the cut aways and the editing was bloody awesome. Especially for 2 guys a little hand held camera and no idea what they were filming bike wise, to cobble together clases and cut aways, with voice over commently is just great watching and great for the classic sport to get in the spot light again..
My hat goes off to BRendan from MXTV for taking the chance and hoping to find sponsors to cover some of the costs, flying down, hiring and driving a car for 2-1/2 hours, overnight accomadations and all the production cost to cover some poxy classic event that isnt even in there shows demographic.
MAte we couldnt even get some lasy interstate riders to even turn up, and there supposed to be racers. LAme excuses about costing to much, not enough track time blah blah and other events on a few weeks later. >:(
MAte i have nothing but praise for the coverage and the effort these guys went to to get it on air.
ok except maybe for the part they misspelt my name. :-[
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Watched it last night. Saw a few Heaven riders in the crowd. The track looked excellent. Well done to the organizers for putting on such a great event and on what looked to be a true classic track. Wish I was there. Noticed my favorite class Evo 250 was left on the editors floor though.
Kenneth KJ Swan
Go For It
thats cause without you kenneth it wasnt a real race.
see you next year !
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Well done MXTV on the coverage of the Chrystal Brook Nats.
Having worked in the industry for over 20 years, I know the amount of work that would have gone into cutting all the single camera footage (and some helmet cam) into a program that showed a good cross section of the track and riders.
It must be remembered that it all also had to fit in to a 30 minute program.
The commetary from Belly and Macca also was informative to the non-VMX viewer while not boring those that are involved in VMX.
All round a great job with limited resources.
Negative comments on any coverage of a niche sport would only ask producers why they would bother in future.
Cheers
Shaun
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Would love to see it, its not easy being a pesant so please let us know how else to veiw :'( cheers
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I agree with everyone that the coverage was fantastic, especially considering the limited resources of the MXTV crew. Macca's enthusiasm and love of his subject matter is contagious and he and Belly did a good job keeping the commentary informative yet easy to understand for vintage newbies. It's impossible to squeeze everything into a half hour package so I think they got the cross section pretty right with pre 70-250, pre 75-250, Evo-125 and pre 85-500 and while I'd have liked shorter interviews and more racing, they did an admirable job squeezing in what they did.
Next time you see Macca at a race pat him on the back and thank him and the MXTV crew for producing a great showcase for our sport.
I wonder if there are any plans to release an edited DVD of the whole event?
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I just watched it again then, and your right Firko. what i get out of the coverage is it was simple. Simple in that your average bloke can get an immediate grasp of what was going on, the broad spectrum of classes and the fact that they not only talked about the bikes but how you can get into the sport, low budget builds, old guys just loving to ride. Anyone who listens and watches the vision properly will see they have ticked all the boxes.
On face value it comes across perfectly as oldb ikes that are easly to make, fun and old guys, young guys, girls and families havings fun, and even there slow rider vision, would make those how good am i, think gees i can ride bettert than that and they might get off there arse and go racing as well. bUt also has enough coverage for the vmx guys to get some kinda fix too. there is somthing for everyone. REMEMBER this was never going to be a VMX video tape, so leave that at the door.
Also did you notice in all the cut aways, they did lots of diverse crowd vision with old bill watson, col, the girls -sarah white and knee, young kids and families on the spectator mounds and in the pits. Its a great peice of work with wider appeal, i cant say enough good things about it. watch it a few more time popeye and look and listen closers as i think you may have missed the message.
Its just a shame its not on free to air yet, that was; nah would be, the biggest injection into the sport you could hope for.
Im bloody excited. think im going to go watch it again .....
its 2 gig on a disk so bit big to POSt or upload. but ill see if i cant find a way of puytting it in the cloud somewhere.
Also did you notice lots of familiar faces in the crowds
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is there a you tube link for those who haven,t got foxtell
"'Trying to get it up for you now on the MXTV youtube page, hang in there."
Brendan Bell
mxtv
http://www.youtube.com/mxtvshow#p/search
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i recorded it on my hard drive as a non mx rider i found it very good.
freaky the new vmx rock star not only did he do a great job on the event he also did a great interview
will try and turn it into a dvd and send it to you kerry
i wont send them to anyone else if kerry wants to he can make copies any moneys can go to the club
jim
sydney dirt track rider
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Im in for a disc name your price Freaky . iain
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NAh not an issue JIm, get them out there, share the love.
MXTV are posting a original disk from brendan , i can copy as many as you like no probs. You get a cameo in the pre 70 250 race Iain , so you have at least 15 sec of fame....
my copy is of the Fox channel with no addsis ok, but i think there is a few sec missing off the start, fine to copy, but ill wait for the real deal before i hand anycopies out.
The phone rang on the way home tonight and it was from a guy in adelaide who saw the show on MXTV and wants to know how he can ride on the track , he is a novice and never realised the event was on..... so a bit late, but as we are saying its exposed the event, club , track what ever to a wider audience, which really was th whole point right. when i took the guys call on the mobile you could have knocked me over with a feather,,,
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Watched it last night. Saw a few Heaven riders in the crowd. The track looked excellent. Well done to the organizers for putting on such a great event and on what looked to be a true classic track. Wish I was there. Noticed my favorite class Evo 250 was left on the editors floor though.
Kenneth KJ Swan
Go For It
thats cause without you kenneth it wasnt a real race.
see you next year !
Thanks Freakshow! Have we rubbed shoulders or banged bars before?
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NO maybe just heads ;D ;D
i dont do evo..... ;) but i did take your name off the rider list for the nats, hope you got your refund by now too.
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Hi there is a rerun of the telecast on speed at 8.30am saturday morning 8/10 ;)
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ohhh yeah .....
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So i noticed VMX mag at the NAts, and i see you boys on the forum all the time so where the pictures you got ??? cant use them all in your mag so come on spread the love.
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PLEASE PLEASE FREAKY may i have a copy, you can have our first born, name your price ;D oh except that :D please please please :'(
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yep no probs if i Do the state round ill burn some and bring em along.
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So i noticed VMX mag at the NAts, and i see you boys on the forum all the time so where the pictures you got ??? cant use them all in your mag so come on spread the love.
Freaky, Yes I took a LOT of photos at the nats. :o
But the deal is that the magazine readers get first look at photos... so my photos won't see the light of day until after issue #48 is out in December. ;)
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AJ - I know it's lots of work etc but has VMX Mag considered selling their/your photos - even if it is after the mag comes out - setting up a section on the website?
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OK im a waitng , but dont you tease us. After the mag we need photos and lots of them. Ross is making up a collage for his retirement / funeral arrangement board.
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we haven't got a board that big!!!!!!
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OK have a copy of the MXTv spot if you still interested whoever asked before.
Send me cost of postage by paypal and ill burn you a copy ......
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AJ - I know it's lots of work etc but has VMX Mag considered selling their/your photos - even if it is after the mag comes out - setting up a section on the website?
Sorry, but we're really not set up to do that sort of thing. That's where Classic Shots comes into the picture.
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Freaky, would love a copy MXTV. Will bring a flash drive full of photos for you to state titles if your going to be there [of course you will be]. Should be able to round up over a thousand photos from 3 different cameras. C U soon
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NO probs Tman ill burn some, Ill put in an entry today, think it closes friday ? so year see you up there i guess then.