Thursday, March 04, 2010
France 2010 - The Video
An amazing week.
I took a ton of footage (with a little help from a few others, thanks guys) and here is my finished edit. I hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed making it. The footage made me smile so much. So many laughs, so many cheers, so many good memories. It's what BMX is all about... I've tried to get the vibe accross even to those who weren't there, I hope you get the feeling! So yeh, grab a grande cafe au lait and sit back and enjoy the sunshine....
(Play in HD full screen if your computer will cope... let it download fully before palying and it'll run better)
Just under 2 weeks ago, Jonny was in a panic. Thinking he was killing 2 birds with one stone, he went to the post office to buy his Euro's and handed over his passport to apply for a visa for his upcoming trip to India. Thursday night pre-french trip, he realised there was something missing from his checklist.... A frantic trip to Hayes later and a lucky encouter with a friendly indian with a penchant for ginger beards, jonny returned to bury passport in hand, looking rather drained but ready to rock!
A crazy start to a crazy trip... particularly for Jonny. On day 2, he pulled this out the bag:
Yeah, that's a berm he's airing out of....so good!
Thing was, in the excitement of his radness, he somehow catapulted himself over the bars whilst rolling out of it. It was a silly crash, we thought all was good. Got to the next track and he was struggling, but a good nights rest and he would be fine.
How wrong we were.
Fast forward a day and he's flaked out on the floor in a restaurant, blue lights on the way. Medics gave him the ok and gave us directions to hospital if we wanted to take him. Good job we did, he flaked out again half way there.... cheers Jonny, my first day of driving and I have to race you to the hospital! ;o) After getting a bit lost and following a kind frenchie who took the opportunity as an excuse to test his rallying skills, we made it to the hospital. 2 hours later after listening to a crazy drunk guy shit talk about us in french cause we wouldn't speak english with him, Jonny returns... "it's not broken" he says. Relief... "What did they say about your fainting?" Jonny: " oh, I didn't mention that, was I meant to?" .....Our heads in our hands said it all! But he looked much better so we headed back to the hotel.
Since he's been home, he found out he fainted as he lost a litre and a half of blood from his muscle. He was told if he wasn't so fit he would have suffered far worse consequences in France... so perhaps we should have marched him back in there.... but he's still with us, he's ok.... it's all a story to tell right?!
fix up soon Jonny!
More France 2010 posts soon...
I took a ton of footage (with a little help from a few others, thanks guys) and here is my finished edit. I hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed making it. The footage made me smile so much. So many laughs, so many cheers, so many good memories. It's what BMX is all about... I've tried to get the vibe accross even to those who weren't there, I hope you get the feeling! So yeh, grab a grande cafe au lait and sit back and enjoy the sunshine....
France 2010 from joeybmx on Vimeo.
(Play in HD full screen if your computer will cope... let it download fully before palying and it'll run better)
Just under 2 weeks ago, Jonny was in a panic. Thinking he was killing 2 birds with one stone, he went to the post office to buy his Euro's and handed over his passport to apply for a visa for his upcoming trip to India. Thursday night pre-french trip, he realised there was something missing from his checklist.... A frantic trip to Hayes later and a lucky encouter with a friendly indian with a penchant for ginger beards, jonny returned to bury passport in hand, looking rather drained but ready to rock!
A crazy start to a crazy trip... particularly for Jonny. On day 2, he pulled this out the bag:
Yeah, that's a berm he's airing out of....so good!
Thing was, in the excitement of his radness, he somehow catapulted himself over the bars whilst rolling out of it. It was a silly crash, we thought all was good. Got to the next track and he was struggling, but a good nights rest and he would be fine.
How wrong we were.
Fast forward a day and he's flaked out on the floor in a restaurant, blue lights on the way. Medics gave him the ok and gave us directions to hospital if we wanted to take him. Good job we did, he flaked out again half way there.... cheers Jonny, my first day of driving and I have to race you to the hospital! ;o) After getting a bit lost and following a kind frenchie who took the opportunity as an excuse to test his rallying skills, we made it to the hospital. 2 hours later after listening to a crazy drunk guy shit talk about us in french cause we wouldn't speak english with him, Jonny returns... "it's not broken" he says. Relief... "What did they say about your fainting?" Jonny: " oh, I didn't mention that, was I meant to?" .....Our heads in our hands said it all! But he looked much better so we headed back to the hotel.
Since he's been home, he found out he fainted as he lost a litre and a half of blood from his muscle. He was told if he wasn't so fit he would have suffered far worse consequences in France... so perhaps we should have marched him back in there.... but he's still with us, he's ok.... it's all a story to tell right?!
fix up soon Jonny!
More France 2010 posts soon...
# posted by Joey : 3/04/2010
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