[david ellison]

Here are some videos of the multiline ballet competition at STACK EuroCup '09 last weekend. Sorry about the low quality - a combination of cheap camera, gloomy English autumn day and wobbly cameraman

Guido Maiocchi - first place, flying his homebuilt Rev 1.5 shape with quadsticks and no bridle

Steff Ferme - 2nd place (robbed in my opinion ), flying B series 1.5 with quadsticks and modified bridle

James Robertshaw - 3rd place, standard Rev 1

Carl Robertshaw - 4th place, homebuilt Rev 1 shape - and clearly a fan of the John Barresi school of dance moves

Chris Goff - 5th place, homebuilt Rev 1.5 shape

Werther Secchi- 6th place, homebuilt 1.5 shape with quadsticks and no bridle

Steffen Sowade - 7th place, flying his own design, the Knockout

Timo Pepito Petz - 8th place, flying a Ventilator

This post has been edited by david ellison: 25 September 2009 - 02:03 AM

[Stephen Hoath]

david ellison, on Sep 21 2009, 08:09 PM, said:

Here are some videos of the multiline ballet competition at STACK EuroCup '09 last weekend. Sorry about the low quality - a combination of cheap camera, gloomy English autumn day and wobbly cameraman

Guido Maiocchi - first place, flying his homebuilt Rev 1.5 shape with quadsticks and no bridle

Steff Ferme - 2nd place (robbed in my opinion ), flying B series 1.5 with quadsticks and modified bridle

Thanks Dave, outstanding quality from both Guido and Steph. I am proud to say that I have been soundly thrashed in competition by both of them!

[lummas]

Wow, neither Guido or Steff have lost any of their skills since I last saw them. Excellent work guys, very impressive.

Mark

[Simon]

david ellison, on Sep 21 2009, 08:09 PM, said:

Here are some videos of the multiline ballet competition at STACK EuroCup '09 last weekend. Sorry about the low quality - a combination of cheap camera, gloomy English autumn day and wobbly cameraman

Guido Maiocchi - first place, flying his homebuilt Rev 1.5 shape with quadsticks and no bridle

Steff Ferme - 2nd place (robbed in my opinion ), flying B series 1.5 with quadsticks and modified bridle

James Robertshaw - 3rd place, standard Rev 1

Carl Robertshaw - 4th place, homebuilt Rev 1 shape - and clearly a fan of the John Barresi school of dance moves

Chris Goff - 5th place, homebuilt Rev 1.5 shape

Scores seem fair, Guido does a very good routine, there are possible ground touches for others that may be enough to drop a place or mean they dont go higher. Also the scoring of ballet with a degree of difficulty means Guido would score more (imo). Where as James might actually get a high difficulty score based on his choice of music as its harder to interpret. (but I've not scored using difficulty for Ballet so comment may not apply).

I think its interesting to see that 1st & 2nd both use quad sticks????

[RevWizard]

Stephen Hoath, on Sep 21 2009, 12:25 PM, said:

Thanks Dave, outstanding quality from both Guido and Steph. I am proud to say that I have been soundly thrashed in competition by both of them!

Now, I know why I retired from competing long ago.
After reviewing all the videos, I would have ranked the competitors the same as the judges.
JB watch out for Guido and Steff.

[quaa714]

Simon, on Sep 21 2009, 06:03 PM, said:

I think its interesting to see that 1st & 2nd both use quad sticks????

Agreed.
Much is made here in the states, mostly negative and with laughs thrown in, with the exception of a few (Scotty, Paul, Jim). I've flown with and without them and can appreciate the differences.
I say don't knock em until you've tried em.

[REVflyer]

Magic Sticks? NO, they are affectionately called "training wheels" by our peers,... (as folks' skills improve they will learn to drive without them ~HA~)

Hi Steff,
great job as usual.
You and Guido both have some cool moves for me to practice. His "flick-falling leaf-flack" was very exciting to see done in time with the music.

Funky bridles, (or none at all-geeze!), knock-off build quality, training wheel additions, what is the quad world coming to anyway?

[Martin Linford]

david ellison, on Sep 21 2009, 08:09 PM, said:

Here are some videos of the multiline ballet competition at STACK EuroCup '09 last weekend. Sorry about the low quality - a combination of cheap camera, gloomy English autumn day and wobbly cameraman

Guido Maiocchi - first place, flying his homebuilt Rev 1.5 shape with quadsticks and no bridle

Steff Ferme - 2nd place (robbed in my opinion ), flying B series 1.5 with quadsticks and modified bridle

James Robertshaw - 3rd place, standard Rev 1

Carl Robertshaw - 4th place, homebuilt Rev 1 shape - and clearly a fan of the John Barresi school of dance moves

Chris Goff - 5th place, homebuilt Rev 1.5 shape

Hi David - whatever the quality issues of your camera work there is no doubting the quality of the flying which is what its all about !!

[airin]

That's some very creative, skilled and inspiring flying.

Thanks for doing the filming and posting the footage David.

cheers,
Erin

[Martin Linford]

I think its interesting to see that 1st & 2nd both use quad sticks????
[/quote]

Simon can you explain "quad sticks" for those of us who have not been around for a while !!

[play365]

Thank you David ( looks like a typical Weston summers day ) is that Chris routine the one that beat you last time ?

[Simon]

Martin Linford, on Sep 22 2009, 05:15 PM, said:

I think its interesting to see that 1st & 2nd both use quad sticks????


Simon can you explain "quad sticks" for those of us who have not been around for a while !!

Quad sticks extend from the rear of the kite, they keep the sail tight and enable very reliable flick flacs amongst other moves.

Popularized in Europe a good few years back along with the "french" bridle developed by one of the Crazy Drivers.

Thing to remember is it's a Quad competition not a Rev comp, so you can use whatever you like and adapt what ever you like.http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:GZw1-gvVHRg7uM:http://image36.webshots.com/36/7/23/37/347872337pLBTAm_ph.jpg

[david ellison]

play365, on Sep 22 2009, 10:30 AM, said:

is that Chris routine the one that beat you last time ?

looks very similar

[Kitelife]

Fantastic routines, and THANK YOU so very much for taking the time to put them online!

Re quad sticks, here's the main forum topic for them...

http://www.revkites....hp?showtopic=23

[Keith Griffiths]

Photos from the official photographer here.

A disk of pics will be available to buy in the very near future.

Also, a DVD of the event will be produced for sale at cost. As you can imagine this may take a little longer in production.

[fermé]

david ellison, on Sep 21 2009, 09:09 PM, said:

Steff Ferme - 2nd place (robbed in my opinion )

Hello
I'm Steff
Could you say me why?

This post has been edited by fermé: 23 September 2009 - 12:09 PM

[david ellison]

Hi Steff - just my personal opinion. I felt your ballet interpreted the music very well. Apart from the one small mistake at the end the execution was just about perfect!

Congratulations

David

[Simon]

david ellison, on Sep 23 2009, 10:28 PM, said:

Hi Steff - just my personal opinion. I felt your ballet interpreted the music very well. Apart from the one small mistake at the end the execution was just about perfect!

Congratulations

David

Hi Dave, I would say that from a judging point of view, its not a good idea to compare a live judging of a fly against a sterile video fly. As you know there are lots of factors that going into a routine and being there live and getting the full efect of what a flyer does can never be replicated in video.

Also, that whenever comparing performances its important to remmber and consider the scoring parts as shown in the rule book.

Simon.

[Keith Griffiths]

Yes, I've always found video of performances leaves me cold compared to the live performance, but they are better for stealing ^H borrowing moves from

[david ellison]

Understood Simon , and my comments were based on what I saw in front of me on the flying field. As I said, just my opinion