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Red Bull Rail Storm - London's Trafalgar Square - Comment, photos, video

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It is kicking off as I write - 8,000 spectators, 36 of the world's best snow-riders and 66 tons of snow.
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Well, there are some enthused comments about the riding on the SCUK website this morning ...
http://www.snowboardclub.co.uk/PNphpBB2-viewtopic-t-7789.html
... Mention of the crowd being a bit subdued - maybe Red Bull need to invent a drink that makes you scream, whoop, cheer and make high-pitched bird noises - but no photos anywhere.

The images on the Red Bull site (above) look to be the ones shot in Glasgow last year.

Seems strange to stage a massive event like this and not get any photos out. If anyone's seen pix, please post links below.

Any comments on the event? Anyone go to the apres-party?

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Edit - ifyouski.com have a report on the evening's events:
http://www.ifyouski.com/news/newsarticle/?ObjectID=7547515
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David Goldsmith, Sky News (at least the feed to this part of the world) had a bit on it last night but my signal broke up just as it started.
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Hi all,
It was tremendous fun, despite being an ancient "two plank" snow user.
Yes the crowd was a bit subdued despite two paid commentators/warm-up guys. Prehaps it was something to do with the fact that (surprisingly for an urban snow event?) it was very cold Skullie We were sat in the grandstand - excellent view but no opportunity to jump about.
I am at work at the moment but when home this evening will try and attach a photo - do I do this simply by cut and paste?
I have some video too - does anybody know if the site can cope with me cutting and pasting a video clip too (each one is quite a big file).

Didn't see you Noodlelady Smile

I wrote to Red Bull this morning to congratulate them.
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Natives have filed a report on the Boardle* of Trafalgar:
http://www.natives.co.uk/action/list.py/view_item?listid=9&listcatid=39&listitemid=633&

* Blame me

Plus, a few photos on the adrenalinetrip forum:
http://adrenalintrip.extreme.com/forum/viewtopic/1/124046?siteid=3&start=45
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Nick L, cut and paste won't work. You can register on snowMedia Zone (our sister site for pics and videos) then upload your stuff onto there. There is a size limit on vids but I'm not sure what it currently is.
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Thanks kuwait_ian, have done that this morning and will post a picture of the stage and possibly a vid or two from home later
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Nick L, OK once you've done the uploads it's nice if you post here with a link to your stuff. Saves us wading through all the rest. Cheers
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OK, you know what I am going to ask next:
How do I insert a link? Embarassed
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HJP Crew have posted up a video (2.43 mins):
http://www.hjpcrew.co.uk/lifestyle_2.htm
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Nick L General Rule - IF (big if) it's a short URL just copy and paste it into your post as David has done in the previous post and this magic s/w converts it automatically to a link (test with preview).
If the URL is a long one (and some of those in snowMedia are...) it will resize the page width. A better way to do it is to use the green bits below. No spaces.
Code:
[url=copy in your url to the pic or vid]short text description[/url]
and all that will come out are the words in 'short text description'. End of general stuff.

For urls from snowMedia it is best not to pick up the URL from the browser window but use the one shown in "UBB Code" below the pic. That uses IMG tags and puts pics directly in here like this - but it's not encouraged as it drives those on slow dialup connections crazy.


You are not the 1st and no doubt won't be the last to ask for help with this. Looking forward to your pics.

Nothing personal but a set of steps and multiple handrails on the shots I've seen so far don't do much for me. Perhaps you had to be there..... Cool


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Nick L, I think I set the upload limit for movies at 10Mb. I see you have uploaded "avi" files, which will not help to conserve your disc space allocation or downloaders' patience wink (8Mb for a short clip Shocked ). If you know how to convert avi to mpeg or other format may I respectfully suggest that you give it a try. If not, I'm sure that tips and advice will be forthcoming here snowHead

I seem to recall that Windows movie maker gives you that option and is free. Anyone confirm?
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Thanks Alan Craggs, , I will try and re-format the vids, re-upload and post later (I managed to nip home at lunchtime to do the uploading earlier.
Here is the only still photo I bothered to keep:
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Yippee - I did it! Cool
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Nice photo, Nick!

It's interesting that this massive amount of money went into a show like this - maybe the biggest outdoor snow show in London since a big nordic ski jump was built on Hampstead Heath in 1950.


Clearly, Red Bull could have put all that money into the ski/board show at Olympia, which is getting pretty tired now ... but they're right that the outdoors is where people want to be.
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There are quite a few photos on Red Bull's site now:
http://www.redbullrailstorm.co.uk - go to 'Action'
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Well done Nick. For some reason my media player crashes when trying to play directly from the thumbnail. I suggest the "right click and save target as" option if anyone is having the same problem.
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Alan, have deleted the mpg and (I think) done a better job with Windows Movie Maker - and they are here in ascending order of file size:
Red Bull Brits
Red Bull non-Brits
Red Bull Practice and Introductions


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Thanks for all your advice kuwait_ian, and Alan Craggs, . It has been a real learning experience - my camera is a new Canon digital and I now know how to download videos and even joint them together and now post them! Wow now I'm a real snowHead
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Great stuff Nick L - and my media player plays them from the thumbnails now Cool
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Loads of photos now loaded on to the SCUK site - here - including this one, which shows the neat set-up.

But is it spectacular enough? Maybe the public want big ramps, big air, big landings? It's interesting that everyone talks about Tyler Chorlton's 'warm up' front flip over the entire flight of steps - thus arguably rendering the rails obsolete!

Here's a little vid of that stunt, posted by bronze5alive onto the SCUK site:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v430/bronze5alive/railstorm2.gif
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Agreed that a Big Air would have been fantastic. I am not sure how much length of slope and run-off area you need for a Big Air but as you can see from my vids there was a fair gap between the grandstand (for old f%&rts like me) and the stage which was taken up by standing spectators - so presumably they might have been able to accomodate less punters of they had had a Big Air.
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David Goldsmith, one of the reasons i didn't go in the end...........seemed a long way to go for a few rails.
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