August 27th, 2008 by darkroom
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So while its been dry the past couple weeks (up until 2 days ago) I put together a little S8 short of the Green at Monkey Spanking levels (up until 2 days ago). The title is Touch My Monkey starring Ben Blake, Collin Harris, and Sam Essewein.
Music is by Bad Dudes and the track is titled Eat Drugs. www.baddudes.net
Parental Guidance suggested for the out-ro as Chris Gragtmans gives us a preview of some good ol 2008 Cali Porn.
Music is by Japanther and the track is titled Cable Babies. www.japanther.com
Purchase your music directly from the musicians or your local independent music store.
Peace Out
D
August 14th, 2008 by downstreammovement
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Our 18th+, free, short film in five short months at RapidTransitVideo.com
Comin’ at ya right now ladies and gentlemen is NOT the Tom Tom Club, but instead my 3rd Video Journal entry from NZ…Fresh outta the wonderful world of Trans-Pacific air mail and onto your mega-byte muncher, via a quick detour through the customs manager at the Effort Inc. World Headquarters.
I hope you enjoy the video footage from the second half of my summer vacation as well as exploits during my fall semester of uni down here. Some of the rivers featured in this video were on the Volume II installment of my Video Journal, but are “revisited” here at different water levels…some higher, some lower.
Highlights of Volume III include…
A very humbling two-day trip down the Mungo/ Upper Upper Hokitika River through some of the most incredible gorges I’ve ever seen or can even imagine. I skipped “International Student Orientation” at Uni to join JJ Sheperd, Eden Sinclair and Dave Kwant on this trip…it was emotional…no, seriously…emotional. At one point we all hugged…I urge you to now go hug someone who you have once shared an emotional moment with……………Thank you, they thank you.
A trip down the Kokatahi River featuring the now famous Sam Sutton styling an unbelievably clean line on a very large, scary rapid at a rather challenging water level. Bradley and I…not so much.
Footage from my Fall Break, which was spent camping on the banks of the Kawarau River with good friends Ben Robson and Eric Chance. Each day consisted of a “Kawarau Triple Crown”…running Nevis Bluff, Citeron and Retrospect back-to-back-to-back.
…These special moments and more are ready for your viewing pleasure in my Video Journal Volume III! In joy, I hope you watch.
-Mad Bigga-B-up-one-twos to my main man, SPD (Spee-Dizzle-Drizzle…Spencer Cooke) for again editing my footage into the lovely video you are about to watch. Also a shout out to all the brothas and sistas in the hood down here in Aotearoa, who have showed that “southern hospitality” really lies south of the equator! RESPECT!
A quick FYI: Rapid Transit releases their first DVD, Volume 1, in November 2008 by producers Spencer Cooke & Chris Gallaway.
Rapid Transit DVD Volume 2 is slated for spring 2009, by Rapid Transit Producer, Karl Moser. More info coming soon.
Cooper Lambla
Music by
Artist: The Oatmeal Conspiracy - Song: Almost Done - Album: Friends and Family - myspace.com/theoatmealconspiracy
Artist: LaGrecia - Song: The Montage - Album: On Parallels - suburbanhomerecords.com - PR: myspace.com/southernlovinpr
Artist: Paint it Black - Song: Shell Game Redux - Album: New Lexicon - JadeTree.com
Huge thanks to: 
June 29th, 2008 by karlmoser
Tags: Al Gore, Fred Norquist, Karl Moser, Skookumchuck
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A long time ago I had a friend tell me “You’ve never really surfed a Riot boat until you’ve had it on a big green wave.” So when I got my brand spanking new Astro I hoped in the car and rallied up the the legendary wave to give the boat a proper test. One the way I met up with my old friend and former World Class student Fred Norquist and we spent a few glorious days as the only ones in the eddy.
Stay tuned to Rapid Transit for Fred’s documentary on the deforestation projects that are threatening Skook and the local way of life that we all cherish.
Click to enjoy the video!
(ps - I really have no clue what I’m doing here so if the video doesn’t work, don’t blame me. I didn’t invent the internet. Blame Al Gore.)
Skookumchuck Video:
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June 23rd, 2008 by effort.tv
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Spring 2008: March-June I shot a good handful of footage that never made it into any of our videos. Also, Daniel Windham and Chris Gragtmans contributed some nice footage from the Elk Gorge and the Fayetteville WV area. All in all this made for a fun Video-Podcast. The normal “edit-to-music” format wasn’t doing it for me so I decided to do more of a commentary style mixed with music. You’ll see once you get into the video.
(Ben Blake drops Compression Falls on the Elk Gorge. Photo: Chris Gallaway)
Enjoy footage from the Raven Claw, the Elk Horn, New Edition, Ride Nanty Ride, Tuck Medicated, Free Billy & Underrated Stormtroopers Not Wielding Camel-toes. Featuring the kayak daredevil talents of: Chris Gragtmans, Pat Keller, Kirk Eddlemon, Daniel Windham, Chris Gallaway, Ben Blake, Jesse Wilensky, Kelsey Thompson, Bryan Kirk, Brian Jennings, David Finney, Daniel Dutton, TR Yon, Andy Gates, HRM, Craig Parks, Jason McClure, Nathan Silsbee, Stephen Page, Chris Stafford, Chris Wing-ding-dang-diddly-doo, Garrett Bryant, Fergus Coffey and myself. Whew, that is an long list of cast members, and a long video… 14 + minutes.
(rapid transit in nature. photo: chris gallaway)
Soundtrack, in order of ahhearance by:
Algebra One, the Pee Tanks & Clutch. Intro music by F*%&$# Up, courtesy Jade Tree.
I’d also like to make a special announcement regarding a future Rapid Transit production. We will be premiering our first feature length DVD at Asheville Pizza Company on Thursday, October 30th, 2008. We’ll have much more information including a movie trailer here soon.
Further, I’d like to send you over to the IR Mustache King to see who’s vying for the huge prize purse in this year’s Curt Davis Invitational Mustache Growing Contest of Paddlesports. http://mustacheking.blogspot.com/
Thanks for visiting Rapid Transit,
Spencer Cooke, Effort.tv
June 19th, 2008 by effort.tv
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Greetings Podcasters and horse lovers alike. Chris Gallaway’s Googles aren’t working so I got on the Internets (also broken) for him to post this mess. Our very good man shot some headcam during the Jerry’s Baddle race on the Green River this spring and just now decided to whip it out. It’s a very thrilling, relaxing, informative, lackluster, sad, happy, thoughtful, selfish, black, white, off, on, apples, oranges video.
(headcam pointing straight through the go-left slot - photo by Isaac Ludwig)
You can see all the lines, especially race lines, as Chris races his borrowed Wave Sport “Momentum” through the Narrows and all the class III-IV boogie above and below. Watch out for a bit of a hiccup at Sunshine. The video comes equipped with the fine editing, voice-over and music choices that you would expect from a National Paddling Film Festival winner. Please do enjoy via iTunes on our Podcast or you may visit Gallaway’s video Library HERE. Orrrrrrr, you may click one of the Quicktime viewing options below.
Music in the video by Bonobo, song: Muzak and Ben Gallaway, song: Longaway.
This is a photo of Chris Gallaway with a freshly combed beard.
Later,
Spencer Cooke, Effort.tv
Rapid Transit Video #14: Chris Gallaway does Jerry's Baddle:
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June 17th, 2008 by effort.tv
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Watch Buck Fever in full. HERE is the direct link. Or you may find it in the RT video library.
Buck Fever (circa 1998-2000, VHS)
Regardless of the message you get from watching or perhaps the intended message, this video is what kayaking and living was to me in the late 90s - Lots of time on the road, lots of kayaking, making friends and building my business-to-be. After meeting through mutual friends in August of 1999, Jed Selby and I decided that we should combine our recently accumulated footage to make one colossal heap of semi-organized, unplotted, multidirectional kayaking video. What we came up with in a matter of ten days, and our first ever editing experience, was Buck Fever.
It seems like yesterday when I was rolling down from Boone to do my very first kayak video premiere at Asheville Pizza Company. Jed Selby and I spent ten days with my cousin Jake editing this masterpiece. Jed nor I had a computer and this was the first time we had heard of Final Cut Pro. Jake was getting into the multimedia field and had an early G4 Mac and the first version of FCP. This was our editing crash course and we did crash a few times.
Jake now…
I can’t thank Jake enough for kick-starting me into video production. To this day he still helps me out when I have tech questions. Jake has gone on to create himself a successful, full-time, multimedia career and moonlights at Snowghost Music out of Whitefish, MT.
JED now…
Many boaters know what Jed has gone on to do aside from all his paddling accomplishments. Over the past few years he has built a quite impressive business portfolio and still absolutely rips in a kayak. Check him out at South Main, Buena Vista, CO.
Me now…
Well, you’re here, so you see what I’m doing.
Take a look HERE. You may still buy it on VHS, if you know what that is. VHS? Hmmmm… What did I do with that old VCR we had? Ponder… It costs a whopping $3 and you’ll even get a free Rapid Transit sticker with it… okay two stickers. Here’s where you can buy it. CLICK.
June 5th, 2008 by andygates
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This is Andy Gates presenting the first of many instructional kayaking clips. This video clip is on how to loop, I go through the steps on how to complete the trick. If you would like me to do a certain trick comment and let me know. Other then that I’m out of here.
Until next time,
Andy Gates
June 3rd, 2008 by andygates
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The other week my boss called me to work… well lets just say I didn’t work that shift or the one I was originally signed up to work. Instead I went kayaking and it was totally worth it! This footage is of four really killer places to paddle.
First up is Eternity hole on the Tuck., then there is Quarter Mile hole on the Noli., a little bit of play on the famous Green River Narrows, and last but not least Wilson’s creek. The music is brought to us by Jade Tree. The first song is Young, Loud, and Scotty, by Lifetime on the Jeremy’s Best Dancers album. The second song in the video is Reminisce by the Statistics on the Leave your name album. You can find both of these artists among many other really talented ones at JadeTree.com.
Thanks for listening,
Andy Gates
May 22nd, 2008 by darkroom
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If Obama loses the election I’m packing up and heading to the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. This city is rad. Its got amazing sushi, cool parks, coffee shops (think Amsterdam), music, architecture, amazing public transportation and some of the warmest folks I’ve ever met. Southern US hospitality doesn’t have $h@t on that city. But bring a fat wallet cause its pricey.Its similar to Asheville that its a progressive place but what surrounds it is even better.
World class kayaking is all less than a two hour drive to Whistler, Squamish, and Vancouver Island. This video covers a small percentage of the runs in the Vancouver vicinity. Runs in order of appearance 21 Mile Creek, Birkenhead (high water), Callaghans Creek, and Rogers Creek. The Cast: Sean Thompson, Jerry Jibscomb, Alex Harvey, Liggin, Dangerous Dave, Professor Paddle James and the Montana Boys. Music: Eliot Lipp-Linc and Gift of Gab-Ride of Your Life. 
BC is a wilderness full of vast resources. Not only for recreational purposes but more so for economical gain: high voltage power lines parallel every dirt or major road we traveled on, the vegetated mountains resemble a green patchwork quilt from the many clear cuts, rivers like the Ashlu and the Rutherford are transformed into hydro electric plants. All of these issues are heavily documented and were presented the world by Brian Smith of the Range Life. Another economic resource that is impacting the BC wilderness is the construction for 2010 Winter Olympics. A local informed us that the Nordic Ski Jump grounds are slated for construction in the head waters of Callaghans Creek. This area is home to a large Grizzly population and despite the towns disapproval construction was to continue. It was trip of highs and lows. The high of experiencing BC whitewater and its adventure; followed by the low of witnessing the its destruction for man consumption. Check out this link for BC Rivers at Risk- Vids that address these issues- 49 Mega Watts by Brian Smith Skookumchuck Surf Report by Spence and Chris
May 13th, 2008 by effort.tv
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There is a season just beyond the horizon where the talents of kayakers and lip hair farmers join forces to become one big idiotic mess all over the internet. This season is known as the Curt Davis Invitational Mustache Growing Contest of Paddlesports. This year IR has title sponsored the event to bring you The Mustache King 2008. As title sponsor IR will be providing their top-of-the-line DoubleD drysuit to 1st place as the grand prize. Yip, you read correctly. All you gotta do is grow a stache and you will be styling it up dry as a bone in a brand new drysuit. Check out the video for a little motivation. Click play now or play in popup just below here for a quicktime view or subscribe to the Rapid Transit Podcast here or via iTunes.
