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Skateboarding Bali Globe Bowl
Passed by the Globe bowl in Bali Tuban last night and two local skaters that I met on my last visit to Bali were skating. Now they are skating the Bowl at full speed and tearing up new lines all around the place..Wiratama Tude in the red shirt was blasting some big stylish melon fly outs from the tight bowl corners to flat and Tony Santika in the black was consistently stretching out his Benihanas Bruce Lee style for the camera lens..I managed to have an hour or so cruising the bowls feeling how my knee was feeling compared to last time..Definitely had less pain than before and more speed through the corners which is good. The rain has taken the polish of the cement so any falls now take your skin off which I am now experiencing..
Canon g1X Waterhousing
Klong Nin Koh lanta this evening, few little waves coming in and a couple of surfers in the water,..thought i would try and get a photo from inside a wave. Actually managed to but it was a grotty sand filled brown one about 1ft high. However the G1x is not suited at all to action photography as it has about a 1 second delay on the shutter lag, making timing next to impossible..However I managed to keep the horizons level and I am sure when the conditions improve one can get some good shots with it in the surf even though it is designed as a diving housing where most thing happen slowly.
Just upgraded blog software to Photocrati
At this point my galleries will turn into slideshows and various new presentations for my images..Photocrati is a wordpress theme that works well for photographers..
My Brother Nathan on his Land
My Brother Nathan has been overseeing a development of a plot of land up on a hill over looking Koh Pi Pi Island (where the film The Beach was filmed with Leonardo Di Caprio) and ask me take some photos of the sunset for him. This was what it looked like this evening..Including my not so little, lil bro..
Khlong Nin Storm Sunset tonight
Photos Canon5d Mk2, 16-35mm Lens…Lightning 70-200mm f2.8 lens on a tripod with bulb exposures from 30 seconds to 250 seconds for the lightning shots.. Also two photos with fill flash of the same sunset taken on a Canon g1x
Flight to Krabi 25th April
Bangkok to Krabi airport Air Asia £50 then a 3hr drive to Koh Lanta across two ferries to see my brother and sister in Khlong Nin.. First two days amazing sunsets, Raining Hot and Humid, Wet season starting again. Which appears to bring dramatic skies and rainbows all in the same half hour. All of these photos were taken on a canon g1x pocket camera as my 5d mk2 was not to hand, wish it had been..
Bangkok Bits and Bobs..
These are some random photos from my experience in Bangkok walking around with my camera, spending time going out at night with some people I know from meeting before and new some new acquaintances.. Bangkok is an great place to cruise around its game on 24/7 . Whilst it still has its fair share of graffiti writing and tagging it is nothing like good ol’ Bristol..
Camera Technicals and Bangkok by Day and Night..
I have been staying in Soy 11 Sukhemvit Road in a Hostel called Suk11. I thoroughly recommend it as a first stop for a trip into the centre of Bangkok. You can pre book online it is approx £12 to £20 a night depending on one or 2 people in a room. This is cheap for Bangkok. The rooms have Air Conditioning, (however they drip a bit do not leave your lap top on the bed under one!) and hot water en suite. Its location is right next to the Nana Sky Train station and for this is 3 stops from all the big camera shopping centres and 1 stop from 24/7 nightlife.
A quick story I bumped into 3 women on three separate occasions that I have spoken to on previous visits. They still work in the same shops or area as before. They remembered me and they all said hello Jason how are you? followed by you look fat now! I couldnt believe it I had only gained 4 pounds in the last 18 months as a result of being inactive from a knee injury and on crutches for 3 months. It appears Thai people are even more concsious about their weight than people in the UK. My brother who has lived here 16 years said that a persons weight is always then first thing they will comment on. Except they notice a few pounds in the Uk people leave it to 10s of pounds before they would comment. As I have said before between 50 of them there isnt enough fat to fry a bacon sandwich.. So very different in values and culture here compared to the Uk. In the Uk people get soo offended when you mention that they have gained weight, Its a big taboo. Anyway I was one of them and now feeling somewhat offended I will just swallow it and stop the cakes and chocolate. Oh well its a reminder how the Uk stodges many of us out with heavy food. I actually love Bangkok s range of street food and cuisine, there is fresh fruit on sale everywhere and a street meal is always healthy and delicious and never costs more than a pound.
Some camera info, My Canon 7D versus 5D Mk2
Camera tech stuff, Well I have had good use of both camera bodies and now I can honestly say that the 8 frames per second and 60fps hd capabilities were then reasons I purchased the 7D but the image quality is not there for me coming from a full frame 1DS mk2 full frame dslr. So in MBK shopping centre today I decided after a lot of thought to part exchange and upgrade my Canon 7D back to a Canon 5Dmk2 as I have been missing having a full frame sensor at hand. I do not shoot many sequential but my My 7d has killed off my Fish eye and 16-35mm wide angle lenses. Also with my 50mm and 70-200mm the 1.6 crop factor has been irritating me. So now all my lenses are as they should be. I will never buy a cropped sensor on a dslr again I have decided I would rather crop my photos myself. Whilst I was here I also purchased a water housing for my canon G1X to see what water shots and HD video we can get whilst in Indo. I learnt a big lesson after my Aquatech water housing leaked in Indo a few years ago and as a result I will not be taking expensive cameras in the sea again unless someone else is paying me to use theirs!!
Well here are some shots from my 5Dmk2 and a few from my Canon gX1 see if you can tell what came from where…
Skateboarding Bangkok
1am in the morning behind Koh San Road is a small plaza where I have seen people skate before. As I was on my way back from a day out to the floating market and elephant show with a bag full of camera lenses and some flashes I asked a local skater Komrit Kijanuluk if he wanted to ollie a few obstacles in the street for me,..these are the photos we got, Komrit has pop and style..Bangkok style
Samphran Elephant Park and Crocodile Zoo
Crazy Crazy Boys putting their body parts including heads into the mouths of aggressive snapping crocodiles..
Bangkok Wood carving..
This post is dedicated to my sculptress and talented artist and woodcarving friend Sarah H, hey take a look at how intricate these woodcarvings are Sarah, this one was still a work in progress after 3 people every day for two years. Check out the 3D carving and delicate thin pieces. Unbelievably skilled and of all the people I know I am sure you will appreciate this the most..
Bangkok Portraits,..Damnoen Saduak Floating Market
I met up with my friend Pare that I met with my brother in Koh Lanta in 2010 she is now working in Bangkok and took a day off work to accompany me to the famous Damnoen Saduak Floating Market. The light was very harsh and bright for getting great photos but I just sat down and snapped a heap of portraits from many of the locals working on the boats. A great experience well recommended..1500bht £30 for a taxi from Bangkok to the Market then a few shop stops on the way back including the elephant and crocodile show on the route back..
Where Earth Meets Air..
I love this view from a plane window where the infinity of space and the indigo shades of blue meet the curve of the earth separated by white fluffy clouds..My heart and mind lives in this place. Hopefully I imagine myself one day jumping from a plane with a parachute on from this height, maybe with a beautiful woman with the same sense of adventure, holding hands on the way down! just maybe
Heathrow to Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi to Bangkok
Great two Flights I flew with Etihad real luxury on £579 Return, full on DVD and radio selection, great food kind staff. I managed a window seat with 3 spaces on both flights. That was great, managed some sleep with a good lie down. Had my Canon 7D camera with me and a 200mm 2.8 Telephoto lens and these are the photos from the window..
Abu Dhabi…
Flying in it looks like a computer circuit board in a middle of a huge desert..Brown dusty more dust and more sand. Totally barren, I guess buried oil beneath the sand counts for a lot to some and has obviously given the Arabian Nations some wealth..4 hours in the airport not a cheap time small bottle of water £3 Coffee and croissant £8, glad to get out…Screaming children everywhere.
6 Months Post Op..
Quick go on a friends BMX
Knee Recovery 5 months Post OP
Knee feels good, leg feels stronger everyday, cycling around is really doing wonders for my strength, my balance is coming back almost as good as before surgery. I will just continue as I am for a while. I have a slight limp in my walk from the osteotemy that doesnt seem to be changing but it still feels natural. I have been working renovating a property this week and I have been up down up down on ladders and crouching and I have been aching but I am not in much pain anymore. I am excited because I have a feeling that in about 6 months I might be able to skateboard properly again. Also start parachute jumping! I have to offer lots of praise to Mr James Robinson because it feels like I have been given my youth back to me for my later years.Praise be to the good orthapeadic surgeons!!!
Went Indoor Skdiving
Monday saw Andrew Bird live in the Barbican London and Tuesday went to Airkix Milton Keynes and had 12 mins flying time in the indoor freeflying tunnel 6 x 2 mins sessions, zero to low impact, safe on my knees loads of fun learning to fly. One step closer to flying a wingsuit one day now.
Knee Recovery Week 19
Almost 6 weeks off crutches and if anybody has gone through this procedure or planning it, either Osteotemy or meniscus transplant I will continue to share my experience.
No PHYSIOTHERAPY yet..
I haven’t had any physiotherapy I visited the physio once and he looked at my knee and was not too sure how to proceed with my rehab until I had the all clear from my Surgeon Mr James Robinson who performed the surgery. Mr Robinson was interested in how I felt it was going, preferring not to offer any advice, other than he felt I had made a great recovery so far and would like to see me again in 12 weeks. We discussed the option of re-straightening my osteotemy with an opening wedge at a further stage so I that am biomechanicaly the same as before because I have been having back pains walking. However this early stages in the recovery and my back pains may settle. However we agreed this would be decided on the results of an arthroscopy possibly December 2012 to see how the graft has settled and healed.
I havent booked any physio appointments for these reasons so far.
I have had 7 previous knee surgeries before from an injury to each knee that needed fine tuning during recovery. My right knee meniscus was removed as I injured it aged 18 skateboarding. Left knee later ruptured 4 main ligaments and tore meniscus age 25 BMX riding. I have now had 4 surgeries each side, and have found what I am about to describe below has usually got me back to strength after each one.
CYCLE EVERYWHERE EVERYDAY
I do not drive anywhere, cycle everyday, always choose the routes with the steepest hills and put my bike in a hard gear and ride up as fast as possible standing out the saddle. Ignore the small lazy pains and go until my lungs feel like I am going to be sick. I have found my knees maybe swell a tiny bit in the evening but legs always feel stronger the next day as a result. My meniscus transplant has settled in well and I am cycling everywhere with a reduced amount of pain each day. However I am still very much in pain but nowhere near as much as post op. I do not think about the pain though but get the occasional reminder usually when sitting for long periods of time.
WALK UP STAIRS EVERY DAY,
multi story car parks and lift shafts, also fire exits provide lots in one go!
TIP TOES
When waiting for anything, trains buses queues etc. Stand on tip toe on my weak leg and do calf raises up and down until a white hot pain begins to build in the belly of my calf muscle. This pain usually takes 4-5 days to leave but it seems to be the only way to get my calves to respond. Calf muscles do not return to size quickly. Any body builder will tell you how easy it is to end up barrel chested and chicken legged due to this. I do this about once every 10 days as it hurts for a while…maybe once every 5 days I will now aim for
Ok so that is working well on my thighs and calves…
BALANCE
For my balance and all my fast twitch reflex muscles I have been balancing on parking chains that span between concrete posts. Usually when I walk along the Harbourside in Bristol City centre as there are a few. Its is not an easy task with a good set of knees, However I did try last month and I was able to stand for about 30 seconds on my post op knee two weeks after I came of crutches. Continued for about another 30 seconds with both feet on the chain then a few more times swapping from leg to leg without stepping off. This is not easy it is similar to a slackline and can spit you on your face or back just as quick. This is the best reason to learn how to balance as it hurts when it goes wrong.
If you try this method for your balance recovery you have to be able to fall off and prevent any shock or trauma to you weak leg, so try on low chains first 6 inches to 12 inches off the ground. It is also great fun, takes a heap of concentration, doesnt cost anything and keeps the inner child in you well and truly alive.
So that is it so far, my quadriceps are filling up and beginning to split into 4, calf muscles are filling out, and balance is returning. I also had a quick roll around the skatepark on a skateboard this week just to see how it felt. Balance and ability still feels intact however I will wait at least 6-8 months and with the surgeons approval before I consider “properly going for a skate”
EXPECT PAIN MILD SWELLING AND ACHES
I am very pleased with the results 5 months post op, however I am still in pain each day and flexion is stopping at 130 degrees I do not do any flexion work at all. I am letting that return when it wants too I believe it will. I am happy with the pain and no longer take painkillers or anti inflamatories. I have been drinking glucosamine sulphate liquid every day 3000mg which is 3 times the normal dose and this seems to have a great effect. When I run out and do not take for 2 days I feel a noticeable difference.
DIET KEEP IT RAW AS POSSIBLE
Finally the biggest single factor that has the greatest effect on my recovery has been my diet. When I stopped making smoothies each morning and eating fresh fruit and veg all day for at least 5 days a week I noticed a big change in my energy levels. I slipped back into a habit of eating bread and cakes and coffee in coffee shops, and eating pizzas occasionally and standard restaurant meals. This has been smashing my energy levels, giving me bloating, gas, and putting fat around my mid rift. Going to turn this around again. In the UK it is difficult to get good organic fruit and veg raw foods when in the middle of the city when the cycling hunger pangs kick in!
Ok that is my recovery so far it ha s been a relatively uneventful,. I have been recently co authoring a book on Graffiti and Street Art Techniques with a friend, hence the time spent eating cakes in coffee shops. These prolonged laptop spells in soggy sofas have been giving me back ache so I have to remind myself to keep moving. The more I move the better me and my knees feel. I am sure you will find this too if you slouch for a long time. The recovery is not work but you have to work through the pain. However I know from many times before that it does go in the end, and that it is just my knees know have a lot more to talk to me about and this time they have demanded that I listen or they will stop working for good..
OH Just remembered…
Fell off my bike going down hill pretty fast last week 2am Fri night on the way home on a wet road when I turned and then hit an oil patch. I came off at full speed onto my surgery side, received a big graze and bruise on my thigh, cut my knuckles and hand. However knee is still absolutely fine. Hand is sore though. I am more aware of oil patches in the wet now…
Smoothie Concoctions
Basically for 10 weeks after surgery I stopped coffee,caffeine, stopped eating low grade, low nutrient food, took 3000mg Glucosamine sulphate each day in liquid form and got really stoned added with a whole heap of tramadol and ibuprofen. Average day, wake up, wake, bake then made about a 1.5 litre smoothie blend sometimes twice a day and occasionally a meal in the evening from freshest ingredients I could buy. Basically I had to stay in bed the whole time and let the meniscus graft heal, strong Bristol grown herbs, tramadol and smoothies for nutrients were my plan of attack with some crystal healing balanced on my knees and some prayers!. In fact I drafted in everything I knew here to get this healing well so I can skate again. Cant lie to you folks but needed to kill my active gene for 3 months and the recipe above seemed about the best way I knew how to be able to wake up and then go back to bed again all day and still sleep well in the evening. I purchased a big flat screen tv and watched wingsuit videos by Phoenix Fly on Vimeo and Youtube all day long and imagined it was me flying.. so here are my smoothie recipes that I thought tasted good enough to repeat again and being stoned there was no way I was ever going to remember again so I wrote them down for you all to try..
I would love to know how you get on with these please share with me any you have…plus there is a few snacks in there too;
Recovery smoothies,
This one’s got some zing.
1 apple Braeburn
1 apple, Royal gala
1 lime 1/6th segment with peel
rest of juice squeezed in
2 baby carrots or 1 full size
1/2 stick of celery
1 red plum
1 conference pear
splash of semi skimmed milk
splash of cold water
Blend and expect a peachy texture creamy mix
with little speckles of dark red
5/5 refreshing,
1 Kiwi fruit including skin
1 plum cut into chunks remove pip
1Large Apple Cox
2/3rd pomegranate seeds
handful red grapes
6cm of celery
egg cupful of pink grapefruit juice not from concentrate
1/2 mug of semi skimmed milk
2 big dollops of total 0 percent greek yoghurt
Sunday not quite lunch out
4/5
refreshing and light but not in a citrus way
seedy and bitty texture from all the pomegranate seeds
Uplifting energy boost uplifting great for going back to bed on a Sunday
morning and watching interesting videos on the web.
Big Grab of kale
1 kiwi Fruit
1/3 Pomegranate pips
1 apple
1 stick celery
1/2 cup pineapple juice
1/4 cup grapefruit juice
3 drops tabasco sauce
tiny bit black cracked pepper
1 plum
Oi Stoner!
2 ripe bananas almost going off
2 value conference pears with skin and core
1 big crisp braeburn apple with skin and core
1 very ripe mango peeled
1 handful dorset muesli ( berry type or raisins)
2/3rd cup semi skimmed milk
2/3rd cup cold water
blend long time
smooth and bitty, crisp, creamy and bantam weight
7th Dec2011 This is a healthy soup
Soup, green and red bitty stringy tickler.
Handful kale
Handful greens
3rd of butternut squash
2 sticks celery
4 mini carrots
mug and half boiling water
2 tablespoons bullion stock powder
boil ingredients together 5 mins just to heat
move to blender and blend really smooth
return back to pan
add tim red kidney beans
and tub of fresh organic sprouting beans
splash light soy sauce,
splash hot sauce
balsamic vinegar 2 splashes
ground black pepper
serve as warm soup with buttered wholemeal home sliced bread..
7th Dec2011
Ok this didn’t work out so tasty but i think less
grapefruit juice and lemon juice will be all good
Big Handful Kale (yuk)
Big Handful Greens (yuk)
Big handful grapes
I kiwi fruit
2 Pears conference not so ripe
half cup grapefruit juice (remove next time)
1 whole lemon plus some rind , forget rind and only 1/2 next time
medium tear from bunch of fresh coriander leaves
needed to add a banana and another pear to recover
Hard to swallow
Bright Green!!!!!!
try again and make work
Creamy Plates and Screws
4 bananas ripe
Skimmed milk organic big splash
1/2 big tub 0 % Fat Natural Yoghurt
1/2 Avocado
Handful raw cacao nibs from Peru
12 Almonds
also most important ingredient
half cup Irish cream whisky
16 Dec 2012
Stoner Snack
multigrain Ryvita
Philadelphia cream cheese
Marmite sparingly
Double leicester melted cheese
spread and grilled in that order
might as well make a few to save getting up again and making more
having eaten them all. Moorish
Return to Normal blend
4 ripe getting old kiwi fruits, top cut the ends off leave the skin on,
2 bananas
skimmed milk
10-15 almonds
2 tablespoons golden linseeds
1/2 small tub alfalfa sprouts (good handful)
very smooth live mix
a little truth about relationships….
“You can kiss your family and friends good-bye and put miles between you, but at the same time you carry them with you in your heart, your mind, your stomach, because you do not just live in a world but a world lives in you.” ~ Frederick Buechner
I love this quote I found it on this site I stumbled across http://www.dancingwithhappiness.com .As a quote it pretty much describes how I feel. I do feel that regardless of whatever direction life takes our loved ones through the actions of past events, circumstances and other people that are beyond our personal control, this does not change how deep a relationship runs through the core of our energy, and if the relationships also include shared genetics and bloodlines then the energy runs deeper again.
That energy is where i have always found my strength
Knee Update…Tramadol withdrawal soooo difficult
7 weeks post op Still on Crutches and in a knee brace 24/7. This week I was upgraded by the physio to partiall weight bearing status, 50% of my body weight is allowed on my right leg. They weighed me I am approx 80kg at the moment (5 Heavier than a year ago) and then they made me stand with my right foot on the scales and pressed until the scales read 40kg. This was so that I understood the amount of pressure I could place on my leg.
More Importantantly, The Tramadol painkillers are proving very difficult to come off I tried just to stop taking them on 2 occasions and had heroin like withdrawal symptoms that were too much too deal with. Now ,I have reduced my dose from 2x50mg 4 times a day to just 2 a day but, when i stopped for a day, I had nausea, cold sweats, shakes, anxiety depression, fever and diorreah, so I have done some research and need to wean myself off slowly over a period. Been using natural remedies grown locally and that seems to be working well. Scar has healed up well and it feels good inside. I am daily dreaming about skateboarding on Vert once again, maybe in a year or so if all goes well.
This really was a heavy surgery and the recovery is slow and painful, due to the crutches also very cumbersome but I am making progress and that is noticeable each day. Huge thanks to my good friend Avril Elias and Sara Havord for all their support and help with my shopping for food, I would have really struggled without them.
Knee surgery…
just returned from Southmead Hospital Bristol after 51/2 hrs of surgical intervention to my right knee.
This was a biological knee resplacement or also known as a meniscus transplant from a donor to the lateral(outside ) compartment of my right knee. I have also had a Femoral Osteotomy, which is the surgeaon breaking the lower half of my right femur bone, removing a wedge and rejoining it with screws and a plate. This will give me a 10 degree correction to my knee and weight bearing correction from the new transplant lateral side to the medial side which has stable healthy meniscus still in tact.Basically my right knee has gone from being slightly knock kneed into a more bandy or bow legged knee. Finally the third part of my surgery was to drill multiple holes through the end of my knee into the bone marrow to release stem cells to the surface where I have worn away all the articular cartilage on my bone ends. Thids is in the how to try and regenerate some meniscus growth on my femoral and tibial bone ends as not to wear out the newly sutured meniscus transplant.
I was in Hospital a total of 5 days on a Morphine PCA drip and I was discharged once i had shown sufficient stability on crutches. The whole experience was a positive one and my spirits feel high and hopeful. The surgeons assistants have visited me and said that the surgery was a complete success on every level. However I have a very slow and painful recovery ahead of me. 6-10 weeks on crutches non weight bearing followed by partial weight bearing for another month, then the beginning of flexion and strengthening exercises to bring my knee and general fitness levels back to and hopefully beyond my preoperative state.
I plan on turning my blog into a recovery diary for this period..
This is a quick video clip of the effects of morphine on a pca drip and having my dressings removed 3 days following surgery..
Sun came out at last!!
Rained most of July and August the great British summer, but today the sun is high and what a difference that makes to how life looks and feels, gonna get some great photos today somewhere of something not sure what yet.
Update…Not having much fun here this week..
In England all I seem to do is work work work, cycle around under grey wet clouds and feel very tired most of the time whilst I hear really depressing information on every newspaper headline and Tv Station. Radio is a complete windup as I am bombarded with the same absolute low grade shitty pop music on nearly every radio station repeatedly every day week after week whilst I am at work. There is most definitely an industry and government agenda here for the complete brain blitzing of the same shitty radio and sound frequencies on a daily basis..There are so many songs and so many artists yet rhianna, take that, black eyed peas, etc etc,.. are played over and over again all fxxxxing day long.. When I try and re tune there is too much interference so we end up back on the same old mass broadcasting stations which seem to have the strongest signals.. There is a massive culture of Fear in the Uk and an attempt to keep people ignorant of this fact.. Have you ever noticed how many arrows you are expected to follow in one day, from train stations, road signs, entry signs, door ways, corridors, hallways, restaurants, hotels museums, the list goes on,..Instead of polite service at stores you now have to scan it all yourself as a security guard watches over your shoulder as it is assumed all customers are potential thieves..The cameras are on us everywhere and it is all controlled by absolute low grade unintelligent dimwits who will always reply, you are not allowed to do that, its more than my jobs worth, and I didnt make the rules. You cannot even lock your bike to some railings unless the sign permits it.. or run for a train! Bouncers want to bounce you , parking wardens, many of the police bus drivers and especially railway guards are some of the most dehuminised spiritually dead examples of humanity I come across regularly on my daily path..It appears that people with little self control choose positions where they can mindlessly exercise control to the greatest extent over others. I have recently found many train guards to be one of the lowest forms as they now wait in teams at automated barriers still checking your ticket before they use their own to let you through, what a complete waste of a day, resources and a life.
I am sure they would have become police if they were able to the 5 pull ups, 10 press ups and ability to count to ten that is necessary to be accepted… England is becoming more legislated by the minute, to repair this situation would be to RE -pair Human beings with Common sense, until that day it appears we will just have common nonsense…EVERYWHERE..
Rant Over!
Knee transplant surgery dates
20th Oct 2011 I will be having meniscus transplant surgery on my right knee courtesy of the National Health.. Pioneering surgery in the Uk by Dr James Robinson Southmead Hospital. He is a long standing reputable knee surgeon and just been trained in this newish technique and I will possibly be his first patient to undergo this surgery..Hopefully happy days to follow as my knee is painful as all hell at the moment..
Mountainbike and Bath Victoria Halfpipe
I do not own a bmx or a skateboard for ramp skating at the moment and the knees are sore and this is my first attempt at riding a totally unsuitable 26″ wheeled mountainbike on a skateboard Halfpipe in Bath Uk. Old school Bmx tricks from back in the 80s’s…
Canon 7D
A slow motion test with the Canon 7D Full HD capability at 50 frames per second, College green Bristol..
Bath Spa and Halfpipe video edit…
A short edit from my day trip to Bath on my mountainbike the other day..
