by Andrew Taylor

I just got home from the odd couples contest at Rayʼs MTB in Cleveland, Ohio. The idea for the contest was that ten three man teamʼs made up of a bmxʼer, mountain biker and a cinematographer had three days to produce a three minute movie filmed inside the park. On the fourth day Rayʼs set up a premier in the rhythm room and invited all the locals to come and check it out. Celebrity judges Brian Lopes and Taj Mihelich judged along with a decibel meter that rated how loud the crowd got for each video.

 

For the contest I got partnered up with Tom Arkus (cinematographer) and Big Daddy (bmxʼer). Before I showed up to Rayʼs I had never met them so I had no idea what to expect. Luckily we all worked good together and got a lot of filming done. Iʼve never laughed so much when making a video! We had a lot of ideas for a theme so when it was time for Tom to edit he had over 2 hours of footage to go through. After going through all the footage this is what we came up with. We tried to make a video that would be different than what you would normally see so I hope you like it!

 

Unfortunately we didn't make it in the finals but I was stoked because it seemed like the crowd really enjoyed it!