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Re: Review of the Derek Hutchinson CD
Posted By: Bill Bradshaw In Response To: Review of the Derek Hutchinson CD (Robert Woodard)
Date: Saturday, 3 February 2001, at 4:59 p.m.
I purchased this CD. Epub has sent it to me twice because I can not run the executable and see the video. I have had to watch the video through Microsoft's media player. For $15 I am not out much but now that I have watched it I do not think I would recommend it.
: I just received my CD of Derek Hutchinson - Master Sea Kayaker today. What
: follows is are impressions: Set to a backdrop of some pretty cool and
: soothing music, the CD is produced
: by EPUB Adventures. After reading a short bio and clicking into the program
: a few screens, you get to the main menu. Here you can view a video on paddle
: strokes in a pool at the LL Bean kayak symposium, a short video on 'feeling
: like a ballet dancer in a kayak' from the East Coast Sea kayak symposium at
: Charleston SC, A short video on the restoral of his kayak that he crossed
: the North Sea in (which is more an ad for the toksook paddle), and another
: short video on the toksook paddle design.: The most informative video, the movie of different paddle strokes at the LL
: Bean symposium, is also the one with utterly horrible audio qualities. The
: camera looks like it was positioned along with the microphone some distance
: from the pool, and the accompanying sounds of slamming doors, people
: rustling around near the camera, and mechanical noises from the pool make
: most of what Derek is saying almost inaudible.: The Charleston video has MUCH better audio quality, although you can
: occasionally hear the wind blow through the mike. The 2 other short videos
: have the best quality audio, but unless you are interested in the toksook
: paddle, he really doesn't say much of anything else.: A "historical perspective" is just still pictures of Derek growing
: up around
: kayaks.: "Derek's Art" - you've probably seen most of it on the bows of his
: boats, or
: in his books, or online. Not much of it anyway.: A tour through the Current Designs factory - I thought this would be cool,
: but to be honest it was pretty boring.: There is a slide show of Derek pictures - not much you can learn from it.
: Also a publications link where you can buy more Derek stuff online.
: For ~$15 it wasn't too bad, but you probably won't learn anything from it,
: and the most informative video was almost inaudible. Since Derek paddles a
: Gulfstream in 2 of the videos, it was probably worth more to me so I could
: study how much he leans the boat to turn it. If not for me owning a
: Gulfstream, I would pass on buying this CD again. Stick to his books and go
: see him live if you can, but I can't recommend the CD to others. If they
: would run the audio from the first video through a filter and remix it, then
: I would probably change my stance on the CD to a neutral bias.: The CD runs only on PCs, although the videos are in mpeg format so MAC folks
: might be able to view the videos if they can read the CD file format.: Woody
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