Rich,
Well I thought is was excellent. We caught the tail end of it on Saturday lunchtime and couldn't wait to see the whole show later on in the evening.
I particularly liked the pace and style of the riding footage. You got the speed just right and showed wakeboarding to be as exciting as we all know it is.
Other tour programmes have had a kind of distance between the excitement of the action and the filming.. the 2003 Series programmer somehow got to the core of the action and got you stoked on your sofa. ;-)
Made me want to go down the lake and scrape the frost off of my boat to go for a tow.
Matt was also very good as the presenter... having him commentate on the tricks lends a lot of credibility to the programme.
When you see him get podium finishes in the comps you are confident he knows what he's talk about.
I had the misfortune the other day to see one of the Gravity games episodes where the commentator had obviously never ridden a bmx, let alone hit the vert ramp on one.
He brought the show down to a pure commercial enterprise.. we all know the sponsors are what pay for the comps but you have to have credibility from the riders and spectators as well.
Nice one.. let us know when we can have a couple of clips on the website ;-)
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