Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Making it look easy

Henry captures it perfectly as always.




Make sure to give the interview a read through in Cyclocross Magazine Issue #14.  Sully did a great job interviewing three cool guys.

I had a stack of Henry's videos.  They are pretty awesome.  If you race Cyclocross in New England, you really should pick up a few historic races from Henry (first link over there under big shot links - damn i need to change those a bit, so dated - so overlooked.)

Nationals 2005 35-39 race was epic with the weather, Henry's footage captured brilliantly what the racers and the promoters and the volunteers were dealing with that fateful Friday.  And he wasn't even filming the worst of it.  He was just filming that race.

It is hard to single out one of his races that he's documented as a favorite.  But that's got to be mine.  Gloucester with Vervecken is way up there. So many good ones.

Do yourself a favor, and I'm honestly saying this as a fan of the sport, buy a couple DVDs from Henry, if you have them, buy em for one of the new up and coming Cat 4 you know or met this year.  Giving a CX racing friend one, the DVD will last a lot longer than a six pack, even the way Coach Kurt P drinks.  Buy one of Gloucester so they can watch it in August and get pumped all over again for one of the best races on the calendar, in the country.

I don't pitch much here intentionally, this really just started out wanting to say that Curtis does make it look effortless there on the front.  And Henry knows right where to stand...  He always did know.

Thanks for being there with your video cameras Henry.

Thanks
-G

2 comments:

hey, it's me said...

henry's stuff is rad.
I have a small stack of discs myself...

respect
fm

henry_j said...

May the wind always be at your back and a beer in your back pocket, you fire-breathing Y Ddraig Goch.