Adrenaline Hot Tub.

Actions sports, the web, Kelly Slater, Steve Caballero, and where to find it all.

On 01.25.12, In Adrenaline Talks, Skateboarding, Skiing, Snowboarding, Surfing, Wakeboarding, Windsurfing, By AdrenalineHotTub

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The world of action sports is making big moves online. The announcement of four new action sport channels on YouTube last week featuring Kelly Slater, Tony Hawk, and Shawn White, to name a few, promises our favorite athletes all the time. Even better, it is just the tip of the iceberg.

Continuous streaming video platform Redux, makes it easy to flip through videos from all over the web by genre in playlists. Redux offers a whopping 50 action sport channels ranging from everything from watersports, BMX, Rad Collector, to skydiving and base jumping. Once you pick your ‘cup of tea’ you sit back and enjoy a custom curated list of vids. You can choose next at anytime and switch channels with a swift click. I have gotten lost on the Adrenaline channels for hours, it will suck you in.

Brand new product by Chill.com let’s you follow your favorite action athletes Facebook feeds of videos. Us enthusiasts stick together so you can probably follow your friends as well to get the best in big wave, big air, and best trick.

To top it all off, our favorite athletes are getting more tech savvy. My Instagram feed is filled with travel stories of Steve Cab, Jossi Wells, and the GoPro film crew that captures the best in action sports. Facebook feeds are littered with edits and regular tweets by surf, skate, and snow’s fame keep us all up to date.

Awww, I love it when a good marriage works. We can only hope action sports and tech stay together for the kids.

Action sports and technology; these are a few of my favorite things

On 01.01.12, In Adrenaline Talks, By AdrenalineHotTub

Hello again adrenaline junkies,

I have not forgotten about you. I just got a little distracted by technology and economic theory. I am not being pompous. Although I do admit I enjoy The Economist. I also enjoy action sports and adrenaline rushes… just a little bit more.

So on this note, I am catching you up on the new technology that combines the two glorious rushes of action sports and innovation.

I start by introducing industry famed kiteboarding photo and videographer, Bryan Elkus’s new technology project: Sessionalert.com.

SessionAlert is an app to alert friends and fellow riders on conditions while making a one stop app for organization for riding together (to weed out the all day text conversations). Here is what Bryan and his technical co-founder have cooked up so far. For comments, head to Bryan’s website at: bryanelkus.com

Next up, Gary Benet of Maui with BestSessionEver. An app to help you track progression, share sessions with friends, as well as all your best surf, skate, snow, kite, and other adrenaline media.

The app is just getting started but is an exciting step forward to bringing technology into our sports. I am excited to have been given some photo realestate as an ambassador. Thanks Gary! I am stoked to play around with the app.

Share on folks… and get your fix today.

-Jenna

Technical Windsurfing the Columbia Gorge: Bryan Metcalf-Perez

On 11.26.11, In Windsurfing, By AdrenalineHotTub

This video was sent to me by famed Gorge windsurfer, Bryan Metcalf-Perez. He is the most technical young windsurfer you will ever see. His note to me, ‘blog me.’

Love it Bryan.

- Jenna

Bryan Metcalf-Perez Oregon Summer 2011 from Bryan Metcalf-Perez on Vimeo.

Liquid Force kiteboarder, Julien Fillion’s french Canadian band

On 11.18.11, In Adrenaline Talks, By AdrenalineHotTub

Earlier this week I heard from my friend Julien Fillion, a fellow Canadian kiteboarder, regarding his music. I am always blown away by his ability to be one of kiteboarding’s ‘gnarliest’ wave riders, yet at the same time a contemporary musician with the incredible ability to capture our deepest of emotions. I caught up with Julien for a few questions about the new video and influences.

Black Swan inspired? Everybody asks this. It’s funny, maybe because of the darkness of the our video. I had the vision of this music video about a year ago (before I even watched the Black Swan). In Montreal, being the promise land of contemporary dancing, I frequently go see dance shows.

What inspired this album? I’ve been doing music since I was 12 years old. Although, no one really knew about it. I would always hide to play. Since I didn’t play any popular covers, I thought that nobody could relate to my playing and I would annoy people. Three years ago, my good friend Sheldon heard me play and told me it sounded really good and I should really pursuit this. So I started writing and I finished the 30 something songs that I’d started. I then teamed up with one of Montreal most notorious music producer Toby Gendron, and together with the band we recorded “Nowhere is Now Here“. The album is a gathering of several of my thoughts from the past 3 years.

Does kiteboarding influence your music? Of course it does! Without kiteboarding, I wouldn’t travel the world the way I do, and I wouldn’t share all those amazing experiences with all my travel buddies. For example, the song entitle Tsunami was inspired by my feeling of big wave surfing, especially the first time I standup paddle boarded Peahi (Jaws) un assisted.

What 5 songs are repeating on your Ipod as we speak? I rarely listen to only 1 song, but I will listen to the same album for months at time. I would say the last 5 albums would be : Clara Furey – Live, Karkwa – Chemin de vere, Pearl Jam – Vitality, Winter sleep – 2003, and this week I started Crooked Fingers – Breaks in the Armor

THE SOUND
Julien Fillion’s vision and the musicians’ collective came together under veteran producer Toby Gendron’s masterful direction. Gendron gave the collective the room it needed to play, the guidance not to get lost, and the setting to have fun in his notoriously relaxed yet professional Montreal studio, the Gypsy room. All songs are at once melodically ethereal, sometimes almost explosive, and always shifting slightly as they progress, unpredictably, along with Julien’s acoustic guitar. The end-experience: a passionate, honest, masterful, playful yet intense debut album with a complexity of musical and lyrical layers that make you want to listen over and over again. In terms of sound, for fans of Jeff Buckley. Arcade Fire. And Radiohead in the early days.

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