Rocky Trail Entertainment

Dec

2016

Superflow Enduro Championships

This year saw the first Superflow Enduro Championships. They were held at Ourimbah MTB track on the Central Coast of NSW. Unfortuneatle it came up against the opening weekend of Thredbo MTB trails which is always a favourite with the MTB crew. That said it was still a respectable turnout

Ourimbah is an old favourite and it seems that it is still no problem to find new shots and angles there. We have shot the downhill, and the xc series there over the last 4 years or so and the Enduro series incorporates a little bit of both. It was a great day for shooting as the sun kept itself hidden away behind the clouds for most of the day. This means that we can use flashes work a lot less and we can control the light to a much greater degree.

There was a couple of new faces on the podium at the end of the day. It was great to see Harrison Dobrowolski step up into the male elites and finish up second for the day. You can check out a bit more of this talented young gun here.

Below are a few of my images from the day.

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: Racers at the Fox Cambelbak Superflow Championships hosted by Rocky Trail Entertainment at Ourimbah on the NSW Central Coast

: Rider briefing

: Heading out to the trails

: Blake Nielsen at the Fox Cambelbak Superflow Championships hosted by Rocky Trail Entertainment at Ourimbah on the NSW Central Coast

: Racing at the Fox Cambelbak Superflow Championships hosted by Rocky Trail Entertainment at Ourimbah on the NSW Central Coast

: Hitting the berms

: Racing at the Fox Cambelbak Superflow Championships hosted by Rocky Trail Entertainment at Ourimbah on the NSW Central Coast

: Male elite podium at the Superflow Enduro

: The Fox and Rocky Trail Entertainment crew

Mar

2016

Superflow: Ourimbah

The first round of Rocky Trail Entertainment’s Superflow Gravity Enduro took off last weekend at Ourimbah. There was a great turnout for it with almost 200 riders in the pack.

I was up there under the guise of Outer Image again to getcompetitor shots for all involved. Gil was away for the weekend so in his absence I called in the talents of Jaime Black to give me a hand. Jamie settled in on the downhill track and I moved to cover the all-mountain trail. Having shot at Ourimbah so many times before I was wondering where I might find a new angle but there is always going to be a spot or angle out there. I soon found a nice rock section where people are jumping over and tested a couple of different angles on it until I found one I liked .

: The first round of the 2016 Superflow Enduro series took place at Ourimbah on the Central Coast

: Collecting the numbers and practicing using the race tags

: Rider Briefing

: All sorts of Larrikens competing in the race. 🙂

: The first round of the 2016 Superflow Enduro series took place at Ourimbah on the Central Coast

: The first round of the 2016 Superflow Enduro series took place at Ourimbah on the Central Coast

: The first round of the 2016 Superflow Enduro series took place at Ourimbah on the Central Coast

: The first round of the 2016 Superflow Enduro series took place at Ourimbah on the Central Coast

: The first round of the 2016 Superflow Enduro series took place at Ourimbah on the Central Coast

: The first round of the 2016 Superflow Enduro series took place at Ourimbah on the Central Coast

: The first round of the 2016 Superflow Enduro series took place at Ourimbah on the Central Coast

: The first round of the 2016 Superflow Enduro series took place at Ourimbah on the Central Coast

: Male Elite Podium

: Female Elite podium

Jan

2015

Gravity Enduro Rnd 1: Killingworth

And so it begins again, race season…

Rocky Trail Entertainment’s Rollercoaster series kicked off on a scorcher of a day. The expectant temperature was 35C but the temperature readings on some Garmin GPS units read up to 44C. Plus it was one of those days when the sun just seemed brutal and unforgiving. It certainly had me looking for shade whenever I set up for a new shot.

The course, at Killingworth near Newcastle, is new on the circuit but an old track remembered by those who had been riding for a bit. Rocky Trail had set the race to run over 3 tracks, the Fox trail, the BH trail and the Gloryfy trail. For the sake of trying to ensure we got photos of everyone Gil and I took a track each and spent the day on it. Unfortunately this meant that we had to miss out on the Gloryfy trail, but then we need to save something for next time.

Already looking forward to the next round at Del Rio

Nov

2013

King’s School MTB Classic

King’s School at Parramatta was the venue for last weekend’s mountain bike race that I was covering with OuterImage. It was on a short course of around 4km’s and a short race of 2 hours but this just meant that the pace was stepped up and laps were knocked out at high speed. The short course also meant there was a constant stream of people coming by once the field had spread out a bit, everyone from the head down and go hards to the just out for a few laps and a giggle with my kid type of people.

The temperature warmed up through the day and started to push up into the 30’s adding to another test of endurance for the riders. Shooting down in the shade of the trees things were a bit cooler. Being busy like that and the short time meant that it was all over before I knew it.

We tried a few different things this race including a series of black and whites and Gil setting-up some strobes to get a set of portraits from before and after the race.

To finish off the day Cadel Evans and Jack Haig, two of Australia’s cycling superstars, were present to give out the trophies and also to cut the ribbon officially opening the track.