Superballs - Reppin' Windsor Ontario

Hi everyone,

I've already posted around here a few times, but should introduce myself formally.

Name's not really Superballs, and it's a long story how I ended up with the moniker, but it started because someone told me the name of an ICP song, and I thought it was funny and was conveniently never taken on some forums, and due to the fact that I'm sometimes the resident forum angry guy crusading against the entitled and whiny, I tend to have to have some balls here and there..super balls.

I'm not really that angry, though, but firm in my opinions, until convinced that they are wrong...it's doable, but chanllenging.

I've wanted to motovlog for a long time, I love vloggers like eveRide and CycleCruza, but hate seeing Youtube drama between vloggers, and it's always disappointing to see that stuff.

I've been riding for 5 or so years now, love my VFR800 to the point where I've named my fledgling series after it (even if the name is dumb).

My Youtube channel has been a loose collection of randome videos for 7 years now, but has slowly started focusing on a local fireworks display (which is mind blowingly large, one of the largest in the world), theme park on-ride videos and finally, after waiting forever, motovlogging.

I've never been under the illusion that this stuff is easy, but I have to tell you, the challenge of being able to talk to my visor like it's another human being is a huge challenge.

Being topical and interesting is always hard when trying to ride and not crash into things, and I do have a major tendancy to pause and um and uhh, but other than that, I do feel like I'm starting to speak naturally.

I have one video up so far, and because it was my first, it's largely unedited, warts and all, has a typical overdone topic, but I like to tell stories and go off the rails so I do, it was just a fun time for me.

I'm going to upload my second soon, but I'm also encoding it at a different bitrate so that we have a nice basis to compare how we should be encoding stuff for youtube and that should be done tomorrow.

I hope to be a longstanding part of this community, and not bore everyone to tears while doing so.

Thanks everyone.

Yeah if my real name were Superballs, I'd have had way more fun in school.

I've gotten my wife to agree to name or forthcoming child after one of two Star Wars characters though, one for a boy and one for a girl. So they are going to have better adventures in school than I.

Motovlogging is a fun and interesting challenge. I normally can go on and on and on, but it's somehow really hard all of a sudden when you're straddling an engine, amongst traffic and know a camera is rolling.

I'm re-learning Adobe Premiere from the ground up (I typically use it once a year for our Fireworks Display) but having way more fun with it than normal since I am using it over and over again, plus the tedious stuff is being templated.

My vlog intro is kind of lame right now, but what I want to do is firmly in my mind, and it looks like I have to not only learn how to rotoscope, but I'm basically going to have to do it frame by frame, since I won't have the luxury of a greenscreen with what and how I want to roto.

Still, when you do something painstakenly by hand and the results turn out well, it's that much more rewarding, so in the meantime, the lame intro stays.

I am also in the process of busting out a bunch of musical instruments I haven't touched in 6 years, rebuilding my recording studio and I guess I'm going to have to buy a set of drums (I can't stand the results of sequencing outside of electronic music), because I want to start recording my own backup tracks instead of using that generic Youtube Audio Library stuff, even though I have a couple standbys from there that fit well as a background layer, and I know I have plenty more searching to do.

Lol yeah it sure did help me recognize and made me a lot more aware of it.

I'm definitely one to stop talking or just trail off or leave a thought unfinished if something starts to happen in front of me.

I even motovlogged through being sideswiped, though my tone of voice changed pretty drastically during evasive maneuvers.

I was back to talking within a minute thirty though.