RE: Time for Tea? Ken Block's Gymkhana Five

[pistonchris]

captain ash said:

pistonchris said:

And just makes me think a lot of people could make the same video with that many practice runs.

I am being serious i have seen a lot of pher's videos they have posted and a lot of them of got amazing car control.
With all the practice runs he has and all the times he practices in a month i just do not find it that impressive.

[Mini1275]

Another superb video from Mr Block.

Great entertainment.

[s365]

Not the most impressive of the Gymkhana series and impressive and all but...as has been said, any half decent rally pro could do this bearing in mind his highest WRC finish is what? just inside the top 10?

[anonymous-user]

Amazed its got to six.

Hopefully the last.

[0000]

Handling on those Fiestas still woeful then?

[Tyrewrecker]

Not very impressive. Don't see the point in even posting it.






(Joke)
Great vid.

[PhillipM]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJboP5J-bnY

[Galileo]

I don't know which makes me smile the most. The car control, or the fact that that city must have thousands of eco-friendly enviromental lentilists. All that smoke and noise and general planet-wrecking high octane naughtiness would have had them shaking with rage all the way down to their meat-free sandals.

[vescaegg]

PhillipM said:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJboP5J-bnY

[chrisw1991]

Great video!

Although I do feel some of the clips are a bit random and scrambled together compared to the other videos, probably just me.

[Pistonwot]

Great bit of fun and the filming work is superb, the camera play is pretty top drawer.

[ReedyGT]

Galileo said:

I don't know which makes me smile the most. The car control, or the fact that that city must have thousands of eco-friendly enviromental lentilists. All that smoke and noise and general planet-wrecking high octane naughtiness would have had them shaking with rage all the way down to their meat-free sandals.

[nigelpugh7]

Got to say the sideways jump in mid air does it for me every time, its the best part of the whole video!!

Also wonder why they did not do more donuts etc on the top of the Bridge at the start too??

Seems there is only one clip of donuts on the bridge and thats towards the end in the credits???

[r1ch]

pistonchris said:

I am being serious i have seen a lot of pher's videos they have posted and a lot of them of got amazing car control.
With all the practice runs he has and all the times he practices in a month i just do not find it that impressive.

I agree with you. Plus that car is perfectly set up to do that kind of thing too.

[Garlick]

I could do better than that, what a loser...

I lie of course, but it seems many think this way. Maybe PH should do a video? It seems we have a lot of readers with the required skills.

[nigelpugh7]

dapearson said:

I've never seen so many GoPros!!

Yeah, and I think one of them falls off at 3:37 when he jumps off the barge!!

[hairykrishna]

pistonchris said:

I am being serious i have seen a lot of pher's videos they have posted and a lot of them of got amazing car control.
With all the practice runs he has and all the times he practices in a month i just do not find it that impressive.

Isn't that a bit like saying 'anyone could be a professional snooker player if they had practised snooker for 5 or 6 hours a day for the past decade'. Sort of misses the point.

[double d racing]

Forgive me being a numpty ( was it CG ) but where were all the people...whilst I realise they may have banned them from the streets there doesn't appear to be anybody in balconies etc.........still fantastic though...........what about KB in the Bullitt Mustang ?..........

[vescaegg]

ReedyGT said:

Galileo said:

I don't know which makes me smile the most. The car control, or the fact that that city must have thousands of eco-friendly enviromental lentilists. All that smoke and noise and general planet-wrecking high octane naughtiness would have had them shaking with rage all the way down to their meat-free sandals.

[Greg 172]

pistonchris said:

captain ash said:

pistonchris said:

And just makes me think a lot of people could make the same video with that many practice runs.

I am being serious i have seen a lot of pher's videos they have posted and a lot of them of got amazing car control.
With all the practice runs he has and all the times he practices in a month i just do not find it that impressive.

Based on this rationale lots of PHers could compete in F1.... with enough practice. Or fly stunt planes..... with enough practice. And I'm sure some of them could, but that's not a reason to downplay a skilled performance.

The fact is that everyone who's at the top of their game will have got there through huge amounts of practice. It's just the fact that you can see the evidence of it in this vid.