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Wingsuit Flights From Table Mountain To Camps Bay

2025-04-11T13:12:00.009+02:00

Johannes Klauser and Mathias Neuherz are Austrian BASE jumpers who recently published a wingsuit flight from Table Mountain to Camps Bay beach. If you live in Cape Town, you'll know these scenes well. Two videos were made, one from their point-of-view and another zoomed in from the top of Table Mountain. Mathias said in his video description, "We had to fly a really high glide ratio to make it to beach. I haven't been so nervous before a jump for a while." They did two other wingsuit jumps off Table Mountain, a sunset flight to Camps Bay and another towards Cape Town.

POV:

Outside View:

Sunset Flight:

Table Mountain towards Cape Town's CBD:

How To Solve A Rubik's Cube

2023-02-07T16:13:00.003+02:00

I learnt how to solve the Rubik's Cube in 2022, just a small personal goal as I found the puzzle intriguing. I didn't know what I was in for, especially after seeing videos online that claim it can be solved with a single move. After practice and getting familiar with the cube, I've finally memorised the algorithms and can now solve it in under 2 mins. It's challenging to learn, but great when you get it.

I found many of the videos online quite long-winded, so I created a document of each step to solve the Rubik's Cube that can be printed and followed, accompanied by this video for visual reference of the moves and algorithms, which I think is an easier way to learn how to solve it.

Find my notes here: How To Solve The Rubik's Cube and have fun learning the 8 steps.

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Gymkhana 2022 With Travis Pastrana in Florida

2022-12-08T15:32:00.000+02:00

Wow! These Gymkhana videos always amaze, now Travis Pastrana grinds a rail like a skateboard and jumps over a helicopter with his 862 horsepower Subaru Wagon. Speeds up to 165MPH were reached for the jumps. Enjoy 10 minutes of epic driving and the beautiful sound of this Subaru.

See previous Gymkhana videos:

Fabio Wibmer's Video Game Film Grand Theft Bike

2022-11-09T09:40:00.000+02:00

RedBull's Austrian trials bike rider Fabio Wibmer has just released his latest video, combining amazing bicycle skills and tricks with Grand Theft Auto style gamification. The film took 50 days to shoot and apparently the bunny hop from bench to bench with a tailwhip exit was the hardest trick that took the most attempts. It's thoroughly entertaining and an extremely brilliantly done video.

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Flying on Skis - Epic RedBull Speedriding Video

2021-04-25T18:12:00.010+02:00

It is highly recommended that you watch this video with headphones or at a time when you can crank the sound, it's not loud music, but rather for the intensity of the action. This one is remarkable, 28 year old Valentin Delluc flies through a French ski resort called Avorias. Grinding the ski lift cables, doing rolls, blackflips, scraping rooftops, pulling the kite through a tunnel, it is just beautiful to watch.

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Gymkhana 2020 - Travis Pastrana in a Subaru

2020-12-09T21:05:00.025+02:00

If you've enjoyed any of Ken Block's previous gymkhana videos, you'll enjoy this one too. This time instead of the Ford, Travis Pastrana is driving a Subaru WRX STI packing 862hp. The video was recorded in his home town and it's the same brilliant camera angles and action packed driving as always, with some huge and fast jumps. Travis certainly looks a bucket load more tense than Ken while driving, but he did drop a tyre of the edge and drive away. High speed, precision, thumbs up!

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Five Royal Caribbean Cruise Ships Compilation Video

2020-06-27T17:49:00.000+02:00

Please click the video headline and watch it on YouTube, so you can use the timeline chapters.

This is a Royal Caribbean cruise compilation combining five cruises together in one video. This is by far the most ambitious video I have edited to date, but after our 2020 Royal Caribbean cruise from Barcelona to Copenhagen was cancelled, I started going through our video footage from previous cruises and decided to start pulling out all the clips that aren't included in our shorter cruise videos, all those extended scenes that had to be cut short can now be seen, and many hours later the footage now has a place to live on YouTube, which makes me very happy, even though it's almost an hour long.

Please use the chapeters in the timeline, by watching this video on YouTube rather than this website, to navigate to certain Royal Caribbean cruise ships, cities or cruise entertainment highlights.

We pondered over "five cruises in five years", because 2014 to 2019 is actually six years if you count 2014 as 1, but if you minus 5 years from 2019, you get to 2014... 5 year plan successfully completed either way :)

Royal Caribbean cruise summary:

Liberty of the Seas
Barcelona, Marseille, MOnte Carlo, Pisa, Rome, Naples

Vision of the Seas
Venice, Kotor, Corfu, Athens, Mykonos, Kefalonia

Quantum of the Seas
Shanghai, Sakaiminato, Fukuoka, Kumamoto

Symphony of the Seas
Naples, Barcelona, Palma de Mallorca, Marseille, Florence

Serenade of the Seas
Stockholm, St. Petersburg, Helsinki, Tallinn, Visby

As Royal Caribbean say, I guess we are 'loyal to royal', We worked hard, saved hard and travelled hard, which is not that easy using South African currency, we're both very grateful for these experiences and love cruising, as we get to see multiple places in one overseas trip. Cruising is also pretty stress free, if you get the drinks package, everything is basically bottomless onboard in terms of food and drink, plus the only thing you need to carry is a small plastic card (Seapass card), no wallet, no cell phone and everything you need is around you.

The general vibe onboard is a safe space, so swimming and leaving the camera and bag on the lounger is no sweat and people are generatlly awesome - you meet people from all over the world and we've met South Africans on every cruise. Hopefully one day, the world and travel industry will return to normal.

Shorter cruise videos of this compilation per ship:

Thanks for reading this far :)

YouTube Chapters Is A Great New Feature

2020-06-19T13:16:00.000+02:00

YouTube started testing Chapters earlier in 2020 and on the 28th of May YouTube confirmed Chapters are here to stay and available to all who upload videos to the platform. I missed the announcement and found Chapters in a video last week, which led me to investigate further.

0:00 We heard you and added Video Chapters.
0:30 You liked it.
1:00 Now it's official: Video Chapters are here to stay.
1:30 Creators, try Chapters by adding timestamps starting at 0:00 to your video description. Viewers, scrub to find exactly what you’re looking for.
2:00 Enjoy! pic.twitter.com/bIHGsGVmyW
— YouTube (@YouTube) May 28, 2020

Chapters is a fantastic new feature that will benefit both content creators and viewers, by allowing people to jump ahead to parts in the video straight from the timeline. This feature will likely be best suited to longer videos for things like recipes, tutorials, news, travel or documentary videos.

Applying Chapters to your videos is easy, all you have to do is add timestamps to the video description, starting at 0:00, each chapter should be 10 seconds long (9 seconds worked for me) and you should have atleast three chapters listed in ascending order.

Here is what YouTube Chapters looks like and how to apply them:

This is fully customisable

When I searched on mobile for YouTube chapters, they seem to be indexed on the Google results page and allow people to deep-link into a chapter of the video straight from the search result page. The timestamps become links in the video description once saved. This makes me think that Chapters might be used as a ranking signal in the near future - we all know how mobile usage and video consumption is increasing year-on-year, so I predict Chapters may play a role in video Search Engine Optimisation. I love the feature, although I find it a bit strange that Chapters doesn't seem to work when videos are embedded off YouTube.

See it in action on my How To Make Pineapple Beer or Five Royal Caribbean Cruises videos.

Mind-Blowing 70 Step Basketball Trickshot

2020-05-28T20:27:00.000+02:00

This is one of the best Rube Goldberg machines I have ever seen. Trickshot expert (since 2014) Cree took one month to build this at his home, and another month to get it to work - that is a bucket load of dedication for the shot. The video was filmed in one take without any cuts or edits. I think it's incredibly smooth, especially with the aerial and fast moving shots of the course. Very fun to watch.

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How To Make Pineapple Beer

2020-05-26T17:27:00.001+02:00

This is a few weeks late with level 3 lockdown restrictions announced this week, allowing the sale of alcohol from 1 June in South Africa, but I wanted to document this anyway as it tasted pretty good and it's my first attempt speaking to the camera. When my booz started depleting during lockdown, I went on YouTube to learn how to brew my own 'beer', this is obviously after I had conquered banana bread and all the other lockdown must-dos. I took what I thought were the best tips from multiple people and created my own recipe. Seven days later, the end result was fantastic. So much so, that we immediately started the next batch, the very next day. I'm no expert, but this recipe and method worked, plus it definitely had a kick, so it's worth trying, even if just to learn about brewing basics.

Pineapple beer making has increased massively in South Africa since lockdown restrictions banned the sale of alcohol. After the first batch of pineapple beer, we replaced the pineapples with apples and raisins with the exact same method and it produced a very pleasing cider drink.

The recipe:

4x pineapples (or apples and raisins for cider)
2kgs of brown sugar
2x 10g sachets of instant/brewers yeast
23-24L of water

The method:

Clean everything (scrub the pineapples with a brush)
Chop pineapples with skins and place in the brewing vessle
Pour sugar into the brewing vessle
Fill with warm water - only half way so you can dissolve the sugar (stir)
Fill the rest of the brewing vessle with cold water
You want the overall temperature of your mixture to be about 26 degrees celcius
Add both sachets of yeast (if the water is too hot, you will kill the yeast and prevent fermentation)
Stir well and seal the container, leave it alone for two days
Thereafter stir it once a day for five days
On day seven, you're ready, strain the mixture into another container to remove the pineapple chunks and then bottle - you can drink it immediately.

DIY airlock

The airlock is essential, I read you can use a glove, but it might give your mixture a rubbery taste, I tried this initially and it popped off my container, so I quickly made the airlock, details in the video.

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Greyton and Elgin New Year Summer Holiday

2020-02-22T22:38:00.002+02:00

For our December holiday we decided to break away from the norm and spend 4 nights on our own in the country. We chose Elgin and Greyton as our destinations for their proximity to Cape Town, but mostly for their small town, good wine and good vibes feel. Quality surroundings with tranquility.

We visited the Elgin Railway Market, which was nice and over New Years we stayed 8kms outside of Greyton at Oewerzicht, which was amazing and is perfectly suited to couples, groups and families.

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Danny MacAskill's Gymnasium

2020-01-08T08:29:00.000+02:00

Danny MacAskill has released his first video of 2020, he gets creative on his BMX in a personalised gymnasium playground, to show that staying in shape doesn't have to be daunting. Respect good sir!

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Ken Block’s Climbkhana in China

2020-01-07T19:40:00.000+02:00

The legend, Ken Block, is back with his gymkhana series, but this time climbing the most dangerous road in China, Tianmen Mountain. Not his usual hatcback, this time he is seated in a 914 horsepower Ford F-150 and although the road is narrow, he still manages to entertain in true Ken Block style.

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Killarney Motorbike Track Day in Cape Town

2019-11-27T18:07:00.000+02:00

Finally! After all these years, I've ridden a race track on my weekly commute. The freedom to ride without worrying about busses, potholes or oil spills on the road. I think two things - I'm glad to have thoroughly enjoyed it slightly past the usual comfort zone and lived to tell the story, and also because it's pretty much as others say, you learn from it and come out a more knowledgable rider.

The groups are fast, medium and slow - all first timers go in the slow group (only one with lessons).

4x 20 minute track sessions. Between each session, there is an advanced driving school lesson.
Groups are paced at different times in 20 minute per hour intervals, so it's like clockwork.
Overtaking is restricted to straights and the outside of corners, so you can hug the inside in peace.

Look for, "Motorcycle Track School": wpmc.co.za/upcoming-events

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Franschhoek Wine Tram

2019-11-24T18:38:00.000+02:00

As locals, it was lekker to experience the Wine Tram in Franschhoek on our minibreak. Along the way we visited Rickety Bridge, Moreson, Eikehof, Paserene and Le Lude the next day. We love Franschhoek, go there often and really enjoyed our first wine tram, bus and tractor rides.

Our route: https://winetram.co.za/pink-line-4-2

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Baltic Cruise on Royal Caribbean in Summer 2019

2019-08-17T22:14:00.000+02:00

Decided to venture far north this time to Scandinavia, we sailed from Stockholm, Sweden to Russia onboard Royal Caribbean's Serenade of the Seas. We spent two nights in port at St Petersburg before heading to Helsinki, Finland and then onto Tallinn, Estonia. The final stop was Visby, Gotland, whereafter we spent two nights in Stockholm. Days stretched to 11pm with sunlight, it was amazing.

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Google Maps Street View Miniatur Wunderland

2019-03-06T19:43:00.001+02:00

Google went inside the largest model railway exhibit in the world based in Hamburg, Germany to create a street view version of Miniatur Wunderland. It has over 15km of railway track and 263 000 figures at present, now you can navigate some scenes online. Nice one Google Maps.

See the specs of Miniatur Wunderland.

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Red Bull Base Jump the Drakensberg South Africa

2019-03-01T21:56:00.000+02:00

The Redbull Airforce wingsuit team recently visited the Drakensberg mountain range in Lesothu, South Africa. The video is a documentary style, taking you on the epic journey of their time in SA.

Barrier of Spears

Well done to Andrew Kirkby and the Iconic team.

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Symphony Of The Seas - World's Biggest Cruise Ship

2018-09-25T20:36:00.000+02:00

We embarked Royal Caribbean's Symphony of the Seas in Rome and set-off on a 7 day cruise in the Mediterranean. We traveled to Italy, Spain and France - visiting: Naples and the island of Capri, Barcelona, Palma de Mallorca, Marseille and finally Florence.

This is not only the biggest cruise ship in the world at present, but also has the highest diving platform and dry slide at sea. She is new, having had her maiden voyage on the 7th of April 2018. The ship is divided into seven neighborhoods, one being Central Park which has over 20 000 live plants and trees. It takes 2200 crew members in addition to it's 5518 passengers (up to 6680 passengers at double occupancy). It cost $1.35 billion to build, has 18 decks and is 72.5m high.

This is how I made the video intro.

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Netflix - No Installation Required

2018-08-07T20:21:00.000+02:00

A funny Netflix ad featuring local comedian Jason Goliath as an installation technician, takes the piss out of DSTV's laborious process for connection. The ad launched shortly after MultiChoice announced their disapproval of Netflix not being regulated like other TV stations in South Africa.

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Mercedes-Benz - Chris Returns To Chapman's Peak

2018-06-14T20:51:00.000+02:00

An incredible piece of long-form branded content from Mercedez-Benz - telling the remarkable story of Christopher White's return to Chapman's Peak after his crash in 1988. They rewrite it to introduce the Mercedes Benz S-Class with autonomous driving. Five minutes entertained, high five!

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Epic Paragliding Video - Cape Town Scenes

2017-11-25T20:50:00.000+02:00

A beautifully crafted video that includes some local scenery in Cape Town. Incredibly skilled paragliding pilot, Jean-Baptiste Chandelier shows low flying maneuvers and amazing scenery.

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Ducati Panigale V4 Releases and Hits The Track

2017-11-09T21:55:00.000+02:00

The new, superbike benchmark setting Ducati Panigale V4 is here! It comes in the V4, V4 S and V4 Speciale. Looking at the Ducati website, it seems the only difference between them is 1kg, a few KWs/HP, colours and price - ranging from R280k, right up to R650k!

Its 1103 cm3 displacement produces a whopping 214 Horse Power (Speciale 226 HP) and is set to be the boss of super sports bikes. Ducati says, "It marks a new and important chapter in Ducati's history, a "symphony"of performance and emotions that's 100% Italian."

Enjoy it's first lap around Mugello in the video above and here are some pics from these guys:

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Meet Andy - Our Adopted Dog From The SPCA

2017-10-16T21:11:00.001+02:00

On the 11th of March 2017, we adopted Shilo from the SPCA at a guestimated 6 months old. Shilo being roughly 6 months old when we met him had spent half his life at the SPCA animal shelter. He was labeled a wirehair terrier cross. Some vets think he's mixed with a white shepherd and I'd say his temperament matches. Shilo was renamed Andy and is now an integral part of our family.

This video is to document his growth from adoption to the even more adored 1 year old Andy.

We really respect all the hard work the SPCA, and all other dog rescue non-profits do for beautiful dogs and animals without a home. Welcome to our lives Andy, part 2 in the making...

Cruise From China Around Japan - Royal Caribbean

2017-10-06T22:58:00.000+02:00

We boarded a cruise from Shanghai, China. Sailed the next 6 days on a remarkable experience around the south west coast of Japan to Sakaiminato, Fakoaka and Kumamoto on Royal Caribbean's Quantum of the Seas. A technologically unique cruise ship with the world's highest view point at sea, skydiving and robotic barmen. After the cruise we spent one night in central Shanghai.

Checkout my other amateur cruise videos:

Vision of the Seas - Italy, Greece: https://youtu.be/wS-X8sAPXHM

Symphony of the Seas - Italy, Spain and France: https://youtu.be/AWlKDxrLObg