Australians out to convert shy Kiwis to video
"Ego is not a dirty word" sang the Australian group Skyhooks back in the seventies and Australian part-time New Zealander Bill Adams is working on converting Kiwis to a similar philosophy.
"Video Bill" runs Track Video and Photos on Mount Ruapehu's Whakapapa and Turoa ski fields. He has wife Kim and mates Dean, Steve and Dan to help him.
The crew set about to capture on video Ruapehu skiers doing turns so that they can see themselves ski. Bill says Kiwis have been a bit shy about watching themselves
on video but that many are switching on to the advantages. He promotes the service by saying a video is a "fun memento of your skiing holiday" and that it "improves your skiing by visual correction". "You can be told a thousand times what you're doing wrong but by seeing your skiing
on playback you can easily pick up and then fix your ski faults," says Bill. Also, he says: "wouldn't you like a record of your kid's first time on skis, and learning to ski?" "It's exciting to be able to look back in time," he says. Bill, with the help of Dan Greenwood, runs Track Video on the Turoa side of Ruapehu with Kim Adams taking
the still photographs. She takes shots o f races, tour groups and ski academies. Steve Lawler looks after the Whakapapa videos and Dean Edkins the photos with him. Regular video work for the team is with a number of ski tours, where they video a group at breakfast, on their way to the ski field and then on the slopes. They also work with
the ski school ski weeks, to help with instruction. Bill and Kim have been coming to Ruapehu for the last six ski seasons, which is why they could be called part time New Zealanders. They spend the winter in Ohakune and the summer is Sydney. By now Bill is well known round the area, for his Queue-side saies pitches and genuine
Aussi greetings, for his regular spots on Ski FM and for being almost anywhere round town that's worth looking at through a lens. This year he and his mates have taken t o wearing 'Akubra' hats, (Crocodile Dundee sort of style) which, along with their Australian ways and cameras swinging, makes them easy to spot on the ski fields.
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