Croquet on Film

The gates are opened wider than ever for the third annual Croquet Photo Contest on www.CroquetWorld.com

THIS YEAR:

• You’re invited to send in a maximum of FOUR ENTRIES of still photos.
• There’s a contest for SHORT VIDEOS as well, for the first time. The winning videos will be highlighted here, on CroquetOnFilm.
• For the still photos, any croquet-related photographic image is eligible - including snapshots, manipulated images, photo-collages, historical subjects, and even photographs of croquet paintings and other croquet-related artifacts.
• The categories are not pre-set by the judges, but are created as part of the awards process.
• All still photos accepted as eligible will be published - not just the 20 or 25 finalists in the various categories. Similarly, links to all the eligible videos will be published.

Bob Alman writes:

So far, the entries have been more interesting for their variety than their number. At least one club conducted its own LOCAL contest to choose entries to send to our WORLDWIDE contest; and in at least two instances, videos have been created especially for our contest.

SEE THE FULL-LENGTH ANNOUNCEMENT AND CONTEST RULES online at www.CroquetWorld.com.

DEADLINE: July 14, 2008.

SEND YOUR ENTRY BY E-MAIL TO THE CROQUETWORLD EDITOR, BOB ALMAN, AT:
bobalman@aol.com

Remember: Video entries must be first posted on a public website such as YouTube or Google Video (so that all the judges - and everyone else once judging is complete - can see them). Videos are generally too large to accept entries via email so we ask you to use these public video sharing sites. If you are unfamiliar with video posting please see my entry on this site, this Wikipedia article or this help page at Google Video or this one at YouTube.

What the camera saw at the Inter Counties 2008. Southwick and Compton, Eastbourne. Produced by Duncan Hector

This 6 minute video was made when Tim King ran a GC Coaching Day at Letchworth Croquet Club. In this film he explains his jump shot technique and demonstrates the spectacular Barnes Wallis bouncing bomb. Produced by Duncan Hector.

More high speed footage from the CA. This short film (posted at YouTube by Bob Kroeger) …

shows two shots from the CA Highspeed footage - first a double tap followed by a clean shot. This is applicable to golf croquet where you try to clear a ball from a close distance.

Bob Kroeger has recently posted this on YouTube. He says

This clip has a series of single ball shots culled from the CA Highspeed Video session. Real time is followed by slow motion.

This is from the CA Highspeed Footage. It’s an aggressive hoop stroke with no double tap.

Film made available on YouTube by Bob Kroeger.
Bob says on the Nottingham list:

I want to thank the CA for allowing us to post their excellent highspeed footage. I have posted one composite clip that may be of interest (no sound). This is an aggressive hoop stroke that is clean. I would be interested to hear from subscribers whether they like this format of two real time clips followed by three slo-mo clips.