Product Description

TWITCH V contains two videos for the price of one, TWITCH V, and the original TWITCH. TWITCH V won the Best Professional category at the 2005 National Paddling Film Festival. Highlights include Tao's run of the 350' Lacy Falls in Canada that appeared on NBC's Jeep World of Adventure Sports. There are many first descents of huge waterfalls in the US (Alaska, Washington), Canada, and Argentina. Also, TWITCH V introduces Wake Boating, which is playboating in the breaking wave formed by two wake boats driving side by side.

The first TWITCH video started it all. Tao's first world record run of the 81' Cascada Tomata in Veracruz as well as Big Timber Creek in Montana, playboating under the tubes at the Upper Gauley Dam, and lots of other footage from Mexico, US, and Canada.

There is also a documentary on Tao Berman by Omid Amjadi called Fearless, that helps you understand Tao better.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #99060 in DVD
• Brand: VAS
• Released on: 1999-04-01
• Formats: AC-3, Color, Full Screen, NTSC
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 34 minutes

Paddler Magazine, November/December, 1999
Get ready to grip your remote as tightly as featured paddlers Tao Berman, marco Colella, Gavin Murdoch, and Ben Selznick grip their paddles. Sub-titled "Just another (sic) flick," TWITCH reveals an enormous itch to drop vertical. Unique footage includes New River Gorge base jumping and painful-to-watch, forced-to-bail-mid-descent snow kayaking in Montana. These boys rallied all over North America and demonstrate the importance of everything from clearing a boof-move on Montana's Big Timber Creek to smoothly hucking a "Vertigo" end-to-end on Canada's Ottawa River. Like themovie's star paddles, the videographer's style is on the edge, accentuating one drop so well in MTV-esque, slo-mo black-and-white that it will surely cause white knuckles to hit the rewind button. Putting first descents and possible world records aside, the crew puts in some time flat cartwheelin' below the Summersville Dam. The ante is still high, however, due to the powerful releases spraying over the tips of these adrenaline-raged, end-swapping boaters (Twitchers?). It's hard to imagine what's next after watching TWITCH, but one thing's certain: it's easier to drop cash into owning a copy than it is to drop anything these guys did.

From the Actor
I always say that each TWITCH video is my last. Well, I've said it five times now. These guys just keep finding and running stuff that makes my jaw drop. I won't make another TWITCH video if I don't think it will be as good or better than the last TWITCH video. If you like waterfall kayaking, I think you'll agree that TWITCH V is incredible.

About the Actor
Eric Link, TWITCH video producer, has made five TWITCH videos available on DVD. Two TWITCHes (contains two videos), TWITCH IV, and TWITCH V (contains two videos). He also produced "Staying Alive", which is a Swiftwater Rescue Techniques instructional video sponsored and used by Rescue 3 International.

Customer Reviews

You get what it advertises!
I have seen all of the 5 twitch films so far.
I hope to see many more! Everyone has been enjoyable, surprising and scary!
I have read what 'Brian Kerecz' tells us, and cannot disagree more.

It is billed as an 'extreme kayaking video', and it is.
Even my (mild) paddling looks like an "MTV-like foolish descent..." to non-participants!

The paddlers in this video run huge waterfalls, in remote locations.
How do they find them all?

They are, among others, testing the limits of whitewater kayaking. The footage is incredible, well filmed and well edited. The music is good.

The story is excellent, cutting to the kayakers views on various falls (Ben Stokesbury explaining why he got a fall in Argentina wrong, again Ben explaining why Tao Berman running a huge volume fall in the NW was so significant...). The 'fearless documentary' is a nice insight into someone who kayaks rivers far more extreme than I would ever consider, but it is great to hear why and how he does it.

Overall, the film is easy to watch, full of variety (for an extreme whitewater huckfest - don't expect sheakspear in here) with great input from the paddlers.

I have watched this film (and the others) over and over again, in fact, probably again in a few minutes! If you are a whitewater paddler, interested in 'meeting and seeing' the people that paddle the drops that you only think about, and gaining an insight into how they think and have ing a great 32 minutes, then you could do little wrong in buying this DVD!

Go big or go find something else to watch
The Twitch series of whitewater kayaking videos are known for being jam-packed with fast-paced, in-your-face whitewater action. The latest in the series, Twitch V, will certainly not disappoint on that front. Huge waterfalls and gnarly rapids are the cornerstone of this well-produced ride through whitewater's outer limits.
However, Twitch V steps into some uncharted territory for this series and explores deeper, more personal reflections from many of the kayakers. If you've always wondered what makes people risk their lives to push the boundries of their sport forward, this video is certainly worth buying. I've watched a ton of ski, snowboard, kayak and mountain biking videos that focus on these most extreme athletes but always come away feeling like I want a greater appreciation for why they do it. Twitch V definitely satisfies that curiosity. After watching it I really felt like I had some appreciation for why people feel the need to push themselves to their limits.
If your looking for an instructional video, look elsewhere - this one will show you what only the best and most accomplished in the sport are doing, but that sure makes for quality entertainment!

TWITCH
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Cool video to see over and over

the added twitch 1 video is very good as well