Personal Disclaimer: I have a vimeo account littered with mediocre edits... but i'm not a professional, therefore i am excluded from my critique below
haha
Professional surf, snow, and skate sites all seem to have implemented much stricter quality control standards over the videos that get released to the web... it seems many times when i lurk over to a wake site the content is generally riders that the common wakeboarder would consider a "pro", in a mediocre edit with tons, if not all, go pro clips and other generally average footage.
Is it safe to say that this is because of the general "immaturity" of the industry? i.e. the average pro wakeboarder doest have a dedicated filmer with a $5k camera due to the financial limitations that come with sponsorship in a young sport.... or is it that wakeboarders are lazy and put out half a$$ $hit because we as fans accept it?
If a half ass edit makes it up on a surf or skate site there are 100 comments thrashing the site and the edit in a matter of minutes, which in my opinion help promote higher quality edits.... which push the riders to a higher standard... which keep them from being lazy and putting out half a$$ $hit just because they stacked a clip or two.
dont get me wrong... there r dudes doing it right, like slingshot and pweiland, rderome, henshaw, co'shea among several others... but in general lots of crappy footy gets out from some of the best riders in the biz.
okay i've lit the pipe... smoke away