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By: Ryan Verrastro
Huevos 8 DVD Product Review:
With the recent release of Huevos 8ight,
Wes Miller and his crew dropped a bomb on the ATV film
industry with a yield that makes it hard to take any
other video seriously.
Many fans of the ongoing H-Bomb video legacy were worried
that faculty may have shot themselves in the foot with
the back-flipped Huevos 7, leaving nowhere to go from
there. Huevos 8ight puts those concerns to rest with
a buffet of new and interesting features to overload
the senses.
If you were waiting for an all-out feet-flying, altitude-seeking,
health-care revoking freestyle video you will be disappointed.
Instead this film covers all the disciplines of ATV
riding and then some. Huevos 8ight is a well-balanced
ATV adventure that takes you across the country and
globe with the most elite riders the sport has to offer.
Quad riding isn’t all about the freestyle mania
crowding other video’s highlights and Huevos 8ight
recognizes that. Although there aren’t any B-flips
in this latest offering there are plenty man and machine
acrobatics that will instill a need deep inside your
head to go out and hurt yourself. Along with F-style
footage, Wes sheds some light on other mainstays in
the ATV world such as free rides, GNC nationals, cross-country
riding, the Baja 500, ice drifting at high speeds and
mud bogging. Including, as far as I know, the debut
of Super Moto footage in a video. Also in the film are
some less-conventional segments that usually wouldn’t
be found in a quad video. Some of those are extreme
Rhino riding/flying, jacked up puppy-killer trucks having
fun in the mud, an urban assault of quads and crotch-rockets
executed by Suburban Psychos and the Ruff Riders, a
Sturgis ride and a very “interesting” race
in Somerset England.
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Levi
Marana grows wings off the dunes of Glamis
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Chad
Spooner demonstrating what more people should
be doing with Rhinos
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What
happens when Sean O'Callaghan wakes up on the
wrong side of the bed |
The list of pilots: Dana Creech, Ryan
Bemis, Sheldon Riggs, Jeremiah Jones, Doug Eichner,
Jason Luburgh, Cyle Chislock, Tyler Pittman, Brent Spooner,
Chad Spooner, Levy Marana, Mike Cafro, Darrel Patton,
Tyler Moles, Cody Smith, Kory Ellis, Doug Gust, Tim
Farr, Tavis Cain, John Natalie Jr, Joe Byrd, Shane Hitt,
Harold Goodman, Keith Little, Jason Dunkelberger, Dustin
Wimmer, Pat Brown, Giovanni Colon, Jackie Meadows, Mike
Ballew, August Goebel, Pablo Arcienege, Brandon Garcia,
Andrew Buck, Mike Kneebusch, Wes Miller, Ben Vaught,
Caleb Moore, Garrick Lastra, Dustin Nelson, Nic Granlund,
Corey Czajkowski, Kevin Comer, Sean O’Callaghan,
Thierry Sunier, Andrew Heimbuch, Ralph Annunziata, Anthony
Rizzo, Jim Stack, Mike Lucas, Jason Hughes, Daniel Ketterer,
Travis Spader, Matt Tucker, Jaimie Bougher, Myka Carpenter,
Jason Shanas, Joel Sistrunk, Casey Beach, Chris Duncan,
Greg McMullen, David Smith, Clint Adams, Craig Lowery,
Oiste, and the Ruff Riders.
Locations invaded: California, Florida,
Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri,
New Jersey, New York, Nevada, Ohio, Pennsylvania, England
and Mexico.
With a roster of riders that more resembles a hall
of fame checklist and locations that are considered
the holy-lands of the ATV world, Huevos 8ight taps the
best resources of the industry and presents them in
exceptional form.
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One
of the best angle ever used in an ATV video, shot
at Glen Helen
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In this edition of the Huevos series Mr. Miller sets
the benchmark for video rendition. The cinematography
exploited in this video blows away anything previously
released in the industry, EVER! His experience and creativity
show throughout the film with Hollywood-grade transitions,
sick videography angles (like my favorites from the
helicopter in the Glen Helen section) and with what
seems to be a “motion-activated” soundtrack.
This video is truly a pioneering endeavor in film quality
that, in the future, will make it difficult to fork
over cash for anything else on a lesser level.
In my opinion Huevos 8eight isn’t my favorite
in the series lineup with regards to content. I didn’t
appreciate the trucks and the ride in Sturgis. Off-roading
in trucks and ATV burnouts on pavement are daily occurrences
for this writer and served little interest for me on
the big screen. I should say though that I live in what
would be considered a village to anyone who resides
in a major city, so my question is how did the Bomb
Squad get away with writing their names with rubber
on the roads of NYC? But in it’s defense I can’t
say I remember the last time my friends and I took a
supped-up Rhino and drove it off a ramp at forty miles
an hour. I guess the film’s abstract variety will
appeal to everyone differently.
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Sheldon
Riggs stretching his leg during a Bomb Squad session
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Huevos 8ight doesn’t fall short when it comes
to awesome quad action that you wouldn’t usually
see if not in a video, or ever for that matter. Although
I wish it didn’t stray as far away from quads
as it sometimes did, I think it’s a great vid
and after viewing it for yourself I think you’ll
find it more than earns its worthiness amongst others
in your collection.
Pros: Amazing never before seen cinematography,
great locations and all-star riders packed into a sampling
of diverse situations
Cons: You’re not in the video,
limelight on hill-billies with 4x4s and potbellies with
Harleys.
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