New Steadicam Workshop at The Tiffin factory!

[michael stevenson]

Gentlemen,

Peter Abraham of The Steadicam Workshops is holding another 2-Day seminar which is being hosted by Frank Rush of The Tiffen Company located in Glendale California on March 25 & 26, 2006. This time there is plenty of time to make your travel arrangements and get your reservations in for this once in a lifetime experience.

If you're serious about learning how to fly a professional rig or you would just like to get your hands on one this is the real deal. Frank Rush is the Steadicam division representitive you will want to talk to about purchasing a rig or any of the other great Steadicam gear that is available.

The cost of the Two day Seminar to be held on a Saturday and Sunday is $500.00. For myself it was definately worth every penny. Look at it this way you could rent a Steadicam Flyer for $250.00 a day without instruction. At the workshop you will have the use of the flyer for the day PLUS Peter's expert training. You have to admit that is a great deal!

Anyone interested can Email Peter at:  Peter@TheSteadicamWorkshops.com. And trust me, you will love every minute of this 2-day seminar. 99% of all Pro Ops have attended certified workshops. So If you want to come to Hollywood and attend a professional Steadicam Training seminar and find out about all the other great tools Tiffen has to improve your productions please Email Peter as soon as possible.

Michael 

[michael stevenson]

If anyone is interested in this workshop please don't hesitate to reply here and I will do my best to answer your questions.

Michael

[Alan Dague-Greene]

I'll be there. I got a hotel within walking distance of the Tiffen shop, so I will eat, breathe, and sleep Steadicam for two days. As if I don't already!

[michael stevenson]

Great! I am looking forward to meeting you.

[michael stevenson]

Well, Alan and I had a great time at the latest Steadicam workshop taught by Peter Abraham at the Tiffen factory this weekend. I'll post more pics later.

[michael stevenson]

Here's some more cool pics at the workshop! The good-looking red head is Alan Dague-Greene. A really great guy who took to the pro rig like a duck to water!

[michael stevenson]

Yours truely and Alan.

[Charles King]

Some really nice pics. Gotta love those G50 arms

[michael stevenson]

Charles,

Thank you very much. Wow those G-50's are like a work of art! Fantastic design and very heavy duty.

[Tom Wills]

If you think those G-50s were heavy duty, you should have seen the rigs at the SOA workshop - Ultra Sleds with HD Ultrabrites and G-70 Arms. Abso-freakin'-lutely incredible.

[MikkoWilson]

Jezus those arms...

*droool*

  - Mikko ... Must will have one.

[Alan Dague-Greene]

Just for the record, I'm blond, even without the dime-store bleach that turned my hair slightly orange.

That rickshaw did hurt my back a bit, but I didn't know I looked that distressed on it. The Flyer was so comfortable and easy to wear. Flying? A bit harder, but a few thousand hours of practice and I'll be good to go.

[michael stevenson]

Red,  Blonde, Orange will you make up your mind already? I  think you were mugging in the Rickshaw pic.

[Alan Dague-Greene]

So, just for the record, anyone who's thinking about taking a workshop, or anyone who's not thinking about it because they don't think it will be worth it ... so worth it. What an amazing experience. My time spent on these forums helped prepare me for what I was going to learn. Many things that Peter went over are things I already knew. And about 10,000 other things were new information.

Probably my greatest moment during the workshop was noticing that I could switch and reverse switch pretty well, holding the cross in the middle of the frame horizontally (my tilt was a bit off, but to be fair the sled was front-heavy due to the short Flyer dovetail plate). Most humbling moment? Trying to hold that frame in Don Juan while walking down a narrow hallway (narrower than an open room with a tape line on the floor).

Thanks goes to Michael for shooting lots of pictures, as someone at his own workshop did not extend him the same courtesy of providing him with photos. And thanks, too, for the copy of American Cinematographer to read on my flight home! Michael really knows his stuff, it's pretty amazing the wealth of collective knowledge we have at our disposal here on HBS.

The big question for me now is, what's the next step? Time will tell. I have some thinking to do, but needless to say, this is far from over. And I have a feeling it doesn't end with a nice home-built rig.