{"id":1818,"date":"2012-05-03T18:32:21","date_gmt":"2012-05-03T17:32:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unsponsored.co.uk:\/press\/?p=1818"},"modified":"2013-06-13T22:35:04","modified_gmt":"2013-06-13T21:35:04","slug":"1818","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unsponsored.co.uk\/press\/1818\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mothership Connection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Mothership Connection is one of the videos in the TEVA tour series. It takes you on a 55 minute whirlwind trip to many grade IV and V rivers in Corsica, Italy, and Norway. It is largely filmed by top playboater, designer (Riot Techno), extreme paddler and video boater, Arnd Shaeftlein.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unsponsored.co.uk:\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/mothership.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1819\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.unsponsored.co.uk\/press\/1818\/mothership\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.unsponsored.co.uk\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/mothership.gif\" data-orig-size=\"250,448\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"mothership\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.unsponsored.co.uk\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/mothership.gif\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unsponsored.co.uk:\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/mothership.gif\" alt=\"\" title=\"mothership\" width=\"250\" height=\"448\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1819\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unsponsored.co.uk\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/mothership.gif 250w, https:\/\/www.unsponsored.co.uk\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/mothership-167x300.gif 167w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Like the other tours in the series the cast is world famous and features the paddling talents of Buffy Bailey, Johnny Kern, Willy Kern, Mark Eames, Brennan Guth, Mark Hayden, Francesco Salvato, Brad Ludden, Flemming Shmidt, Erik Martinsen, Stephan Luetz, Lara Tipper, Horst Fuersattel, Arnd Shaeftlein, Ortwin Dellevoet and others! <\/p>\n<p>The rivers and scenery are simply amazing, well shot and well run by the boaters. Running large drops dominates but one or two play waves are featured.<\/p>\n<p>In my opinion the soundtrack is the only thing that lets the video down, however musical tastes are quite individual and that should not detract from the fact that there is some awesome boating throughout the 55 minutes. It&#8217;s worth watching at least a couple of times.<\/p>\n<p>To sum up &#8211; Big names, big water, and big drops.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mothership Connection is one of the videos in the TEVA tour series. It takes you on a 55 minute whirlwind trip to many grade IV and V rivers in Corsica, Italy, and Norway. It is largely filmed by top playboater, designer (Riot Techno), extreme paddler and video boater, Arnd Shaeftlein. 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