The Scuderia Ferrari Club Adelaide have been running hire kart events for some time. This year it has evolved into a South Australian State Championship with events and various hire kart venues. Round 2 was held at Xtreme Karts & Leisure near Gawler. I had the opportunity to video one of the finals which was an eventful 40 lap race. During the day I also had the opportunity to have a conversation with the President of the club who is one of those who made the transition in the last few years from hire kart racing to proper 4 stroke racing in the relatively new 4SS class. Given that this is now a path that I am on, I'm pretty enthusiastic about some of the work this club are doing to encourage others to do the same at an affordable price. For more information on the Scuderia Ferrari Club Adelaide including the South Australian Hire Kart Championship check out their website: https://www.sfcadelaide.com You can also follow us on: YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@KeepingitRealAus

As I'm asked from time to time about some of my interests in the past, I thought I would upload some of my diving vidoes (which are mainly visual) with introductions and perhaps I'll do some commentry in some of them too. This was one I made that was never intended to be uploaded as it was put together from throw away footage in bad visibility when I was testing my sidemount harness. What it does show is that even though this was only the third dive I did with it (and it was before I ever took it into an overhead environment), the potential was clearly evident and I never went back to backmount diving in a cave after diving in it. You can also follow us on: YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@KeepingitRealAus

Approaching the end of the Go Kart Season I was thinking pretty hard about what our direction was going to be for next year. Was I going to continue in 4SS or go to Tag Masters. If we stayed in 4SS was it going to be with a commitment to try to get to optimal weight for medium or did I go up to heavy by adding weight? To help me decide I put weight on for the first time and entered in heavy for the last South Australian go kart meet of the year which was a Kartsport meet at Barossa. Kartsport, as I'll explain in the video, is a more laid-back type of competition (compared to Karting South Australia) but I knew of at least 3 other drivers who I regularly raced against in KSA meets, who were also doing it so it felt like nothing had really changed in terms of the opposition. What did change however was the weather. The heavy rain would turn everything upside down... or would it? What actually happened was we found out we had massively good pace and it provided us with the best opportunity of the year to get a good result. Unfortunately, the first 2 heats out of the 5 heats ended up being DNF's and again I will talk about that in the video. The 3rd had promise but a stuck throttle cable took me out of contention in the middle of the race. We did however finish off the day with 2 really good races and everything came together in the final for my first win. Also, in this video I talk briefly about the surprise we got at the Karting SA presentation dinner when we walked away with a trophy that was unexpected. As to next year the decision is that I will continue to race in 4SS but race with the heavy weight drivers. You can also follow our content on: YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@KeepingitRealAus

To finish off my series on basic content creation I thought I would do a video on how to make a video on a Smartphone using Apps that you can download. This is what I use to do raw 'Vlog Style' videos when I am out and about and with a bit of work (if you want to) you can actually polish them to a level beyond that to be pretty good. I talk briefly about some of the different editors and then show you specifically how I use VN Video Editor to put something together in just a few minutes. Like everything, you get out what you put in so if you want to work on the finer details there are plenty of tools to help you do that. This is merely a brief introduction to get you started like the other videos in this series. Lastly, I will introduce you to another app called PixelLab which can be used to create thumbnail images to help your video stand out. More Advanced VN Video Editing Tips: To finish off my series on basic content creation I thought I would do a video on how to make a video on a Smartphone using Apps that you can download. This is what I use to do raw 'Vlog Style' videos when I am out and about and with a bit of work (if you want to) you can actually polish them to a level beyond that to be pretty good. I talk briefly about some of the different editors and then show you specifically how I use VN Video Editor to put something together in just a few minutes. Like everything, you get out what you put in so if you want to work on the finer details there are plenty of tools to help you do that. This is merely a brief introduction to get you started like the other videos in this series. Lastly I will introduce you to another app called PixelLab which can be used to create thumbnail images to help your video stand out. More Advanced VN Video Editing Tips: To finish off my series on basic content creation I thought I would do a video on how to make a video on a Smartphone using Apps that you can download. This is what I use to do raw 'Vlog Style' videos when I am out and about and with a bit of work (if you want to) you can actually polish them to a level beyond that to be pretty good. I talk briefly about some of the different editors and then show you specifically how I use VN Video Editor to put something together in just a few minutes. Like everything, you get out what you put in so if you want to work on the finer details there are plenty of tools to help you do that. This is merely a brief introduction to get you started like the other videos in this series. Lastly I will introduce you to another app called PixelLab which can be used to create thumbnail images to help your video stand out. More Advanced VN Video Editing Tips: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mh5youmqCQg&t=4s More Advanced PixelLab Tips: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKVJFIMh0AE&t=568s YouTube You can also follow us on: YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@KeepingitRealAus