Poll: Video Tutorials

[brandon]

I am interested in making a few more video tutorials. The poll should be straight forward, what are people looking for?

I am not very interested in the first option, as there is plenty of content on that here on TeaChat, on WikiCha and elsewhere. Feel free to vote for it and maybe someone else will pick up that mandate and run with it.

[Salsero]

I picked Advance Kung Fu, but I really meant "All of the Above." You and Tim should set up a studio together now that Padre has dropped the video ball.

[geeber1]

I would love to see some quality (in English!) videos on both Chinese Brewing and Advanced methods. Of course, any new information I can absorb about tea is greatly appreciated!

[olivierco]

I picked Advance Kung Fu, but I really meant "All of the Above." You and Tim should set up a studio together now that Padre has dropped the video ball.

+1

[sriracha]

I agree with the above posters, I'd love videos on any subject really, some things are better shown than read imho. =)

[Intuit]

Complete tea newbies and those of long but narrowly focused experience need a process-based tutorial to handle decision making when considering trying teas unfamiliar to them:

A video that walks the user through an expert base decision tree is the key. Start with general tea types, progress to brief discussion of choices among available techniques and the teaware that goes with those brewing methods for the most common subtypes. End 'branches' of the decision tree identify commonly encountered errors as either technique- or teaware-related.

A downloadable decision-tree schematic (pdf format) would be a good accessory file for the video. Users refer to it throughout the video, can print it for annotation. As users become familiar with the common subtypes, they begin to recognize relational associations among subtypes, technique and teaware choices that affords an intuitive edge for handling teas new to them, because you're working with a flow chart of grouped teas.

This would help vastly simplify an understanding of hundreds of teas, maps out the rudimentary teaware one needs to have on hand to explore various teas and develops a flexible verbal-and-visual understanding of 'expert rules' for deciding how to brew a tea that is new to them.

The result may reduce the number of costly teaware purchase mistakes, quickly improve tea brewing confidence, and helps users develop a 'feel' for tweeking infusion technique.

[brandon]

Good ideas, Intuit but I am not that ambitious.
Maybe you could post the "tree" and it can be useful all on its own, or lend context to things that happen in our videos.

[AdamMY]

And I think with a little searching on Youtube you can easily find a sufficient explanation of any type of tea, I thought at one moment I even stumbled upon a list of video's of each of the different tea types, but I lost it before I could post the link here.

So I think more advanced videos would be much more pleasing to at least the Teachat audience.

[Proinsias]

It's got to be Advanced Kung Fu, I've figured out the pressure points on most of my teaware that stops me getting burnt fingers but I need moar.

[brad4419]

Kung fu techniques and chinese brewing would be great too.

[JP]

While I really want to vote for all of them, Advanced Kung Fu is the one that interests me the most.

I have been looking up videos on YouTube, but they are often not very helpful.

[Mr Wigster]

Did anything come of this?

[brandon]

Did anything come of this?

Not yet... good light and inspiration are hard to come by.