He is not making as much money as people on here think he is making and he is selling his soul for literal pennies and free shoes. It's quite sad to see
He is not making as much money as people on here think he is making and he is selling his soul for literal pennies and free shoes. It's quite sad to see
I dunno. The management company that pimps him out wants to be paid in cash, not pennies and free shoes. This video, which was shot weeks ago, was reviewed and approved by Tracksmith. They specified the release date. This is a full blown advertisement.
I would comment on the video, but the last video I asked how much he was paid, my comment was quickly deleted.
Anywho, I lost interest about a minute in, after the 20th slow motion shot.
He is not making as much money as people on here think he is making and he is selling his soul for literal pennies and free shoes. It's quite sad to see
I dunno. The management company that pimps him out wants to be paid in cash, not pennies and free shoes. This video, which was shot weeks ago, was reviewed and approved by Tracksmith. They specified the release date. This is a full blown advertisement.
I would comment on the video, but the last video I asked how much he was paid, my comment was quickly deleted.
Anywho, I lost interest about a minute in, after the 20th slow motion shot.
For a video like that, probably $15-$20k in addition to the free travel. He doesn't keep all the money for himself. I think he has a video editor, and for a while he was using Phily Bowden's boyfriend. Not sure if that's still the case. Anyway, I agree that video was l-a-m-e. Though now that he went and hawked rival Tracksmith, will Rabbit still pay for his trip to Boston and the shakeout run/video that comes with it? Next time, on as the ShoeTube World Turns!
Can't wait till he blames the shoes for his poor race after Tracksmith gifted him all that travel!
Good lord, Konfuzied is as clueless as they come. The guy literally knows nothing about training to run faster. This result is just another in a long line of epic failures. Meanwhile, he steals bandwidth from worthy practitioners who people could ACTUALLY learn something from.
Can't wait till he blames the shoes for his poor race after Tracksmith gifted him all that travel!
Couldn't watch the whole thing, had to jump around, but this was one big laugh. A 15 minute video that gives no information about the shoe, he has no clue what 80% means for the workout, goes out "too fast" at his MP for a 5k?!?! (ty runna).
All this video was is 'look how awesome my trip to Miami was and how cool I am please validate me!'
I dunno. The management company that pimps him out wants to be paid in cash, not pennies and free shoes. This video, which was shot weeks ago, was reviewed and approved by Tracksmith. They specified the release date. This is a full blown advertisement.
I would comment on the video, but the last video I asked how much he was paid, my comment was quickly deleted.
Anywho, I lost interest about a minute in, after the 20th slow motion shot.
For a video like that, probably $15-$20k in addition to the free travel. He doesn't keep all the money for himself. I think he has a video editor, and for a while he was using Phily Bowden's boyfriend. Not sure if that's still the case.
Jesus, this video is worse than sh**t. I feel sorry for the person who had the job of editing it.
The story consists of Fuze checking into a swish hotel room, being gifted a load of swag, and then proceeding to struggle to run a 5k slower than his recent half-marathon pace. Then he says, "he can't give an opinion of the shoe"! The thing is so unrelatable and offers no value even to park running hoards that follow him.
No wonder the whole thing is b-roll and budget slow-motion shots.
For a video like that, probably $15-$20k in addition to the free travel. He doesn't keep all the money for himself. I think he has a video editor, and for a while he was using Phily Bowden's boyfriend. Not sure if that's still the case.
Jesus, this video is worse than sh**t. I feel sorry for the person who had the job of editing it.
The story consists of Fuze checking into a swish hotel room, being gifted a load of swag, and then proceeding to struggle to run a 5k slower than his recent half-marathon pace. Then he says, "he can't give an opinion of the shoe"! The thing is so unrelatable and offers no value even to park running hoards that follow him.
No wonder the whole thing is b-roll and budget slow-motion shots.
It’s all too slow to justify keeping track of the pace. Kuntfuzi is a participation trophy type of guy despite pretending to be a runner.
The audience seems to be tiring of the whole schtick. The video got 9,900 views, way down from the 40k his NY Marathon video got. If Tracksmith paid $20k for that, it was $2+ a view. No wonder their shorts are a hundred bucks. Got to recoup that cost somehow. As the recession takes hold, the companies paying for these trips will become smaller and smaller, the vibe of the ads will become more and more desperate until the channel reaches its end stage; Kofuzi dropped off in the Arizona desert with only Precision Fuel and Hydration and a water bottle. We will get to watch four days of him subsisting on salty drink mix and glorified gummy bears. Basically Survivor, Arizona: ShoeTuber Edition.
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reading these boards is hilarious and enteratining. Lots of slagging off but then when one of the youtubers has a good race, radio silence. Go back to around pages 50ish on this and that braincelll poster was slating Bester every other post saying his training was dumb and he had no chance of getting sub 2:20 at Berlin. Then Bester gets sub 2;20 and braincell just goes silent for ages. Hes now popped up slagging everyone off again.
We have the receipts braincell, you clearly dont know anything about running but you are wonderfully catty. Like a running version of Dan Wootton
I went silent because I had a serious injury so stopped watching Youtubers/coming on LR/doing anything T&F related. A stopped clock is right twice a day though, so Bester can have an occasional good performance but he also has a massive backlog of bad performances, many of which don't make it onto Youtube.
I'd like to think I do understand running a bit better than a guy who calls every road interval workout "track", but then again I've only run a quicker Marathon than Bester so what do I know about running ey
Nick's had some standout results (sub 2:20 at Berlin) and some where he's missed his targets, but I would describe as ok/satisfactory/mediocre (like 2:23 marathon).
He doesn't seem to properly blow up/DNF have a terrible result. Even when he slows, he seems to grind it out at aerobic threshold pace.
Convenient that the silence started immediately after you had just said he had no chance of beating 2;20 which he did a day or 2 later. Then started again when he got a result you deemed 'bad'. Many anonymous, keyboard warrior, internet accounts can claim to be quicker than a 2:20 marathoner. I wouldn't be inclined to believe it without proof tbh.
And a bad performance as you describe it is pretty subjective. He is fairly consistent with his 5ks (around 15min), 10ks (around 32mins), halfs (around 67-70mins), marathons (low 2:20s)
His performances would be bad for someone like stephen scullion or micheal O but they are still top 3 in county levels for most of England. You obviously don't rate his training or ability as a runner so are they really bad times? Maybe sub 2:20 is a remarkable time for someone of his natural ability.
I picked you out because over the first 50 or so pages of this thread you were the most overly critical, bitchy and just downright mean poster on here. So was funny to see you make duff predictions. Plus wanted to see if you could take it like you dish it out.
Your posts were so ridiculous you caused me to make a full blown defence of Nick Bester. One of the youtubers along with Matt Fox I think is actually worthy of some criticism for their behaviour.
Thinking about it, people probably think I am Nick Bester now. Especially as FOD has shown some youtubers actually read here. Oh well.
Convenient that the silence started immediately after you had just said he had no chance of beating 2;20 which he did a day or 2 later. Then started again when he got a result you deemed 'bad'. Many anonymous, keyboard warrior, internet accounts can claim to be quicker than a 2:20 marathoner. I wouldn't be inclined to believe it without proof tbh.
You can't knock Fox's and Bester's times.
For me, their times are irrelevant—it's more the toxic "send it" culture they spread, antics at races, and money-hungry approach to what has been a community-focused voluntary sport that set them up for critique.
Both of them come across as very self-centred people with very undeveloped levels of training analysis and criticality. Driven to achieve these arbitrary goals to massage their egos. They seem to dump all caring responsibilities (Matt with his dog and Nick with his kids) in the process. Sub-elite running seems to be a life-consuming toxic obsession. I've seen a few non-youtubers consumed by it!
Convenient that the silence started immediately after you had just said he had no chance of beating 2;20 which he did a day or 2 later. Then started again when he got a result you deemed 'bad'. Many anonymous, keyboard warrior, internet accounts can claim to be quicker than a 2:20 marathoner. I wouldn't be inclined to believe it without proof tbh.
You can't knock Fox's and Bester's times.
For me, their times are irrelevant—it's more the toxic "send it" culture they spread, antics at races, and money-hungry approach to what has been a community-focused voluntary sport that set them up for critique.
Both of them come across as very self-centred people with very undeveloped levels of training analysis and criticality. Driven to achieve these arbitrary goals to massage their egos. They seem to dump all caring responsibilities (Matt with his dog and Nick with his kids) in the process. Sub-elite running seems to be a life-consuming toxic obsession. I've seen a few non-youtubers consumed by it!
I’m not the biggest fan of Mr Bester or his personality but how do people know that Nick doesn’t see his kids? This is literally his job, even if he’s running 3 hours a day that still leaves 5 hours a day to work on social media and coaching to match a 9-5 job.
With regards to travelling to races and events there are plenty of other occupations out there which require regular travel to meetings abroad and away from home. How is this any different?
I’m not the biggest fan of Mr Bester or his personality but how do people know that Nick doesn’t see his kids? This is literally his job, even if he’s running 3 hours a day that still leaves 5 hours a day to work on social media and coaching to match a 9-5 job.
With regards to travelling to races and events there are plenty of other occupations out there which require regular travel to meetings abroad and away from home. How is this any different?
It's, of course, speculation - also, a bit of trolling on my part. I understand Nick wants to be visible in the community; however, running multiple fun runs a week seems OTT and more of a choice that could impact family life.
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