All right, I didn't want to mention "The Contest" until someone else did because of the whole Gabrielle thing. I got and watched the video last weekend and think it's just great! The premise is that they recruited a number of ticklish girls in SoCal, ages 18-28, and had a contest to determine the most ticklish girl in Southern California.
Kamiano tickles each of 16 girls in stocks (armpits, sides, feet) for about 4-5 minutes each. The judges then choose 5 semi-finalists (turns out to be 7, because there was a 3-way tie for 5th), and Kamiano tickles each for 2-3 minutes. They then choose 3 finalists (actually 4 because of another tie), and the other semi-finalists gang-tickle two of the finalists at at time.
It's done in the style of a Miss America pageant, with this guy called Machine as the Bert Parks-type host (in black-tie yet!). He askes them questions before they're locked into the stocks (name, age, shoe size, and--variably--where are they most ticklish, what was their most intense tickling experience, etc.). It's filmed outdoors by the pool of a ritzy house. The girls all seem very ticklish (they were allegedly pre-screened from 100 candidates) and there are quite a few nice honeys. However, they also included an overweight girl which I wasn't crazy about (I realize they want to appeal to people who like different physical types, but I fast-forward through that scene). Also, the girls are quite Anglo--if you are looking for African-American, Hispanic or Asian, you will be disappointed. (One seems to be a sort of ethnic type, and there is also the requisite tattooed Goth girl.)
However, they do feature Lily in a vignette that last for about 6-7 minutes (she's a bad woman driver who is being punished for her bad behavior behind the wheel; how many of us have fantasized THAT scenario?). Lily is maturing into quite an incredible beauty (it's fun to watch a pretty girl grow into womanhood right before your eyes, especially when she's as ticklish as Lily!).
I also enjoyed the end, where Machine counts out 5 crisp new $100 bills (the grand prize) into the hand of the winner. If it was me, I would've said "Congratulations on your new career providing sexual thrills to men for money!"
One thought that intrigued me about this video is that Gabrielle could be creating a "viral" tickling fetish awareness among young females in SoCal. I'm sure all these babes have scads of girlfriends whom they told about this unusual experience. Hopefully, more young women will step forward for videos as a result of this, or at least investigate being restrained and tickled as an option in their own sex lives.
Overall, this is a very original and exciting video. As others have said, Gabrielle may be a bit quirky, but she does come up with some original stuff for videos. At $60, not including sales tax (in CA) and postage, this is 50% more expensive than other videos from this company and MTP and RealTickling, but it's also 90 minutes long and features the 16 girls, plus Lily and Renee (as sort of "halftime" entertainment while the votes are being tallied). I don't know--no matter how weird Gabrielle has been, you have to give her some credit for involving her mom as a tickling victim in her work!
