To those saying that a speedlite would be the solution (especially for the Chase's Sandisk shoot,) it is very impractical. The amount of equipment that would have to be functioning properly to nail one shot -- much less a sequence of shots -- is unreasonable. several speedlites, several triggers, not to mention several batteries. A failure in any one component will either underexposure the shot, or contribute to you missing the shot altogether. On top of that, you will need the speedlite to be at a very low power to keep up with a camera shooting at 9fps, in which case you are not coming close to putting enough light on your subject. And forget about moving all of those speedlites to follow the subject for a shot sequence.

I like when Chase was popping in. It made the show more fun. When will be a Chase Jarvis Creative Live session anyway?

@victor torres With a constant light you would need to use very fast shutter speed, e.g. 1/8000s. Now the problem with focal plane shutters (which are built in nearly every DSLR, SLT and the mirrorless cameras) is that you will get a rolling shutter effect in fast action. Google it to see what I mean, it is hard to explain :).

@vic108701 Not a stupid question at all..... now you got me thinking. I wish I had an answer for you, but I don't. You would think that you could use a constant light bright enough to just give you whatever shutter speed you needed to freeze the action.... But who knows. Only thing that I can think of is portability and power options? You probably CAN use constant lights, but they were referring to location work more so than studio work for the action sports shots. Sorry if it didn't help!

To have constant lights as bright as a strobe they would chew a lot of power and would make the subject uncomfortable by blinding them and with the heat they emit at that brightness. That being said a lot of people use constant lights for still photography, especially with cameras with really good high ISO performance.

i am new to photography and i have a dumb question. When they were talking about needing faster strobes and for the snowboarder and dance photographers, why cant they just use a constant light.

SUPEEEER Excellent video's - I don't think you could have said it any better to the amature photographer regarding the lenses and gear - When I first purchased my DSLR some 2+ years ago (Canon 70D) it came with a built in flash, kit lens (18-55mm) and a body cap. I'm not one for using kit lenses - personal preference - So I went out and picked up the SIGMA 70-200mm DX Macro HSM II lens only later to find out it is used by a lot of pro photographers who shoot portraits and head shots. Then about a year later I purchased the SIGMA 35mm 1.4 Art lens.. A super beautiful wide angle Prime that I use for shooting landscape/portraits with... I'll be shooting with both lenses for quite some time and have no future intentions of buying any other lens. The kit lens btw IMO is just to get the owner to be able to shoot a few test shots - I wanted a good quality lens to shoot some serious photos which worked out well.

They are right most of the time people are buying the new more capable gear before they have enough knowledge on how to fully utilize the gear which they already have.

as fas as speedlights lacking the power, what if you did it like Chase said Joe Mcnally does. If you combine a bunch of speedlights then you might get enough power with the short flash duration (granted a bunch of speedlights might end up costing the same as a single expensive light so it might not end being and difference price-wise)

Listening to Zack Arias makes me want to disregard every other advice cuz for me, his advice is the only legit one.

Actually Chase is wrong in one aspect: A speedlight actually has one of the shortest flash durations, nearly no studio flash comes even near it. But power is a really major issue here. Yes, you can buy 8/16 speedlights and put it together, but it is extremely unpractical then.

4 Yognuo speedlights is the inexpensive solution. They're not called speed lights for nothing.