RFA Fall 2006

mikeanello · Post by **mikeanello** » 30 Nov 2006 23:32

RFA Fall 2006

http://www.footbag.org/gallery/show/-10630

Video from the Fall of 2006 featuring Mike Anello, Paul Agostinelli, and Aric McIntosh.

Music from the Desert Combat Soundtrack.

Please watch and please comment. I tried a few new things in regards to editting. Let me know what you think. Thanks.

Peace.

Darkshredder · Post by **Darkshredder** » 01 Dec 2006 07:32

Mike I've gotta say, as far as style is concerned this video is very pleasing to the eyes. Great intro - very minimal and professional. Not too short and not too long. The music selection - good. Song for each player. I liked that. A good balance of shred and humor too with the speech bubble at the beginning, the random dude at RIT who wanted to see ducking, etc. I really liked the peeking "hey there it is!" shiney thing during the Paul section. My only complaint would be it was hard to see the bag in a few shots with you in all black and the environment but that's to be expected. Not that big of a deal.
As far as the shred goes, you guys rock. Mike I haven't seen you on video in a while and it's always a pleasant surprise. Paul, I REALLY haven't seen hardly any longish clips of you shredding. This is pretty much the longest I've seen so far. You're waaaaay good at the footbag. Neo set. . neo set. . props on blurry dlo. I'm sure that's come and gone and you're on to bigger and better things. But that's a sweet trick and you pulled it off real smoothly. Aric. Intense, difficult runs as always. They should just make a video of you entirely in slow mo. Maybe then I could keep up with you, heh.

cd · Post by cd » 01 Dec 2006 09:01

Thanks a lot Mike! I liked a lot of the editing, especially the names, speech bubbles, etc. And that dude who flipped out over ducking clipper was funny. Good stuff from everyone too. See you guys sunday.

Paul Agostinelli · Post by **Paul Agostinelli** » 01 Dec 2006 09:26

yeah mike! its been since september of '05 since theres been video of me that i can be proud of! great video, awesome shred both you and aric. cant wait to play now! see y'all on sunday.

edit: about the editing, i really liked the bubbles, and the number thing above arics head made me laugh, 10 bitch! i really dug the music. i think that the each player featured in a section with their own song works great for RFA videos when its only 3 or less people, if there are more, its nicer to see the shred all mixed together. but for 3 people, perfect length of video, good music selection, nothing obnoxious, some funny stuff.. to sum up, you rock!

~Paul~

mc · Post by mc » 01 Dec 2006 10:12

booyah! that's what I like to see! I like the additional editing you did to this video. Shred was great! action packed the whole time. I liked paul's neo torque and fog. flip fog would be cool. also dug the toe blur x 2 and e-walk > sumo.

thanks mike, can't wait to see more!

matt

SlashC · Post by **SlashC** » 01 Dec 2006 22:32

I really had to go to the bathroom, but I stayed and watch the video instead.

I like how everyone has different styles. Inside set fairy looooks cool.

KronoKicker · Post by **KronoKicker** » 02 Dec 2006 17:49

haha pickle... thanks mike video was awesome.

Muffinman · Post by **Muffinman** » 02 Dec 2006 20:53

Yeah; great video Mike

RFA kicks ass! You are all so amazing, and so unique! Paul is awesome -- the master of neo? I think so. I remember I liked a speech (/speach??) bubble. I always hope for more flip pixie ducking from Aric, and flip frantic... Your shred is ridiculous. And Mike -- always a pleasure; textbook form and bothsided combos.

I dont' remember the music though...I watched this a couple nights ago I think?

beenjammin · Post by **beenjammin** » 13 Jan 2007 14:35

Very nice!

Kljopa · Post by **Kljopa** » 14 Jan 2007 12:21

Loved it

and i knew that ill love it as i was dling!I always enjoy vids you make Mike!

Keep em coming!

Great shred!

slapdash21 · Post by **slapdash21** » 15 Jan 2007 10:16

ill

wow mike you're game is getting really awesome. i wish i had somewhere close to your toe skills.
aric, dope as always. e-walk>sumo is insane.
real nice shred paul, you make real styley moves look natural and easy

shredzilla · Post by **shredzilla** » 16 Jan 2007 10:23

Mike man your vids keep getting more and more fun to watch. I just love the editing style. It's too bad we have to take a cut in quality to save on file size. But yeah, a 10 min vid would probably be huge if you'd up the quality anymore on that.

All the shred was great, I liked Paul's gyro stuff and the neoman was pretty cool. Eric's chair smear was pretty sweet. Your quantum stuff looked cool too. I love that set so much, I'm naming my dog quantum.

Such a neat vid to watch though. Music gave it that real epic feeling. Oh well, in a couple years we'll have bandwidth big enough for bigger vids. Later.

Pyroman924 · Post by **Pyroman924** » 16 Jan 2007 13:56

Great video! Great variety of styles between you guys. Mike, I really like how at the beginning of your dex's you slow down.... then burst into motion.

Wonderful editing! It was very different. Nice selection of introductions and such! I'll give this 2 thumbs up.

zach4th · Post by **zach4th** » 19 Jan 2007 20:13

I don't know why but this vid gets me in the mood to shred all the time!!

Iron Clad Ben · Post by **Iron Clad Ben** » 22 Jan 2007 10:01

OK, so I love Mike Anello vids a lot. This one was 10 minutes and had been sitting on my backlog for a good month and a half now so I could watch it in its entirety.

Mike, I love your editing. The songs sounded like right out of the old Goldeneye game for N64 (yeah I know it was somethin else). I also love your use of downtime concepts. You have a bunch of sets under your belt, but use them sparingly so that your shred is much more downtime focused that shuffly, which IMO is very cool. I also like how you use a lot of illusions.

Also, the "show me the ducking clipper part... do it again!" was classic.

Mike, please keep making videos

mikeanello · Post by **mikeanello** » 22 Jan 2007 10:37

Ben,

Thank you very much for your compliments. Posts like yours really make the time and energy it takes to produce a video all worth while.

As for my downtime playing, I completely understand what you are saying. I am somewhat of a heavy individual so it takes a lot of effort for me to get my legs up and down very quickly. This is why you don't see to many three dex moves out of me - I simply do not have that kind of speed. However, I am not the kind of person to ever settle with my current skill level. Recently I have been working on adding more symposium into my strings. For example, I recently hit ducking symposium mirage both sides. I can hit flail, but only on my strong side. For the life of me I cannot do stepping sets. Every now and then I get a good one but it is so unreliable that I simply avoid them in shred circles. As I improve in other areas of shred I find my stepping set attempts getting easier and eaiser. Some day I may be able to shuffle like Aric McIntosh, but don't expect it to be anyday soon.

I am so happy with all of the posts for this video. I wasn't expecting too much traffic with all of the incredible players found in other videos. It's nice to put a video out there that people enjoy. That's my motivation.

Peace.

Pyroman924 · Post by **Pyroman924** » 23 Jan 2007 11:32

mikeanello wrote:I am somewhat of a heavy individual so it takes a lot of effort for me to get my legs up and down very quickly. This is why you don't see to many three dex moves out of me - I simply do not have that kind of speed.

This may be so but your diversity of various tricks, whether they be 2 Dex or 1 Dex, and just your style in general make anything that's lacking barely noticable. Now, make another video.