Yacine Merzouk "Style is Forever" Video

blitz · Post by **blitz** » 24 Jan 2007 15:44

Howdy, I cut together a little vid-ditty of Yacine Merzouk that was hanging out in my vault for the past year-ish, shot mid-2005. It's dedicated to the ebb and flow of players in footbag. It's also a tribute to the best passer in footbag history.

http://www.flipsider.com/gallery/?g2_itemId=3856
Let me know what you think.

..from flipsider.com/gallery/players

Pyroman924 · Post by **Pyroman924** » 24 Jan 2007 15:53

I saw this up yesterday on Flipsider!

I've watched it 7 times already heh. DblATW Heel was pretty damn sick!

My favorite pass was the Spinning Inside one... I'm not sure what it's called! Your videos are always top notch Eliot.

Matt K · Post by **Matt K** » 24 Jan 2007 18:19

I'm not liking the music.

Full Symp. Tap>BS Atom Smasher is one of the coolest drills ever.

Yacine's Scorpian's Tail looked spectacular.

Good camera angles.

Bravo.

quadgun · Post by **quadgun** » 24 Jan 2007 19:42

Great Video.
cool filming, and the ending was done very nicely also

the only thing i didn't like was how some of the scenes were cut together
you had some runs where you zoomed in from far away and got closer to the player ... then when you cut to the next scene it was far away again

it would have been a bit better, i think, if you had only used that zoom technique once, and kept the rest of the shots closer and similar to the other ones

this is probably all because it was from one session and you threw this together, but i figured i'd give my opinion

thanks!

CIC flurry · Post by **CIC flurry** » 24 Jan 2007 22:46

Thanks for the vid. Good to see Yacine. Where the hell is he nowadays?

spoiler
That run with all the symp atomic stuff was awesome.
/spoiler

mc · Post by mc » 24 Jan 2007 22:47

hey eli,

thanks for this sweet video. Yacine was a guru of style on the east coast for a long while... I'm glad to see these shots of him. I really liked blurry drifter > ps whirl > scorpion's tail.

thanks for another great video,

matt

shredzilla · Post by **shredzilla** » 25 Jan 2007 02:34

CIC flurry wrote:spoiler
That run with all the symp atomic stuff was awesome.
/spoiler

Oh my God. ?>!>rpt??? That's just crazy.

The last move at the end was

Double downs looked really sweet too, like really wide and pronounced. What an amazing player.

And a very nice film. Thank you for that.

...flying clipper butt pass wasn't too shabby either

And stepping r****r midstring. Okay I'm done now. Seriously though.

acxel22 · Post by **acxel22** » 25 Jan 2007 11:53

I tought the music was good, especially since it's in direct link with the video theme "style lives forever".

The video is great, and it also features one of my favorite shred spots in the summer.

Thanks Ellis

MatS21 · Post by **MatS21** » 25 Jan 2007 16:13

AWESOME, so sad I never had the chance to play with him here. Hope I'll see him at least once this summer. A really awesome player, I like his style so much! I have to say it again, TOO FRIKEN AWESOME.

And for the question about him, I know he don't play anymore too much, I heard he come sometime to shred during the summer.

hacksterbator · Post by **hacksterbator** » 25 Jan 2007 23:20

eli, am i missing something here? "Players Come and Go" ??? Did Yacine pass on??? I know i haven't been around the forum a whole lot recently but i would like to think i would have heard about that...

thanks for the video! i'm a big fan of yax's and i know he was an inspiration to the early scene here in winnipeg.! there really isn't enough readily available footage of him anymore. i love the atomic crazyness he's so well know for.

again thanks for the video! i'm really glad i got the chance to hang out with him (read: keep him up all night with my drunken shinannigans while he had food poisoning) at GLASS before he died. May he rest in peace (?)

blitz · Post by **blitz** » 26 Jan 2007 08:42

He's alive and well. I meant players come and go *in the sport*. Heh.

blitz · Post by **blitz** » 26 Jan 2007 14:03

and thanks for all the comments.

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SlashC · Post by **SlashC** » 26 Jan 2007 15:14

RIP Yacine Merzouk

You will be missed, but not forgotten.

Mightymic · Post by **Mightymic** » 26 Jan 2007 18:10

you are an idiot

Not you Eli, sick vid

shredzilla · Post by **shredzilla** » 26 Jan 2007 21:15

blitz wrote:He's alive and well. I meant players come and go *in the sport*. Heh.

So that means you're not dead yet either right?

Let's see some new Blitz footage!!

mc · Post by mc » 26 Jan 2007 23:25

shredzilla wrote:
Let's see some new Blitz footage!!

seconded. techy weirdness, please!!

Matt K · Post by **Matt K** » 27 Jan 2007 07:54

Apparently his back is injured and his camera is busted.

Ners · Post by **Ners** » 29 Jan 2007 14:57

Great video Eli! I liked the passes section, and the shred was very good too. Thanks for putting your time into this!

Szymon KaÅ‚wak (Ners)

Faco · Post by **Faco** » 30 Jan 2007 14:06

A really great style, what more can I add?

Add, get it...bruahaha

C-Fan · Post by **C-Fan** » 31 Jan 2007 13:46

This video made me laugh a lot. I don't know why. Maybe the music? Nice to see some Yax stuff again. It's definitely a little weird and sad for me to see players who started later than I did leave the sport earlier than I did, but I think yacine is probably fine with leaving the sport, considering how much he accomplished. Podium in both events at 2003 is a hell of an achievement.

On the editing side, this somehow didn't feel as tight as the Mulroney and Ales sections, but I'm guessing not as much time was put into it. That said, the Mulroney video set a really high standard.

Thanks for making this.

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