modified.in vs youtube

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Colin
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modified.in vs youtube

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Interest check for a very ambitious project.

I want to create an official modified.in youtube account and fill it with top rate, comprehensive, instructional content generated by this community. Initial goal being a series that starts with kicks and progresses to tiltless play. A potential topic list could be:

:arrow: Kicks
:arrow: Delays
:arrow: freestyle equipment (maybe separate videos on bags and shoes?)
:arrow: the clipper delay
:arrow: ATW
:arrow: mirage/illusion
:arrow: legover/pickup
:arrow: primer on naming conventions and the add system
:arrow: video on 'mixing' concepts learnt so far (ie, doing things like ss mirage, far legover, ect)
:arrow: putting it all together for tiltless shred. drills, training techniques, etc.

David Clavens' clipper tutorial comes to mind as a model to emulate. In it, he:

:arrow: speaks directly to the viewer
:arrow: repeats important points
:arrow: stresses pre-requisite material (inside kicks, delays)
:arrow: doesn't try to do it in one rambling take
:arrow: verbalizes practically every physical thing he does
:arrow: re-caps at the end
:arrow: 8) shades are an absolute must

Another idea is to use existing shred footage to illustrate points being made. A video about basic stalls might show some suitable high level footage while the instructor says "see how the support leg bends with every catch? how the whole body sinks into it?" and then it cuts back to the instructor doing his exaggerated support leg cushioning for alternating toe delays. But anyway, I'm ahead of myself.

The goal is that anyone in the world has access to the kind of detailed visual instruction that normally only comes from actually being in a circle with experienced players. Ideally, we would have a number of different performers in the series. I'd really like this to be a group effort with top-down organization to keep things consistent.

A lot of work toward this end is already done in the trick tips forum - it would be a matter of picking out the most important points and organizing them into a 'script' for the performers.

Aside from the obvious benefit of great videos being produced, this could help generate traffic for modified and be a boon for player recruitment worldwide. Our videos would have a title screen with http://WWW.MODIFIED.IN in big letters. The descriptions and such would link back here and to .ORG. The players would say 'modified.in' in the video. Etcetera. If we do this, it's possible that we could overtake expert village as the greatest footbag educators of the web 2.0 era.

So who's in, and in what capacity? If you feel particularly qualified to speak about a certain topic, please volunteer to do so. This would be more important if we keep going beyond basic concepts, but it could still be relevant here.
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Post by Corey »

1to give some feedback i think this is a fantastic idea
2david clavens video was excellent and helped me alot with my clippers (must have watched it 100 times)
3i am all for this although i do not feel competent enough nor do i have a camera at the moment to make videos i do get it back in a week or so
4if with the bags and shoes you are talking about modding lavers and stitching a 32 there is a good video for both already matt cross has the laver one and i forget about the 32
5lastly if you do go through with this i think videos that have the slow motion effect will the most helpful those were the videos that i preferred
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Post by Rieferman »

Doesn't Anz Tricks make up a big chunk of this already?

Also, I'm not sure I'd point them to modified... I'd point them to footbag.org and allow them to trickle over to modified in time. As a beginner's resource, I still think .org is the best overall source of information - plus it's very stable, isn't going anywhere. Modified is more for someone that's already hooked and wants to obsess :lol:
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