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