Since I meet footbag 10 years ago and learnt about the sport and the spirit, I have always wanted to spread to others what I received. So I started to work on some teaching video. Yet I wanted to have a perfect product, and a perfect product has to be well explained, well filmed and well edited. But it also has to be well distributed otherwise no one knows about it. And that was the hardest part of the job.
So as to get the product I wanted I associated myself with Pierre from U-nanim.works, and armand another guy specialized into cinema rights. I got in touch with a few majors companies and I finally decided to work with Warner Music entertainement. The other difficulty was to convince them that the dvd had to be sold with a footbag inside the box.
So here it is, the DVD is available in many shops all around France , with a footbag inside. Anyone in France can now have a footbag and a private teacher, and I am really happy about it.
So I hope the dvd will be a succes in France which will make Warner want to translate it and commercialize it in many other countries. It of course means that it has to be sold as much as possible and not downloaded
. Acording to me, we have now the perfect tool to promote the sport, yet if it is downloaded and not sold, the dvd will remain a french product and not a worldwide one... which would be a fucking shame.Note that this dvd is not dedicated to footbaggers but to anyone who doesn't know about the sport. That is why it has three parts, a video clip part to tease, a teaching part to teach the techniks, and a documentry to spread the spirit of the sport as it is seen and lived by some of the best players in the world.
There are only 14 tricks in the teaching part (the hardest being the osis); I prefered to have just a few but well explained and detailed with tips and good exercices whereas 50 tricks with no explanation. I think that in freestyle footbag as in skateboard or other such sports, you just need to be told the basics and after you can evoluate by yourself, watching others playing.
I have also been very attentive to the music since without it freestyle is more Hacky than dance and a creative activity. So we bought the rights among all to use a song from Amon Tobin (Ninja Tunes).
Check the teaser:
http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=5NXfzqpk5gs
Hope that you will apreciate it and that the dvd will be distributed in as many countries as possible to spread our sport.
A big thank to my two associates without whom the dvd wouldn't have looked so good (Pierre) and wouldn't have been distributed by a major company (Armand).
