Freedom Footbags

Last year I was contacted rather out of the blue by the UK branch of MTV (homeboy called me at 4AM!). They found me via my YouTube profile and wanted to know if I would make a short clip for a TV show / website that they were producing that featured people making challenges to do their best at some skill or another.

Given that I don’t like TV and don’t want to be on it (I’ve had too many bad experiences with TV people), I declined the offer, but I did take advantage of the opportunity for Dylan, and suggested that I knew someone better than me at footbag who would likely be down with idea. Indeed, Dylan was into it, so we shot a quick clip at our next session and sent it off to them. Check it out:

3.6MB Quicktime file

The idea was that the clip should look very much low-budget and home-made, so we didn’t bother with any editing or color corrections or anything of that sort; they’re all about appealing to a market segment. The speech was also pretty scripted in that they wanted him to say that he was the “best in the world!” and to challenge people to do better than him. Of course Dylan added his signature style to it We told them we would only do it if we could use the term ‘footbag’

After submitting the clip and going back and forth over rights and waivers and a bunch of BS (that they weren’t very good at), we lost contact with them and never heard anything else about it. Until today that is. Svenja emailed Dylan to say that she had seen the clip on MTV where she is (Ireland)!!

And so it is that footbag is apparently getting pretty good coverage on MTV in the UK on some show. We don’t know full details of what the show is called or when and precisely where it is being broadcast, but rest assured that I’ll report back here when we know more.

Cool, huh?

Someone should take up the challenge

PS note that that’s a Mr. Sandbag Footbag that he’s using . . .

UPDATE:

Dylan’s post on modified:

once upon a time there was some television producers making a pilot for an MTV series aclled ‘Best. Show. Ever.’ to be aired in the UK. they contacted Allan Hagget who then turned to his friend Dylan Fry to shoot a small footbag clip to send in to the show. about 6 months later Dylan got an e mial from his friend Svenja who is living in Ireland. “I saw you on MTV” she typed excitedly. “you were saying ‘you think you can shred like this? you think you can sweat this much?’ .
the end.

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