Wednesday, May 18th, Hyper Wear conducted its first of many shoots for DVD content. It was an amazing day! There are so many people to thank, it’s hard to know where to begin… So, in no particular order, let me give a few shout-outs to the folks that made this amazing day happen!
Our athletes / trainers for the shoot included Diane Vives, Hyper Wear’s Director of Training; Daryell Harmon, Avery Moore, and Joe Lopez of Police Training Group out of Dallas, TX; and Sayif Saud of Octagon Fitness, also out of Dallas, TX. It was truly humbling to be in a room with so many amazing athletes from such varied backgrounds, but all with the desire to present SandBells and SteelBells to the combat athlete world.
Behind the cameras were Dennis Weaver and Timothy Chew. Sound was run by John McDaniel (who had a lot of ambient noise to deal with from the ice machine in the warehouse behind us to the birds pecking on the roof to the police sirens at various points to large trucks rumbling by). And Nikita Lance graced us with her wonderful slate abilities!
Cosmo, Diane, and Dennis put the whole shoot together and between the three of them did an amazing job of setting up shots, coaching the trainers for what would look best on camera, and handling wrenches that got thrown in at the last minute.
And there was of course the wonderful folks at H.E.A.T. Bootcamp who were so kind and accommodating to let us use their space! Founder and creator, Cody Butler, met with some of our crew to show them around the space and help figure out logistics. On Wednesday, he was around all day, always checking on us to make sure we had what we needed. They even moved their sessions outside so we could have full use of the facility. And Marshall Ryan Priest let us in to set up Tuesday evening and showed us the ropes.
Our fabulous interns, Jordan Pratt and Carol Martins, helped me do any odd jobs that needed doing. Dirk Buikema stopped by with Video Release Forms and Joe Atocha and Ben Buikema held down the fort back here at the office. And I shouldn’t leave out Denver Fredenburg who gave a big thumbs up to the whole deal!! I even want to thank the kind and helpful folks at Rudy’s and Subway who took our food orders and carried the big boxes to the car for me (even when I was parked a block away!).
It was a lot of work, but we all agreed that it was well worth it! We can’t wait to get the DVD done and out there – it’s gonna rock the Combat Athlete’s world!
