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FASTPITCH TV your host Gary Leland
Hello and welcome to another episode of FASTPITCH TV show, if you’re a regular viewer welcome back. If you’re new to the show please remember to check our website fastpitchtvshow.com you can find the links to our other news, FASTPITCH news related websites there, okay. And don’t forget to checkout our sponsor softballjunk.com, without them we wouldn’t be here so next time you need softball equipment checkout softballjink.com.
Now on today’s show we’re going to talk about skills videos, player’s skills videos. If you’re not familiar with that term it’s a video that a player makes and known days that you set him to cut his own VCR tapes now they send them on DVDs or send them to emails as a file. Okay, we have a website called fastpitch.ws. Fast pitch.ws stands for fast pitch web scouting and what this website does it takes— We put on the website player’s videos. Okay they’re skills videos so I have look through thousands of skills videos for this website and notice something about skills videos over and over again with things that I thought were wrong or they needed or didn’t need so today’s show is going to be something different for you, okay. It’s going to be our top 10 list of things or top 10 list for your skills videos.
Okay, number 10 add your video to YouTube or I decided I just told you about fastpitch.ws get it out there where people can see it then email links to that page to college coaches.
Number 9; do not add music to your videos. Scout coaches do not want to listen to music. If they want to listen to music they would turn on their radio or sound system, okay. There’s nothing worse than going to a video and being blurted out with some rap music you don’t like or some classical music you don’t like or some rock and roll you don’t like or country you don’t like. So you might like that music but your coach may not so just leave the music off there okay.
Number 8; do not show me special effects. I do not want to see fisheye lenses. I do not want to see bats on fire. I do not want to see anything that is going to take away from you in your skills. I do not want to get through and say boy I like to have fire that was pretty neat. I want to say I like that girl hitting the ball. Okay so do not add special effects.
Number 7; make your videos about 5 minutes in length and that’s a good time period, you’ll get a lot of stuff in 5 minutes, believe me. You’re going to have a hard time getting a coach to watch more than 5 minutes. If they would be interested in 5 minutes believe me their going to contact you, fairness in the 5 minutes, half an hour is not going to make a difference. They aren’t going to watch the half an hour that’s for sure. They’re being bombarded with videos so make your video about 5 minutes.
Number 6; tell you me who you are. I want to hear you talk. I want to know if you can even speak. I want to know your name. I want to know which position you play. I want to know how you did in school. Give me some information and do it quick though, don’t spend a lot of time with it but talk to me and let me know who you are and a little bit about yourself.
Number 5; if you’re hitting the ball, I want to see where the ball is coming from. I want to know if it’s just a dead lob that I left there for you. I want to know if it’s a machine from 50 feet away, or 40 feet away, or 30 feet away. I want to know where that ball is coming from and how it’s delivered. So if you are hitting the ball let me see a shot with an angle that shows me where the ball is coming from. It includes you and the ball where is the end coming form, okay, that’s is that.
Number 4; give your contact information maybe at the end, maybe at the beginning preferably at the end. You don’t want that upfront but I want to know how to reach you okay so make sure I have your contact information.
Number 3; as I have said earlier, send this out at the beginning of your junior year maybe the summer before your junior year, if you wait through your senior years to send this out, you’re too late, okay. You have cut yourself off from so many schools. You won’t believe it, it’s better to get it out early than just get it out late.
Number 2; start your video with something that’s going to make me want to watch the rest of it. If you are great at hitting let me see some hitting right off the back if you have got a rocket arm let me see you throwing people out. Give me something that’s going to make me watch more than 30 seconds to your video. I talk to a lot of coaches about this that see a lot of videos and they say they watch a lot of them about 30 seconds and their through. They won’t even make a pass the first minute because they do not have time to sit there and see if it’s 4 minutes or 5 minutes until they get to see something they can use. So give me usable information right off the bench.
And the number one thing you can do for your college video is just make it. I don’t care if you’re quality’s bad. I don’t care if it’s your dad with a camcorder, I don’t care if you don’t know about editing and you’re just putting a raw file up and you haven’t been able to put as much information on there at all. No graphics or anything. Do it and get it made so people can see you. So that’s the 10 things that I recommend you should do for your college skills video, okay.
I hope you enjoyed this show. I guess that’s it a little bit different to the other ones. I just want to give a little education. I have seen so many of these that I feel were done so wrong by players who had a lot of potential that I thought of maybe just might help some of you so good luck with doing your skill videos and like I said don’t give the checkout to fastpitch.ws that’s Fast Pitch Web Skills how does that work well it works like this you put your video on YouTube, you go to Fastpitch.ws and fill out the form and you include the link to your YouTube page on there and fill out the information and when you’re on there it cost nothing so check that out too.
For college students, check out FastPitch.ws too getting a lot of players on there. I hope you enjoy the show, checkout our sponsors, and thanks for watching.
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