Creating a Floorball DVD

Our dream of creating a floorball DVD that teaches the basic rules of the game is becoming a reality...

As North American floorball promoters, we get a lot of requests from players, schools, hockey teams and other organizations for resources to help them get started with floorball. While we can answer some of their requests, others are simply beyond our capabilities. This used to be the case with one of our most common requests, which was for a floorball DVD that covers the basic rules of the game.

Requests like this from our friends growing the game across the continent have made us realize that a DVD is sorely needed for the game to grow beyond its geographical strongholds. This spring we finally had the budget and the expertise in place to get a project of this scope started.

After a few meetings, the project began to take shape and we started writing the script and the voice overs. This proved to be a much bigger task than I could have imagined. At one stage the script for the DVD, which should be 1-hour long, was 10 pages!

We soon realized that in addition to the rules, we should add in a section on the benefits of floorball for hockey players as dry-land training. Anthony Herrington took the lead in creating the content and came up with some awesome drills to emphasize the transferability of floorball skills to the ice.

Best of all, Hockey Canada stepped in to support the project and is planning to distribute the DVD to all 150 of their Hockey Canada Skills Academies.

The most exciting (and physically grueling) days were the actual shoots. Day one was spent at the Mohawk 4-Pad in Hamilton and the Sherwood Seconday school gym. Day two was a full day at Downsview Park, which left most of the talent and the volunteers feeling like we had just organized a mini-Canada Cup! Despite the tough conditions and long days, everyone loved being on camera and did an awesome job demonstrating different skills and rules. I'm happy to say most sections were done with just 4 or 5 takes. Check out the FloorballPro Player's Club facebook group for some behind the scenes photos from the shoot.

Now, this huge project is waiting on a short studio shoot to be completed after which the editing stage can begin (this is the most laborous and time consuming of all). I can hardly wait to see what the finished project will look like and I hope you are excited too!!

I'd like to thank everyone who has helped out with this project so far, especially on our end: Johanna Kytola, Anthony Herrington, Tyson Rose and Steven Hoffner. Thanks also to Salming floorball in Sweden and NAMI, Salming's hockey importer, for their help with this exciting project.

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