My good friend Lawrie is an excellent personal trainer as well as a kickboxing and self defense instructor at Combat Ready Gym in Edinburgh, I highly recommend him if you are ever thinking about getting a personal trainer or taking up martial arts. Contact him here. The owner of Combat Ready, Marcus Houston told Lawrie he wanted a promotional video made for the gym to help show what was available to potential customers. Of course, Lawrie knew just who to call!
Lawrie and Kate having a lovely time training, while two men tear eachothers faces off in the background
Combat ready is a 'reality based martial arts gym' that also deals in 'CrossFit' and Kickboxing. I met with the owner to discuss what he wanted. Marcus is a man who definitely knows what he wants, which I like in a client. He wanted the clip to be 'like a badass music video with loads of awesome martial arts'. Right up my street. Filming was surprisingly easy, all I had to do was go along to some of the classes and film what looked most impressive, the guys and girls were under strict instruction to appease me if I asked them to do a particular move again, which helped a lot! haha!
Marcus lovingly caressing a soldiers face.
I was slightly in dismay when I was told that the soundtrack would be Ed Sheeran but when I actually listened to the song properly I noted that it was very percussive which is always good for getting awesome cuts in time with the music. This coupled with the fact there was obviously going to be loads of people punching stuff made for some sweet snare hit/punching bag hit combos.
Marcus had me make a fair few changes to the video and I think there was 3 drafts in total but all his input definitely made the video come out much better than if he hadn't said anything.
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