By Jordan Rineer-
A video camera, three teenagers, and some free time.
You’re thinking this will end with some angry parents or an arrest.
Nope. Just a basketball and some motivation to be a YouTube sensation.
Everyday after school, to achieve our goal, we headed to a friend’s house by ourselves.
No girls.
No alcohol.
No drugs.
How much trouble could we cause trying to perform the basketball trick shots and make it big in the world of YouTube.
Trials on end. Some shots took hours. Some first try.
Some didn’t even make it within ten feet of the basket.
Anything to make to it big on the internet.
We all had a class together. Instead of doing schoolwork we would think of more shots. If we had been graded on creativity we would have definitely gotten an A.
We had a paper of the shots each of us we were going to do. We studied it and refined it until the paper in the notebook grew thin.
Behind the back, from the trampoline, over the house.
Anything that ran through our troubled minds, we attempted at least once.
Every time we were together, trick shots were the only things we talked about.
My dad delivers Herrs chips to businesses. Every one used to make fun of me when my dad would pick me up in the giant Herr’s truck from places. I would be lying if I told you it didn’t bother me. But finally having a Herr’s truck in my driveway was not only good for the occasional snack. We could travel with the hoop anywhere. We moved it all around.
We put it in the yard, this opened up the window for bigger and better shots.
Filming was the worst part. It was soooooo boring. We supposedly “took turns” but it seemed like I was the only one with the camera in my hands.
On the flip side, making a shot was the best feeling in the world. That’s why we did it. It was kind of like our drug. It got us high. We were addicted. We worked at it almost every day for two months.
We honestly thought we would make it big. With a little more publicity we could have. We should of. We would have.
We got two different initial reactions to the video from some people.
“Dude that video was sick!”
or
“That has to be fake!”
Taking months out of my life to show some hard work or “luck.”
With only 217 views to show, almost all hope is lost.
It’s just disappointing to see the hard work basically to go to waste.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjTGvmWJJu8
dude thats a sick vid