The Cooper Eddy Interview

-Hyperlapse at a kendama event,
-3 cam setup for inerviews, 1 B roll, one static on tripod from the side, one static right in front
-close ups of some trick at the beginning to start off the vid or back to end off vid ( make sure the mic captures the clack)

I have always thought that an edit all filmed in a car would be pretty cool. Tricks just seem a little bit more satisfying when you are sitting in a small space and lace.

great edit man
I've always loved the loud click-clacking of the kendama
so it would be cool to have that as the beat of the song in an edit.
I like the look of cardboard and neon signs.
So a cardboard style wall in the background with a neon sign I feel like would work pretty well.
Also creativity is the key for an awesome edit. ben heralds recent edit is a great example.

set up the camera for a full/wide shot and you will have different shots in different locations but you will be in the same place. You'll lace the same or different trick every location. This would be a great idea when you start to travel around the world

Its pretty much like this video but instead of dancing its dama tricks

I feel like what would be pretty dope would be something like a "yank around the world" type deal where you have everyone submit clips of them yank spiking and say what they love about kendama, as well as where they're from and you could compile that into a sick video. I feel like yank is good because it's something that everyone can do.

Make spectra ken for each of the pro model tamas and it would sick

Do an in-house paint contest! Bring in a bunch of people from the sweets office and have them all paint their own tama.

have you ever seen the invisible skateboard video?
doing something like that for kendama would be pretty interesting

either have the kendama blanked out so you have to guess what trick they're doing or have the player blanked out so you only see the kendama, personally i like the first idea a bit better because it would focus more or the player and less on the trick

Have all of the pros(including you) do a K.E.N. battle against each other with one other person(or any odd amount of people for that matter to even out the number of people), but the challenge is that you all have to stand on one leg and use your non-dominant hand to lace. Also, you have to use a mini Sweets(optional challenge).

Also, I could tell some of the tricks and scenes were shot in Japan. When Cooper was filming at the rocks and river, you could see he had blonde hair(he bleached it), and when it zoomed into his pro model at 6:34, you can see that the seal had no white ring around the cross kens, and that was pretty much the prototype seal for all the mods released at KWC back in the summer.

Great interview and edit. More please!

I've been thinking it would be super cool and unique to have a video that was shot from the perspective of the kendama itself. Like kind of personify the kendama, or look through the "eyes" of the kendama on its journey, as it performs new tricks, maybe is played by different people, its relationship to other kendamas, etc. I know it is pretty out there, but hey, there you go.

something like the sweets like but The sweet life you attach a small lightweight camera to a kendama and film the entire day of seshing dama or at a comp

Have an obstacle course competition at a park with balance beam, giant spider, rope ladder, sand pit, swing and giant octopus!!! And a speed ladder competition at Stonehenge if the wind isn't blowing 30 mph...lol! SWEETS LIFE. #Odessa

It be cool if someone had an all green dama and Ken, and you could green screen it out to be a video of outer space or something

I would love to see an aerial/ground edit. Loved the ground view of Wiens in the old Kaizen stripe edit. Think it would be nice to see tricks from directly above and below (also think that would make for some nice editing). Maybe even get some drone action involved!!

Duct tape yourself to the wall and do an unboxing or a review or a collection or even an interview but something involving duct taping yourself to the wall!

- the whole sweets team ( focus, hg, legends and pro) in 1 huge edit

- revamp the sweets kendama tutorials by adding more tricks like made up tricks by pros

- SWEETS LIFE IN ROMANIA

- the making of a sweets kendama (in house painting, assembly,)

- going to more elementary/middle schools

What about a Sweets X Sweets edit - Sweets as in candy, so a candy themed edit. You guys have some of the most crazy tama colorways, and some of them really looks like candy with the intense colors. So an edit with "sweet" kendama players from Sweets, playing on Sweets kendamas who look like sweets(candy), while eating real sweets(candy, not the man...), with some "sweet" editing, haha.
Maybe you can make it like a series, with each episode representing a different candy - ex: A licorice themed edit, with black tamas , black clothes and a more heavy and "dark" vibe in the editing. Or a gum themed edit, with bright pink tamas, pink clothes and a fresh/hysteric vibe in the editing.

I know it's kind of a meta idea, but I think it holds a lot of different possibilities.

Big fan of your videography. Your style is very different from everyone else. It got a soulection vibe.
I think for a cool video concept, it should be a timeline. So for an example, clips from day one with Kendama until now. You could even sesh with your very first dama. And keep adding the soulection feel to it. Congrats on your first pro model.

A video where the Kendamas came to life would be awesome! Sort of like toy story, but only in the fact that they come to life. Maybe a Kendama that gets sad after it's put down for it's last jam session or something?

As simple as it sounds, we all just want a kendama documentary featuring all of the people who made kendama what it is today.

I have always thought making a kendama movie would be the most amazing thing. For example, the KUSA japan bonus footage edit is about as close as our community has gotten to this. I feel like getting to follow along with the player's journey, and watching the progression and things made the entire thing just amazing. If a kendama movie were made that followed a few of the pros through an entire year of kendama, (events, trick grinding, everyday life, behind the scenes at a dama warehouse, etc.) that would be absolutely sick. That would be something I would love to watch and definitely share with friends.

Love all of the pro edits!

Would be interesting to see some stuff with the 360 camera. Either people surrounding the camera doing sync tricks or those lines involving multiple people where you pass the kendama around.

Huge fan of the vids, I actually just bought a coop mod so should out to you. But I would like to see more friendly competition maybe some games of Ken loser has to draw from a list of dares to do

Love your pro mod and congrats on all your succes!!! You should do a trick tutorial series where you and other sweets players teach tricks that people maybe vote for on your Instagram.

Another better idea(forget the last one) You should recreate some of the crazy tricks that maybe you or Max have done in some of your really really old videos.

Finally got around to watching this, did not disappoint. Keep killin it Coop!

Nice edit Coop! I love edits where color is incorporated in some way. I am from the PNW as well and you totally nailed the moss and trees in your colorway. I especially like the shot where the kendama comes into focus on the other side of the stream. It looks like it is a part of nature. I think it would be cool to make an edit that incorporates hyper-contrast. I'm thinking like Sin City where everything is black and white except for one color. (Red lipstick, blue eyes, etc.) You could shoot a noir style edit in black and white except for the tama colors. You could even do some backlit silhouette trick shots!

Cooper is my role model

I'd say a big thing for Sweets right now is how its getting into the biking scene with Reed Stark and No jumper features. So doing more of this will help to expand the community. Do more videos that concentrate on kendama and other sports or activities an equal amount to get people from different categories of life to become interested in kendama.

Yoo cooper you can go to the place you were born and make a video with the friends that you started in the kendama and go to the spots that you used to jam and also film your new spots and make like a timeline since you beginning and talk about how the kendama change your life as well. Also your video of the pro announcement is the best dude good job you inspired me everyday boy

LOVE ALL THE IDEAS! CANT WAIT TO CHOOSE MY FAVORITE!

sick edit mate!
it's a bit adventurous but you could put every state of America on pieces of paper and pick one randomly, then travel to that state and lace 50 tricks (one for each state) and build an edit from that! i think that would be great and alot of fun.
keep slaying

@Cooper Eddy What about do some simple? Kendama stuff and light paint that shit?

I think video with effects like @Ben Lowe is doing (check his awesome job on his instagram @cutthenoise). Also edit whit videos from people all around the world, with flag of their country in the back wouldbe sick. I mean one quick combo from every country with their flag. Also fragment of painting a kendama in video would be great. But I think the best idea to make a video woul be "the normal day of pro kendama player". Starting when you are waking up, breakfast with quick combo, than going to work, kendama session during work, and ending on going to slepp. That would be dope. Love your edits!

Do a series like skate support from braille, where people send in videos of tricks they're trying to do and you respond with a video of what you see they're doing wrong and practice steps so they can do the trick... go check it out on braille skateboards channel.

Do a pro mod promo video short type of thing where your pro mod is held like a a gun and all the pros like have a war, like a lot of b roll and gun and explosion sound fx and you end it by saying "choose your weapon of choice"

A video where they are turning the kendama. As they turn the big cup it cuts to a trick involving big cups. Turning the small cup, maybe a Nightingale trick. As they turn the spike, cut to a shot of someone landing insane spike trick. Turning the base cup, and someone lands a handle stall.

It shows how important every little edge and corner of the kendama can be used and appreciated

This could work with an apple

@Cooper Eddy it would be cool if you did a left hand only edit! Lace some gnarly bangers! It would be sick!!!

Go to an army camp and have them play your dama and teach them dama would be cool or and edit with you in a camouflage suit and playing your dama

A video where you go for a stringless whirlwind in Minnesota. It dissapears into the sky, then travels to cali and lands on norx's ken. Idk how you would make that happen but it'd be too funny

My video idea is this.
I think you should have each individual sweets pro member pick a country, then travel to that country and go to some of the poorest spots of their country. and visit kids who are less fortunate then us. When the pro visits their country they chose they would give their pro models to Some kids in poverty of that country. When the specific pro visits there country and gives the dama to the kids, you should film the kids playing dama and put in the music used in each pros pro model video. So if Norx wanted to go to Japan, when he got there and gave out his pro mods you should film the kids playing dama with norx's song from his pro mod video, and do that for every pro at there country. Thank you very much!! - Brady Thomas (keymaster)

P.s. S/o Piff Minneapolis

I'll revert back to the OG days. A small enough room (4 sided) to jam in (like fit a person like Coop), and put black sound canceling foam around it. Put the camera on one corner, with lighting, on 2 of the sides, on the other corner is the film sesh angle. Take green spray paint and spray the Cooper Eddy signature going onto and it'll have a split effect. Use the raw audio and inward lunar tank and it'll probably sound super crisp. Maybe add a green screen on the top side and bottom side of the signature and create effects. I haven't had a lot of experience with Adobe Premiere, only Sony Vegas Pro 13, so I don't know how Chroma Key works on there. Just an idea ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

hhmmm... how about one pro copy another pro's playstyle. depends if someone else gonna pick for that specific pro (i.e. the community voting for it) or just the pro itself. not inspired-like line but actual playstyle. this one actually test them out of their comfort zone.

or

Kendama Vs. (blank)
now it can be a good test against a certain hobby/interest/etc. i see people playing kendama with tops & yoyo, but never against it. i want to see how it will contest against one of the other.

Uh freaking beast

-Lace a trick on every continent.
-365 days of kendama (edit-style)