Friday, September 11, 2009

On set of Australian Boxing Fox8 TV Series “The Contender”


Date: 8 Tuesday, September, 6-8pm

Location: Sydney Olympic Park

Myself, Film production Rumble Pictures & Parkour team 9Lives were invited on the set of the Australian version on an International hard hitting boxing reality TV show “The Contender” and a personalised meet up with both Fox8 executive producer Lara Hopkins and Australian actor Daniel Amalm. (credits include Home and Away, Underbelly, Two Fists, One Heart, Cedar Boys and on Channel 9 Rescue: Special Ops).

I think as an emerging filmmaker and performing artist, it is so important to create opportunities to get to know people in the industry to shed light on their experiences; struggles and triumphs, and even though we didn’t get the full chance to sit down a have a chat with Daniel, I think the crew’s initial meet with him and the production has been quite an experience.

So the basis of The Contender is a series followng 16 aspiring boxers from training camp to boxing matches until one remains to claim the prize money of $1,000,000.

We were apart of the audience of 300, who would battle their cries out in support for their “Contender”. At times I couldn’t help but get excited with the violence while other times I would think “Gee that hook punch to the face looks really really painful” and couldn’t help but cringe at the damage inflicted from a fist fight combat sport.

Speaking of the downsides of boxing, there has been a community campaign One Punch Can Kill. Their message is their name – One punch can kill. Catchy campaign initiated by the Queensland government, however, where are the stats?

I still like a bit of combat sport and for those of you who want a lighter novel sample of this sport, I do recommend Body Combat at the Fairfield City Council Leisure Centre.

Body Combat is a knockout! Punching, kicking, fending, and fighting! Fantastic music and a physically demanding workout for all levels of fitness. The results are awesome buns of steel; rock-hard abs; and superb muscle toning.
For an affordable $15, you get a good heart pumping workout for 60 mins.
How about some Parkour? Ali Kadhim is a parkour practitioner and trainer based in Western Sydney. Make contact with him to learn a trick or two in escaping cops.

Daniel & Me
Daniel & Andy Minh Trieu
Daniel & Ali Kadhim
Daniel & David Vo
Daniel & Jack Ngu
Daniel & Marie Setiwan
Daniel & Joe Carbone
Daniel & Thanh Vu
Daniel & Moses Kuteesa

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