The attention span of today isn't all that great and for a lot of reasons. A major thing is from Social Media where you have so many things to view that it can be hard to keep up and the truth is, you can't keep up so what's to really focus on. Some live their whole lives and document every single fucking thing in order to feel that they'll be remembered. Hell being a celebrity seems to be far easier today than it was even 25 years ago. All you have to do is make one little comment or show some skin and wham bam, many will come and will either love you or hate you.
Some people will go on youtube and get things off their chest and rant about how much the world sucks and how men are so weak that they can't take a blow to the face by a feather. Others may feel threatened because of something someone said that was not all that was the truth yet took it to the extreme believing that person is trying to bruise their business. Get real bro. I used to talk quite a bit in my videos over the years and quite frankly, I had enough for certain reasons.....
I don't have a ton of patience to explain shit to people about exercises that could raise more questions than answers. Talking to an audience isn't my strong suit and don't look at the camera very much. If I start talking, it could be very short or too long for someone or even for my taste. I always felt like my writing did the talking for me and just film doing exercises and workouts because they're right there and don't need to really say anything, most of them are very self explanatory. Other people are far better at that than I'll ever be like Logan Christopher, Al Kavadlo, Matt Schifferle, Matt Furey and others. The only way I was able to really talk was because it takes me back to doing performances and scenes when I was in School. In middle school, I was in the choir and performed in various places through Santa Cruz like schools, a nursing home, the mall and at the Coconut Grove at the Boardwalk. In High School, I performed in Drama doing plays like Brigadoon, Wizard Of Oz, Once Upon A Mattress and Singing In The Rain mainly doing dance sequences and only one scene in that entire era where I talked, have fun guessing which one and which scene (only those that were there and know me IRL know).
For the most part, I 'am camera shy and I get nervous pretty easily. Shit I'm not that great as an interview or giving an interview, it's difficult for me. When I stopped and realized that the best way for me to do videos is to just do what I love and shut up. It worked and that makes me feel confident in being on camera. That has somewhat helped me evolve into someone showing his journey without the need to say much or at all. Just do your thing and if someone has a question, do it in an email or in a comment. I may not have the coolest gadgets or do the most perfect form of exercise but I do what I can and make the most of what I know and understand. Some have it, some don't and I'm one of those people who doesn't need to talk in order to get my point across.
Some don't have it but try anyway and I applaud the effort but if you're going to overexplain along with belittling people, you either need some fixing or use a completely different approach. If you're trying to appeal to a specific audience that's great but not everyone is going to want to listen and then try to view you doing something. Can you improve on it, of course. Even for me I may find some words in future videos but just do what you love and train. Just putting it out there can be nerve wracking especially if you're new to it. That's what made it painfully obvious to me was the talking, the moment I learned to shut up and go, things just shot up like a rocket.
There are so many youtubers, influencers, gurus, trainers and such but an extreme few ever will make it big and better yet, a fraction of them are actually that good and have helped many people. Some are great at explaining things and teaching the mechanics but others just want to run their mouth and act like nobody comes close to what they do, it's sad. I'm sorry but if you're going to boast about how great you are and that you can "coach, train, take you by the hand – and SCRUFF hehe – and WHIP your ass into shape like NO-ONE else out there, I repeat, NO-ONE comes close – even can come close to 'can'" than that's borderline narcissistic and need to fix those loose screws man.
If you've mastered at talking on camera, keep at it and showcase the best to your abilities, if you're just great at showing stuff and don't need to explain it on film, that's great too. We all have our strengths and weaknesses. Have fun and be amazingly awesome in your endeavors.
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