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OK, well I've got Swedish, Danish and Spanish covered. If you can get the rest done that'd be great. Thanks.

You can get the translations done manually, right? I don't trust translation software...

Can get it translated into a few different languages - let me know if you need any of the following:

French
Spanish
Dutch
Italian
German
Arabic
Estonian
Danish
Finnish
Nordiac
Chinese
Swedish
Turkish
Russian
Polish
Flemish

There might be a few more but off the top of my head thats what I have access to.

Jesus!  How do you have access to all them?

Swedish version is now live on Youtube. Thanks, Puckoon.

Your suggestions have merit, Zulu.  I was actually careful to get in a few scenes that show the big crowds in the background so that first-time viewers of the sport can see that it is big somewhere.

As for getting kids into the shot, maybe I'll do that in a more youth-oriented movie. The purpose of this film is to let the viewer know that the game exists, that it is popular in at least one country, and to show the basics of how the game is played. It's pitched at more of an adult demographic, but I think kids would get excited by it too.

I plan to crank out a few more versions of this sort of film, I've made a 15-second one for hurling, for example.  I plan to make 15-second spots and 30-second spots for online advertising purposes.  We're actually working on a bit of a GAA marketing plan here for the US, and online video advertising will likely be a major part of that.

Got it in Spanish.

Got the Swedish, and I've asked someone to do French and Spanish, although Juice if you have the Spanish done then by all means send it.

It'd be great to have it in Catalan all right.  Want to do the hurling captions while you're at it?

Good man, Puckoon.

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Benny, if you want the DVD version, contact me through my youtube channel and give me your address, I can send it on to you.

First person shooter style video from Milwaukee Hurling club shot with a helmetcam. Not the highest standard you've ever seen (and yes, they play co-ed) but still great to watch. I'd love to see first-hand views of a senior game.

They seem to have a hard time understanding the mind of someone who has never seen the sport before. If you watch the hurling movie that they made, the number of assumptions, omissions and plain errors in the first few minutes alone is shocking.

"Hurling is one of the national games played in Ireland."  Objection: It's played all over the world.

"It traces its origins to Celtic folklore heroes such as CuChulainn."  Objection: Who the hell is that? When did he live?  Why are you telling me this?

Gawd I could go on for five pages picking holes in that stinker of a film!

Hi all. Asylum seeker from An Fear Rua here.

I've made an informational video explaining Gaelic football and uploaded it to youtube.  This is a compliment to the hugely popular hurling informational movie that's now getting about 400 hits per day.  These videos are for people to use in GAA overseas units who are introducing people to the games for the first time.  I know that the GAA did produce half-hour long videos for that purpose about ten years ago, but the only use I ever found for them was to use them as an example of how not to make an informational video that's supposed to get people excited about our games, but don't get me started on that!

With a bit of help from people around the web I got the hurling video translated into six other languages: Polish, Russian, French, Spanish, German, and Dutch.

I want to do the same translation job for this football video, so if anyone could help I'd be eternally grateful. Any languages will do, even Asian languages if any of you can speak them.

Since there's no voice over, it's all done with captions so it's a whole lot easier.

The captions go as follows:

• The suspense and skill of soccer
• The high scoring of basketball
• The impact of Rugby
• Agility
• Speed
• Skill
• Gaelic Football
• Catch the ball in the air
• Chip the ball up with your foot
• Carry the ball for 4 steps...
• ..then do something with it
• Kick it back into your hands
• Bounce the ball...
• ...but not twice in a row
• Strike the ball with your hand or fist
• Kick the ball on the ground
• Kick the ball from your hands
• Shoot over the crossbar for one point
• Shoot into the net for three points
• Block his shot with your hands
• Flick the ball out of his hands
• Hit him shoulder-to-shoulder
  
• Above all...
• Be accurate...
• Be fast...
• And be brave

Please do not use automatic translation services like Google translate - they will surely misunderstand words like "chip" and "shot" as used above.  You don't have to get an exact translation, just as close as you can to make the point using the minimum number of words possible.  Brevity and accuracy are the key things here.

Also, please post your translation under the English line so I'll know what means what.

Feel free to post this on AFR if any of you have accounts there.

If you don't want to post publicly here then contact me through my youtube channel.

Thanks.