Comments for "Maatc Getting Famous as a Professional Escalopter (escalopteur?)" Blog at VideoSift.com

By gwiz665

gwiz665 (http://gwiz665.videosift.com) — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 16:16:46 -0700

Hahaha, this is so great.

The caption is something like "A new fun sport conquers (invades) the video portal"

By lucky760

lucky760 (http://lucky760.videosift.com) — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 16:49:09 -0700

So awesome. Congrats, maatc. You're famous!

By blankfist

blankfist (http://blankfist.videosift.com) — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 19:04:28 -0700

>> ^gwiz665:
The caption is something like "A new fun sport conquers (invades) the video portal"

But it's pronounced "I'm never fun, sport. Eh, Robert die video port tail!"

By kronosposeidon

kronosposeidon (http://www.videosift.com/member/kronosposeidon) — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 20:56:20 -0700

YTMND, maatc! Way to represent the Sift in Western Europe!

(Still waiting on kulpims to pick up the slack in Eastern Europe.)

By MINK

MINK (http://www.videosift.com/member/MINK) — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 02:09:50 -0700

hey i am slacking for eastern europe too!

By maatc

maatc (http://maatc.videosift.com) — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 02:25:20 -0700

Hey, thanks for the post, doing the interview was great fun!
They have another one about the lip dub we did, but they will air it some other time I think.

I am not used to dealing with the press so I was quite surprised how my words were twisted into a new meaning or just left out and then interpreted entirely different by the interviewer.
For example I told them the word was invented in a forum where I posted the clip not BY me and the bit about my friend uploading it to YouTube was made up by them as well.
I better get David Plouffe to coach me next time...

Anyway here is the translation of the interview:

Textbox:
The whole thing is like helicoptering on an escalator. Some people had the idea to lay down on the black handrails of escalators to get spun around in circles by the opposite movement. Great fun when shopping. The word was invented by a guy from Berlin. (wrong!)

Audio:

Interviewer:
Today I speak about a few twisted videos on the web, and I mean that literally. It´s about people who lay down for a round on an escalator and get spun around by the black handrails. And that is called (maatcs voice) "Escalopter. It´s a mix between an escalator and a helicopter."

Interviewer:
That`s what Matthias Kluth from Berlin says, and he has to know it, since he coined the term (wrong again!) He just layed down on some handrails moving in opposite directions, braced himself and let himself get spun around. The video was uploaded by a friend. The Urbandictionary calls his sport "Escalopter" and added it to it´s list of words. Should you want to try an Escalopter, you just need two escalators close to each other that run in opposite directions, one up, one down and a little bit of practice before you start.

Maatc:
In the beginning it´s a funny feeling to jump up on the rails and to let yourself fall back but it worked after two attempts. But you will get a bruised back, I had a few of them afterwards.

Interviewer:
Lay down on your back, and don´t try it belly down if you listen to the pro.

Maatc:
I tried it face down, but it didn´t work. Because the tension in your back muscles is not as strong when you lay on your belly. It might work if you have a really strong back, but I could not do it.

Interviewer:
Escalopter is conquering the internet. As opposed to other fun sports it is unlikely that any money can be made from it though.

Maatc:
No, I got some of my friends to try it as well, but other than that it was of no real use, I did not make any money from it yet, and I think it won´t be an olympic sport any time soon either.

Interviewer:
Escalopter, a new fun sport that owes it´s name to Matthias Kluth from Berlin. You can check out what helicoptering on an escalator looks like on jumptv.

By rasch187

rasch187 (http://rasch187.videosift.com) — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 03:14:04 -0700

"Escalopter is conquering the internet."

That sounds so scary in German.

By lucky760

lucky760 (http://lucky760.videosift.com) — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 09:30:19 -0700

In honor of maatc's achievement:
http://www.videosift.com/video/The-Downhill-Escalopter
http://www.videosift.com/video/The-Uphill-Escalopter
http://www.videosift.com/video/Escalopter-Barrel-Roll-Attempt

Thanks for the translation!

By maatc

maatc (http://maatc.videosift.com) — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 09:34:43 -0700

>> ^lucky760:
In honor of maatc's achievement:
http://www.videosift.com/video/The-Downhill-Escalopter
http://www.videosift.com/video/The-Uphill-Escalopter
http://www.videosift.com/video/Escalopter-Barrel-Roll-Attempt

Thanks for the translation!

It´s a MEME!!!

By choggie

choggie (http://www.videosift.com/member/choggie) — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 13:26:55 -0700

Berlin/SanJose/Houston and the world, babies-

S'cuze me.....gotta go get some choggie escalopter on-maybe talk some strange family into trying it with me naked....

By LittleRed

LittleRed (http://www.videosift.com/member/LittleRed) — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 16:10:51 -0700

Holy cow, maatc - you talk faster than any German I've ever met.

By maatc

maatc (http://maatc.videosift.com) — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 16:14:54 -0700

>> ^LittleRed:
Holy cow, maatc - you talk faster than any German I've ever met.

Hehe.
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think fast, I talk fast and I need you guys to act fast if you wanna get out of this. So, pretty please... with sugar on top. Clean the fucking car!

By lucky760

lucky760 (http://lucky760.videosift.com) — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 20:31:31 -0700

>> ^LittleRed:
Holy cow, maatc - you talk faster than any German I've ever met.

Ditto- and I've never met a German before.

@maatc- Way to pull out a Pulp quote! I do that once in a while but people usually don't get it and I look stupid. (E.g., any time I taste something good, like, oh I don't know, say a taster of Thai Coconut Soup with Tempura Sunflower Sprouts, I say "That iiiis a good Thai Coconut Soup!")

By kronosposeidon

kronosposeidon (http://www.videosift.com/member/kronosposeidon) — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 22:17:14 -0700

Maatc is the shit. Let's all give him a promote from his PQ. One of my next two is for him.

By blankfist

blankfist (http://blankfist.videosift.com) — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 01:03:55 -0700

maatc raped my mother. Sarah palin won't allow her to get an abortion. I refuse to promote any of his videos.

By swampgirl

swampgirl (http://swampgirl.videosift.com) — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 12:41:05 -0700

It's like a sniglet http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sniglet

By NordlichReiter

NordlichReiter (http://www.videosift.com/member/NordlichReiter) — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 08:18:19 -0700

Mark My words... some one is going to get hurt, badly... and it will be recorded in the Annals of: dont do this shit, if you want to live happily.