Group Gets Under the Helmet with Lax Video

When you call your sports production company "Under the Helmet," you better hope that you are providing viewers with close up coverage of lacrosse. Brent Coye, a 1992 national championship winner at Nazareth College and producer of "Only the Strong Survive," upholds UTH’s image with its inaugural movie.

"Only the Strong Survive" is entertaining for lacrosse fans not for the instruction it offers. It doesn’t really offer that much. What is does offer, however, is great video footage for the lacrosse fan interested in seeing how the game should properly be played. Coupled with commentary from an impressive list of college and club players and coaches, Coye has put together a fitting tribute to good, physical lacrosse.

Coye’s friends help make the film with their commentary on the physical nature of lacrosse, but as expected, the game footage offered in "Only the Strong Survive" is the selling point in the video. Coye assembles clips from top college games, the National Lacrosse League and USCLA to entertain the viewer and leave the impression that lacrosse, when played correctly, is not for the faint of heart.

The 30-minute film suggests to viewers a couple of things. One is that lacrosse is and should be a violent game. People who like violent lacrosse will like Coye’s video. Coye does have some nice footage of pretty goals, including a number by friends Tim Soudan and Paul Gait, but most of the time those scorers end up ass over tea kettle.

The other thing the film suggests to the viewer is that lacrosse, despite the violence, is a beautiful game. The 30-minute piece is filled with beauty shots from the outside, behind the back goals, pretty give and go’s, and impressive moves to the cage. And using primarily footage from his cast of contributors - Gait, Soudan, Charlie Lockwood, Billy Daye, Gordie Purdie, and Matt Palumb among them - Coye’s film has plenty of good action for the lacrosse fan looking to see how the game should be played.

The video is available online for $28.95, but it’s well worth the investment, a production that can be watched over and over again. Read more about Under the Helmet’s "Only the Strong Survive" at www.Under-the-Helmet.com, and order a copy online or at your nearest lacrosse store.