During the Corona compulsory break, many clubs are active on social media. So also the handball players of the SPVGG Giebelstadt with their video for the “toilet paper challenge”.
48 hours to create a film about a roll of toilet paper: these are the guidelines for the so-called toilet paper challenge, which is currently circulating among athletes on social networks. Also the Handball player of the SPVGG Giebelstadt participated in the competition with an original video.
Since the handball player Julian Michel Uploaded video to Youtube a few weeks ago, it was clicked over 1500 times. In 22 scenes, the actors, including the first men’s handball team from SPVGG Giebelstadt, parts of the second men’s team, young handball players, friends of the athletes and a sponsor of the club, stage the film’s star in a variety of ways: a roll of toilet paper strange symbol of the corona crisis.
The challenge: a film shoot in just 48 hours
Anyone nominated for the toilet paper challenge by another team has just 48 hours to shoot a creative video about the role of toilet paper. We found out about the nomination by handball players from TG Hchberg and our football department through our WhatsApp handball group. Thereupon everyone who had the time and the desire filmed something and sent it to me, says Julian Michel, who coordinated the individual scenes of the video and edited it into the finished film. The handball player, who works as a freelance information designer, found the 48-hour period particularly challenging: there was little time for the dramaturgy and the search for suitable music for the video.
The plot of the film is quickly told: a handball player sits on the toilet and needs toilet paper. When he called a colleague of the club, all the other players started to send a roll on the way: The toilet paper was chased by fax, used for juggling and as a bottle opener, tennis ball or training object. 4.25 minutes as a viewer you follow the role of toilet paper, which is held in the air in an original and partly acrobatic way and feels well entertained.
Photo: Julian Michel
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Cooperation as a team is important
In addition to entertainment and fun, the creators of the video are also concerned with something else: Despite the current restrictions, we wanted to do something together as a team and offer sports and entertainment to fans and friends outside the hall, says Julian Michel, who is in the 1st men’s team in the left back room plays. He sees parallels with handball in the action: the toilet paper roll as a symbol of the corona crisis is fitted without direct contact from man to man. Everyone is important, all chain links must work together as a team so that the role achieves its goal. And yet everyone with fun and creativity deals with the task individually and does his own thing out of it.
Photo: Screenshot / Julian Michel
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Looking forward to returning to a joint training session
Since the toilet paper challenge is a competition, anyone who has created a video may nominate several teams themselves, who are then also requested to shoot a video within the next 48 hours. We selected our handball women, HSG Pleichach and TG Wrzburg, says Michel. Those who do not participate are asked to help out the team with a few liters of beer or a snack. Michel also sees parallels to handball in the concept of competition: one challenges friendly teams and is excited to see how they deal with the task.
And what happens to the team after the Corona forced break? “Because of the contact restrictions and hygiene regulations, typical handball training is just not possible,” said Till Kreisel, coach of the first men’s team. As soon as it was allowed again, people wanted to meet for smaller training sessions. Until then, everyone stays fit on their own: I try to run regularly, says Julian Michel, who has been playing handball since primary school in Giebelstadt. He is looking forward to returning to the training session: together it is much more fun – at the moment there is also a lack of time before and after the sport. “
“Toilet paper challenge”
The “toilet paper challenge” has been a viral hit on social networks for weeks. The principle: In a video, athletes show how they can hold a toilet paper roll in the air as original as possible. The result is posted on the Internet and other athletes and clubs are asked to make a video as well. This is how the campaign spreads on the Internet and gets more and more attention. The toilet paper challenge, to which the soccer player Jrme Boateng was the first to call in March, is intended to spread the message in addition to spa: Even if everyone stays at home, you can – for example as a club – do something together.
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