of ball girl makes incredible catch...the truth unfolds

Ball Girl Makes Incredible Catch: A viral video has benn making its rounds over the internet that showed a minor league ballgirl making an incredible catch on a foul ball during a Fresno Grizzlies game at Chukchansi Park. Nice stunt, even it was later discovered that it was staged for a Gatorade commercial.

Here's the video:


Shoot Online tells us more about the commercial which was created by Chicago's Element 79 Partners, directed by Baker Smith of Santa Monica and the stunt woman is Phoenix Brown.

As for how the ball girl (played by stuntwoman Phoenix Brown) made the spectacular catch that is the highlight of the video, she got a little help from rigs and Framestore CFC.
Smith and his crew shot the big catch right after the game they were shooting concluded, attaching the ball girl to wires and having two stunt men off to the side literally yanking her up the wall.
"It was so low-tech," Smith said of the stunt. "We had her run, and she would jump, and they just gave her a little extra oomph. It was really very, very simple."
That said, there was choreography involved. Smith had marks for the ball girl to hit.
"We were trying to have her emulate those Parkour guys in France," Smith said, making reference to a street sport and art form that has participants moving about various environments—from apartment buildings to public parks—propelling their bodies off of walls, stairs and railings.

Also read more of the at DeadSpin. ("Ballgirls In The Pacific Coast League Are Especially Nimble")

[via Richard Palace]