It Came From The Indies: Head Drop Productions

I hope you're enjoying your 4^th of July. I would say Independence Day, but if you’re reading this outside of the United States then it’s just the 4^th day of the 7^th month. To all the people in Virginia & Maryland still without power because of the storm last week, I hope the 4^th brings back some normalcy to your lives. A cook out with friends can raise spirits of those waiting until the weekend when the AC comes back on. If you’ve got a friend at work or at the gym that has been suffering through the heat, maybe invite them over for a burger & a beer. It’s what the forefathers would have done, if they had electricity. Then again if they had electricity they might have just sat around watching cable news all day and we would still be a British colony.

One thing electricity has brought us is the world wide web. The internet has done a lot to change the world around us. No longer do you have to hide your porn under your bed, just remember to erase your browser history. You can play video games with people on the other side of the planet. For wrestling fans you can see indie wrestling that wouldn’t have made it into your tape collection.

Years ago to get your indie promotion seen you had to get a deal with a local television station or public access. Studio wrestling was a must for territories in the 70’s and 80’s. Now with the internet, and the ease to do home video, any promotion can have their own online television show.

Head Drop Productions, a Midwest company that covers a variety of indie promotions, is a prime example of this new revolution. The company is headed up by Zach Macomber, a rising star in the Michigan Indie scene as Grizzly House Jones. He has worked for companies like the MMWA, who had TV during 2004, and CIW, a long standing indie promotion in the Midwest. Taking his experience in television & home video he has launched his company to assist Midwest indie wrestling.

Now he has started a video production company that eases the cost of being an online or video presence, yet still providing a high quality product. On HDP's website, http://www.headdropproductions.com/, they feature a variety of wrestling for fans to view. The video catalog is expansive with a great deal of $10 per video going on. The true time killer, and gem of Head Drop Productions, is their Youtube channel.

On Youtube they feature nineteen episodes from two different promotions. The video work is serviceable, and the commentary is entertaining. The action in the ring isn’t on par with Ring of Honor or Dragon Gate USA, but for regional indie wrestling the matches are enjoyable to watch with some crazy characters still learning the ropes in professional wrestling. If the WWE is the major leagues, and ROH is AAA baseball then the promotions featured by Head Drop Productions are the single A teams, which is still professional ball.

For those looking for a good deal on getting their promotion noticed then Head Drop Productions is the way to go. They have the equipment, experience, and passion to deliver a high quality product at an affordable price. Their Youtube channel gives free exposure to companies looking to gain new fans, and the video catalog contains some true indie wrestling hidden gems. I personally recommend anything from CIW with Krimson. That’s some good viewing.

Each week I hope to shed some light on different people making things work on the indie scene. Smaller companies and indie promotions like Head Drop Productions are the life blood of pro wrestling. They employ the thousands of wrestlers on the indie circuit. They help get the word out about the future, or the past, of professional wrestling. They go without much praise from the bigger websites because they aren't the WWE, but without HDP, CIW, or other indie companies then professional wrestling would lose it's roots. And that's what this whole website is about, The Grass Roots of Wrestling.