James Hacking (Jimmy) is a Professional Football Freestyler and football choreographer aged 21 based in England. From a very early age James got into the beautiful game and always had a keen eye for football tricks and something out of the ordinary.
After becoming involved in freestyle football at 17 after suffering injury meaning he was unable to continue playing high level football, he hasn't looked back since. Being involved in huge multi million pound sports adverts for Pepsi, Nike, Adidas as well as recently filming a new World Cup 2010 advert specifically for the Asian Market. James is heavily involved with choreographing and starring in a huge number of modern day football adverts. James recently choreographed a series of BT commercials for the new football season, he also starred in the advert doing tricks for the main actor.
James has also performed live on international television for millions of people as well as live in many of the world most iconic stadiums. His first live performance was in front of a crowd of 40,000 people, showing he was thrown into the deepend straight away.
With the experience of being involved in huge commercial campaigns, James has the knowledge to guide production companies and has the ability to choreograph and deliver something different to the sports commercial arena. Having body doubled for world famous players such as Fernando Torres, Ronaldo and Bastian Schweinsteiger, James is no stranger to working with the big name. He has also worked with actors such as Kris Marshall from Love Actually, My Family and all the recent BT Commercials. James has also worked with Lionel Messi, Cesc Fabregas, Frank Lampard, Thierry Henry, Michael Owen and Gareth Bale to name a few of the names he has had the pleasure of working with.
James also has a reknowned ability to choreograph some of the finest freestyle football shows, with connections with some of the world's finest breakdancers, trickers and parkour artists, James can always bring something new to the performance arena.
Over the past two years, James' training has focused more on ground moves and street football and has an unbelievable locker of street football moves that are perfect for events which involve crowd play and panna rings.
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