Music

 Looking back, I got really lucky with music. The reason I was struggling to decide on what to do beforehand was because I didn't exactly know what would fit the vibe for the final sequence. While this would have been super bad if I couldn't find any non-copyrighted music I liked, I got lucky. Thankfully, one of Matt's brothers, Erick, is a musician. Matt "jokingly" sent over one of his beats saying I should use it for the video, and it actually kind of fit. It's a more rock or grunge type of beat then I probably would have gone for if copyright wasn't an issue, but I really like how it ended up working with the sequence I had edited. Especially at the end, it ends perfectly timed with the protagonist's defeat in both his training and the flashback. 

Anyways, here's the permission document. Big thanks to Erick Toribio. :)

(It wouldn't let me embed it or upload the actual PDF so here's a screenshot of the document)

I'd say this song works because most training montages within the sports genre use hype music. While recently this has gravitated more towards rap or hip-hop in more recent films such as Creed III, it's also common to use Rock music like the classic use of Eye of the Tiger in Rocky IV.

While this piece is a bit grunge-ier and strictly instrumental, the energy still fits that of a typical "hype" training montage. In order to emphasize the flashback scenes though, I did use a lowpass to make it sound "drowned" in a sense, I'll go more in detail on my editing post though.