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anyone know how to get started in stunts?
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move to a place that makes movies/TV.... like Los Angeles
that is the only advice I can think of. It really is amazing how entertainment stuff there is here in LA, it's a huge market.
There are precision driving schools/weekend classes all over the place if you look, and that would prolly help.
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Check out:
They run fight workshops during the summer. I took a combo stage combat/high falls workshop there one summer.
Also look online for fight choreographer's organizations and unions.
Steven RagatzComment
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Check out the USA Stunt School in Seattle run by David Boushey, and or any SAFD workshop... THey are a great place to learn the skills.....
Down side is most STUNT co-ordinators DO NOT want to hear that you have attended a stunt school ( unless the co-ordinator is the person who runs the school you attend)... so after you go... just list the skills not the school.
Audition for a Stunt show at one of the Local Theme parks. (Six flags, Universal Studios) ... those are good places. The most valuable skills to have regardles of who and where you go is:
1- Stage Combat... good hand to hand
2- Falling down, slamming into things...etc.
3-Dramatic-Comedic Timing... working quickly, taking direction and changing your style to addapt to the situation.
4- If you can (act?) speak and be funny you are ahead of 90% of working sunt people.
90% of stunt jobs are fighting, falling down, and some driving.
Highfalls, Burns, Rigging.... are much more sparce.
last and Best way is make friends witha working stuntperson... preferably a Stunt Co-Ordinator... and ask them to give you a job.
Most Stunt work is learned on the Job.
My two cents.
Brett
BATMAN- BATMAN stunt show, Six Flags Magic MountainComment
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get your friends to film you throwing yourself down concrete stairs, staple-gunning your testicles, and swallowing live rodents.
Mail the tape to MTV and get your own hit TV series and subsequent movie deal.
Oh wait... that's been done.
Ummm, pay some homeless guys with booze and have THEM beat the shit out of each other. Film this and sell it over the internet!
Oh wait... that's been done, too.
Be a contestant on the 'Search for the Next Action Hero' reality show and win!
Oh wait... That's also been done.
I'm out of ideas. Good luck!
étienneComment
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I'd like to second Whipboy's (and Steven's) advice:
Several years ago, before I was old and creaky, I worked the Wild West Stunt show at what is now Six Flags America (don't laugh Whipboy; everybody's got to start somewhere [img]wink.gif[/img] ). I came to the auditions with significant stage combat background and many years of acting experience. I think it was probably the acting ability that got me the job--the other guys there were clearly not actors. Some were not stuntmen, either, but they were enthusiastic and willing to learn.
At the time I had never done a highfall or repel (both of which I had to do in the show), but I did have a healthy fear of heights. Long story short, I learned to do the stunts, got some experience under my belt and made some good contacts (one of the guys has since become a stunt coordinator). As a result, I've made five commercials--one with stunts, four without--and been a stunt player in two History Channel programs about the Civil War.
You won't get a lot of respect for working a theme park stunt show, but it is good training and may lead to more opportunities.
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