yea, different worlds… stunt work sounds extremely cool, though. At least from the outside. Probably more dangerous too, although I suppose modern stunt work must be vastly safer than it used to be
I’ve not been hurt on set but I’ve been hurt a fuck ton training.
I’ve had my foot dislocated, toes dislocated, broken my nose a few times, fucked up my elbow really bad recently and was down for a few months… It’s rough. But a lot of that is having to deal with people who’re not treating my safety as important as their safety.
Yeah training with other stunt people. A guy on my stunt team did a takedown where he trapped my foot, and in doing so the only way it could move caused me to get really messed up. He should never have done such a thing and I think he did it on purpose. That does unfortunately happen with some people as they’re sociopaths.
Most of the training I do is barefoot as we’re on martial arts mats. I have a pair of shoes I wear for ‘public’ gym stunt training which prevents this, but when you’re in a private team environment you don’t expect that kind of stuff.
Ah man wish I was working on stuff like that. I’m in stunts so we don’t really work with animators unfortunately!
yea, different worlds… stunt work sounds extremely cool, though. At least from the outside. Probably more dangerous too, although I suppose modern stunt work must be vastly safer than it used to be
I’ve not been hurt on set but I’ve been hurt a fuck ton training.
I’ve had my foot dislocated, toes dislocated, broken my nose a few times, fucked up my elbow really bad recently and was down for a few months… It’s rough. But a lot of that is having to deal with people who’re not treating my safety as important as their safety.
Do you mean other stuntpeople ?
And how does one dislocate toes ? barefoot reception/landing ? don’t you have special gear like stuntsocks, or is that just my fantasy
Yeah training with other stunt people. A guy on my stunt team did a takedown where he trapped my foot, and in doing so the only way it could move caused me to get really messed up. He should never have done such a thing and I think he did it on purpose. That does unfortunately happen with some people as they’re sociopaths.
Most of the training I do is barefoot as we’re on martial arts mats. I have a pair of shoes I wear for ‘public’ gym stunt training which prevents this, but when you’re in a private team environment you don’t expect that kind of stuff.