Safety Overview of Stage Combat

Video Transcript

"Alright so before we start, the first and most important thing about stage combat is safety. The first thing you should know if you never tried stage combat is that you don't ever, ever, ever hit anybody. You never hit someone, you never make contact with anybody. You're always hitting around or you're faking it out in some way to trick the audience. That's why it's stage, that's why it's fake. Another thing is before you go and start practicing stage combat, what you should always do is have an outline or have a really good idea of what you're going to be doing in the scene or in the stage fight that you're going to be doing. You never want to impervious, you never want to make it up on the spot because that's when someone really gets hurt. Every punch, every move, every step, before you start practicing should be well thought out. Also before you start practicing stage combat you really need to find a space that you have a lot of room in. Like in this room we've cleared out most everything so that if I fall or I slip or trip I'm not going to hit my head on a corner of a couch or I'm not going to knock a whole bunch of books off a shelf or anything, everything is pretty clear. Also, you want a floor that's okay if it's semi hard. If you're going to be falling you always want to go somewhere where there's a mat or even outside on your lawn or on the beach. You never want to fall on like concrete or asphalt, you can really screw yourself up that way. Those are some basic, basic, basic things to know before you start practicing the stage combat."