Stage Combat: Slap

Video Transcript

"Now we've talked about some punches and some knapp's. Now the next part of our choreography is going to be a slap. Actually it's going to be a backhand but there are so many different kinds of slaps you can do. You can do a slap right across the face, where it just goes straight across and then you knapp right here so you kind of add a little bouncing motion so it looks like you slapped her in the face. So what I do is I go, like so, and from behind it looks I just slapped her across the face. For our purposes we're going to do a backhand so if you remember from last segment, I have just done a nice cross punch right there. So she's down a little, now what she's going to do is she's going to make eye contact with me and then she's going to come up for a nice backhand. Now with this backhand, notice where she's aiming. Now you'll see that she's at least three to six inches away from my face. We don't want this to be a real slap because that would be painful. So what we're going to do is you always make sure that you've got proper distance here. Now the angle of her slap is somewhat upward because she's coming from a lower angle, so if I were to react this way, it doesn't really match where her hand is going. So we have to make sure we work together to create a nice slap. Now also with this I don't really want to do a chest knapp here because it doesn't really sound like a slap right? So what I want to do is I'm going to do a clap now which I can easily hide from the audience once we angle ourselves. So she does it, we got a nice slap going on there. So now if we do it in real time and at a real angle that we're going to be at. Looks like I just got slapped in the face, here's hoping. Alright, so now that we've combined our punch with our slap we can work on showing you a reaction. How to create that reaction that we just did."