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From the days when I performed at a medieval fair that enjoyed a certain reputation. I could not fence, foin, or joust as I had pneumonia, so I improvised a surrender on the spot. Taken from a home camcorder so be sure to turn the audio up a bit.
The title says it all - I have been craving a bullwhip for decades now - ever since I saw "Raiders of the Lost Ark" as a kid in the theaters for the first time.
My instructor in stage combat, Geoff Alm, had introduced our class to the bullwhip in the late Nineties, I think - and we always tried to figure out how to use them. The supplier of choice was David Morgan, maker of whips for the Indiana Jones films and for "The Mask of Zorro" with Anthony Hopkins, Antonio Banderas and Catherine Zeta-Jones. I could never afford one of his kangaroo hide whips - they're easily the price of a very fine custom sword - but I was shown a paracord whip in my most recent class with Geoff, and LB Whips makes a very affordable paracord bullwhip that I could easy bring home. So, I gave in and I did. I'm using their 8-foot Indiana Jones model, and I love it. I absolutely love it.
This fight, choreographed by SAFD Fight Master Geoff Alm, was the first time I'd picked up a smallsword in earnest in over 20 years. Fortunately, stunt man/stunt coordinator Ryan Spickard is a brilliant partner, and we put on a performance of George F. Walker's "Zastrozzi, the Master of Discipline" that earned us both a recommended pass from Fight Master J. Allen Suddeth.
A single sword fight from earlier last year, featuring John Lynch and myself going at each other in Single Sword (or, maybe more properly, early Hollywood saber). We have a long-standing joke between us, John and I, that whenever we work together John usually ends up injured in some way. I don't end up whacking him, or sticking him with my point; no, it's more on the lines of groin pulls, or knee/hip strain or injuries. This time out, it was his knee. In our most recent sword and shield test (see below), however, the curse was broken and it was MY turn to come away with bumps, bruises, scrapes from sword points and shield edges, sore knees (always wear the pads, because floors are hard and my knees are bony things) and a twinge in my right inner thigh that was telling me I'd pushed just up to the edge, thank you very much and can we please warm up properly the next time? Still, though, this turned out to be a ball and easily the most romantic/adventurous thing that had ever happened on my landlady's deck. Not quite the quarterdeck of a ship of the line, but near enough.
This was my sword and shield SPT fight for the most recent class at Freehold Theater Lab in Seattle, WA. Under the direction of SAFD Fight Master and Certified Teacher Geoff Alm, my partner and I used the 18th century actor-manager Colly Cibber’s adaptation of Richard III. Cibber was best known as a comedian who managed his own company but who longed to play either the tragic hero or the Shakespearean romantic, neither of which he was very well suited for. Cibber had a long and successful career until his style of playing was replaced by the more naturalistic work of the actor-manager David Garrick. Cibber also was the subject of a 25-year long feud with the poet Alexander Pope, according to Wikipedia. I don't know Pope's work at all, and this is the first time I'd heard of Colly Cibber, but a quarter-century is a long time to carry a grudge.
I volunteered to do two fight tests for my most recent SAFD sword and shield class, as Andrew (my partner here) lost his original partner to a modeling gig in Los Angeles. This was my second go-round through the 18th century actor-manager Colly Cibber’s adaptation of Richard III, making this a mini-Cibber revival. Hooray! I said to myself - I'm finally in a revival of something. :) I did actually get to use these skills on a professional basis on the set of the webseries "The Scottish Play," produced by Seattle-area company Magnussen Media and available on Amazon Prime. I volunteered for a two-on-one fight choreographed by the stunt coordinator Dan Speaker (Hook, Hidalgo, The Evil Dead, and Master & Commander, among others) and spent a long afternoon bashing away in slippery grass while wearing chain mail, a padded gambeson and jerkin. Thankfully, we all came away injury free but it made for a long, tiring and adventurous day (there's nothing like feeling your foot start to go skidding away from you as you're in the middle of an attack).
From the days when I performed at a medieval fair that enjoyed a certain reputation. I could not fence, foin, or joust as I had pneumonia, so I improvised a surrender on the spot. Taken from a home camcorder so be sure to turn the audio up a bit.
Production still from the recent 48 Hour Film Festival entry "Feels Like Flying", directed by Ella Anderson and produced by Team Sneaky Goose
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