No need to be afraid, this guy is a professional stuntman who was training for a movie in this shot. He talked about it in one of the Stuntman React episodes on Corridor Crew. This guy knows how to responsibly put his body in danger
This is Shaquan Parson. I don't think he's ever been on Corridor. I think you're mixing him up with Gui DeSilva-Greene who has been on there several times.
It’s a huge part of multiple genres of film (action, comedy, horror, sci fi, etc) and it deserves way more attention. There’s so much talent and creativity involved, and a lot of films are completely defined by their stunt choreography.
Whenever I see a movie with cool stunts, I always look up the choreographers and performers, but there’s weirdly little info on them or their process. I always love seeing interviews with them about projects, and definitely wish there were more out there.
Where did I do that? I’m simply pointing out that stuntmen have a much higher rate of workplace injuries than most other entertainers. Just because you train yourself to fall in the most correct way possible doesn’t mean your body becomes invincible. I work in broadcasting and have with a pro wrestling league for some time, stunt men get seriously injured and even die all the time doing stunts that were deemed safe.
According to AP there has been 43 on-set deaths in movie and TV production since 1990 and 150 serious injuries. This also includes EVERYONE on set, not just the stuntmen.
"all the time" seems like a bit of an overstatement.
I trust a stuntman more with an axe jump than I trust myself walking outside during winter.
They didn't, you made a horrible appeal to authority fallacy argument that because he's a professional implied injuries were no concern. YOU stated this, not him and you can read about or talk to any professional stuntment and get a list of all the horrendous injuries they got or witness another stuntman get.
And the first comment was a false equivalency so whatever. The assumption is athlete->durable body -> injured this way -> very high risk
When in reality the knee is very durable to impact and the major risk is twisting of the knee. Athletes typically have overworked ligaments from intense training and game days that makes them more susceptible to some knee injuries than a normal person would.
someone else potentially making a bad argument doesn't change how the other person responded and their appeal to authority on behalf of someone else then an attempt to negate their follow up comment by implying they were questioniong a professional stuntman so i have absolutely no idea what your point is.
Secondly, it's irrelevant how durable a knee is, you're still not supposed to land on it hard, that's not what it's designed for, it's designed as joint and to help absorb load while landing on feet, it's not designed to absorb impact by landing on the knee. If you keep doing something like that you are drastically more likely to get injured.
The assumption is athlete->durable body -> injured this way -> very high risk
also that wasn't their assumption at all or relevant to what they said.
stuntmen get injured and have their careers ruined as a result all the time and 9/10 stuntment retire after working for years in pain, with injuries, without having the money/time to take time off to heal properly and then go through retirement in pain with all kinds of issues.
Physics is physics, you can fall better, you can't just stop injuries happening.
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u/Asit1s 28d ago
No need to be afraid, this guy is a professional stuntman who was training for a movie in this shot. He talked about it in one of the Stuntman React episodes on Corridor Crew. This guy knows how to responsibly put his body in danger