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Grounded and Ready: Mental Preparation of a Stunt Performer

Name: Grounded and Ready: Mental Preparation of a Stunt Performer
Uploaded: 2024-04-14T16:00:40+00:00
Duration: 56 s
Channel: Mick Hunt
Description: Short transcript excerpt from the YouTube video "Grounded and Ready: Mental Preparation of a Stunt Performer." In this exchange the interviewer asks how…

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Short transcript excerpt from the YouTube video "Grounded and Ready: Mental Preparation of a Stunt Performer." In this exchange the interviewer asks how the stunt performer mentally prepares each day. The performer describes regular yoga training, meditation, breath-work and specific poses that keep them centered and aware of their capabilities; they emphasize honesty about limits, excitement (not fear) when skills and rig checks are in place, and the importance of checking stunt riggers' work (wires/rigging) for safety.

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How do you prep yourself knowing that you're the stunt double, right? You're the stunt performer. How do you. How do you prepare for that mentally, each day?
Well, I have yoga training, so that keeps me centered, grounded, and knowing who I am and what I'm capable of every day. So that with meditations and the different poses and the different breath work practices that I do, that reminds me of who I am. And now knowing who I am, that shows, okay, can I do this done or not? Of honesty that you go into the job with is the level of safety that you're going into as well. So going into a stunt job, I'm not scared. I'm excited, because I know that these are skills that I practiced, and I know as long as I check over the rig that they're putting me through, because there's stunt riggers who are there who are putting the wires in such a way that I become a puppet. So as long as I check over their work and I know my own abilities, the work's going to be done really great that day.