New Test Fight

I've not posted in awhile because I've been struggling. It's been a cold year for the film biz. It's the economy, stupid! It's allowed me to take a certain amount of liberty to train and work, and I put together another test fight, just to see where I'm at.



A lot of people like it, and I think that I've come a long way in putting together functional choreography, and I plotted out a decent portion of the angles that I wanted to use for this fight as well. It helps, as always, to have the ever impressive Emmanuel Manzanares manning the camera, but I'm starting to feel like I can be more than just a performer.

I've got some more things on the burner. Catch you in a few weeks.

Hard at Work

So, I've been working, hustling, working and working. Plenty of times I've done stuff, but nothing paying off yet. I still have to hustle gigs and day work, but everything seems so much closer now. I feel like I'm really really close. Of course, I still need to do better, and to break into some big contacts, but it feels like things are ripe for the plucking - mostly due to the fact that Emmanuel Manzanares of Lazy Brown Productions was kind enough to make demo reels of myself, Shawn Bernal and Keith Min.

Looking at it, it's kind of surprising for me. I've been doing stunts for about 5 years now, and I never REALLY felt like I was doing anything that noticeable or spectacular. But I feel like I've really been doing things when I look at this. And a variety of different things no less.

Which is not to say that I can't improve, or make new and better and different things to give myself more options - I fully intend to do as such. Looking at these reels, I'm pleased, but I also see all of the holes in them - the gaps where things need to look better or different.

However, I don't feel like this is futile - like I can't make something happen for myself. Right now, I feel like it's all a matter of taking the effort and making the time.

But take a look at the reel and judge for yourself.