New Poll - OUCH!

Gee, this topic's got me remembering some fond injuries! I remember early in my career being able to make a point of the fact that I was carrying a scar from every different production I'd been in. I'm more careful these days, honest!


Just remembered one from my Curtin Uni days. A dance piece that involved a lot of acrobatics and precise stunt choreography.
During one of our tech rehearsals, we'd been in the habit of either doing a 'full run', which meant a performance-level effort, or a 'walk-through' which meant that to save energy and concentrate on the music, we'd just mark time during some of the difficult sections, vaguely going through the motions but not doing the full leaps.

One stunt involved an actor cupping his hands together so I could step up on them, and I used him as a launch pad to do a backward somersault. If it was a "walk-through", I still stepped up on him to mark the time it would take, but simply jumped back without doing the full flip.

The accident occurred because once we didn't precisely communicate which 'mode' we were rehearsing in...I wrongly assumed I could do the full sault, while my partner was not prepared to stand his ground for the full kick I gave. The backflip became a half hearted effort where all my thrust threw him across the room into someone else, and I was in mid air about to land squarely on my head. I was lucky to twist out of it and landed on my back but in doing so I gave myself the equivalent of a whiplash neck injury.


A valuable lesson I learned....COMMUNICATING !




Thanks, it's good to remind yourself sometimes of how stupid you've been in the past. If you let yourself forget you can become blase.

Cheers,
Craig

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