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Summary: Learn how actors perform fake slaps and punches in stage combat during a play performance in this free professional acting video from our professional actor.
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Robert Selander Robert Selander is a professional actor both on stage and screen. He teaches techniques for performers on stage combat. read more
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Questions & AnswersAlright, so now that we've gone over safety, we've gone over naps and three basic types of naps as well as positioning to the audience, now I'm going to show you what these can be used for. Basically these kinds of naps these upper body ones, the attackee, attacker and team nap, they can be used with slaps and punches. So let me demonstrate that real quick with Shaun here, but first we'll demonstrate the attacker nap which I'll be the attacker for and we'll do a slap. This is what it looks like; shoulders, eye contact, my left arm goes back and there you go, I've done a slap. Now, let's try the same thing the attacker nap with a punch. The only difference is instead of having my hand like this open, we're going to put it in a fist, that's the only difference, it's the same action, the same kind of movement and it's going to look just alike a little bit harder with a punch. So again, hands on the shoulders, eye contact, rear back with a punch and then just like that and you always want to follow through, come down like that. That's basically it for that. Now, also remember there's the attackee nap which Shaun will demonstrate, he's going to hit me for this. Let's start off with a slap and I will do the nap for this. So, Shaun's going to grab me, eye contact, bring back, awww and that's what an attackee slap looks like. Now we're going to do the attackee punch. Which is the same thing; eye contact, rear back, awww, except the only difference was Shaun had his fist close. Now here's where it gets a little bit different, usually you don't use the team nap with a punch, usually only use it with slap. That's because with a punch you have a balled up hand it's a fist, if you messed up with that it could hurt. So you always want to use your open hand when you're doing the team nap, which would look like this. Awww and that's a team nap! Remember only use a team nap with a slap and not a punch.
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