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Summary: Learn how to perform fake kicks to the head and chest 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
Alright, so now that we've gone over our naps and we've gone over safety and punches, now we're going to get into some more stuff we're going to get into kicks. Now, remember the basic rules apply when you're doing kicks. It's a little bit different with kicks because you can't get the same shoulder distance apart. What you're going to have to do with this one is like I said before, always start super slow so when we demonstrate this this is going to be very slow. And still you always want eye contact to cue yourself to know what you're going to do. So, what Audrey here is going to do is she's going to kick me and I'm going to react accordingly. She's going to kick across my chest just a little lower than my face here, right in this area and what I'm going to do is I'm going to make a nap on my hip. So that when her foot goes across my chest we hear the nap and it sounds like she hit me somewhere in this area. So Audrey do you want to give me a real slow kick? So, boom it's going to be just like that. Again let's do it one more time a little bit slower. So, kick like that. Again, for the positioning for this you want, if we were doing this to you the audience, we would actually be flipped. Audrey would be over here and I would still nap with my right hand except it would be away from the audience so you couldn't see it. So in the end what it would look like is this and you want to do it real quick. Alright so, remember eye contact and awww like that. And even you can rotate this a little bit so that I'm a little bit facing you and you wouldn't see the lack of contact a little bit more. That is kicking in the air.