My stunt team C.B.T. Stunt Alliance has always trained in the traditional stunts (i.e. falls, fight choreography, martial arts weapons, tactical firearms training, vehicular stunts, etc.) yet we are KNOWN for 2 things:
1) Exotic Martial Arts Weapons for Film & TV – a variety of swords, spears, knives, clubs and other weapons from cultures around the world.
and
2) Elite Tactical Firearms for Film & TV
Most well organized stunt teams tend to specialize in 1 or 2 things. For us, it’s why we routinely get hired to play roles for Roman Gladiators, Vikings, Samurai, Deadly warriors for video games, assassins, Special Forces Soldiers, Elite Mercenaries and more.
Needless to say we’ve all enjoyed AMAZING careers and have had an absolute blast! This success came about because we literally trained in stunts and stunt fighting EVERY Sunday for 3 hours per session for years. This ensured that we were always at the top of our game.
During this time, we’ve always had actors, stunt performers and filmmakers/content creators that found us in the search engines, social media or get referred to us to learn stunts and fight choreography training so they can use it for specific projects or in general just so they can audition for roles that require stunt training in various TV shows and movies.
The problem was we were always too busy working to actually train all these people. We’d simply tell them we’d add them to the list (which was a VERY long one!) and notify them when we were teaching classes, which would rarely ever happen. Hey it’s what happens when you’re in demand!
SIDE NOTE – we did provide paid actor/ stunt performer training yet mainly for actors and stunt performers for projects that WE were hired for. This is one of the ways we got known in the industry and got so many referrals.