Among today’s crop of action talent, some fans who follow the genre on the big and small screen will know who fight coordinator and choreographer Vlad Rimburg (Contour, Osu, Unlucky Stars, Lucifer) is, and the work he’s accomplished since picking up a camera at the turn of the century; Stunt performer and independent filmmaker Emmanuel Manzanares made a multiple references to the internet action favorite in our interview last week.
It’s Sunday as I’m writing all of this and operating on only four hours of sleep as we speak as I’ve put together this Hit List – I totally blame John Wick for that… Good times!
The last five years have been an extraordinary thrill for us with stunt multi-hyphenate James Young being one of the biggest that Film Combat Syndicate covered in this site’s young life, and much credit goes out to Darren Bailey for being pivotal in engineering that for us for a 2014 sit-down with Young and fellow Marvel MCU cohort, Film Combat Syndicate favorite Aaron Toney.
The JAM (Joining All Movement) gym in Reseda, California hosted its annual summer gathering last weekend featuring some of the most notable names in tricking – a dynmaic and stylistic form of stunts, gymnastics, parkour and martial arts. These events are bi-annual with another gathering being prepped for this winter, and with tricking having grown the vast audience it has over the last decade or so, JAM has become one of the leading avenues of this multi-faceted and hybridized physical pastime.
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