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Stunt Driving Tips – Stunt Driving Defined

09.23.2008 · Posted in Home and Garden Articles

Stunt driving is a challenging pursuit, combining a number of specialist driving skills and challenges that the driver must handle. More than just having the ability to drive with precision and skill, the stunt driver needs to be creative and capable of producing the stunt that the stunt manager or director have requested. rnrnStunt driving also involves precise timing. You must be able to make it all happen at the right time and at the right place. And finally you must have the ability to adapt and bring energy into each new and challenging situation. rnrnA perfect example of required stunt driver skills is the story of my friend’s experiences while working on a car commercial. The sequence was to show the car racing through very heavy rain. The creation of this effect was something new. To create the right look necessitated mounting a jet engine at the rear of a truck, shooting water out of a tank and across the car (a true ‘film’ moment!) rnrnTo make the torrential downpour scene work successfully, my friend, the driver, was tearing along a mere foot from the truck – driving a convertible with the roof back and no windshield wipers! With water streaming over the car, in the car, in his face – suffice to say he couldn’t see much and recalls the jet fumes made it all the more difficult. rnrnTo this day I recall that stunt driving story, as a good example of the punishing circumstances that stunt drivers must be prepared for. To reflect on a crazy situation of my own – I remember during the filming of My Boss’s Daughter, I was behind the wheel of a BMW when I had to contend with an Owl shooting in the passenger window, bumping the head of my ‘passenger’ onto me, before hovering frantically directly in front of my face. rnrnI subsequently ended veering across the median *****, headlong into the oncoming traffic and tearing through the wall of a house! No matter how skilled you are as a driver there is nothing you can do that prepares you for this type of situation. rnrnStunt driving can take all you know about driving and turn it on its head. You will be challenged in ways you could not conceive. rnrnThe best preparation for a career in stunt driving is to have as wide and diverse a driving background as you can and be prepared for anything!

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