More skin to skin approach in stage fighting
Most stage fighting techniques are developed for the actors to be able to perform safely and following a work rhythm of two shows a day. This is awesome and also enables less qualified actors to do roles where violence is needed. As you may know, we in Hirdmenn have been seeking a bit of a different approach. A few years ago (2016) Joeli and I (Arttu) were developing a method of stage fighting where the audience could be around the performers. This requires hits to touch so that they look good from every angle. Our solution was to hit where it would not really hurt (like big muscles), to hit only the surface (like you hit a boxing bag so that there is a sound but nothing moves at all), and to hit with soft body parts to a well prepared head position that is ready to follow choreographed movement (like forearm muscles to the forehead). This combined with wrestling moves is what we trained and made a performance with. These ideas were originally invented in the Servi Morituri project.