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Tumblemonster Productions Stunt School

The Tumblemonster Productions Stunt School

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NEW CLASSES and 2008 SPRING SCHEDULE


In addition to our Intensive 3 week Aerial Course , we're pleased to announce the addition of 3 new classes!

High Falls – 4 days
June 2-5, 2008
Four solid days of training focused on one of the most spectacular aspects of stunt work: The high fall. Click for details.

Stunt Acrobatics – 6 days
May 26-31, 2008
A six day class focused on learning basic and advanced acrobatic stunt work! Students learn landing, falling and crashing skills, mini-tramp and trampoline, air ram and russian swing. Details here.

Wire Work – 6 days
May 19-24, 2008
An intense six day class focused on learning every aspect of wire stunt work! Students progress from basic flying and wire-fu through complex flipping and twisting skills, followed by ratchet and decelerator work on our high speed winch systems. Click here for details

3 Week Aerial Intensive - 18 days
June 9-28, 2008
Our three week 145 hour intensive aerial class! The best, most complete aerial training available. More info here
About Us
The Tumblemonster Productions Stunt School is built on the premise that understanding movement in its most basic form and building on that understanding from the ground up allows actors and stunt artists to be safer, more skilled, and look better performing stunts.
Using techniques proven for over 40 years teaching acrobatic movement, students progress from solid basic acrobatic movement training to advanced aerial and acrobatic stunts. Students will learn safe landing, falling and crashing, air awareness, flipping and twisting techniques, and body control in the air. Students will train wire work from the simplest single point pendulums to complex motorized systems and everything in between. Students will train decelerators and ratchet jerks on state-of-the-art high speed flying winches from Fisher Technical Services . Students will learn free flying aerial work from mini tramps and full sized trampolines, air ram, Russian Swing and high falls, all taught in a state of the art 30 thousand square foot gymnastic facility. All students learn at their own pace in a safe environment with constant instruction from our experienced staff.

If you want to learn aerial and wire stunt work, Tumblemonster Productions Stunt School is the place to do it. We offer the best aerial stunt training available, period.

A BETTER TRAINING PHILOSOPHY

Our background is movement. Our staff has over 45 years of experience teaching gymnastics, acrobatics, trampoline, tumbling, circus arts and stunt work. Our curriculum offers you more than just a bunch of rides, more than just an experience. We offer you the tools you need to truly understand aerial stunts, and to be able to perform them no matter what the situation.

Our stunt training is progressive. Each day you'll learn and refine skills that will reinforce and enhance your training in the days ahead, and ultimately allow you to adapt to any stunt situation you face in the real world of stunt work.

The two main tenets for learning a skill are correct, progressive instruction and PRACTICE. Constant, progressive instruction and time on equipment means you'll gain a more refined, higher skill level and much greater comfort, making you more valuable as a stunt artist.

THE BEST, SAFEST TECHNOLOGY

The Tumblemonster Productions Stunt School utilizes the most advanced equipment available to make our training as effective as possible. F-515 Flying Winches from Fisher Technical Services allow us to teach ratchet work and decelerators with unprecedented freedom. A traditional fan decelerator can take up to 30 minutes to reset. Our flying winches reset in seconds, allowing much more effective training. With flying winch systems, we can teach ratchet work progressively, which makes learning ratchets safer, less fatiguing, and allows students to learn advanced ratchet work with safety and confidence.

Better, smarter, more effective training techniques. Experienced instructors. More time on more equipment. Safer, smarter technology. The Tumblemonster Productions Stunt School offers the best aerial stunt training available anywhere, guaranteed. If you take our course and don't agree, we'll give you your money back.

REGISTER ONLINE NOW! Classes are filling up fast!
The Tumblemonster Productions Stunt School is located in beautiful St. Paul, Minnesota

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My Blog

Zombies and the need for constant preparation and training...

Last Friday I got a call from Sam (Director of Photography) that went something like this: "Hey, I got a call for a 2 day promo shoot starting tomorrow morning that's something to do with zombies (che...
Posted by Tumblemonster Productions Stunt School on Fri, 22 Feb 2008 02:12:00 PST

Wire Work: The book

After a lot of pro/con internal dialogue, I'm considering releasing my wire work training manual in book form. A little background...My wire work course comes with a binder filled with various textboo...
Posted by Tumblemonster Productions Stunt School on Wed, 30 Jan 2008 12:50:00 PST

Tumblemonster in Africa

If anyone has been trying to contact us this last week, I apologize for not getting back to you faster. We're in beautiful Tanzania, Africa shooting a film!We're shooting with an entirely Tanzanian ca...
Posted by Tumblemonster Productions Stunt School on Sun, 08 Jul 2007 08:14:00 PST