Outgrowths of Stage Combat

While theatrical violence, and its natural influence and reciprocity with film stunt work, has had obvious impact on the entertainment industry, so also has several ancillary outgrowths of stage combat. Stage Combat tends to be very much technique and story led whereas intimacy focuses on the Actor first from their emotional state to their physical to their choices of storytelling and back again, like a circle. Stage Combat teachers are much more focused on how cool can they make a fight or what new and adventurous workshop themes they can offer or how historically accurate they can make something look like. Shelton credits his company as the founders of theatrical jousting in the United States. To his knowledge, there were no individuals or companies doing the work that Hanlon-Lees did.