Yeah this is 100 % an exaggeration . Any company that does any of that shit is the extreme minority . I work for wait for it . WalMart at a distribution center and get 4 weeks of vacation a year , make above average wage and have full health care . I went to the hospital 3 times in the past week and paid exactly nothing for all of it . <| sep |> Nothing . I was surprised when I saw how many people ACTUALLY want HL 3 not just circlejerking about it , and I got downvoted for it . <| sep |> I ' m about 2 hours south of TO and I haven ' t gotten mine yet . <| sep |> So many mysterys <| sep |> First of all , I ' m an actor and I do historical fencing as a hobby . Getting into stage combat choreography was a pretty natural transition . I ' m currently working on my SAFD certification . I had a few friends who did the cowboy gunfight stunt shows at our local theme park and I went through their training . I didn ' t end up working for them , but that was because the management messed up with my paperwork and they were hard to communicate with . I had rent to pay so I got another job before they sorted everything out . The film scene in Oklahoma is small , but growing a lot . I knew a few people with big action ideas , but didn ' t know anyone who could physically do it . I volunteered to help and ended up choreographing and performing as well as building any special things we needed , like breakaway walls and such . If you want to get into it , you can do a lot of the preparation yourself . Look at climbing and parkour videos . Parkour specifically will help a lot in learning how to safely fall and stuff . You don ' t need to be a great fighter , but being familiar with some of the terms and what you would or wouldn ' t do will help you put together a fight and when you should break those rules . Just go practice . Practice safe landings and rolls . Get a sport epee to practice some general blade work . Learn sit falls . Please start small and work your way up . I started by running as fast as I could and jumped into a landing . Now I ' m comfortable jumping out of a car as fast as 45 mph . I ' ve done 55 but I never want to again . I learned forward rolls at three feet high and now my max without a mat is 15 . Your local colleges probably have some sort of film training . Usually the students have to film an original short at some point , and reaching out to them is a great way to get some experience . It ' s almost exclusively unpaid but you get a copy of it for a reel and a resume credit is always good . If you really want to be their best friend , check out old indymogul videos . They ' ll help you achieve certain effects and you ' ll make their lives very easy .