Man, we have been working our asses off preparing for this performance. We’ve been there hours ahead of call-times and even started a few days before official paid rehearsals. The show we choreographed is absolutely sick, the timing, the build-ups, it’s all perfect. Unfortunately about half of it no one may ever get to see.

The problem keeps coming down to grip. The awards show is at night, we’ve been rehearsing the most part in the day. At night in LA the air gets moist and the stage practically turns into a skating rink. We’ve used about 2 miles of grip tape and massive amounts of crushed walnuts that were spray glued on but it is just not helping. Thankfully we had a Plan B – the wet plan at wet speed. It definitely isn’t as impressive but the timing and teamwork still shines though and people like it. Tomorrow for the actual show they are going to give one last attempt to repaint and regrip everything, hopefully it will work.

The saving grace is that only the four floor guys have to revert to plan B. Frosti and Victor Lopez are doing an amazing railing manipulation scene on top of a building that ends with a jump to and slide down a massive pole 40ft up. Richard King and Paul Darnell are jumping a few roof gaps, on of which is 52ft up in the air across a 16ft gap. Oh did I jumping? I meant flipping, PD is doing a huge diving front and Richie is throwing a gainer.

So the show will obviously still be fricking amazing to watch and we’ve still been getting great comments. I just feel a bit dissapointed that us floor guys have to run plan B, and it feels ironic that the stunt awards is the most dangerous job I’m been on – not because I’m doing a gainer roof gap like Richie, but because I can’t even turn corners on the floor without slipping…

That’s what happens with professional jobs though, you just have to suck it up and do whatever works the best for the group as a whole, to put on the best performance you can while staying safe.