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Off The Record: Get to Know Stunt Man Jeremy Marinas!

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0:00 we don't have slow-mo so we got to do a foot dude check check out the dexterity fut stman no do the ridge foot little it dirty what super foot Wallace super foot [Music] Wallace welcome back everybody to another sick ass episode of off the Record and today we've got funny Jeremy in the building Bart almost introduced my introduction I mean interrupted my introduction but you should have interrupted yourself you you laughed at yourself just shut up dude you laugh and I was what is that a small on you why are you wearing a small yeah it's tiny shirt IDI cuz it's big Shir check it out yeah you want to look buff that being said what's up Jeremy what's up dude

0:51 everybody knows you here Jeremy Sensei Jeremy Legends Legends Sensei Jeremy Sensei San Jose Weir cuz that's like not a thing to me what do you mean I don't know I I've always like watched you guys on YouTube like as a kid growing up like I said I would be like laughing in the corner and just remember that guy all yes shut on camera show on camera that's how I know Bart right growing up no we came up in the circuits together oh yeah totally we came up and the in the kks St no circuits yeah tkk K D no but I mean it's just weird it's it's cool it's like a little full circle for me so thank you for having me Si dude thanks for coming man well you're the man dude you're a legend in the the stunt space in the stunt space so I here I mean I hope not a legend yeah I'm

1:41 young man I got a young Legend is kind of cool no but you're still older than than than the neck am I older than you how old are you how old are you I'm 31 I just turned 31 everybody's older than 31 ████ you dude take that back wait time out you're 34 and that's still considered young for the space it's not no that I've been doing stunts for 15 years dude Legend leg Legend you know I'm talking about young Legend I was like the uh I was like right out of high school like went straight to ninja school that's cool how did you get into it most people don't like oh people want to be the star they don't want to be like know about Ninja School how do you enroll that like how many credits do you need for Ninja's like no one's dream is to be the henchman but your well I mean ████ like everybody wanted to be Jackie Chan right yeah and I was like I'm going to be better than Jackie chant like when I was

2:32 a kid my confidence level was like through the roof I was as it should be I would be watching stuff and I'd be like I could do that I haven't even done it yet like I could do that I do that and then like but i' beting marshmallows these guys suck but I'd be the idiot who actually go out and do it so like I remember my my grandma yelled at me cuz I was like 11 and we had this little grassy area in front of the house and I like climbing houses I would chill on top of houses so like you know my grandma had this little one-story house and she came out one day and I was like doing side flips into the grass and I was 11 and she was like I didn't even know you could do that I I just saw it and then just doing Falls cuz then I wouldn't I wouldn't do the progression thing that they do now like I learned how to do progressions to

3:22 teach so it became a really good teacher but I didn't have a progression I were you just good at like just just cuz it's so scary to like do a lot of those moves well so I would go I go I could do that and then if I can't I'm tough like that's that was my mentality that's a good mentality so I would are you just missing that one thing in your brain where you just have like no fear cuz we fear Everyone We Fear everyone fear everyone is that what that says yeah yeah it almost does you want to get one you going to join the group wait do you all have that y nope what bar has it on both on the sh of all he has it on both double fear everyone we're very afraid of everyone I like that as a model though I like that we also have a screw loose you you should though

4:13 because if people don't have ████ manners anymore you know what I mean like we're just talking outside like everybody does MMA these days everybody knows how to do Jiu-Jitsu jit everyone knows how to shoot shoot everyone owns a gun right everyone goes a ter tactical ter Tactical YouTubers go to teren yeah especially the only fans girls they know how to shoot everybody know how to shoot yeah everybody can shoot so like now more than ever everybody's got to be good at martial arts I was just an idiot who was like yeah I could do that and then if I don't I'll be okay I'd smash my face a couple times and I'd be like that sucked I don't want that happening again so one one technical question for all the like Layman like the idiot fans like myself out there when you talk about like uh you learned progressions to teach like what's a progression so

5:03 like if you wanted to learn a 540 kick right sure what is that uh it's where you do in in teeko it's called a tornado kick uh where you spin and you jump off your front foot spin 360 in the air and kick right 540 you would land on your kicking leg and so some people do it with a round kick or uh inside cres does it look like thisum you kick that's true land on this L yeah yeah yeah yeah you to you had to get up to show us that wow you could have just did this I think Ste I think Steve does a version of that no I'm I'm I'm showing you guys so you guys have a get a better visual than a chair we don't have slow-mo so we got to do a my ████ foot dude check check out the dexterity future St man no do the ridge

5:53 foot it's a little bit dirty what super foot Wallace super foot Wallace okay so the progression of that for example so for example is you would learn the step right and then uh you would learn the kick by itself without the spin and then you okay so it's like what it's like what people be doing on Tik Tok nowadays where they're like learn this trick right here and then they do it and then you think you could do it cuz it looks easy but you can't yeah you did it in 30 seconds yeah so like as a kid I didn't I didn't know that it was either do or don't got it so like the reason I started martial arts cuz my dad caught me one day and I was doing a tornado kick and I was three and he was like that's ████ crazy where'd you do that where where' you learn that and I was like we always watch Bruce Lee together and I just did it and he was like okay you're going to taekwondo so went to taekwondo we couldn't afford it

6:45 so I left Taekwondo after 2 months Tako is a money scam huh it's a ████ they got like 12 belts before you're like age four cuz they just want to ████ make you pay for testing keeps you in there and even if you suck they give you the belt cuz they want you to feel like you can move to the next belt then each belt has another ████ stripe stripe stripe all right dude you're exposing too much yeah it's a scam did you not move up look no I got second degree black belt but I never deserved it oh ████ that's what I'm saying it's a sick it's a sick I must have invested a lot well the thing about martial arts like what people forget is like you paying rent right so until you prove yourself in a competition or something then you're you're a guy that's why when people are like Jeremy you're a dick when you teach cuz I'm really hard on people and I'm like no no no I want to be good just like the old Asian Dad would be like no you have to be good right but like in

7:35 the American like Western Society like nobody's used to that they're like oh you have to be nice you have to let them progress on their own and but then you have to let them pass the test and get their yellow belts with their friends like that makes no sense everybody's progressing on their own and then getting the belt at the same time what what are we teaching them like you know what I mean so anyways they I was always a hard one right and and I I push people um but I had to learn how to be Progressive and like do a nice progression for when I train actors and stuff like that but oh cuz actors are weak bro no no no no yeah which one's the weakest they're more they're just more in touch with their emotions actors complain all the time bro oh my God this water is not as cold as it can't do anything right a complain

8:27 they can't even finish the sentence they thr theirs up oh ████ this I think we have it good though with our actors cuz like I think everybody by now has seen all the BTS of John Wick oh yeah everybody seen keani so now every time people walk into our gym with the blue floor they're like well I can't ████ up ke so like we've been getting really lucky a great bar to set yeah yeah I don't think I've had like a bad attitude actor since like but keano doesn't seem like a diva I mean like there's all these stories about how humble he is like there's all these like articles I read out of nowhere where like look at him and there's a picture of him just chilling on a subway like a normal human being that there like 50 photos him just him on the subway yeah did you see the video that just came out where he got pissed off some guy was like forcing him yeah he he was like forcing him to give a autograph and the guy was like I get

9:18 it man he's like no you don't get the ████ point and then still signed it throws it and he's like I just want time to myself but it's like an eBay guy it wasn't like a fan it was like it like a reseller yeah those guys are so they hunt you down with stacks and then they'll just be like here sign this but he still signed it yeah he still signed still signed it what a nice guy what a g I would have given him the bird and I would have walked away I would been like no like I'm ke Reeves I can't punch you so you get one of these so who's that bad attitude in 2015 just first name is okay oh it starts with r rulu yeah exactly Remo Remo Williams Remo Williams bro Remo Remo got a good attitude take that back it's Remo those

10:08 stupid oh god oh that was so fast oh that's good I was so intimidated coming here too cuz I was like comedians are so intimidating why you guys are so fast I'm not a comedian ████ no I'm not I never did a standup show that's fair didn't you do a standup show at the last as Uncle chin was wasn't him man straight that was B took a standup class and did a standup show that's deflecting I went and clapped yeah it was good did you say that's deflecting it is what is your favorite alltime martial arts movie do you have a I hate this question really why cuz I hate martial arts movies but that's what got you into it though

10:58 didn't it get you into it don't like it like that was my child there stunts and romcoms well that's the thing like usually like wo whoa whoa whoo is it one of those things where because you work behind the curtain it's been kind of ruined for you cuz you're too not at all like when I see a movie that I like because I know what it takes now now I appreciate it more oh okay like for the most part when you say like Marshall arts movies I like I like like I get into my feels and stuff so three ninjas yeah ████ yeah yeah dude that's a good Market bro that's my favorite one Tong why you always eating stuff you know when they're running on the the boards on the water you remember oh the Japan one I tried that so many times just as a kid I would just set up cardboard not thinking it's not waterproof just to the

11:51 bottom soggy that that movie blew my mind the Japanese one yeah cuz I was like I growing up I watch Le Bruce Lee all that stuff and it was always these moves are done by adults yeah and then when I saw three ninjas I was like wait I can do this yeah that's crazy or Surf Ninjas like NJ or Sidekicks Sid kicks dude who had asthma and I was like Yo dude I can relate I have a breathing problem too he's the geek I was like he's kind of a loser too Sidekicks with asthma what no no sidekick the dude with Chuck Norris every single time he had like an asthma Faith he would go into like his fantasy of like being a psychic to Chuck Norris remember no I know but it's just funny how you were like yeah he's kind of a loser too it makes him kind of cool like imagine like your your stick was like I

12:42 could do Sidekicks and I have asthma no they made asthma seem way dorkier than it is yeah you didn't grow up on like ████ you guys like vanam movies and like no I did though I did though but like but you you seen so much now it's like favorite let's say like when I was a kid I loved um Unleashed because which one's that one Unleashed Danny the dog because J jetley was like this man dog who they would like take off the collar and he would go and you know kill people then you like look at it and you're like it's not a good movie it's not my favorite movie oh I see I'd rather watching glorious bastards as a kid though as a kid it's different that's also why you watch martial arts sometimes right you don't watch it for like how sick the acting is yeah that's true that's true know man my favorite movie as a kid was blood sport okay and

13:33 then as an adult when you watch it it's so good cuz it's funny yeah there's this one scene where he ████ slices his hat right cuz he's trying to steal the sword he slices his hat and then he has like a like a montage into like some like Daydreams or whatever and then you realize there's like act one act two act there's like ████ that thing is way his ████ Daydream is way too long and you're like what the ████ I could have sworn it was like 30 seconds but it was like 15 15 minutes then he comes back to like with this French accent you're like what the ████ why is that his head though that's how the French talk right after his hat glass slice he's just been standing in the room like this like as an adult it's so ████ dumb but as a kid it's when I watch it I still have kid eyes when I watch it hey did you ever ████ Like Glue rocks to your hands after K boxing ████ put honey and ████ and broken glass yeah that's

14:25 sick it was so fun I guess for me it was like Rumble in the Bronx Rubble the that's my Bible dude cuz I mean where's Angelo where is he you said there's no good acting in yeah dude what about the kid bro the kid's my favorite yeah K my chair I wish my legs were like other kids I remember I had to I had to ████ pause that movie you know when he threw the homie through the wood chipper I remember I was like I don't feel I'm going to be sick no way yeah cuz I was like that's ████ crazy that made you queasy yep that guy got shredded I had a fear that like randomly a gang was going to stick me in an alley and like fat bottles at me fat bottles dude and like like yeah that movie had everything it had a hot Asian girl you

15:16 had like a minority making it in New York beating people up or and a hovercraft and a hovercraft hovercraft Next Level our boss is not white tiger that's the best line doesn't it start with him like being um handstanding in apartment yeah and he's doing he's doing Muk Jong and stuff dude and he opens the door yeah that movie is so good it's so good man the bottom I didn't rewatch it so that's your favorite ROM LeBron I would I would say because for me it wasn't so like we're trying to do kung fu it was like the it's just the story yeah the story like it was cool that I remember having a crush on the chick yep uh and then learning how to jump from things all the time like I didn't have a two-story house so my my uncle had one so I would

16:07 jump from the the stairs to anywhere oh my God yeah I would just hop The Rail and try to make it to the couch how many broken bones you got um I broke my ankle but that was until I was an adult um I had a bone chip in my knee but again adult I've separated my shoulder adult been a conscious just a bunch of times from all the stunts you've done usually not what yeah it's like in training or yeah so I mean our our biggest job like if if you ever like like a lot of our videos talk about what it takes to be a stunk eyee our our main thing is how to do it make it look dangerous and be safe so if I get hurt or if anybody gets hurt it we take that as a fail it's not like what you think where it's like yeah I'm tough do stunts right it is like there's a point to

16:57 where you know things can only be so safe like if I'm going to hit you with a car I got to hit you with the car like you you you do what you can you wear your pads and you you do a couple test runs but but there's a point where you you just face the music and you go I signed the contract today let's go how many times have you been hit by a car dude in John Wick alone probably like just in the fourth one just in the fourth one I probably did like just in the roundabout scene yeah four five that's the craziest scene ever dude like that ████ was so so on John Wick the safety thing that we did was um Chad wanted us to be able to do wers cuz usually in a you watch a TV a one like long takes one so Chad's like the crazy guy who's like anything that takes a lot of people like people to do a big setup

17:47 like one car hit right usually you do one car hit and then it's like cross your fingers one car hit okay cut is he okay okay good Well Chad was like I want to be able to do three to four car hits in a section where ke Reeves is weaving through traffic and fighting Jesus Christ God I got with our stunt coordinators like like Scott Rogers and and Steven dun leevy and we coordinated with our riggers like we built this platform that had two cars that were on sleds or like um tracks that would just go by the push of a button wow and and then we put that next to a spring floor and then next to that was like a wooden platform where real cars could drive and so we would start with a real car hit and then as he was fighting as he was going through those um sled the cars on

18:39 sleds they were just padded pieces of wood and then they would CG cars onto it and so you would set the speed of those cars and then what we would do is we had people on wires so in the middle of all these cars going through and then fighting I would I would be able to go okay camera's going to go over here this guy's going to hit get hit by the car we F follow Keanu that way shoot that that guy Dodge this car step in front get hit by the CG car and I mean it was still it was kind of sketchy cuz as stunk guy I don't know why this is weird but when we were getting the Japanese guys the French guys and the German guys to get hit by the fake cars everybody's more sketched out because we're so used to getting hit by real cars you know when you go to uh Six Flags and you hear the Superman ████

19:29 yeah that's what they sounded like that's scary as hell unfamiliar like it was unfamiliar sound so you felt like a puppy going like where's it com where is it coming and you're like trying to fight Keanu and shoot and look like a badass but you hear it you're like here it comes boom and you would take those hits so the timing is also not what you're used to cuz you're used to just a car moving you're not training with sleds and you're used to yeah I mean for me like working with stun people so I I got to do like lxd stuff with John shu M oh yeah so I knew how to like do stuff on account I knew how to like that's their system yeah and I knew okay so now like usually we're like okay the ballet dancers is going to come out while the crumpers do this and the B boys do that right and so for me it was like okay our playground is this cars are going that way okay Kean is got to make it this way

20:20 so in the first few beats he's got to have pass three cars those three cars are going to be the visual queue for the first guy to come out he gets shot oh and every piece of the equation is just like choreographing dance how how many times do you have to like or how long of choreograph practice do you have to do before like okay let's do our first take okay so there's a lot of political stuff that went on on John Wick 4 so I had to create that fight scene within 3 days before we shot it Jesus Christ three days I created that with uh we had a French team um their coordinator was lauron um he kind of had yeah laon he's dope and then we had a German team and I feel like every time you say someone's name I go I hear a guy like I see a guy pop out online thanks for the plug bad laon and

21:10 then uh we had Koji from Japan and then coolest names ever Jesus Christ so we all like my job was like I didn't just choreograph everything like I would my job is to take the ideas of everybody and then make them work right make it cohesive and so um in the three days like Chad was like I need this done by this day I'm like ████ so I've got to work with the riggers to to do the timing with the CG uh car hits we wanted them to have a little extra pop so we' pop them on the hit and we pull them out and see where they fly or try to coordinate where they're going to land and um yeah it was nuts and how that set how long of rehearsal do you guys need I mean we didn't like that show that movie happened so fast in my brain yeah the

22:01 way Chad Works we're on such a he's on a such a high uh frequency when he works and you either keep up or you fall off and when you're keeping up ████ happens so fast that all of a sudden you're at rap and you're like what did I just do with my life and then you count back like I got hit by five cars I fell down 20 stairs I ████ I did this many wi gags I got bit by ████ you know three dogs 40 times like oh ████ dude Jer you died like 20 times in yeah and and honestly I didn't even die the most like we have a guy like Bruce who's on my team Bruce and Lee uh sorry Lee is Chinese these ts are the coolest names CH Lee Chang or Chang Lee he's uh he's Chinese guy and then Bruce uh conception

22:53 they died the most like they were in every scene you know a guy named Bruce conception con Filipino from he's from like yeah dude another gu and those guys actually died more than me cuz the thing was like when we did the sequence in the Japan the Osaka Continental um Chad wanted a bunch of escalator Falls and we actually oh yeah that's the worst and to be honest you know people watch John Wick movies and they go ah it's too much action ████ the first cut that I watched to the end we've cut out 30 to 40 minutes just punching and kicking action like shooting and stuff what an extended version just like ████ bleeding from watching just bone breaks yeah so like like we actually we

23:43 actually a lot of our ████ didn't make it in like there was one there was one stunt where I did like um I did like a 14t uh scoi like from from a railing onto like a traditional Japanese table oh and the table was Breakaway but nobody like the the Outer Perimeter of it was like real like teak wood or something and my from 14 ft smacking your ankle like that and going through a breakaway table like that was bad oh my God couldn't walk correctly for like 2 weeks but Chad on in that sequence he was like you're not allowed to do any escalator Falls like you remember the one that went viral the guy flying down the escalators he I was like I'll do it he's like you can't I'm like why he's like if you get hurt this is the first sequence in the movie like I need you for the rest of the show you're you're coordinating things you're not just

24:34 dying it's like okay fine and then we get and then in the middle of like winter in Germany we're doing the French the the Arctic Triumph scene we're getting hit by cars and I'm like you letting me get hit by a cars but I couldn't fall down escalator he would just he' just laugh he's just like well he's like as the show goes on I can I can bet more like like okay well if he gets hurt we only have this sequence left or if he gets hurt it's you know you're just bartering with him for how many times you can die jeez I'll get set on fire five times if I get hit by a car this is an amazing conversation we're going to have to cut this video and go into a part two though because we're all ████ fascinated just kidding news careful Bo is a brand just kidding news is the man of smart people the people of just kidding news careful boys they are very smart just kidding

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