Trick Rigging: Level 1

Stunt Rigging: Level 1

International Training Course for Stunt Rugging professionals.
Course author: Keir Beck - the world leader in the industry of stunt rigging.

You will learn (during 5 days course):

Stunt Rigging safety – how to design, document and implement your rigs to maximise safety and mitigate risk.
Rig management – how to maintain your work within the sometimes chaotic environment of a film or theatrical set.
Styles of rigging – how to identify the appropriate type of rigging to achieve specific creative results.
Space Travel - Includes rope access, rescue skills, and key concepts such as fall rate calculation.
Climbing – including rope access, rescue climbing, tree climbing and key concepts such as fall factor calculation.
Ropes – types of ropes and how to select and maintain them.
Knots and splices – how to’s, do’s and don’ts & much much more.
Harnesses, vests, and connectors – how to attach your lines to Performers and equipment.
Anchors – how best to anchor your rigging systems within different environments.
Introduction to Macro rigging – working with truss.
Rig planning and design – including engineering considerations such as calculating load limits and ratios, gear ratings, and the forces your rigs will manipulate and apply.
Rig implementation – how to combine your knowledge of rigging practice and rigging equipment to construct pendulum, pulley systems, slack line, wide-rolling bridle, counterweight, reverse pulley and assisted climb rigs.

About Keir Beck

Keir Beck is a Second Unit Director and Stunt Coordinator and is recognized around the world as a leader in Stunt Rigging.
Keir is the multiple winner of the Taurus World Stunt Awards, as well as the SAG-AFTRA award for best stunt rigging in films, as well as the best stunt coordinator and second unit director.

At the AP8 training center in Australia Keir run training programs on all aspects of stunt work.

Beck has worked in the film industry since 1998. His experience in arboristics, active sports and mountaineering, obtained already in the period up to the 1988 year, led to Keir becoming a real expert and world-famous in the field of stunt production. He has worked on more than 100 productions around the world. As stunt coordinator Keir worked in the films: “Mad Max: Road of Fury” (dir. George Miller), “Bleeding Steel”, in the lead role Jackie Chan. His key tricks include Casino Royale, Sherlock Holmes: "The Game of Shadows", "Pirates of the Caribbean: The Dead Do Not Tell Tales", "The Matrix: Reboot", "The Matrix: Revolution", "Peter Pan" and many others. He also coordinated stunts for the sci-fi epic Wachowski film "The Rise of Jupiter".