All content Copyright © 2011 Stagefight Ltd. ABOUT US OUR SERVICES: FIGHT CHOREOGRAPHY: TRAINING & WORKSHOPS: QUALIFICATION COURSES: Email Contact Links About STAGEFIGHT is a company that specialises in performance combat choreography and training. Established in 2004 and based in the West Midlands, we are dedicated to improving the standards of performance combat throughout the entertainment industry. Learning performance combat can be an exciting and rewarding experience.  Unfortunately for many years getting in-depth and hands-on training has been difficult, with many students having “by-the- numbers” tuition using only modified modern fencing techniques.  STAGEFIGHT was created to break this situation and make performance combat more historically accurate. Since 2004, STAGEFIGHT instructors have worked closely with fight masters from all over europe, professional sports coaches and psychologists, historical combat researchers, actors, performers and directors. We have also studied historical fight manuals from the earliest works, through the medieval and renaissance periods to modern techniques.  Teaching different weapon systems by only teaching fight routies always appeared flawed and limited by our instructors as it develops too much of a conditioned response that could potentially create a higher level of risk during a performance fight.  We also found that teaching just a fight routine allowed bad habits to develop in students and fight routines to be mechanical and robotic looking as students struggle to remember one move to the next.  This was exaggerated further by students attending intensive courses that only teach fight routines. We believe the next step in teaching performance combat is to treat training and tuition just like any other martial or combat orientated sport. STAGEFIGHT’s approach and pedagogy is the best available.  We believe teaching the mechanics and techniques of performance combat has an equal emphasis on how students develop and execute fight routines for the stage and screen.  We ensure that students have a full understanding of mechanics, techniques, nomenclature and historical accuracy of weapon systems and fight disciplines, while ensuring they are still able to produce the Hollywood-style routines that audience have become accustomed to.