Best of Instagram — Week of October 19 – 25, 2026
Michelle C. Smith — setting up the hard beat
Posted by stunt performer and fight coordinator Michelle C. Smith on October 20, 2026. Shot at her Miami workshop: a long-weapon exchange run slowly, with her point being that a well-placed pause before the difficult move is what buys you the move.
Kai Fung Grieck — a fight reel cut from the coordinators’ work
Posted by fight performer Kai Fung Grieck on October 19, 2026. Just under two minutes of screen-combat performance pulled from his own jobs, with fight coordination credited to Rotten Ronny Stunts and Crash Test Mozzie and the shoot done at Stuntside Studio; the caption credits the performers, coordinators and action designers he has worked under, including Andy Long and Mathis Landwehr.
Stunts Unlimited — Karl Van Moorsel’s 14 cannon rolls
Posted by Stunts Unlimited on October 22, 2026. The barrel-roll gag from “Matchbox”: Sam Hargrave’s team needed nine rolls to beat the Guinness record held by Stunts Unlimited’s Logan Holladay from “The Fall Guy,” and stunt driver Karl Van Moorsel put down 14.
William Christopher Ford — the full “Cobra Kai” reunion fight, before the edit took it apart
Posted by performer William Christopher Ford on October 22, 2026. The choreography he was taught for the Daniel–De Guzman reunion fight, run at full length so you can see what the cut removed; his partner is Craig Henningsen, Ralph Macchio’s stunt double, with stunt coordinator Ken Barefield and fight designer Don Lee.
Michelle C. Smith — staff work at speed
Posted by stunt performer and fight coordinator Michelle C. Smith on October 22, 2026. Freestyle bo staff spinning run clean and fast, the kind of weapon control that reads on camera without a cut to hide the handover.
Jefferson Lewis III — the Wisconsin falls
Posted by action designer Jefferson Lewis III on October 23, 2026. A run of hits and falls shot in Wisconsin with Mike Moh, Maya Sunhee Moh, John Neumueller, Joey Zaworski and @stuntdragon1983, with sound design by Tony Jax.
Jefferson Lewis III — the first double cork, 2008
Posted by action designer Jefferson Lewis III on October 24, 2026. Archive footage of his first double cork, thrown in 2008 — the off-axis aerial base underneath the hit-and-fall work he shoots now.
Pat Romano — the fight in LISA’s “Tarantino” video
Posted by stunt coordinator Pat Romano on October 24, 2026. His coordination work on the LISA music video “Tarantino,” with Lauren Mary Kim doubling and a fight team of Freddy B, Andrew Franklin, Donald and Efka; Romano says the artist did the work herself rather than handing the beats off.
