12-06-2018, 10:08 AM
He talked about it in my last article - http://www.kungfumagazine.com/ezine/arti...ticle=1451
We weren't sure how to approach it. The cut was on his left hand. When he withdrew the akinaka from the gel dummy, he used his left to brace the dummy so it wouldn't fall over and it was so damn sharp that it cut him. Over 30 stitches. It was deep, but Da'Mon has thick hands, so there was no tendon damage. There was much discussion of whether to include it or not, and increased safety measures like we were no longer permitted to be as flamboyant, which is in part why my cut isn't so dancey, despite what Danny said. The episodes were filmed out of order so in ones after the cut, you can see Da'Mon is hiding his left hand. We kinda kept it all on the down-low, not sure on how the showrunners would proceed.
Funny aside - The on-site paramed was this young, enthusiast guy who was really on top of it. Da'Mon returned to set that day, all patched up, and that paramed told him CBD was best. Da'Mon is from TexASS and had no such connects. But that evening, I was getting together with an old friend, one of the fellow founders of JAH Med, who now works in LA for a booming pot club franchise. He was the one throwing some pot fest on the Queen Mary that weekend and was trying to get me to come down (way too much for me to deal with at that time). Nevertheless, he took me to dinner - some awesome place on a pier with killer crab claws - and delivered a CBD tincture to me, free of charge. I passed it to Da'Mon that night. He was so grateful and told me later that it really helped him get through the rest of the filming. Plus once again, I got points for overall coolness (the locals - Danny, Crystal & Marko are clean & sober). I'm tightest with Da'Mon and Kerry on the cast - we have a lot of shared opinions and perspectives, Da'Mon because he's the other martial expert, and Kerry because he's an old fencer. Anyway, Da'Mon healed up nicely, so he tells me.
We weren't sure how to approach it. The cut was on his left hand. When he withdrew the akinaka from the gel dummy, he used his left to brace the dummy so it wouldn't fall over and it was so damn sharp that it cut him. Over 30 stitches. It was deep, but Da'Mon has thick hands, so there was no tendon damage. There was much discussion of whether to include it or not, and increased safety measures like we were no longer permitted to be as flamboyant, which is in part why my cut isn't so dancey, despite what Danny said. The episodes were filmed out of order so in ones after the cut, you can see Da'Mon is hiding his left hand. We kinda kept it all on the down-low, not sure on how the showrunners would proceed.
Funny aside - The on-site paramed was this young, enthusiast guy who was really on top of it. Da'Mon returned to set that day, all patched up, and that paramed told him CBD was best. Da'Mon is from TexASS and had no such connects. But that evening, I was getting together with an old friend, one of the fellow founders of JAH Med, who now works in LA for a booming pot club franchise. He was the one throwing some pot fest on the Queen Mary that weekend and was trying to get me to come down (way too much for me to deal with at that time). Nevertheless, he took me to dinner - some awesome place on a pier with killer crab claws - and delivered a CBD tincture to me, free of charge. I passed it to Da'Mon that night. He was so grateful and told me later that it really helped him get through the rest of the filming. Plus once again, I got points for overall coolness (the locals - Danny, Crystal & Marko are clean & sober). I'm tightest with Da'Mon and Kerry on the cast - we have a lot of shared opinions and perspectives, Da'Mon because he's the other martial expert, and Kerry because he's an old fencer. Anyway, Da'Mon healed up nicely, so he tells me.
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