Obviously, breaking one's neck for real on stage is impracticable. It can lead to spinal cord injury or even death. There is a safe way to do this in simulation, however. Neck breaks in fights on stage or even TV are common in a lot of Asian martial art fight simulations, especially ninjutsu. It also happens in the end of a rear naked choke maneuver, like character President James Marshall did to a Russian terrorist soldier combatant in the movie "Air Force One". So one way to simulate a neck break without hurting or killing someone in stage combat is something like this - Do a rear naked choke on someone from behind, and do a sound knap - in this case, a "crepitus knap" - here, you will make a sound of a pop or a crack with your mouth, and at the same time, move one of the hands to the choked-one's L or right chin and move that elbow to another direction without actually twisting the neck of the other as you do the sound knap. This will simulate the choked one's neck being broken. The other person will react by playing dead, and then, on cue, you let that person go and that person will sit-fall to the ground and lay dead.
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i remember learning this in class!
Obviously, breaking one's neck for real on stage is impracticable. It can lead to spinal cord injury or even death. There is a safe way to do this in simulation, however.
Neck breaks in fights on stage or even TV are common in a lot of Asian martial art fight simulations, especially ninjutsu. It also happens in the end of a rear naked choke maneuver, like character President James Marshall did to a Russian terrorist soldier combatant in the movie "Air Force One".
So one way to simulate a neck break without hurting or killing someone in stage combat is something like this - Do a rear naked choke on someone from behind, and do a sound knap - in this case, a "crepitus knap" - here, you will make a sound of a pop or a crack with your mouth, and at the same time, move one of the hands to the choked-one's L or right chin and move that elbow to another direction without actually twisting the neck of the other as you do the sound knap. This will simulate the choked one's neck being broken. The other person will react by playing dead, and then, on cue, you let that person go and that person will sit-fall to the ground and lay dead.
An Ezra Miller fan is using this video as evidence that a real world incident was a stunt routine.