Five stunt driving courses across Australia to try
Want to live your best James Bond stunt driver life? Consider yourself the next Evel Knievel? Why not enrol yourself in a stunt driving course?Hollywood can make improbable feats seem plausible and it’s usually the work of stunt actors. Unlike us, who usually get just one chance to do something spectacular or stupid (or both), stunt people practice for years, get it right and live until the next take or movie. Take stunt driving for example: you wouldn’t want to practice those outrageous movie moves on your street but you can learn them in controlled conditions at a driving school. Here are five across Australia to check out.
Stunt Driving School, Melbourne
Blues Brothers handbrake turns, the Mission Impossible 360-degree spin … there’s an unashamed Hollywood theme to this hectic few hours of training offered by the Stunt Driving School. Anyone who can drive a manual-transmission Toyota 86 and make it to Sandown Raceway will learn these manoeuvres and more, plus take a ride in SDS’s two-wheeling tilt-a-car. There’s also a timed Motorkhana to test your skills, so bring a competitive spirit!
Safe Driver Training, Queensland
Don’t be fooled by the name. SDT also stands for Stunt Driver Training as this advanced driving team takes students through all the moves required for a film industry demo-video. Handbrake turns, spins into parking bays, burnouts and powerslides done under controlled conditions at various south-east Queensland venues may be an entrée to movie work, but are also packaged into corporate and group events for those who just want to have fun.
Drift School Western Australia
Seems like a movie star can’t drive anywhere in a hurry without lurid tailslides with plenty of opposite-lock oversteer and never end up bouncing off the scenery. Ever wondered how they do it and whether you could too? If you’re anywhere near Perth, Drift School offers full tuition in their fleet of modded cars and will hopefully have you sliding around corners or in donuts and figure eights. Held at Wanneroo Raceway, you can choose 10 or 40 laps with an instructor or just go passenger for the ride of your life.
Performance Driving Australia
If you really, really, seriously want to be a stunt driver then PDA is here to tick that box on your CV. Although Melbourne-based, these driver-training die-hards will go anywhere in the country with a controlled facility to teach groups or individuals how to do all those lurid and seemingly uncontrolled manoeuvres seen on TV and movies in a completely controlled fashion. In fact, most producers don’t bother with the training and get the instructors to do the stunt driving themselves.
Stunt Park, Gold Coast
Why limit your employment prospects to just stunt driving? At Stunt Park you can definitely learn to drive like an idiot, but also how to bounce off a car, fall out of one, tumble off a building or set yourself on fire. All as safely as possible of course, and all in the name of learning how stunt acting works. Some courses are intensive and cost thousands, others such as Gladiator Training are for fun or birthday parties but this stunt school has something for anyone looking for action.
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