14.  What personal equipment do I need?
As a bare minimum every stunt person should have their own elbow and knee pads (soft foam padded ones not the hard plastic skateboarding type), padded shorts (to protect hips and tail bone), and full length back protector (the type used for motocross). Pads and shorts can be purchased from sporting goods or martial arts supply stores, and back protectors from motorbike equipment shops.

In addition, you may need to buy or hire further specialist body protection and a helmet (especially for car stunts), gymnastic/martial arts mats, gymnastic crash pads (a minimum of six inches thick), swords and other weapons, soft prop weapons, fire gel, water gel, fire suits, climbing harness and rope, scuba diving gear, skydiving gear, mini trampolines, air rams, air ratchets, jerk harnesses, decelerator/descender rigs, air bags, pipe ramps, car jump ramps, etc.

Expect to spend several hundred dollars for the absolute basics up to tens of thousands of dollars for a range of more advanced equipment.
 

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