Fight Coordination Services
ADS brings together a diverse team of experienced stunt professionals, martial artists, and combat specialists capable of designing action across a wide range of fighting styles and historical periods. Our team includes instructors, coaches, and practitioners with decades of combined experience in both competitive and practical martial arts, allowing us to tailor choreography to the unique demands of each production.
Our expertise includes:
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Fight choreography and stunt fight coordination
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Hand-to-hand combat
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Tactical firearms movement
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Knife and edged weapon choreography
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Sword and historical weapons combat
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Character-specific fighting styles
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Multiple-attacker fight design
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Actor movement coaching
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Motion rehearsals
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Action previsualization
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Second unit action support
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On-set fight supervision
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Safety planning and risk assessment
Martial Arts & Combat Expertise
Our team's experience spans a broad range of martial arts and combat disciplines, allowing us to create action that feels authentic to the characters, setting, and tone of each production.
Our roster includes:
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Third-degree Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu black belts
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Filipino Martial Arts (FMA) instructors and practitioners, including Kali and Eskrima
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Knife fighting specialists
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Historical European Martial Arts (HEMA) practitioners
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Traditional Japanese swordsmanship specialists
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Professional mixed martial arts coaches
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Kenpo Karate black belts
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Experienced stunt performers with backgrounds in striking, grappling, and weapons-based combat
Whether your production requires grounded law-enforcement tactics, realistic military combatives, competitive mixed martial arts, historical sword fighting, stylized martial arts, or contemporary street fighting, our team develops choreography that is believable, story-driven, and safe to perform.
Action Designed Around Story
Every fight should reveal character—not simply showcase technique. We design action that reflects each character's background, training, emotional state, and objectives. A military veteran, an experienced boxer, a medieval knight, and a street fighter should each move differently, and those differences help audiences understand who they are without a single line of dialogue.
By combining cinematic storytelling with authentic martial arts expertise, we create fight sequences that are visually compelling, emotionally engaging, and grounded in believable movement. Our collaborative process with directors, cinematographers, and performers ensures that every sequence serves the story while maintaining the highest standards of safety and professionalism.
