Ivan Forlani
- Stunts
- Actor
- Camera and Electrical Department
Ivan Forlani was born on February 17, 1993 in Italy, Trieste.
At the young age of 3 years old his parents put him doing roller skating till the age of 10 years old and that was his first experience with any kind of sport till then.
After that experience he tried every kind of sports next to the area where he was living at that time such as football, basketball, swim, ski and kayak.
At the age of 15 years old he decided to try to do martial arts in the gym next to where he was living and from that moment on he fell in love with it.
He started practicing Muay Thai, which translates to "Thai Boxing" ( is the national sport of Thailand) and after a short period he started straightaway with Sanda formerly Sanshou, also known as Chinese boxing or Chinese kickboxing (is the official Chinese full contact combat sport).
He also got really passionate with a completely new discipline called Parkour.
Quickly he developed his skills and went for the 4th Chan Wu national competition in Italy placing himself in the first place of the competition and also in the second place at the International kung fu games FIWuK.
He became a black belt in Sanda on 2010.
After that he practiced MMA and BJJ but for a short period till the moment he moved, on August 2014, to Austria, starting again to practice MMA and BJJ.
On 2017 he took part at the television program Ninja Warrior Austria going all the way through to the final stage of this parkour competition but unfortunately he lost his chance on one of the obstacles. He placed himself on the top 20.
On the same year he decided to change his live after the Ninja Warrior Austria competition by deciding to start to work as Stuntman.
In 2018 he went for it, starting in Austria to train with the multiple Hollywood stunt performer Joe Toedtling with fire stunts such as "body burning". After that he went to Copenhagen in the ESS stunt school for increase his skills at 360° and learn more about the stunt industry.
Fights, fight choreography, body burning, cars stunts, etc.. became the routing in Ivan's life, leading him also to work on the big Hollywood movies sets.
