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Here Gene talks about getting hurt in stunts. He talks about how he got banged up doing Dukes of Hazard at thirty years old. He jumped a car, it was a 45 foot jump and he got whiplash do to improper technique in the jump. He turned his head to see how high up he was and then he hit the ground and got whiplash from the impact. When he got home he couldn't move because he was so sore and tense.
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have you ever gotten hurt doing any stunts? mostly my feelings hurt. you get banged up, i was on a show in a car and i was jumping a car. at 75? no no i was probably thirty at the time. dukes of hazard? okay. and when you come upstairs ill show you an award i got for it. so I'm jumping a car, and when you're thirty years old or forty or fifty you think you're bulletproof. so i got some real air. and you're supposed to be just like this. you got your restraints, you got your five points holding you down, you got your helmet, and the restraints are your support so you don't move your head around when you land. it was only about a forty, forty five foot jump, but high in the air. and i got so high, i turned my head this way just to see how high i got, which is a no no. thats amateur time in dixy. but I've never been accused of being smart, just good looking. and anyway when i hit, you're in the air a second, bam and my head hit here. now nobody believe that my head went down there but it does. and it did. and im out and everybody is happy. they are cheering and saying thats terrific. and i got out and started teasing and then my neck started to hurt and my upper back started to hurt. when i got home i felt like a spider that you put a match to. i was all and i had whiplash. and so it was about two weeks before i could go out dancing and do the boogaloo and all that stuff.
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