Outside, Dave went through additional training that improved his driving 10 fold, (click on the photo above to preview this portion of the show). I was in the backseat shooting him on high definition as he learned to shuffle steer and front line brake. Both skills took time to master and there were many near crashes and spinouts. Needless to say, I was thrown all around the back seat trying to control my 30-pound camera and nearly lost my breakfast. I wasn't looking forward to our next exercise: PIT.

PIT stands for Precision Immobilization Technique and it is a maneuver in which a pursing officer moves up to the back quarter panel of a fleeing vehicle and gently turns the stirring wheel a quarter turn into the back panel. This breaks the rear wheel's traction and causes the fleeing vehicle to spin out. To see how effective this technique worked, our host, Dave Young was going to act as the fleeing bad guy. Now, Dave is a former marine and police officer and a pretty competitive guy. So I knew I was in for a rough ride. This time, I was shooting from the passenger seat.

Dave took off and Ohio State Trooper, Jeff Eggleston followed in hot pursuit. After 8 or 10 turns and almost putting my $150,000 camera through the windshield, Officer Eggleston moved into position. Suddenly, everything in my viewfinder (and my head) was spinning. When we stopped we were in a ditch in a could of dust facing the other direction. I quickly unbuckled my safety harness, opened the door and emptied the contents of my stomach.

At later shoots, I was burned by a high-energy beam, blinded and disoriented by random patterns of colored light and sent into uncontrollable convulsions by a taser. All just another day on the job while shooting for National Geographic.