Giant Ring
By Miss Cellania in Video Clips on Jul 20, 2008 at 7:18 am
Pontifex
If you like this, you might want to check out something similar: the German Rhönrad. See http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=rh%C3%B6nrad&search=Search for some examples...
Carl
Wow that's awesome. I really want somebody to 'shop out the ring so it just looks like he's flying around crazily.
That must take a ton of side muscles. The tricks he does towards the end...O_O
alison
Holycrap, that's incredible! If I were there I'd have given him everything in my wallet.
Dave
That was very neat!
The title screen made me scratch my head a little; "Sick street performance from Montréal" Sick?
ty
I would probably crush my fingers trying that.
Skipweasel
I wondered about "Sick" and then thought afterwards that I'd probably have thrown up were it me in the ring!
Miss Cellania
It's that new slang the young people are using these days. I believe "sick" means "wonderful" or "impressive".
Ali S.
@ Miss Cellania
Jeez, dang kids and their new fangled slangs! In my day it used to be "Tubular" and "Gnarly" and don't forget "Whoa!". *swings cane maniacally above his head* 
All I have to say is that was an awesome performance. I think perhaps he is one of those poor cosmonauts who didn't get to go to space after the Soviet Union fell. Now he has to do street performances to survive. Because dude must have an iron stomach not to hurl with those crazy moves and speeds.
Monica
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ted
Times change. I remember when Henry Winkler was cool.
Aren't the Russians going to space more than the US now?
SenorMysterioso
That does look like fun. "Sick" is so 2004
Dave
I thought sure it was a typo... "Slick street performance from Montréal”
Carl
Ted, Henry Winkler IS still cool. Haven't you seen his character in Arrested Development?
just a guy
What a bunch of HOOPla! (pun)
JC
That´s really impressive.
Ajina
It's called a Cyr wheel. It's a pretty standard circus prop nowadays. Invented by Daniel Cyr, extrapolated from work with the German Wheel, one would assume.
Really popularized by Cirque Eloize, taken up by Cirque du Soleil in Corteo . For a long time there were only a handful of tricks any Cyr wheel performers would do, but it was only a matter of time until they experimented enough... and they've found some amazing new stuff lately. Especially Jonas Wolverton and Krin Haglund.
Chris W
I was getting dizzy just watching him!!! i can't imagine how dizzy the guy felt afterwards!!!
kid_icarus
i kept expecting him to puke on the crowd......now THAT'S entertainment!
Arty
Yup, saw the same type of act in a performance given by Cirque du Soliel, the Corteo show specifically. It was amazing to watch. Go watch if you get a chance!
Alex
I was thinking the same thing Chris W! That was very neat!
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