Giant Ring

• Pontifex
  July 20th, 2008 at 7:53 am

  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
  July 20th, 2008 at 9:05 am

  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
  July 20th, 2008 at 9:48 am

  Holycrap, that’s incredible! If I were there I’d have given him everything in my wallet.

• Dave
  July 20th, 2008 at 10:40 am

  That was very neat!

  The title screen made me scratch my head a little; “Sick street performance from Montréal” Sick?

• ty
  July 20th, 2008 at 11:01 am

  I would probably crush my fingers trying that.

• Skipweasel
  July 20th, 2008 at 12:25 pm

  I wondered about “Sick” and then thought afterwards that I’d probably have thrown up were it me in the ring!

• Miss Cellania
  July 20th, 2008 at 12:33 pm

  It’s that new slang the young people are using these days. I believe “sick” means “wonderful” or “impressive”.

• Ali S.
  July 20th, 2008 at 2:26 pm

  @ 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
  July 20th, 2008 at 2:44 pm

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• ted
  July 20th, 2008 at 2:47 pm

  Times change. I remember when Henry Winkler was cool.

  Aren’t the Russians going to space more than the US now?

• SenorMysterioso
  July 20th, 2008 at 3:31 pm

  That does look like fun. “Sick” is so 2004

• Dave
  July 20th, 2008 at 3:55 pm

  I thought sure it was a typo… “Slick street performance from Montréal”

• Carl
  July 20th, 2008 at 4:16 pm

  Ted, Henry Winkler IS still cool. Haven’t you seen his character in Arrested Development?

• just a guy
  July 20th, 2008 at 6:37 pm

  What a bunch of HOOPla! (pun)

• JC
  July 21st, 2008 at 12:11 am

  That´s really impressive.

• Ajina
  July 21st, 2008 at 2:37 am

  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
  July 21st, 2008 at 3:29 am

  I was getting dizzy just watching him!!! i can’t imagine how dizzy the guy felt afterwards!!!

• kid_icarus
  July 21st, 2008 at 2:18 pm

  i kept expecting him to puke on the crowd……now THAT’S entertainment!

• Arty
  July 21st, 2008 at 8:08 pm

  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
  July 22nd, 2008 at 2:15 am

  I was thinking the same thing Chris W! That was very neat!

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