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Oli Lemieux Cirque du Soleil Practice

By Johnny Cat in Sports, Video Clips on Nov 13, 2009 at 4:31 pm


Montreal acrobat and Cirque du Soleil performer Oli Lemieux amazes in this practice video.  This makes me want to see another show of theirs, and soon!  From Asylum~

While most of us are content to bounce up and down (and occasionally fall off and break a leg), when you put Oli on a trampoline he leaves physics behind him. The man runs up walls and bends gravity in whichever direction is appropriate to make backflipping off ledges look effortless.

YouTube Link (Note: some NSFW lyrics in the song)

The routines practiced are for the current show, Dralion.


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  1. Alex
    Nov 13th, 2009 at 5:03 pm

    I would so bust my skull open if I tried that. Neat find, Johnny Cat!

  2. heather
    Nov 13th, 2009 at 5:46 pm

    Holy s### that's awesomely insane!

  3. pwscott
    Nov 13th, 2009 at 7:46 pm

    Cool video. I can't imagine the man hours involved learning that trick. :p

  4. Tim Giachetti
    Nov 14th, 2009 at 12:13 am

    I was lucky 3 times to see the Cirque' at Downtown Disney. They have a wall act that was/is amazing.
    The power of the entire show amazed me. Stirred me to the bone.

  5. Chris Johnston
    Nov 14th, 2009 at 6:33 am

    Okay, Earth people can't do that!
    I'm wondering how Cirque du Soleil manages to recruit off-planet, what with the sorry state of manned spaceflight currently. ;o)

  6. ted
    Nov 14th, 2009 at 8:55 am

    Too bad the music was so vulgar. I stopped watching after the "bitch put a squeeze on his dick".

    Very hard to do, I imagine, but the guy seemed a little full of himself.

  7. Tim Giachetti
    Nov 14th, 2009 at 9:43 am

    ted, one word.

    "French"

    understand now? lol

  8. Merilee
    Nov 14th, 2009 at 2:27 pm

    I've seen this live and even then, it looks like CGI trickery. But it's real and heart-stopping!!

  9. smconno
    Nov 14th, 2009 at 4:37 pm

    sick

  10. Ali S.
    Nov 15th, 2009 at 6:41 am

    Boing...boing...boing...never have I seen such an awesome bit of boinging...tee hee.

  11. ted
    Nov 15th, 2009 at 11:31 am

    lol, Tim.

    I understand completely now. Thanks!

    In that case, he was kinda understated.

  12. Noelegy
    Nov 16th, 2009 at 12:58 am

    More enjoyable after I muted the music, but still spellbinding. Did anyone else notice that beneath the trampolines was just a cement floor with occasional mats scattered around? If he'd missed just once...!

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