The way things just go catastrophically wrong and they just roll with it blows my mind. We saw this type of contraption at a Cirque show and the dude jumping rope on it tripped himself with the rope near the very top of the spin. Full on tripped and fell like 50' up.
My hands were sweating and my anxiety was through the roof. Another performer passed him another jump rope. Like bro how do you still have the concentration to keep going.
109
u/_-4twenty-_ 22h ago
I took my son to a circus almost 20 years ago and that contraption broke with the person on it. It just swung.
The ring master was alert and calmly saved the person, like it was part of the act.