Nic Price wrote:
>
> I saw Cirque du Soleil (Saltimbanco) on the weekend, and the tightwire walker
> did a bit of unicycling on the wire. I couldn’t see it all because I was
> looking straight along the length of the wire, but at the end of it, she did a
> stationary balance for a few seconds and then did a back flip from the uni
> down onto the wire. It seemed slightly rigged because the unicycle was
> promptly whisked up to the roof by a harness, so it made me think that she
> used her harness to help her.
It’s about 3 or 4 years since I saw Saltimbanco, but I seem to remember at the
time that she had a safety harness on herself as well as the unicycle, and I
certainly got the impression that she used it for support during the somersault.
Still, you wouldn’t get me up there. The highest wire I’ve walked is 7 feet,
and I still haven’t managed unicycling on the wire for more than about one or
two seconds.
One day maybe …
- Richard