Day 26-27 — A Day at the Circus
Posted in Adventures, Cameras, Daily Post, Events, Yo-yos on September 21st, 2009 by Emil LamprechtSo there is one particular part of Day 26 that should absolutely be told, but I will leave that story to the Sutter Master to relate to you all. I will say however that we continued to love Kansas City and the people in it. A solid TRU demo followed by an entire afternoon and evening at the Circus… incredible.
Between teaching yo-yo tricks in Clown Alley and then experiencing Ringling Bros first hand both back stage and front… man we felt like yo-yo rock stars. Ringling itself is a production of EPIC proportion that runs like a well oiled piece of machinery and it was awesome to see the cogs lying around or hanging out cracking jokes before all coming together for the massive presentation that is that show.
Important points:
- Elephants are awesome.
- Tigers are scary.
- Motorcycles wizzing around a steal ball of death is SO COOL!!
- Chinese Jugglers are too good for reality.
- Some acrobatic stunts just shouldn’t be possible by humans.
In many ways circus shows have been turning more and more into a glorified form of children’s theater, but honestly, who cares! Its still awesome animals and crazy stunts. Big thanks and props to our friends Aji and Kricket in the clown car for having us along, and if you guys are reading this, can’t wait to run into you again some time!
And day 27? News program, demo at cool store, but the real news? Seth is back on board and with us through to nationals! We might or might not have a box of Mongu Hoodies. Maybe, who knows, it’s just one of those silly rumors.
Next up? Looooooooooooooooooong drive to Colorado.
- Otherwise known as "Crowd diversion for set up."
- Hat juggler extraordinaire!
- This wasn't that cool... until they started spinning the whole apparatus with both people around the wire!
- He even had a flash.
- There big passing routine was cool but not technically that interesting. However, when they just stopped and were fooling around with solo tricks... my god these guys were AWESOME.
- This dog attacked me back stage. No joke, it thought it could take me... I ran like a girl
- If you haven't seen this stunt before, find a way to. I don't care how you do it, just find a way.
- This guy has started getting into yo-yos and invited us to the circus after running into him at a bar. A very good juggler and awesome dude.
- This was... unnatural.
- Some of these tigers were HUGE. I generally have a hard time watching animals like this used for show, but its still fascinating to see them.
- Toy Time (rockin' store) set us up in the lunch area of the mall just below the store front. We had a little stage and pulled off a pretty sold 20 minute show.
- Yeah, that guy.











