Can a Non-Pro Do WICKED Aerial Stunts Better Than a Pro?
Challenge video for the Mindflips Las Vegas entertainment series. Circus performer Louis Biggs takes on aerial straps artist Avi Wolf Borouchoff in a challenge that moves from beginner spins through plunges, flares, and the physically punishing switch maneuvers performed by professionals every night in Las Vegas residency shows. The video demonstrates the full spectrum of aerial straps artistry from accessible entry-level moves to the near-dislocation finishing tricks that define elite performance.
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Full Script
Louis Biggs, circus performer, and Avi Wolf Borouchoff, aerial straps artist:
Louie: Hello. He is an aerial straps artist, all-rounder. He's going to show us some of his easiest through to his most difficult tricks. We're just going to see what the heck you're doing today.
Avi on his background: My mom was a clown by profession. She did birthday parties and dragged me along because no babysitter. And I learned how to twist balloon animals. Then I was like, oh, I want to be a musical theater boy. I liked that circus had this uniqueness to it. You can bring something different to it depending on what you do. There's a lot of freedom in circus.
On his easiest trick: I feel like a spin is always good because the audience sees a spin and they're like, oh my God. Humans love to see objects revolve fast in a space.
On performing: The idea of being a movement-based artist is that you want to do something where the audience just sees it as an illusion. But they all can relate with it because they all know what it's like to do a pull up or hang from one arm.
Our challenge is that you've got to smile and stuff while you're doing what you're doing, sweating through your eyeballs. But you find the love in it. It's the only reason I still do it. You put yourself through that kind of pain every night, you're not going to come back and do it again if it's not something you adore.
On his hardest trick: It's a switch with a little light catch. You're hanging from one arm, you whip it around, you're spinning. It's at the beginning of the act so it's a good moment. You give them the wow factor.
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