What a trapeze act inspires is fear, shock and (hopefully) relief.
Students, protected with a harness and safety net, swing on a trapeze bar from an elevated platform, with the ultimate goal of letting go and being caught by another swinger.
Mr. Wall's technical descriptions of what happens on a trapeze, or even of how a somersault is turned, make you look afresh at what had previously seemed obvious.
But when he sticks to his own subject, Mr. Wall allows readers to share his wonder at the circus world's arcane jargon: a "board muffin" (assistant standing on the top perch to help the trapeze artist) uses a "noodle" (hooked staff) to catch the trapeze.
Ignoring these is like sending your personal information out onto the trapeze without a safety net.
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Finally, there's oodles of first person video from a fencer, horse jumper, trapeze artist, ping pong player and fire juggler, to name a few.
And although I only have word-of-mouth information on his trapeze abilities, and a picture of his tree climbing, I actually got to witness his ability to walk on his hands, starting from a sitting position on the floor where he was positioned alongside the many tables set-up at the awards banquet, he was able to pull himself up into a handstand, and walk on his hands.
They will also have to complete a course in aerial skills, like trapeze and climbing, and be able to perform at heights of up to 50 metres in the air.
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We've seen Emotiv's Epoc headset control cars and trapeze acts, but now a small posse of students at Columbia University is teaching it how to control a robotic arm.
Mitchell Baker, whose after-hours pursuits include conversational Mandarin and amateur trapeze flying, sticks out more than a little in the overwhelmingly male geek church of open-source software.
He stuck mostly with pant suits, wool shift or trapeze dresses and coats in solids, accented with a sprinkling of white-and-black stripes and large leaf prints in autumnal red, orange-red, green, purple and a rich deep blue.
It captures closeups of skydiving, trapeze-swinging, and more real-world but still vertigo-inducing activities like riding a roller coaster.
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