This is a different type of "fall," but...
When I ran the Just For Laughs Festival, I saw a lot of shows. Thousands over my 15-year career. Things have let up since starting Airborne, but given my professional heritage and my interest level, I still see way more live performances, of all kinds, than the average bizman.
This is said to establish my credibility for what I'm about to say (and add to the luster of whom I am about to extol), so...last week, at a dance/music/acrobatic show I saw called Line 1...
Dom Dagenais performed
one of the coolest, wildest,
most eye-popping and awe-inspiring acts
I've ever seen, anywhere!
A spunky little rock star-type (that's him below) , Dom stands on the edge of a large trampoline and starts to lay into an inspired guitar solo. He then falls (there's the connection!) backwards onto the tramp, twists and gets up, all while continuing the solo.
Then things get REALLY crazy.
Over the period of about five minutes, Dom jumps, flips, twists and somersaults all over the trampoline, sometimes soaring eight-to-10-feet in the air, and yes, all this without missing a note.
Truly something that has to be seen and heard to be believed. And trust me folks, after years of seeing everything at least twice, I don't impress easily. You can see it for yourself on YouTube (thanks, Gabriel!).
Didn't have a chance to catch up with him, but the story is that he was a championship trampolinist (is that what you call them?), until an injury put him out of international competition. Suffice to say that the Olympics' loss is the stage's gain.
Dom's act is so killer that it should be a staple at every NBA and NCAA Basketball half-time show, and it would be way better a warm-up for rock concerts than some of the poor souls that are thrown out to try and feed their unknown tunes to the lions every night. And at five minutes, it's the perfect TV/Web/Mobile Video length. Every second of it rocks.
It would be a true injustice if someone doesn't get on Dom's case...and soon.
A true Pow! performer.