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Postby RobLaughter » May 30th, '07, 19:55



I shot this in Va. Beach over the weekend at a little show for a girl's birthday. It was the first time I'd ever performed it for a real audience, so I was pretty nervous about it. Halfway through, I thought I was screwing up royally, but watching the video, I feel it went a lot better than I thought it was. In fact, it was the most talked-about part of the show afterward. Let me know what you think.

http://one.revver.com/watch/285328

Interestingly enough, I met Tony Econ last night who came up with the improved handling of Professor's Nightmare where the ropes are stretched naturally in the vertical position LONG before Richard Sanders put out Fiber Optics (I think he said he came up with that handling in the 60s).

I might put up a few more clips from the show in the next couple of days, as well as some restaurant work I did while I was there.

Ciao,
Rob

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Postby dat8962 » May 30th, '07, 20:17

Wouldn't play for me

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Postby Jae » May 30th, '07, 20:26

Worked fine here. I like! :D

On my CUPS list to get a decent set of ropes as the ones I have now are somewhat limiting.

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Postby magicmonkey » May 30th, '07, 23:10

Nice one Rob!
glad the party went well 8)

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Postby MartinUK » May 30th, '07, 23:18

That was really good rob. I thoroughly enjoyed that. glad it went well

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Postby RobLaughter » May 31st, '07, 20:31

Thanks for the comments, all. I was hoping for some criticism, but an ego boost is always nice :wink:

Rob

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Postby monker59 » May 31st, '07, 20:39

I thought it was pretty funny.

If you're not careful, the ends can slip right off. Oops.


Nice! :)

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