It's All In The Balance
A lot of handstands here, but also some fun after everyone else at gym club has gone home, and some professional performers at work. That's heavyweight juggler and balancer Daniel Teplitski, having inherited the act from his father Oleg. Based in Birmingham UK, he was banned from performing as a boy once becuase his act was considered too dangerous. It's mainly strength work, and we'll feature that another time. Slack line. Easier than it looks, provided you never let the legs start to oscillate sideways. I could do it with a flat line (once) after an Aussie boy showed me how: also you must step out firmly at the start. The next two are not strictly balances but, if you lose your balance and can't catch on - disaster! We'll let Samuele, a young gymnast from Italy, introduce us to the art of 'lift to handstand'... ...while Yevgeny balances on the gymnastic rings and does push-ups for us... Old-style gymnastics here - almost a balance: Professional acrob...