Contortionists creep me out
This is a change of pace from you-know-what.
I’m not saying it’s a pleasant change of pace. But it’s certainly a weird one:
If you want to know more about how they do it, see this.
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I can’t watch that stuff, I was married to a ballerina and when I first met her in college she could do a back bend without touching the floor and put her forehead on her heals, that was creepy enough for me. She was bendy.
MSM journos are natural-born contortionists; they don’t have to work at it.
I am so non-flexible, despite a lifetime of athletic activity, exercise, etc. – that this sort of thing simply amazes me. I can do routine stretches and so forth, but this contortionist stuff just, well, I think if I tried any of it parts of me would break… violently.
Contortionists freak me out. Big time.
I’m a fairly manly man, but I can’t watch this stuff. When I was on the school basketball team a cheerleader would do a routine as each of the starting 5 were introduced by name. I had to avert my eyes when my name was called. I can’t watch this stuff. I apologized to my classmate, the cheerleader doing the routine, but I can’t look at this stuff.
Not even going to click on the video, here. This, and lifelike animals dressed in Edwardian or Victorian era clothing… No thanks! Beatrix Potter illustrations… Yikes!
Freaky!
NO. JUST NO.
Even the teen sensation from AGT? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADiWiEzrN5o
Female contortionists I can watch. I don’t see that many men. A little creepy but why not? At least they are earning an honest living, right, unlike the MSM.
Brian Morgan,
But are they essential workers?
Because Flexible!
Griffen, you forgot to end your comment with /sarc, right?
One day we will get past this low-point and hopefully have a good laugh.
Mr. Fantastic was one of my favorite superheroes in the comics. This fellow is not quite Reed Richards, but impressively close physically. Now if he can get up on stage and talk through solving polynomial equations out loud while doing all these stunts, then we’d really be getting there.
I have serious difficulties tying my shoes. And I am not fat.
Male contortionists are rare… women are more common..
usually when men are, they have a medical condition (cant remember the name)
Ok, now we know how contortionists are able to contortion. (Is that a word? Should be. Useful for discussion of politicians.)
What we haven’t yet learned is WHY.
I took yoga for a couple years from a Romanian contortionist who morphed into a yoga teacher for her American gig. Her nom-de-yoga was Pretzel.
Interesting person. Like most Eastern Bloc people I’ve met, who made it to the US, Pretzel was a fierce and cynical survivor. She was working on an advanced Pilates certification when I last saw her.
After the cost of living in the Bay Area became absurd, she folded up her SF trip and relocated to Austin. I’m sure she’s fine.
“creep me out”
Agree.
In a similar vein, I’ve had a gut negative reaction (as an adult at least) to magicians’ acts. Not sure exactly why but I think it’s mainly just feeling I’m being deceived and manipulated. I’m accustomed to wanting honesty and transparency (so I don’t like politicians either).That plus the usual anxiety on behalf of the performer that he will mess it up. I say ‘he’ in part because I can’t remember ever seeing a female magician.
I don’t consider people who are acting in a play or a movie as practicing deception. You know they’re acting, their names are right there in the program or credits.
Middle daughter is a dancer.
Her comment: “Hips aren’t supposed to do that.”
Then she went back to pirouetting.
And youngest went off to tic-tok some more while helping with dinner.
Being semi-locked-down is interesting in my house. And fun.
uhhhhh….. does this count as a dancing post?
The balance of flexibility & strength, the need for both, the reality that more of one means less of the other. Very interesting.
Trade-offs are so important and always somewhat relevant.
I can’t do most flexible stuff, and always disliked too much stretching even when I was running more. A little bit of stretching in the sun seems plenty, to me.
But this guy’s body’s ability to contort (that’s the word!) is truly amazing, cool; ya, even creepy.