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10 comments:
Wade, thank you for the all the pictures of the cats. I would like to see more of this young man in particular, especially a video of his complete act, but there isn't much available.
Mary Ann
Mary Ann,
Folks usually don't put out videos. Sometimes a show will produce on with bits and pieces. There is not a reason for a video, unless a fan or someone else takes it.
Wade
Mary Ann,
I have a tape of a short piece of 3 minutes of his act on dvd if you sent my your adress I'll send it to you. The tape is taken on Massy festival in 2008 and contains the sit-up with all, and the jump over the tigers drapped on the bar.
Thomas
They might show quiet a bit of the act in a german TV special about the circus festival in Monte Carlo, like they do every year.
Stefan
I like the leap frog in the second picture. I think it looks great.
Stefan,
The second picture is a double forward tiger hind leg walk, a leap frog is when two tiger jumps over each other, when one tiger stands and another jumps over it and back over it, it's called a reverse jump over. Martin Lacey haves a leap frog and Roger Falck haves a reverse jump over. But here you see the hind leg walk.
Thomas
Stefan,
There is no leap frog in these pictures. There is a "kiss 0 death", a double forward hind leg walk, a jump over, and a group jump over. All behaviors seen since the 1930's, except the double hind leg walk which is enjoying a great resurgence since 2005. A leap frog is two tigers jumping over each across the cage.
Wade
Thomas,
How did you get so smart??? It almost seems like you are setting a "standard" for cage acts. You beat me with the answer by 23 minutes, from thousands of miles away. LOL
Wade
Thomas,
thank you, I actually was talking about the third picture which is a jump over and not a leap froga s I thought.
Wade,
I recieved your email and I thank you for explaining to me what a leap frog actually is and how it works. You said it is hard to describe, but you descibed it very well, so that I could truly imagine it. Thanks again.
Stefan
Stefan,
It looks good the jump over, but tigers drapped over a bar is really a basic trick trainers do that since 1920, and a jump is the most basic trick together with pyramid and lay down. So it isn't very difficult to learn to the tigers.
Thomas
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