Courtesy of Bjorn Krebbers
Bjorn writes:
looks like they added three new cats to their act, 2 white tigers and 1 champagne lion who now does the jump from ring to ring with one of the brothers.
"I don't think it is possible for a feline to move any slower and more grudgingly then these animals. I'm sorry, but I have yet to see anything from these brothers that impresses me, even giving the benefit of the doubt that they are new, inexperienced animals, which is often alibied as a reason for slow movement. Note at 16:11 a pedestal has been left in the arena to push into the lions face to get him off his place, as well as meat in front of him and two people pushing him. Three people to get one animal to move!!!! From 16:16 when he was first asked to leave his place to 20:16 when he completed the "behavior" 4 minutes had passed for one animal to do one thing. Look closely the "famed jump" is nothing more then the animal jumping and the person jumping from behind. Not riding the jump, as folks have been lead to believe. And it take's 4 minutes. Russian audiences are apparently more patient and tolerant then audience's around the world."
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
5th Moscow Circus Festival--The Zapasshny Brothers
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Wade G. Burck
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Perhaps someone could suggest that these guys use the same method of getting their animals into the arena that bull handlers use at the Plaza del Torros.
I found myself watching the antics of some of the band members as much as the cat act. Dennis
Dennis,
For the most part, with rare exception there isn't much method involved in getting the bull into the plaza. He want's in, because he doesn't know what faces him, he just want's to kill something. Open a door, get out of the way. If he faced the same thing in the plaza, day in and day out, without the death finish, after about a week, you couldn't drive him out with a bulldozer. That's a fact. The only reason an animal doesn't run into the arena, when the door is opened is that he is afraid. That's why it becomes necessary for amateurs to make him more afraid of balking and staying inside. Can new animals be apprehensive to enter the cage in a performance situation for the first couple of times? Absolutely, been there, done that most of my life. But if after 3 or 4 show's they are still afraid, you didn't do the job in the training arena at the beginning.
Wade
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