Category: Circus

Jeff Thomson – Gymnastics Canada Chair

  • *Jeff Thomson (Chair) – North Vancouver, BC
  • Barb Bergeron (Vice-Chair) – Kanata, ON
  • *Bonnie DeGroot (Secretary) – Calgary, AB
  • Rosie MacLennan (Athlete Rep) – Toronto, ON
  • Nathalie Bastien (Director) – Montreal, QC
  • Nick Lenehan (Director) – Halifax, NS
  • *Bernard Petiot (Director) – Montreal, QC
  • Kim Shore (Director) – Calgary, AB

“I would like to take this opportunity to thank the Gymnastics Canada membership, and the GymCan Board, for the honour of being elected and then selected as the Chairperson of the Board of Directors,” said Thomson who has 40 years of experience in the sport of gymnastics and is currently a member of the FIG Technical Committee for Men’s Artistic Gymnastics. …

GymCan.org

Jeff Thomson

Bernard Petiot has been one of the top people at Cirque du Soleil for many years.

NFL player – Roundoff 1/1

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Chris Silcox montage

Chris is a stuntman and actor living in L.A.

He doubled Tom Holland for Spider-Man Homecoming and Far From Home.

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Cirque du Soleil content FREE

If you are a Cirque junkie like myself, you’re disappointed all the shows have gone into COVID-19 hiatus.

One non-Cirque tent show ‘Absinthe’ will reopen Oct. 28th in Vegas. Capacity reduced from 660 to 153. It’s a start.

While we wait, Cirque has expanded their free online offerings.

To see everything join the Cirque Club at their cirqueconnect web page.

Merci Bernard.

Cirque Trampoline acts

Each new creation comes out with something even crazier.

This compilation includes a handful of acts. There are dozens more.

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Globetrotters can Barani on mini-tramp

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Remember the time Krusty bet on the Generals?

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The Generals actually beat the Globetrotters in the past. Nobody is sure whether it is 1, 3 or 6 wins. The ended a 2,495-game losing streak on January 5, 1971 in Martin, Tennessee, for example.

Stefanie Millinger – acrobatics on a windmill

You have to be plenty confident that giant blade is not going to start to turn.

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