Aerial acrobatics take years of practice to achieve a certain level of perfection. Acrobats are trained to perform various stunts while staying on the silks, and ‘falling is not an option at all’. But a performer in Kuala Lumpur stunned the world as she suspended herself 1,000 feet in the air- and then plummeted to the ground.
The best way to describe it is ‘interesting’. Even having a parachute on my back, it was a bit of a brain boggle to let go into free fall. The whole point of aerial silks is to perform acrobatic moves and falls whilst still staying on the silks. Falling is not an option. You spend years training your mind and body to stay on the silks.Cynthia Currie
Cynthia Currie (33), who designed her act to combine skydiving with aerial acrobatics, added the unique feature of the fall. It was all part of the show as she had a parachute ready to be deployed for a safe landing.
Currie, a South African, who has a long experience of over 10,000 skydives and freefalls, thought that the feeling when she had to let go of the silks was ‘interesting’. She started to skydive at the age of 19. It was then that she got into aerial silks too.
Currie hung the silks from the Kuala lumpur Tower in Malaysia, 1,000 feet above the ground. The entire spectacle was captured by Keith Smith, a photographer and videographer.
(With inputs from AP)
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