Different Types of Jumping Stilts

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"KEVIN BARRET: Okay. Now, there are many different types of stilts out there, all right? The one we're going to be using today is called a jumping stilt. Now, these come in many different forms. You can get them for a child, you can get them for adult, which is the one you see here, or you can get them for professional use. Now, the child ones are a lot smaller than this one right here. They are made out of mostly plastic and they're a little bit more breakable, but for the money, it's worth it. The next one is the adult stilt. This is the one that you see right here that I will be showing you how to use today. This one I'll give you a little bit more in depth in just a minute. But if you're going to buy a professional stilt, these are ones that you would see at Super Bowl halftime show-type things where these guys are doing back flips or jumping up and down walls, doing crazy stuff. That's a little bit more advanced though, okay? The next thing is a drywall stilt. Now, drywall stilt is the original concept stilt, okay? It comes with--it has a flat part for your foot, it's got the strap around your leg, it goes down with two pegs usually to another flat foot, okay? These are basically just an extension of your own leg, okay? Once you're up on these, you are very stable, you can walk around fine; it's not a big deal using those stilts. Pretty much anybody can use those stilts. They're usually made out of wood or aluminum. Now, the next stilt is called the peg stilt, okay? These range in all different sizes, just like the drywall stilts, but they are just a--one peg which is usually made out of wood. It comes up, it has a platform for your foot stand, and then it straps around your leg, and it is much like this where it's got one small peg at the bottom, so it's very hard to stand still on them, okay? The next type of stilt is actually a rollerblading stilt that I just saw for the first time just a couple of weeks ago at an audition. This guy has a peg stilt that comes down, hooks into rollerblade wheels. There's about five rollerblade wheels and this guy can rollerblade two to three feet off the ground. Craziest thing I've ever seen in my life. So, if you want to check out some of that, go online and you can find all these different stilts."