Get Started in Contortionism

Video Transcript

"How I got started into doing contortionism is kind of a long drawn out process. When I was around 3 years old, my parents enrolled me gymnastics like every parents do. Every kid needs to do gymnastics. I started doing and I was pretty flexible for a 3 year old, but what 3 year old doesn't have pretty loose ligaments. Then as I got older, I started pursuing different careers as in like basketball, soccer, tennis, all the different sports. Then around the age of 11 I got back into gymnastics and noticed that I was completely more flexible than all the other kids in the classes and people started noticing. Hey when you do back bends your hands touch your feet or hey when you're doing this trick you're so much more flexible. While others would practice their flexibility and work very hard at it, it just came quite easily to me. I had very loose ligaments and it was just able to come naturally. Instead of just being oh that's pretty cool and throwing it to the shelf, I practiced upon and built upon it and started finding out new maneuvers through trail and error. Practicing things on the couch, in the gym, or on the swing sets. There are various different areas where I could improve my flexibility and work on different tricks and balancing and different acts like that. I practice quite often. Basically everyday to be able to maintain these tricks and keep them strong and going on in a manner that people are able to watch them and enjoy them."