newspaper article from caserta italy jump rope show

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After my adventures in Egypt (part 1 | part 2), I got to fly to San Francisco for a day then turned around and flew to Italy. It was a long time sitting on airplanes, but that’s the performance life. Thankfully I have some friends that live in Caserta, Italy so we had a place to stay for our 3 weeks of adventure there. Upon arrival in Naples, I really didn’t have much clue what my jump rope schedule was going to be. I found out very quickly how laissez-faire things are for the Italians (excuse my french :-)).  If we wanted groceries, you hadRead More →

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During my Egypt trip, they asked if I could do something different during my show. This being my 6th trip in 2 years meant they had seen all my stuff. Now we needed something new…It was time for the revival of the 6 foot balloon! The what? Years back, and I mean like 20, I was the 2nd (or 3rd) person in the USA to learn how to perform with a giant 6 foot balloon. The basic premise was to climb inside it and then back out. It was an odd thing that no one had really seen before. Outside of a cheesy used carRead More →

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What a whirlwind it has been traveling around the world for the past 2 months! Yesterday included 30 hours of travel back to my camper from Italy. I had shows in Mexico City, Egypt and Italy since I left back in October. I will talk about my Italian adventures in a different post, but today I want to focus on a strange request for me to do some underwater jump rope during my show in Egypt. October was my 6th trip to perform in Egypt in the last 2 years. I’ve had a lot of fun performing for tens of thousands of people (over 15Read More →

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This year has been going by much faster than I would have thought. I am staying very busy, even though I am doing less jump rope shows than normal. Why less? Well, that will be saved for another day. I am currently between international trips since I just returned from doing some jump rope shows in Hurghada, Egypt and will be leaving for Koror, Palau on Friday (my first time to this island nation). I have to say that I dislike baggage issues immensely…here’s what happened. I started out on a Monday morning in Milwaukee, WI after doing a jump rope show there on SundayRead More →

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I just returned home from another jump rope trip to Egypt. It was another awesome trip that had me performing in front of a packed house multiple times and was also broadcast throughout the middle east to millions of people. This trip had us performing in Beni Suef which is about 2 hours south of Cairo. They told us it would take about an hour and a half, but it ended up being closer to 3 hours. After I finished up there, my wife and I had a jump rope training session in Cairo before we added 2 new countries to our repertoire. Turkey andRead More →

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What a month! I just got back from 3 weeks traveling around Egypt where I was able to perform for thousands of people and teach a 4-day workshop to a small team in Cairo. It was a trip that came out of nowhere and turned out to be one of the best trips we’ve taken in quite some time. We also got to experience more rain than anyone living could remember. The people, the food, the sights…everything was amazing and we can’t wait to go back! For a little background, I was contacted about performing for a festival back in October. I was very keenRead More →