We all had a great time at the Street Performance World Championships at the weekend. The park was heaving but we still managed to bump into a few friends in the crowd.
The big danger in watching a street performance of course if being pulled out of the crowd. I watched a few early shows thanking my lucky stars that your man pick on me.
Then we sat down early to get a good look at ‘Bendy EM’.
She sets up, she warms up, she tries to warm the crowd up a bit, she neatly tucks both legs behind her head. Oh My God. Applause. She says, ‘I need help getting out of this position, can the guy in the striped T-Shirt, yes you sir, can you give me a hand’. OMG, that’s me.
So I get my 15 minutes of fame helping Bendy EM go through the routine including having my T-shirt removed and sweat bands applied and 20 push ups but thankfully not too much public humiliation (apart from getting my less-than-six-pack-like abs out).
Good show Em, like the act and it was a pleasure to be part of it.
I’m still laughing to myself about the whole thing and my kids are very proud. She even let me keep the sweat band!
And this is the point where the world feels grateful that my wife never learnt how to use the camera. Moreover, so far there are no photos on pix.ie of me holding in my belly in front a large crowd in Fitzgerald’s Park. Not yet anyway…
Hi Rob,
Glad to hear you had sucha good time at SPWC this weekend and that you even got to be one of Bendy Em’s trusted assistants…I think I saw you help Bendy Em, I remember her calling on a man in a stripey t-shirt at one of the shows. If I have any photos of you or video footage, I’ll send them your way 😀
Niamh.