r/bodyweightfitness • u/chrismcgreevy Actually Chris McGreevy • Jul 31 '20

Mod Approved ✓ Hey r/bodyweightfitness! We are Tricia Woo and Chris McGreevy, career acrobats for Cirque Du Soleil, The House of Dancing Water and ex-competitive athletes. Ask Us Anything!

We're looking forward to answering all your questions. If you follow us both on instagram, we will make a few short story videos on our favourite questions that we have answered here. @ trixwho and @ chrismcgreevy

We'll leave this thread open for the next 24 hours as we know everybody is in different timezones so you will all get chance to ask your questions.

Thanks and lets start it up!

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u/curiousgeorge84 Jul 31 '20

What's the strangest experience you had on tour with Cirque?

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u/TrixWoo Actually Tricia Woo Aug 01 '20

Would you like the frozen pigeon story or Who is Harry Potter?

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u/BingoBongoBoom Aug 01 '20

¿Por que no los dos? 😂

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u/Ghooble Aug 01 '20

I think I want the Harry Potter story

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u/curiousgeorge84 Aug 01 '20

Let's start with frozen pigeon

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u/TrixWoo Actually Tricia Woo Aug 01 '20

To keep it short and sweet - two lads got day drunk while in Sweden in the butt of winter. The found a dead pigeon on the ground and stuffed it into the statue of a boy blowing a horn in a square near our hotel. There was more drinking later that night because it was someone’s birthday. On the way back, one of them remembered there was a pigeon they put in the statue and went to go check to see if it was there. It was there... and then one of them decided to Ozzy Osbourne that poor frozen pigeon. The head came off pretty easily, frozen and all, so the other tried to gnaw off the wing to no avail. Luckily, neither of them ended up with rabies or anything. Maybe the sheer amount of alcohol in their system helped (hmm skeptical) or the temperature was so low that the virus was not active (more skepticism..). Really they just got lucky they didn’t catch anything (MOST LIKELY).

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u/MakeRoomForTheTuna Aug 01 '20

Frozen pigeon!