Acrobats

[PofH1]

The music is also accurate to the era, as composed by Ulysses T. Washington aka "DJ Ham Hocks Jenkins" on two phonographs and a megaphone.

[ElDaniGG]

AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!!!!!!!!!!

[0917akemi]

すげー！！明治時代の日本！！バンザーーイ

[Kazi900o]

hoooly shiiiit

[gymnasticfan]

Amazing O.O

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[punkdude1668]

lol ahahha the music

[abodigibine69]

could you imagine when they first started training to do this, they wuda had some busted up bones and shit haha

[sundip19]

The song is pretty cool (as well as the acrobats, o'course), anyone know the name/artist of it?

[motherscum]

this song is like mortal combats brother

[oldking]

i wonder if he can do that to his 300 pound wife lol

thats way kool

[apparentlyamyclare]

unbelievable

[orkid1990]

just for those of you who may not already know,

this is called icarian games, its a very old and very hard circus art mainly done by brothers.

type in icarian games on youtube and it will come up with cirque du soleil, one of the greatest circuses of all time, it includes an icarian games act which is simply amazing

just thought i'd spread the word :)

[romehalt]

@orkid1990 Actually in Japan it is called Echigo Jishi or Kakubei Jishi, and it is a form of acrobatics originally from Niigata that used to be performed by children as street artists. There are still some places in Niigata where kids perform (not as impressive as these two guys on the video) during local festivals.

[fishsitcksNsyrup]

HAHAHAHAH he was totally break dancing on that guy's feet.

[erinelectric13z]

that was awsome unbelievable

[DeafPixie]

Not weird.. Japanese have a talent of thier body flexible. I dont agree with Ewokfordeath's common. but it is old film. Wonderful and their talent is skilled. Magic!

[pixiecherries]

This was shot by Thomas Edison in 1907. I have a copy from the Library of Congress. I like the music you added.

[pixiecherries]

Correction. 1904.

[Jamesbowman777]

Rman numerals MCMVII are 1907, but really nice performance, was that a man and a woman or a child?

[Mattfromdidsbury]

Hey that looks like fun, is it really from 1907 though? Looks like they've used the old film effect from windows movie maker

[lmharnisch]

Nope. It's really old, old film.

[darave1]

@Mattfromdidsbury Its definitely fake, that music wasnt around in 1907

[millzys]

wtf

[Hergo]

JapaneseAcrobats1904

[UncleBubba]

Shame somebody added that dreadful soundtrack

[pk14leon]

fuck

[Touchski]

Ahhh, Im scared.. I wanna try it!

[embersoftheblackdrag]

wow. :o that's flipping awsome XD

[karmical]

1904? Amazing. Somehow I think the music is a bit more recent....:)

[BrettCurry]

It would be cool if they could teach kangaroos to do this.

[moonofsnmc]

they must have practiced that for a few months before either of them didn't get hurt. very nice. old school shit. haha.

[YeagerClan]

Old they may be, but Acrobats had to start SOMEWHERE didn't they?

[Mattfromdidsbury]

Yeah that's probably when they started mate

[gtsomething]

lol, some swack shit....is swack a word?...meh

[psaj006]

(0_0) wow, that´s cool!