Doh! So I remembered to bring my camera so I could take many wonderful pictures of beautiful Arizona, yet I forgot to bring the necessary memory card which turned it into a rather heavy paperweight because I’m too cheap to buy another. Which is too bad because I could have gotten some good practice at shooting in tricky lighting conditions, which, um, you can see a bit in these photos from Mark ;) Sorry Mark.

But anyway, the performance went perfectly. They built us some sweet obstacles, and we choreographed a great little run in the day’s preparation that we had.

My favorite part of the performance was that we integrated it with the fashion show they were doing “catwalk” style. The audience had no idea what was coming, they thought they were just watching a normal little fashion show albeit with a few strange structures lying around. They had no idea that Levi and I had snuck around to the back to prepare for our little surprise. As one of the models was jogging down the catwalk to showcase some new shoes, Levi rushes up onto one of the obstacles jumps to an underbar and rolls out of sight - an absolute blur of color. The model comes back acting like nothing happens and the next one comes out to do a bit jogging. I take my cue and dive into a double kong across the stage, rolling out of sight.

The audience is freaking out at this point, the energy in the room is crazy. The next model brings Levi sprinting up the entire length of the catwalk and I follow him up after a quick tic tac. This is where our performance really begins. Huge kongs and underbars onto the stage, flips practically on top of the audience, large jumps over them, coordinated near misses of smacking into each other, and a sweet sychronized catleap near the finale ensues. Video to come soon :)

Everyone at K-Swiss seemed to really love the show. It culminated in probably the first standing ovation I’ve ever had. We had some great talks with some big executives there, we may have convinced a few shoe designers to come to Mark’s gym, and the bottom-line - we entertained a lot of people. Even after the show actually, as we burned off some extra adrenaline on a sweet cat leap we eyed earlier.

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