Sunday, July 22, 2007

No. 138- Krystof Malek with Circus Olympia 1962


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4 comments:

Casey McCoy Cainan said...

Does this trick have a name?

Anonymous said...

Yes. It is the oblique--wherein each cat's face is over the other's neck, or very closely thereabouts. Buckles ran a fine feature on this back in the archives of this blog, with many excellent comments. One tiger act had each cat turn and place their heads over his neighbor's neck as their names were called one by one.

Casey McCoy Cainan said...

I knew the oblique part I meant the cats standing off pedestals with feet on bridge like that. Thank you Mr. Smith

Anonymous said...

I Believe the oblique is origanly a liberty horse trick.