Veronica: Their flawless performance requires a lot of practice, hard work and even some falls. Hi! I am Veronica at watchmojo.com and today we get a chance to what happens before the curtain rises. So what made you want to join the circus?
Philip Rosenberg: Mainly, when I was young I just had too much energy. So my parents just tried to find something to put me in, and they put me in gymnastics. I like the aspect of flipping around and stuff like that. But it was really structured and I actually never wanted to do like the things I was supposed to do and I would just play and flip and stuff like that.
I tried to find something else that would allow me to that but have little bit more creativity and explore that kind of aspect of things.
Veronica: Today we had the opportunity to watch you guys practice, what are the stages of a trick of perfecting it?
Philip Rosenberg: First you have to understand like kind of how the trick works and you have to understand that, okay, I bend my legs at this point, I throw my arms or whatever depending on the trick. Usually, if it's the hard trick you put on a belt with lines and you'll just go for it and you'll see how it ends up. You repeat it any number of times. Eventually you take off the lines, have some spotters underneath you to make sure you don't hit your head. Then eventually it gets consistent and they put you in the show.
Veronica: And once this is in the show, do you still have a way to spot for one another or are you on your own at that point?
Philip Rosenberg: Definitely, for the tricks that are more dangerous we are always going to have some spotters there, because some tricks are just really unpredictable.
Veronica: After a really bad fall how did you get up and did it again?
Philip Rosenberg: It's a little bit of like a shock to your system and you kind of freak out a little bit in your head. You try to just stay positive, tried to keep the images out of your head, of bad things happening and try to visualize the way the trick is supposed to be done and not how you can fall or the different ways the trick could go wrong.
Veronica: How do you guys keep your morale up after you mess the move a couple of times?
Philip Rosenberg: Sometimes it's hard. I mean if you keep falling and keep falling, if you are really discouraged, but you always know in the back your head, okay, there are good days, there are bad days. Like some days you've way more energy than others, way more adrenalin.
But usually when it comes to the shows and being in the shows, once you get the public in front of you, you have that a adrenalin rush and you're going do it.
Veronica: Well, good luck and thank you very much.
Philip Rosenberg: Well, thank you.
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