High wire walker Nik Wallenda balances on a 1,200 foot (366 meter) cable during a practice session in Sarasota, Florida, June 14, 2013. Wallenda is training for his untethered high wire walk across the Grand Canyon scheduled for June 23.
Posted on 10/10/2014 9:36:34 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
High-wire artist Nick Wallenda said he plans to walk a tight rope 65 stories off the ground between the west and east towers of Chicago's Marina City building blindfolded next month in the hopes of encouraging others to challenge themselves.
Wallenda revealed the news on the Today Show Friday saying, "It's my passion. It's what I love doing and Chicago, the windy city that was very alluring to me. Most people think a wire walker doesn't want to go to the windy city but I enjoy the challenges. I enjoy challenging myself."
Wallenda, who tends to throw some surprises into his performances, is also planning a second high wire performance where he will walk uphill between Marina City's west tower and the Leo Burnett Building. He explained, "I'm walking from one building that's over 500-foot [sic] high across the river to a building that's over 650-foot [sic] high," meaning that Wallenda will be walking an incline of over 50 feet.
The married father of three has famously crossed the Grand Canyon without a harness. His great-grandfather before him, Karl Wallenda, was a high-wire artist who fell to his death in 1978.
Although he may seem like a reckless daredevil, Nik Wallenda told ABC that every performance is "extremely calculated." He explained, "I know that the wire is exactly the right tension and I trained on it. Also there are backup plans."
Wallenda is also propelled by three words: "Never give up." He told The Christian Post last July, "I believe that with persistence and with hard work and with that "never give up" attitude, you can accomplish anything … and with the grace of God."
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Isn't there a Biblical admonition against doing this?
“Poppy” a great but little-known tune from the 70s dedicated to the memory of “Poppy” Wallenda, performed by Duke Jupiter:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bXjOJ15kug
“Sit down, Poppy, Poppy sit down!”
Joking aside, I completely agree. Very pointless and unneccesary risk of life and limb. I doubt God is impressed.
This incident on the Devil’s temptation of Jesus comes to mind...
LUKE 4: 9-13
9 And Satan took him to Jerusalem and set him on the pinnacle of the temple and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down from here, 10 for it is written,
“‘He will command his angels concerning you,
to guard you,’
11 and
“‘On their hands they will bear you up,
lest you strike your foot against a stone.’”
12 And Jesus answered him, “It is said, ‘You shall not put the Lord your God to the test.’” 13 And when the devil had ended every temptation, he departed from him until an opportune time.
Taking that “Walk by faith, not by sight” verse perhaps too literally...
Like Frankie Avalon in a non-beach movie, he works without Annette.
Hope he doesn’t get shot......................
No Net an yahoo?...............
You win the interwebz today.
Not a good idea to tempt God...
Christian Suicide.
There are many justifications for putting one’s life at risk. There are justifications for putting oneself in the path of certain death.
Proving you can walk across a canyon or between two buildings isn’t one of them. The Pope should have told the Wallendas to cut it out decades ago.
The Pope regulates those kinds of businesses?
The Pope won’t kick out Nancy Pelosi, why bother the wire walkers?
I just meant the Pope should have sent them a friendly letter.
The coddling of Nancy Pelosi, the Kennedys, the Cuomos, will someday be pointed to as proof of the corruption of the Church in the 20th and 21st Centuries.
By the way, walking on a tightrope is not as hard as it looks. Anybody can do it with practice. Once you master the concepts of focus and balance, it is difficult for you to actually fall off, especially if a balancing pole is used. But it does happen, especially when you are exposing yourself to the elements of weather and unpredictable winds.
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