Gallery: Nitro Circus Live Johannesburg Show
Pics: Meghan McCabe
Nitro Circus Live wowed South African audiences last week with shows in Cape Town, Durban and Johannesburg, drawing some of the biggest crowds Nitro Circus has ever seen.
They jumped rocking horses, bath tubs, barrels, bobsleighs, skateboards, bicycles and sometimes even the odd motorbike.
Both Donovan and Harry were at the Jo’burg show, as was professional photographer Meghan McCabe who took a stack of photos on the evening. See the gallery below.
Before the Nitro Circus shows, Travis Pastrana did some publicity at the 94.7 Highveld studio where he rode his bike through their offices. While he was there, Donovan got all starry-eyed and interviewed him.
Herewith the gallery from the Jo’burg show – click to enlarge:
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- Elvis has left the building . . . backwards on rollerblades.
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- Doing the funnel while landing a bean bag jump
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- Going full Kurt Cobain with a guitar
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- Travis Pastrana being stylish as usual
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- Usually, a skateboard is meant to be under you. Not in Nitro Circus.
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- Upside-down air peddling
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- When your BMW gets away from you
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- More inverted skateboarding
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- Perpendicular cycling
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- At Nitro Circus, nothing is the right way up
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- A no-handed backflip
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- More weird upside-down poses
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- At the office, we called this one The Stripper
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- Feet first
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- Jumping an armchair – note the look on his face
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- Jumping a bathtub
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- Backflipping a snowboard without any snow
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- Flower power
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- Jumping a boogie board
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- Jumping a beer barrel
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- The big whip to a fire show
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- Bruck Cook was paralysed while attempting a front flip a few years ago. This didn’t stop him – he became the first paraplegic to backflip a motorcycle.
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- At Nitro Circus it’s all about the show
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- Part of the fun – team South Africa takes on team USA.
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- Jumping a bobsleigh two-up
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- Look at the crowd.
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- A moment to honour the late Erik Ronner who died in a freak skydiving accident.
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- Multiple backflips led by Travis Pastrana
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- This game is called the Hole In One where the crew have to hit the ramp and land in that little hole.
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- A brave member of the audience was called out to ride pillion for a BMW backflip.
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- Note the jump to the right disappearing towards the sky
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- More multiple backflips to the joy of the crowds
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- This is what is known as The Train where FMX riders jump on behind the other. We have to wonder what would happen if the front rider gets it wrong.
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- The famous number 199 of Travis Pastrana
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- Backflipping the famous “Big Wheel”.
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- This shot shows just how close they are during The Train
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- More glory with The Big Wheel
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- There was plenty of smoke but no mirrors
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- Insanity on a bicycle
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- At Nitro Circus they managed a record four bar spins
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- And another no-handed backflip
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- The FMX riders ready to go
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- Cheers from Pastrana and the crowd during the FMX stunts
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- More madness during The Train
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- The rollerblading ninja
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- Nitro Circus is all about weird upside-down shapes.
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- Fiery end of show celebrations
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- Fireworks during the celebrations
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- There’s a Nitro Circus tradition that at the end of the last show of a tour, everyone takes their shirts off.
