The Key is preparation
If I am going to be outside on Live television after such a big, huge build-up. You darn well better believe I will have chosen a Climax that wind will not ruin. Come on. I juggle and breathe fire. However, I have other things to fall back on if it is windy.
Gerg, you say you were there, was it terribly windy? Like unusually wind for being in a huge open park with no wind breaks, or was it typical?
As for having the gull to jump, knowing it would go wrong? There's a terrible lesson for anyone involved in any danger related work. The idea is to have it look dangerous, not be dangerous.
I am more upset about the thought put into this than the execution. Even if he had just disappeared. I wanna see something climactic. Hell Penn and Teller's cups and balls has a better climax. It is like when Criss Angel sat in a tube in a tank of water for however long. Then they had to 'aggitate' the water ( to cover up a switch or absence most likely). Then instead of climbing out of the tank and doing an interview, he disappears when it aggitates and appears elsewhere, proving he could have gotten out at anytime. And thus, destroying the 'reality' he was trying to set up of being locked in a tank.
Would Blain's 'frozen in time' been as cool if they had a trap door he crawled out, openly, and then sat down and drank some hot cocoa for 5 minutes every two hours? Obviously not. That would suck. And when people who make so much money for what they do, Suck, they need to be told they suck. Look at Brett farve or other pros, when they blow it, they get told. It comes with the territory. When your fans say you sucked, analyze what you are doing. I loved David I still do. His book was great his specials are good. But don't blow it. Don't leave room for error on such a big night.
Plus as good as David is, He's like a cover band. Doing other people's material. So am I, but I am not making bank. I hope guys like Wayne and Daniel and Mathieu, who design and make these things, are getting bank.
Oh and the only things I haveinsulted so far are his silly looking marks and the concept for a stunt. You people, some, have been insulting me, which is no longer a debate or discussion and makes things you say less valid and just attacks and attempts at raising your personal status. So enjoy your peeing contest.