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The circus is afloat of compelling acts, vulnerable stunts and entertaining performers. One performer who is portion of Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey is Skyler Miser, who stars arsenic nan Ringling Rocket.
During nan show, successful immoderate cases 3 times a day, Miser acts arsenic a quality cannonball — she's blasted done nan aerial retired of a rocket.
Even though this is Miser’s first clip performing arsenic nan Ringling Rocket, she's nary alien to circus life. She was calved into it, she told Fox News Digital during a extremity successful Worcester, Massachusetts.
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Her parents, Brian and Tina Miser, performed arsenic quality cannonballs earlier her, making her upbringing highly unique.
"Growing up successful nan circus has been nan champion experience. There's not a batch of group that tin opportunity that they grew up successful nan circus, but I did," Skyler Miser said.
Skyler Miser has followed successful her parents' footsteps arsenic a circus performer. (Ashlyn Messier/Fox News Digital)
"It's not an acquisition that everybody gets to experience. I don't cognize thing more. It's been my life since I was calved — Ringling has been my life since I was born. So to really beryllium present and to beryllium performing is really incredible."
Even though a puerility spent walking pinch her performing parents successful their centrifugal location was little than ordinary, location was still immoderate normalcy successful her day-to-day schedule, she said.
"We had a nursery. We had a schoolhouse there, truthful I did turn up connected nan show learning regular schoolhouse stuff, playing pinch different children. But of course, they didn't deliberation that our manner was weird, either," Miser said.
Skyler Miser grew up astir nan circus and quickly grew willing successful being a performer herself. She said to Fox News Digital while successful Massachusetts. (Ashlyn Messier)
It was not agelong earlier Miser started to execute herself. Her first master capacity came astatine property 13, but her very first clip connected shape came acold earlier.
"My first master performance, I did nan aerial silks. My dada was working, and he was doing nan rocket connected different show, and he thought it would beryllium nosy for maine to travel and subordinate them, truthful that was my first master experience," Miser said.
She will ne'er hide nan emotion of flying done nan air.
"My first clip ever really being retired connected shape was connected Ringling. I was 2. My parents did an enactment successful nan pre-show for astir 5 minutes. So my dada would do a precocious autumn and my mom would springiness a small reside astir nan cannon and that act."
Although Miser does not retrieve nan specifications from her first, smaller standard motorboat that she completed astatine 11 years aged erstwhile nan family was based successful Indiana — 1 point she will ne'er hide is nan emotion she sewage flying done nan air.
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"My very first clip I was 11 years old, truthful I don't really retrieve overmuch from then. It was February and it was freezing acold outside. So my dada had made an eight-foot-long cannon for a comedian enactment successful England," said Miser.
"Before he sent it over, he asked if I wanted to beryllium nan ‘test dummy.’ So, of course, I said yes. I only went astir 18 feet, but I retrieve that thrill and that large adrenaline unreserved I sewage moreover from that 18 feet … When I started going farther erstwhile I was 18, I didn't recognize that that very first changeable I did was very babe compared to what I'm astir to do."
What does it consciousness for illustration to alert done nan aerial astatine nan velocity Miser does pinch each show?
She described nan emotion arsenic "a mini car crash."
During each show, Skyler Miser is launched done nan aerial by a rocket. (Ashlyn Messier/Fox News Digital)
"I deliberation nan rocket is much mentally challenging than physically. Obviously, it takes a beingness toll connected you, because you're going astatine 7 G's," Miser said.
"I for illustration to deliberation of it arsenic for illustration a mini car clang each show. You person to make judge that you're really warmed up and your body's well-prepared," she told Fox News Digital.
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"Otherwise, you tin get hurt. We do tons of checks earlier nan show. So I'm going and I'm checking things each 30 minutes, conscionable because if you don't cheque something, you mightiness hide something. So it's conscionable a batch of intelligence preparation, a batch of stretching."
On nan days Miser is not being launched done nan aerial for her daring circus enactment — landing connected what looks for illustration a elephantine inflated pillow — she enjoys exploring immoderate metropolis she is successful and trying immoderate of nan section cuisine.
"The emblematic time disconnected is interesting. Normally, I for illustration to slumber and conscionable benignant of retrieve from nan week that we conscionable had ... Depends connected nan city. I for illustration to spell retired and find humanities things to do. I'm a large foodie ...so uncovering nosy restaurants," Miser said.
The circus is made up of 75 performers from each complete nan world. (Ashlyn Messier/Fox News Digital)
As personification who has grown up astir nan circus for her full life, Miser has been capable to spot nan measurement it has evolved and changed complete nan years.
"I've seen nan show alteration completely. Even from erstwhile I was a kid to earlier erstwhile they closed successful 2017," Miser said.
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"It took a switch, but I deliberation that's what you person to do successful bid to support up pinch nan existent times of nan intermezo industry."
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Ashlyn Messier is simply a writer for Fox News Digital.
