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This episode features specialized photography capturing the "Kiss Experiment," the dynamics of ancient weapons, musician brain waves, and butterfly wing scales...
速度表现我们的时间。由关于可能有所错过的恐惧驱使，我们在不断跨越新的边界。剩下的，是对于魔术的向往。在日常生活的推搡之中，我们想要让时间静止，梦想重温儿时的记忆。让我们跃入超慢动作的世界，让我们跳进充满着...
速度表现我们的时间。由关于可能有所错过的恐惧驱使，我们在不断跨越新的边界。剩下的，是对于魔术的向往。在日常生活的推搡之中，我们想要让时间静止，梦想重温儿时的记忆。让我们跃入超慢动作的世界，让我们跳进充满着...
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00:11speed characterizes our times driven by the fear that we might be missing
00:18something we are constantly crossing new boundaries what remains is a year for the magical in the
00:37hustle of everyday life we long to bring time to a standstill and dream as we did when we were
00:49children let us jump into the world of super slow motion let us plunge into a world of wonders that
01:10the naked eye cannot see new camera technology reveals a new dimension of time join us on our
01:30journey through a fantastic parallel universe at the center of which stands the human being
01:53with 64 cameras we can make a moment last forever and show movement from completely new
02:00perspectives the matrix effect scientists unravel the history of a 400,000 year old spear and the
02:11evolution of throwing using slow motion cameras and measuring electrical activity in the brain we see
02:21how music puts us on the same wavelength alpine adventure on the tracks of deadly danger
02:48with high-speed cameras we travel back in time to our very beginnings
03:00the world of the stone age hunter the wooden javelin the decathlete is throwing here is not just any old
03:14spear it's a perfect copy
03:17of the oldest weapon ever discovered
03:23400,000 years ago the hunting implement of homo erectus who lived long before the neanderthals
03:33charles darwin was the first who mentioned that the ability to throw is one of the unique characters of us
03:44humans
03:47he at the time had actually no idea how far that got back now we know that it's very early
03:56in evolutionary history that this starts
03:59on the ground
04:04archaeologists town the spear during a deep open cast mine
04:13shortly afterwards gigantic bucket excavators would have destroyed the sensational fine forever
04:25the prehistoric hunters were after wild horses with the help of their technically sophisticated
04:33spears they could take out whole herds they left their weapons lying amid the skeletons of their
04:41prey the owners of these spears must have been excellent throwers able to hit fast-moving animals
04:49and plan hunts strategically an ability hitherto only ascribed to homo sapiens
05:00the wooden projectiles have been restored and saved from disintegration the spears were
05:07originally on the banks of a lake and were damp when found contact with air would have caused
05:14them to shrink irrevocably time-lapse photography shows how quickly such a process can occur
05:35to save the spears they were taken in light-proof boxes from where they were found in Schoeningen to
05:42the workshops of the Roman German Museum in Mainz
05:53few restorers possess the knowledge of how to preserve such ancient treasures for posterity
06:06holding the spear in one's hand it's hard to believe that they were modeled so finely from
06:12spruce trees using Stone Age implements first all the branches were removed then the trunks were
06:21tapered towards the bottom until they fell over the aim of the conservation is to replace the water
06:33trapped in the wood with a water-soluble synthetic resin and subsequently dry out and harden the spears
06:51passgall bear and brook is our athlete of choice to perform the throwing test which we'll be filming in super
06:58slow motion
07:05Throwing 70 meters is no problem, but not just distance was important for the prehistoric
07:11hunters.
07:12They also had to react in an instant and hit their target.
07:27And now the astonishing proof.
07:30The first spear in the history of humanity flies and flutters just like a high-tech javelin
07:37made of carbon fiber.
07:45It was an amazing feeling to hold this 400,000-year-old spear made of wood.
07:50The first time I threw it, I thought, I wonder how it'll fly, and it flew fantastically.
07:55It flutters in the air, it glides, and now I can imagine how it was used for hunting wild
08:00animals.
08:06When we are surprised that a high-technology carbon fiber javelin is as good as a wooden
08:16javelin 400,000 years old, we have a problem.
08:22But the problem is our problem.
08:25We need to accept that people that time ago had the same ability and the same technology
08:32and the same understanding of how a javelin works as we have today.
08:37We are not that better.
08:46Human beings are the only animals that can perform the complex act of throwing.
08:51It's an explosive movement that, in the case of athletes, lasts no longer than 150 milliseconds.
09:01The acceleration is so extreme that the joints would be damaged if the muscles didn't activate
09:07an automatic braking mechanism.
09:13But what about the widely held opinion that women's bodies aren't suitable for javelin throwing?
09:20Has evolution created an advantage for men as hunters?
09:30Well, room for improvement.
09:36Frida, too, lets go a bit early.
09:44The twins, meanwhile, try out different techniques.
09:51Look out, here comes Finn.
09:54Now, that was powerful.
09:56Is there really a difference between the sexes when throwing?
10:12We asked sports scientists to investigate and compare boys and girls.
10:20Twelve-year-old Johannes is our guinea pig.
10:23He's festooned with markers that are registered by infrared slow-motion cameras.
10:30The data are then put together to create a 3D film.
10:40Johannes' flow of movement isn't perfect, but the sequence of steps is not bad, and he follows
10:46through as the animation clearly shows.
10:54In comparison, girls often break off the throwing movement prematurely.
11:00It's also, of course, a question of ability.
11:02Not everyone can be a champion thrower.
11:05But, on average, our experiment shows that men throw better than women.
11:15Remembering our experience of school days, we know that boys and girls are very different
11:23in their throwing ability.
11:26From worldwide studies now, we know that this goes back to the early age of three years.
11:33Three-year-old girls and three-year-old boys already throw with a different performance.
11:40And it's exactly the same difference as it is in adults.
11:54In human evolutionary biology, throwing is closely linked to the development of walking upright.
12:00It is firmly anchored in our genetic program and, according to one theory, contributed significantly
12:08to the triumph of Homo sapiens across the planet.
12:25New camera techniques reveal big secrets about us humans and open up worlds that have remained
12:33close to us for thousands of years.
12:40We can look at the universe through the eyes of an astronaut and in time-lapse photography,
12:47like these pictures taken by special cameras on the International Space Station.
12:52We can look at the universe through the eyes of an astronaut.
13:01Our insatiable desire to see takes us into invisible worlds.
13:07The perfect place to grasp the sheer endlessness of time and space in whose midst we humans stand.
13:26Our next journey into the realm of the super slow-mo transports us into the colorful world of clowns and
13:34acrobats.
13:36For a few seconds, we want to marvel once more like children at fascinating phenomena our eyes can barely believe.
14:02Extreme slowness and super-fast acrobatics seduce our senses.
14:09Our perception of time can be slowed right down or accelerated to super speed.
14:20Let us enter a different kind of time, one in which the power of gravity seems to have been suspended.
14:40Our first high-speed stars are the Cedeños, Mexican acrobats whose art is performed too quickly for the human eye
14:49to follow.
14:52Only 14, Brian likes to play with the audience's anxiety that, at this breathtaking tempo, something could go wrong.
15:01The four brothers have to be able to rely on each other, absolutely.
15:09We sometimes argue about the height of the jumps, but when we're in the ring, we forget we're brothers.
15:17We become other people and blank out any problems.
15:22We concentrate on what we have to do to make sure that the number goes perfectly.
15:27We forget the arguments because we can't afford to make a mistake.
15:33We divide them a lot.
15:38Let us ignore the flips for a moment and try and imagine what the thrower has to achieve.
15:44And not with his hands, but his feet.
15:47The strength with which he throws dictates the height, and thus the length of time,
15:53that his partner has to perform his spins, and all at breakneck speed.
15:58Not forgetting a safe landing.
16:04Super slow motion enables us to see how perfectly parallel the thrower artists are.
16:10A phenomenon which still has scientists scratching their heads.
16:30Precise commands.
16:31The ability to react with all senses within a fraction of a second.
16:36Absolute bodily control.
16:38All these things still don't suffice for an explanation.
16:50Today we can fly to Mars.
16:52We can analyze the tiniest particles.
16:55But when we go to the circus and watch artists doing acrobatics,
16:59we soon see that there's a lot about how human beings move that we don't know.
17:09More than 100 years ago, the photographer and inventor, Jules Etienne Marais,
17:15used rotating photographic plates in a revolver camera to try and reveal fast movements.
17:22The self-entitled engineer of life wanted to compensate for the inadequacies of our senses,
17:30and make visible what was too quick for our eyes.
17:54This Mare could only dream of.
17:57A semicircle of 64 SLR cameras.
18:01In this way, movements can be frozen in single pictures,
18:06and viewed from different angles.
18:13Subsequently, a computer calculates and fills in the gaps between the individual images.
18:20The cameras can be controlled and operated with split-second accuracy.
18:29The result is a virtual camera track in extreme slow motion, or even freezing the frame.
18:43The Matrix Effect, named after the Hollywood film in which this time-morph technique was used for spectacular fight scenes.
18:52A cinematic instrument with which to study movement.
19:06Timing and synchronization are hugely important for acrobats.
19:11You can imagine how difficult it would be to throw a ball up to exactly the same height over and
19:17over again.
19:18It's the height that dictates how long the flight lasts and how synchronous the movements are.
19:23At the same time, the length of the flight dictates how quickly I have to turn over to make sure
19:28my landing is perfect after the jump.
19:41How is it possible that the artist's movements mesh together like the cogwheels in a Swiss clock?
19:49Scientists suspect that they possess a special sort of perception and experience their partners as parts of their own body.
19:57But how?
20:10How does it function, this harmonization, which also plays a major role when we make music together?
20:18Using brain activity measurements and slow motion cameras, we're going to try and find out.
20:28With the help of five guitarists from a masterclass in Rostock, we're reconstructing an unusual experiment.
20:36We want to demonstrate how it is that we often have the feeling of being on the same wavelength as
20:43someone else.
20:55Playing the guitar in an ensemble should actually be impossible.
21:00When a string is plucked, a sound is created within microseconds, faster than almost any other instrument.
21:07Above all, faster than we can react to a received stimulus.
21:22Yet how is it that an ensemble achieves harmony when everyone is playing different things?
21:28What happens inside our heads?
21:39EEG devices, microphones, slow motion cameras.
21:45Setting up takes hours.
21:47To measure their brain activity, the guitarists are fitted with caps, each containing 64 electrodes.
21:56Not to worry, the scientists aren't looking to reprogram anyone.
22:00The syringes are used to inject contact gel under the electrodes.
22:14For the psychologists from the renowned Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin, it's clear that music has a
22:23very special effect on us.
22:28We probably all agree that one reason why music fascinates people and why people like to make music is the
22:35fact that it's a wonderful means to produce something together, to swing and concert.
22:43And this is why for us as brain scientists, music is especially rewarding because we know what's going on when
22:51people play together.
22:52We know that they are in sync, and then we can look at whether the brain reflects that synchronization in
22:58behavior.
23:01It seems incredible, but it doesn't take long before something extrasensory happens.
23:10The brain activities of the guitarists synchronize themselves, forming a kind of supra-brain network,
23:18via which the musicians coordinate themselves and the music.
23:24The scientists are the first in the world to demonstrate that this synchronization takes place.
23:35But how is such a neuronal network formed?
23:39To unravel the mechanisms, the team use slow motion cameras.
23:44The first clue is that playing as an ensemble only works when the musicians can see each other.
23:52The psychologists suspect that the matching of brain waves is triggered by minute, unconscious gestures, especially when the tempo of
24:02the music changes.
24:06Signals lasting just fractions of a second are also hidden in the musicians' facial expressions.
24:14The scientists want to use slow motion to make them visible and put them in the context of the process
24:20of synchronization.
24:23An astonishing result that puts the meaning of movement in a whole new light.
24:45Music involves body and soul.
24:49How human beings can use movement to achieve a shared rhythm is shown by the Brazilian martial art dance capoeira.
24:59It is assumed that the figures the dancers describe were once a sort of secret language.
25:06It served as a form of bonding for the slaves and they could use the combined strength as a defense.
25:13A fascinating mix of synchronization and the ability to stop movement at the decisive moment.
25:28The matrix effect shows the martial art elements reflected in gestures and facial expressions.
25:36As soon as the dancers leave the common rhythm, things get a little dangerous and a virtuoso dance becomes a
25:44martial art.
25:49Those unable to stay in rhythm with the drums will have no chance with these movements.
25:56One of the great challenges of capoeira is that you have to perform the movements, but you also have to
26:02stay in rhythm.
26:02Because if one of you loses the rhythm, it can become dangerous for the other.
26:06It is, after all, a martial art.
26:14Music and dance have played important roles in humanity's cultural evolution and may have paved the way for language.
26:23Science is just beginning to understand the neuropsychological mechanisms.
26:32Music is a kind of action, it's a kind of action that is accompanied by sound because our actions produce
26:39the sound.
26:41But the general theme is clearly action and movement, action anticipation, our ability to predict our movements and to predict
26:49the movements of the other person.
26:50And it's exactly this anticipatory behavior that is necessary in order to synchronize our actions together.
27:01And this happens by virtue of our brain, the organ that regulates behavior.
27:07And it's the synchronizations of the brain waves within each individual brain and across brains that allows us to produce
27:17this kind of coordinated behavior or interpersonal action coordination, as we say.
27:22Music.
27:23Music.
27:24Music.
27:31Tania and Chris are on cloud nine.
27:34The perfect couple for our next experiment.
27:38It's time to determine the secret of love.
27:43Yeah, so far we have talked about music, about dance, but of course all the varieties of bonding behavior,
27:52such as between mother and infant, but also between lovers, also has a strong temporal component of give and take.
28:00And we are interested in the fundamental importance of these bonding behaviors for humans and in the mechanisms that support
28:09them.
28:10And therefore it was quite a natural to also look at kissing couples and to see what's going on in
28:15their brains.
28:18For the first time, the scientists from the Max Planck Institute allow us to steal a look at their amazing
28:26kiss experiments.
28:30Kisses are also a form of movement with 34 facial muscles involved.
28:36But what goes on in our heads?
28:42When we kiss, the electrical activities in our brains vibrate in time with each other.
28:50It's no wonder we have the feeling of fusing together.
28:54EEG, lip activity, neuronal networking.
28:59With Tania and Chris, everything's in sync.
29:02Next stop, the altar.
29:14Ensho Karyazov's fascinating act demonstrates the art of ultra slow handstands.
29:22What sets him apart is his ability to sense the pulse of his audience,
29:27which beats differently in different parts of the world.
29:32Timing is more than 50% than everything.
29:36If you're not in time,
29:38at exact time, you're going to lose the effect of the difficulty of the show.
29:46So the timing is really, really important.
29:53The master of perfect timing can change the rhythm of his movements at any moment.
29:59In this way, he can surprise his spectators with the fastest, most spectacular moment of his act.
30:271,000 pictures per second enable us to witness the concentration and bodily control
30:34this magical moment demands.
30:54The former gymnast trained for almost 10 years to build up the strength needed for this number
31:01and to model the contours of his body.
31:05Each performance he uses up around 3,000 calories.
31:10For the spectator, it is pure magic that makes time seem to stand still.
31:24For the people, I think for them it's like bring the time back, be kids again and forget about everything
31:31and just stop the time and enjoy these two hours.
31:39Watching Katarina and Natalia would make almost anyone feel giddy.
31:44When they first practiced the topspin, which rotates at up to six revolutions per second,
31:51they had to take medicine to stop them feeling sick.
32:03The two acrobats learned their trade at the famous circus school in Kyiv.
32:09To look at them, one would never guess the supreme bodily exertions they have to go through.
32:15For short periods of time, the forces working on them surpass even those experienced by fighter pilots.
32:29During the maximum spins, they're subjected to up to 20 G,
32:3520 times the power of gravity and twice that of a jet performing manoeuvres.
32:53Plants, too, perform fantastic movements.
32:57Just a little too slowly for us to notice.
33:05The flower of an artichoke.
33:07In 3,000 time-lapse photos taken over more than 200 hours,
33:14the plant looks as if it has senses.
33:21The movements of plants are subject to exact timing,
33:25determined by a different clock than for us humans.
33:29Their rhythm has been created over thousands of years,
33:33in harmony with the animals that pollinate them.
33:44Most passion flowers show off their beautiful blooms during the day,
33:49but some species flower at night.
33:52Hidden in tropical rainforests,
33:55they lure guests equipped with a very special navigation system.
34:14flower bats, fluttering creatures of the night that are much too fast for our eyes.
34:25The entrancing little vampires have a sweet tooth for the nectar contained in the blooms.
34:41The super slow-mo reveals spectacular aerobatics.
34:45Fanny, our favourite bat,
34:48tries to catch drops of nectar in mid-air.
34:52No easy task.
34:58To this end, she employs a very clever trick with her very special tongue.
35:14The flying acrobats use the very fine hairs on the tips of their tongues to tease out the nectar,
35:21and at the same time transport pollen from one flower to another.
35:30The gourmet's tongue is up to eight centimeters long,
35:34almost as long as the whole animal.
35:45Oops, a drop of nectar gets caught in her nose, starts tickling, and causes a sneeze.
36:00But how do these artists, with their agile tongues, find the right flowers in pitch darkness?
36:08Easy.
36:09Many of the blooms are shaped like satellite dishes,
36:12and are thus especially effective at receiving and amplifying the bat's shrill cries.
36:26Magic on ice, brought to life in 1,000 time-lapse photos.
36:33These glittering crystals take up to 24 hours to form, too long for our eyes to notice.
36:40Only a few experts have the ability to create such films,
36:45and their methods remain a secret.
36:52The diversity of ice crystals is phenomenal,
36:55with more possible shapes than there are atoms in space.
37:00One snowflake contains about 10 to the power of 18 water molecules,
37:06which are constantly linking and relinking,
37:08and which can develop enormous strength.
37:13as demonstrated by this monster avalanche.
37:17Triggered by scientists with controlled explosions,
37:20and then filmed from the safety of a shelter.
37:32Avalanches can reach speeds of up to 300 kilometers an hour.
37:39They are spectacular natural events.
37:43Their origin, however, lies in something tiny.
37:49The microstructure of snow.
37:52Still a mystery.
37:58In the cold room at the Avalanche Research Center in Davos, Switzerland,
38:03artificial snow is being made at a temperature of minus 20 degrees Celsius.
38:09The scientists are looking to unravel the structure of snow crystals,
38:13and how and under what circumstances the core of an avalanche is formed.
38:20To access this microcosm, the lab snow is exposed to X-rays.
38:26The pictures reveal that snow crystals are in constant turmoil,
38:31changing their shape and forming a porous structure of air and ice.
38:36One could almost say snow is alive.
38:44For the experts in Davos, it's very exciting to film an avalanche in super slow motion.
38:51Radar scanners monitor its progress.
38:55Laser guns and thermal imaging cameras study the flow behavior of the snow.
39:01A total of 26 scientists are involved.
39:11From a helicopter, the avalanche is triggered by controlled explosions.
39:17Critical snow formations have built up, and even without the explosions,
39:21there's an acute danger of avalanches.
39:28Equipped with time fuses, the first explosives are primed and dropped.
39:38Only under these controlled conditions is it possible to register the path of an avalanche,
39:44and film it with high-speed cameras.
39:47The countdown is on.
40:02illuminatingIDE
40:06Rare footage, which can be interpreted by experts as others read tracks in the snow.
40:14Like waves of surf, the avalanches hurtle down the mountainside.
40:19The super slow-mo shows for the first time how snowball-like formations build up and how they move.
40:28They are decisive for the destructive power of an avalanche.
40:33The pictures captured by the thermal imaging camera show a difference of 5 degrees Celsius between the avalanche and the
40:41surrounding snow.
40:45For the team in Davos, an important clue as to how an avalanche is formed.
40:52Differences in temperature result in rapid changes in the structure of the layers of snow.
40:58They dissolve, increasing the danger of an avalanche.
41:04The scientists put the information on the enormously big and microscopically small together to make a new picture of an
41:13avalanche.
41:14Insights that should make the forecasting of such events easier in future.
41:24The birth of a butterfly, an apparently lifeless pooper from which a butterfly will hatch.
41:32It takes about an hour before the insect lifts off for the first time.
41:37Our camera shortens the process to a matter of seconds.
41:50In Greek mythology, this form of reincarnation made the colourful insects a synonym for immortality.
42:00The ancient Greeks used the same word for soul and butterfly, psyche.
42:09The texture of the wings and their colourful decorations recall a sumptuous fabric.
42:20Before the shimmering beauty of the wings can be revealed,
42:24haemolymph, or insect blood, must be pumped through the wafer-thin veins.
42:34The initially soft wings harden on contact with the air.
42:39Then it's off to the magical world of butterflies.
42:43Capturing this moment on film is a matter of luck.
42:52A rebus from an electron microscope.
42:56We're looking at the scales on a butterfly's wing.
43:03This is invisible to the naked eye.
43:07Yet nature created an incredible diversity of design.
43:21When the tropical morpho butterfly opens its wings,
43:26it reveals the most beautiful shade of blue created by nature.
43:31An optical illusion.
43:34The iridescent colour isn't caused by pigmentation,
43:37but by a trick of the light.
43:46The flying properties of butterflies are phenomenal.
43:50The fastest among them are moths.
43:52They beat their wings up to 80 times a second
43:55and achieve speeds of 50 kilometres an hour.
44:03Butterflies, like this delicate painted lady,
44:06are long-distance travellers,
44:08covering thousands of kilometres
44:10and climbing to heights of 1,000 metres.
44:19Those insects too fast for our eyes
44:22can be slowed down by high-speed cameras
44:25that allow us to study these ultralight creatures.
44:29At 2,000 pictures a second,
44:32the extent to which their wings deform becomes visible.
44:45Butterflies are so light,
44:47they almost float on air.
44:56They can ride an updraft for up to 30 seconds.
44:59That way, they can save energy on long journeys.
45:03Hard to imagine that these delicate creatures cross whole continents.
45:23It sounds incredible.
45:26Martin Fikowski is planning to accompany a butterfly across the Alps
45:31on the return journey from its winter quarters.
45:35The director of the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology
45:38is one of the pioneers looking at animal behaviour
45:42with completely new methods.
45:45Thanks to a DF transmitter,
45:48he'll be able to watch what he can't see with a naked eye.
45:54A swarm of painted ladies is crossing an alpine valley.
45:59Up until now,
46:00almost nothing has been known about the migration of these butterflies.
46:04How often do they stop for a break?
46:07How many survive the journey?
46:11Wonderful.
46:13A butterfly from Italy.
46:16We can fit it with a transmitter.
46:20Very gently,
46:22he attaches the transmitter to the butterfly's belly.
46:25At the moment,
46:27the miniaturised chips only pass on the animal's coordinates.
46:31Future generations will also deliver physiological data.
46:39The tiny, high-tech rucksack weighs barely 200 milligrams.
46:48How many survive the animals?
46:50How many survive the animals?
46:52How many survive the animals?
46:54Using these transmitters,
46:55we can for the first time really see
46:57what the animals are doing when they are away,
47:00when we can't see them,
47:01when we can't observe them.
47:02And that's really exciting,
47:03because for the first time,
47:04we can really have a technical tool
47:08that allows us to see things that we couldn't see before.
47:11It's sort of like a macroscope.
47:13If you have a microscope for a microbiologist seeing bacteria,
47:16so for the first time we can now see macroscopically
47:20what animals are doing around the globe.
47:24Equipped with highly sensitive aerials
47:26which pick up the signals from the mini-transmitters,
47:29the plane follows the route of the butterflies.
47:42END
47:42Not a sound.
47:44The mission seems to have failed.
47:49When suddenly...
47:51I can hear something.
47:53There are two or three that we fitted with transmitters
47:57right at the end.
48:01one two three they're down here they've already flown on some distance that's great
48:09they're two kilometers further on the first step of the pilot project is a success
48:17it's part of a global plan being pursued by vikalski and an international team of scientists
48:34so our global aim is to understand the pulse of the living planet understanding how life is
48:41interconnected around the globe soon vikalski wants to start locating animals via satellite
48:52all over the world he and his team are fitting birds and insects with transmitters to monitor
48:59their migration every deviation is evidence of ecological change the aim is to create a map
49:07with information about the future of the earth one last look behind the scenes of our perception in the
49:18colorful world of the circus our eyes can't get enough four young performers have come up with
49:39something very special for our cameras a show in super slow motion long after the last spectator has
49:47left the big top for months now jamila martinez has been practicing in the middle of the night
49:59with vivi and lily two real circus princesses the young acrobats want to surprise their father the
50:12director of the circus with the director of the circus with a spectacular number brother adrian is also involved
50:26their mother also used to perform on roller skates so vivacious acrobatics are in their blood
50:45it's a dangerous number with the speed and for example adrian and vivi they do a neck spin and adrian
50:53has to always be concentrated in this because they're attached by the neck so if he was not to be
50:58fully
50:58concentrated and he goes off the board you know you don't want to fall in that chick
51:02i've never really hurt you have i
51:08we always make sure they land safely that's the biggest challenge with this number
51:13if i was to let go they could go flying and really injure themselves
51:21we have permission to attend rehearsals with our high-speed camera
51:38the performers use centrifugal force to perform the figures everything depends on the right speed
51:49during the twist routine adrian seems to be holding his breath
51:54but he's actually breathing by his diaphragm and tries with ever shorter breaths to go faster and faster
52:02in harmony with his flying feet
52:15there's no doubt about it both girls have skater jeans
52:20their daredevil tricks are passed on from generation to generation
52:31the
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52:51let us just once more bring time to a standstill
52:55and allow ourselves to be seduced by the beauty of slow motion.
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