elezzzark's thread where he assigns "stand names" to all of the forum users

no

Circus injuries:

tore the ligaments on both sides of my ankle after falling off a slackwire.... undersatnding the mechanics of balancing on a slackwire is key to undersatnding how I tore the ligaments on BOTH sides of my ankle

tore a tendon near my groin when in training was not completely down in the splits and a drunk russian trainer from the Moscow Circus came along, put both hands on my shoulders and slammed me down into the splits... it tore a tendon

on both occassions I was on crutches for months

however once healed I was actually able to go down completely in the splits on the leg the russian trainer tore

did you acquire your heroin addiction in the circus from all of these injuries?

[Lisa Claus]

did you acquire your heroin addiction in the circus from all of these injuries?

nope

no pain killers for that

except see I got a bad cough when I was 16 from smoking too much weed and started taking heaps of codeine.... I was performing at the time and the director realised how much codeine I was taking and took me aside to discuss my rampant over use of it

See I was popping sheets of it to try and make myself stop coughing on stage... I had the lead role and the director caught me taking buckets of codeine before a show