"The 35-year-old former prop builder doesn’t look like your typical lithe, wispy circus performer. Short, stocky and extremely muscular, with tattoos winding around his ankles and arms, Segal describes himself as former “fat kid” who never really participated in anything athletic until an ex-girlfriend discovered the Toronto School of Circus Arts and suggested he take a look. He was intrigued, quit his film job and joined the circus. That was nine years ago.
He started from scratch at age 26? “Scratch, man,” he says. “The people who are top-of-the-line, Cirque-du-Soleil-awesome are usually people who come from another country, and/or started when they were five. So I…don’t know what I was thinking,” he says with a laugh. “I don’t know what made me think I could do it, but I didn’t care.”"
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