From: "John Michael Stevens" <joyfulnoise@uswest.net>
To: <balloon@balloonhq.com>
Subject: Re: Speed vs WHAT?
Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 12:26:36 -0700

I'll tell you exactly why it's important to be fast:  If you have a long
line of children and/or adults, your objective should be to make their wait
as short as possible.  Adults, especially, have a hard time waiting  (but
I've had them wait as long as an hour-and-a-half to get one of my balloons).
I have a standing gig at an amusement park where I sell the balloon figures
every weekend.  Management has told me that the other clowns I've had there
to fill in for me have all complained that they can't keep up.  Another
reason for speed is that, when selling the figures, the faster you twist,
the more money you make.  For speed, nothing is faster than mouth-inflating,
but it tires me out after several hours.  (I did ten straight hours once
without any kind of pump, but I wouldn't want to try that again!)  And when
you're really fast, people are fascinated just watching you.  You don't even
have to say a lot to be entertaining, if you can "speed-twist."  So, I use
T. Myers' Pump 1, and alternate (pump, mouth, pump, mouth) and make 'em as
fast as I can.  I think twisters should save the slow twistin' for the
classroom.  When customers are waiting, they want their balloon as quickly
as possible.

That's my story and I'm sticking to it!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Franklin" <franklin@tcp1.com>
To: "BALLOON HQ" <Balloon@balloonhq.com>
Sent: Monday, April 17, 2000 10:46 AM
Subject: Speed vs WHAT?HAT?


> Twistes:
>
> All I have heard in the last month is The pump is too slow, I blow them up
> by mouth but that is too slow, I ahve to make 10,00 figures in 2 hours, I
> have to blow them up real fast, and so on.
>
> I have been twisting balloons since 1974, I have never blown one up by
> mouth, In February of 1999 I became a full time entertainer, ( Magic and
> Balloon artistry), I have an electric pump that is used in resperatory in
a
> hospital, it's fast, I have battery pumps that are medium fast, and I have
2
> Black and Decker Pumps (Modified that blow up as many balloon as I need in
a
> 5 hour gig every Friday and Saturday night.
>
> SO! If someone would explain to me please, Just why is it so necessary to
be
> so darn fast?
>
> Cheers
>
> Franklin
>
>
>