Challenge No. 6 – Blades of Thunder
Location – Kuala Lumpur
We will take skating lessons in Asia's largest ice rink to try and transform ourselves into Torvill and Dean. We will then perform the Bolero in diva style costumes!
Challenge set by Brian Torbain
Location – Kuala Lumpur
We will take skating lessons in Asia's largest ice rink to try and transform ourselves into Torvill and Dean. We will then perform the Bolero in diva style costumes!
Challenge set by Brian Torbain
Blog
March 8th 2008
March 8th 2008
Today we arrived back in Kuala Lumpur (KL from now on) three days ago for the second time. Not content with us having to suffer beds smaller than a shopping trolley, some mean divine force thought it funny to make us endure one last ditch at Lindsay practicing ice-skating as, tomorrow is the day of our Blades of Thunder Challenge. Oh no. We decided that now was the time (24 hours prior to the Challenge) to watch the Torvil and Dean Bolero video on YouTube.
There is absolutely no way that we could replicate anything that these majestic and angelic peeps displayed on ice so, we've decided to interpret it – a cowards way out perhaps?
Two days ago we headed back to Sunway Pyramid to create and finalise our routine and, after numerous falls, we finally came up with a perfect 6.0, 6.0, 6.0... figure skating routine which, we timed, re-timed and timed again to work out at 3 minutes and 27 seconds.
Then the day of the Challenge came. Nervous beyond comprehension, we decided to head back to the rink for a last ditch attempt at making ourselves look less like time wasting tools and more like simple idiotic fools.
We met with our friend Jenny (aaaaaaaaaaaah Jenny) the gorgeous and heaven-sent ice teacher. She showed us how to extend our legs properly for some of the more "adventurous" manoeuvres and for Lindsay, how to stand for more than his current 42% success rate.
14:45. We rushed to the toilets and stripped naked to fit in to the tightest dress (Lee obviously) and the tightest lycra-like trousers and belly flashing top (Lindsay). Now, with the looks of Jane and Chris replicated almost perfectly, it was time to strut our stuff and Bolero our butts like an butt has never Bolero'd before!
The rink was cleared exclusively for our use – much to the confusion, frustration and bewilderment of the on-looking fellow ice-users and shoppers.
Silence. Deadly and haunting silence. The lights went down and the crowd looked on. Then, the music blared through the shopping mall's million watt sound system like thunder and all of a sudden (as if it surprised us) we were expected to dance, prance and more importantly, stay upright for our routine.
Again, and sorry about this, we can't divulge any more details about the Challenge because it would spoil it for the telly, but, let us tell you this... we freaking rocked that place! The show comes out on the first Sunday afternoon in November on Channel 4 – make sure you watch it.
Huge thanks go out to all the staff of Sunway Pyramid who went out their way to accommodate us and showed the patience of absolute saints throughout. A further thanks and hello goes out to Cynthia (the marketing executive for the place) and Jenny (the miracle working ice trainer) who not only helped us so, so, much but are both absolutely stunning.