The Hollywood Palace, host Joan Crawford, air October 9, 1965 www.circopedia.org/Lilly_Yokoi Download/Herunterladen/скачать: drive.google.com/open?id=0B9r...
By the time this show was aired, Lilly was 34 years old, and not to be compared with guys around 18-20 of age today. She was far ahead her time, and *she did it, wearing high heels!*
It could be easily said that she out-compares the kids you mention of today, still, given that precious few of them could splice together every trick they know in a single, flawless, 4 minute demonstration. She was indeed astoundingly ahead of time. Just plain skilled and gifted.
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I'm impressed. Some of those tricks are still used today in modern flat-land riding. I wouldn't be surprised that she was the first to come up with those tricks.
actually many of these tricks were done in the Ringling Bros circus for a couple decades before this video, where she clearly got her training or a similar troupe
In 1965 I was living in East Windsor Conn. on Dean Ave working as an Electrician at Bradley Airport. My life had just begun... I must have seen this on my 27 inch giant box TV. You cannot imagine how far we have come...
She retired in 2011 she lives in Japan and was born in the USA. But went back to Japan before she was 5 years old. Great balance on a bike. The bike is very pretty.
@@afrosheenix No but flatland is imitating circus. There have been thousands of skilled circus bicycle riders. She was one of the best. Others include Freddy Freilani ( last name wrong) who was German and world trick bicycle champion in 1939 and at one time had 5 in the act. The Olmedas from Spain, The Bruski Family from Belgium and a traditional Chinese act done by several troups that puts 15 to over 20 girls on one bicycle. Tacky street clothes don't look good. Circus people know wardrobe.
So cool, amazing this is sixty years ago. Comparing today's riding to the 80s is endlessly different, be that bmx, mtb, trials. Then there's this, an additional 20yrs further back, yet these moves weren't the base standard come the 80s. It's a shame how this type of riding isn't normalised or has any interest in [in the UK]. I think today's trick riding in general will slowly be forgotten about and people will have lost interest completely.
Ms. Yokoi is so consistently amazing that the audience doesn't seem to know exactly when to applaud. On the days after this aired that Saturday night on Hollywood Palace, I'll bet emergency rooms all over the U.S. began admitting kids with broken limbs who had attempted these same acrobatic stunts.
+CANDYtime94 Sure enough! She was another, like Joan Rhodes, who combined the sexiness of a very pretty and amazingly fit, leggy woman with the ability to perform feats of strength (and in Lilly's case, balance and agility too). Anyone who's ever tried to to a wheelie on a trick bike knows how hard that is. She made it look easy!
Sista gotz skillz, she is doing many of the tricks they do now in freestyle/ x games riding, way before, though there were other bike trick riders, it dont dimminish the amount of skill balance and practice it takes to do the stunts she or they in the x games do, however she does it in heels lol, and though not as powerful as a 20 somthing male on air, or as advanced in stunts she is still really good if you ask me.
Pegs?? She came so so close to inventing BMX ! Imagine hat she couldve done with more space than that tiny stage floor Later, Joan Crawford beat her with a wire coat hanger
Her sprockets size made her chain drive "one to one", and her forks are "zero offset", obviously shes a time traveler, this tech came out in the mid 80's . . . . just kidding
