Stilt Consultant
Mike Rowan (aka Big Rory) has been
performing on stilts for over thirty years and is one of the most "stilt
knowledgeable" people on earth.
In April 1988 he became the first person in the world
to ski on stilts, reaching a speed of 44 mph (71 kph). He has also climbed 60
feet up ships rigging in stilts.
In 2002 he also became the first person to
walk on stilts on stilts! (See video)
In creating Stiltz (prototype pictured below), the safest stilts ever to
be designed, he made twenty-one
prototypes. They went on to win
the John Logie Baird Award for "The most innovative product from an
entrepreneur" out of 320 nation-wide entrants, and were subsequently
mass produced in England and Mexico.
Mike also designed and built all 12 six foot
stilts for one of the Rover television adverts.
He has taught over one thousand people to walk on stilts.
Here he is testing Stiltz protoype (made from fibreglass) to destruction.
Contact Big Rory on
Email -
mike@bigrory.com or
surrealmccoy@hotmail.com
Phone - +44 1786 474796 or +44 7770 686411
Mail - 3 Bank Street STIRLING FK8 1BW United Kingdom
