This is a question for all you climbers out there. I live in Joshua Tree where lots of climbers come every year for our spectacular national park with it's awsome climbing. I'm exploring setting up a flying trapeze school here, and it seems to me like climbers would be good 'customers'.

So here's my question: if you were visiting Joshua Tree to climb, would you be interested in a side-trip adventure of taking a flying trapeze lesson? In one 90 minute lesson for about $40. you would successfully climb to the 30 foot platform, jump off and swing on the trapeze, hang by your knees, fly to and be caught by the catcher (!) and do a back-flip into the net. All this is perfectly safe, with safety harness preventing any mishaps. People from 5 years old to 80 do this and have a great experience.

It seems to me like both climbers and trapeze flyers (who tend to be healthy athletic people) like to hang up high from ropes ;-) so it seems a natural connection. Other areial arts would be taught too, perhaps the 'rope dancing' that some climbers do. The school where I learned to fly (www.trapezehigh.com) is a model for what I've got in mind here. Of course those who get 'hooked' on flying trapeze can join the club and come fly all they like.

Thanks!! for any feedback - this is as close as I can come to a marketing 'focus group', ; that, plus going out and talking with local climbers which I'm doing also. Here's hoping we'll fly together some day in the desert!