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WATCH: Disabilities can’t keep these budding acrobats from flying high

Zoe Romanowsky - published on 07/25/16

For both the students and their dedicated teacher, the experience of learning acrobatics is exhilarating

A well-known acrobat in Argentina named Pitu Blazquez runs an acrobatics school and teaches people with disabilities to hang by silks in the air and do what what circus acrobats do. Blazquez finds something amazing in the people he teaches — a courage and determination that can inspire all of us to be our best selves and to appreciate the gifts that every human being has to offer the world.

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