The fire hoop: Win or fail?

Drunken backpackers risking life and limb in the pursuit of entertainment.

A brave/foolish backpacker throws himself through the fire hoop.

I've previously featured the fire skipping rope on the Charles Fudgemuffin blog, but the fire skipping rope isn't the only fire related nightly entertainment in Thailand. The beach bars and clubs in Koh Phangan are obsessed with fire and also have fire jugglers, fire limbo, the fire hoop, and other fire related activities.

This week I've decided to focus on the fire hoop, and below is a video featuring drunken backpackers attempting to bravely/foolishly leap through a hoop of flames. However, rather than just editing together a compilation of people jumping through the fire hoop, the video instead takes the form of a quiz.

The video features five attempts at the fire hoop and for each jump the action freezes just before each backpacker attempts their jump. A clean jump is a 'WIN', but if they stumble into the flaming sides of the fire hoop then it's a 'FAIL'. Watch the video below and see if you can guess who gets a win and who gets a fail...



The video 'The fire hoop: Win or fail?' is presented in a light-hearted manner, but in all seriousness I've seen backpackers pick up some nasty injuries from the fire activities in Thailand, so my advice to anyone visiting Thailand would be to stay safe and remember that fire and alcohol is a dangerous combination.

Just as a reminder, a few months ago I featured a compilation video of drunken backpackers attempting the fire skipping rope:
The fire skipping rope: A compilation video