Seven-year-old Pedro Pavlov comes from a family of circus performers - and took to riding a bike like a duck to water.
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00:00I just started riding when he was two and my brother got him his first balance bike at the age of two for his birthday
00:05and ever since then he's kind of just flew with it and then a couple years later he got his first Revy
00:10which he'd ride around all day long. He did a couple of small jumps and as soon as we realised
00:17how good he was on a motorbike that's when we got him the Osset which is the bike he's on now.
00:20Where did you get the idea to ride bikes?
00:24When I first saw Poopa jump.
00:26When you first saw Uncle Peter jumping?
00:28Yeah so I've been performing since the age of eight, been riding bikes since I was three
00:34and yeah basically been on bikes and in circus since I was born through generations of my family.
00:45Uncle Poopa has always been my motorbike trainer. The best one.
00:51I was seven when I started training, performing at eight
00:55and then like I said we've got Pedro and Thiago who's also basically training now.
01:00They go in the globe when they fancy it, when they ask to go in but mainly they've taken to jump in and ramps.
01:08So we're just yeah proud to watch them and you know when they're up for it they come and
01:12come and you know knock on my door.
01:15Knock on the door and like come on let's go.
01:17Yeah we want to jump we want our bike so it's whenever they feel like it and want to obviously train
01:21they get out and they get on their bikes and yeah some days they're not feeling it but
01:25they're um yeah they're they're also very into performing and you know being cheeky.
01:32Pedro's done a couple of shows in the globe.
01:34Yeah Pedro's performed.
01:34He's got his first event in Scarborough this year so he'll be joining in OMG Stunt Show.
01:40Dates will be on the website as well you can have a look at those.
01:43Yeah so he's got his first event coming up as well.
01:46Being around performances every day it's you know general public that he sees every day and
01:51he's always on his bike somewhere and then people give him attention and
01:54he kind of feeds off that and yeah he's just obviously not shy and
01:58just plays with it really.
02:00Loves the crowd.
02:01So we're currently in South Shields until the 26th which is a bank holiday Monday
02:05all the way up until the 6th of July we'll be doing venues in the northeast which will
02:11include Redcar, Middlesbrough, Darlington, Gateshead and a couple more.
02:16So yeah just keep an eye on our social media our website obviously Planet Circus.
02:22I jump my airbag, ride my bike and I play video games.
02:30And play video games.