larry king now extreme skier and reality show when a rory bush field opening up about a conjuring is fears and the legacy of his late wife spears sarah and she didn't fear what she was doing at all she was an amazing secure always push yourself plus my interview with the winner of the pick me larry contest i am ridiculously excited to be here why we're too closely related to leslie ham on monday wreaking that's all ahead on larry king now. we welcome to larry king our rory bush he'll be extreme skia known for a.b.c. celebrity diving competitions splash where the diving novice ase is his jumps off a platform thirty three feet high but rory's story didn't begin with splash he was

a junior world champion as a member of the canadian world cup ski team in two thousand and ten he married pioneering freestyle skier sarah burke who passed away last year following an accident during a training run and just recently she was inducted into the ten navy and olympic hall of fame how they get you want to do the splash thing i think it was just a little bit of luck for the right place the right time and someone asked me if i wanted to jump off some platforms with some people in the hollywood hills home sounds ok was it fun it was fun and super fun i learned a lot to watch in other people go from nothing you know like no skill jumping into the water at all and and overcoming their you know fear of water fear of heights did you have any of those fears not really coming into it i had i've been jumping off of things my whole life so what worry is extreme scheme extreme skiing and things just in the mountains not so much i mean on the ski hill but it's not it's

like cliffs skiing through chutes and ski stuff that might not necessarily look possible to ski what's the most dangerous place of speed. i think probably. the team most dangerous places close to where i grew up where it is for avalanches it close to golden b.c. just like you never know is a lot of british columbia's a lot of avalanches i live more coastal mounts of the slowness it's a little more secure to the mountains but there's areas in the world where it avalanches that's that's what you're watching out for tell me about sarah what kind of person she was she was an amazing person she was she she did more to day than than i do in a week and i consider myself pretty busy in juvenile to. nasa sure what made her a bit were how good was she is this was in the hall of fame yeah she was i'd say easily the best female skier in the world she is amazing halfpipe skier she could

see in the mountains she was a stream skier she did the first ever ten eighty on that's i actually before i met her i saw her do a ten eighty office jump i might have been doing a three sixty she goes in a dozen tenney's three rotations starting forward spinning three times leneen forde she's like so like fifteen fourteen a girl is it true there was love for that you saw her and wanted to meet it on wall yeah for half from the beginning lawson of beautiful beautiful girl an amazing ski with just potter it was an all we were competing together and i think that's where i first saw sarah and then we got to know each other we both skied moguls for a long time as you propose. here it's interesting. yeah. hiked out into the into the mountains and wrote marry me sarah in the snow and then i have a little a little airplane and i took her for a ride and flew by the spot she looks. kind of confusing the nasty

in the plane in the plane and she said yes of course you're threaten to and she said no to as well. as i was a back up labs i'll fly the plane yeah i will get married we were married for almost two years i don't want to go into details of the action did she how long after did she pass. she passed a few days after where were you when that happened i was in whistler b.c. where where sarah and i was i get a phone call. so worst kind of throwing it is does she have fear i think she had fear but not she she had a plan and she i mean she was doing what she loved to do and she didn't fear what she was doing at all she was she was an amazing skier always push yourself that she was doing things that she didn't need to do to get a gold medal she was doing them to push dots her side of the sport like she did to

get into the olympics half pipe skiing is it will will debut in sochi and i was that was her dream all along and she's she could have easily just won with her stock around and said she's learning new tricks and progressing the sport and also getting other girls to do the same you deal with loss i think i just kept busy i i think about what sarah would do in my shoes and i'd also be a lot i think about. yeah what i think what i would want her to do and that which is what i don't know just to keep busy and be happy and joy and have children would she i don't know i don't know i sarah not was going to have children but i'm not i don't know. well so was she let's go so the public should know more she was the only woman competing in freeskiing she lobbied to include women in

freeskiing events for the winter x. games went on to win four gold medals and five years at the winter x. games the first woman to land a seven twenty nine hundred ten eighty m. competition did you do those i've done some of those only probably because i was inspired by sarah's done a few of those days where she have competed in the twenty fourteen olympics absolutely. she lobbied to get it in and she died i know it's not humble but she would have definitely wanted had the gold for sure what are you going to do in the olympics going to be for can and do no no i'm not going to get people on the go over there and support support the half life event and and cheer for the girls and and do what's there would do you know just be there and. what about the sarah burke foundation or those that say it's just basically a foundation we put together to keep sarah's ideals going she was she was always helping kids and helping people shoot a lot of work with the women's sports foundation and st jude's hospital we were

just able to get fifteen thousand dollars to see your tosswill through our found through the server foundation we just gave three grants for seventy five hundred dollars to three kids and north america which is pretty cool but other people get information it's on sarah burke foundation website server foundation dot com that's where all the information is than when she died did you get angry at the sport and did you think of giving it up that's a tough question larry i mean at the time. yeah yeah at the time absolutely i was i was angry with a lot of things and i don't know you know that's a was a dark time for means i'm really. it either go out for you to ski again it's not a while i skied you know i thought about this like so i would want sarah sarah and i love skiing you know like we we live for that that's what she lived for and she knows the same for me and so i went skiing the first time with my friend josh to

work who is in a city ski and he did the first ever backflip on a city and i was the first day i had gone out after and it was it was like it was like one of i've been doing so i didn't wait you know i was probably didn't ski for a month or so though which is a long time in the mid winter for spear you does a crazy things you've jumped off a moving cars on the other moving cars jump off roofs into bushes back flips all boats moving it always means flips into holes of frozen ponds flips off extremely high rock cliffs why i think it's just the thrill the thrill to do different things it doesn't sat it's not all as dangerous as it sounds the jumbo movie because the one well it's it's calculated to a certain extent i've never really been hurt doing i mean i've been hurt skiing most of the times of stunts like that not never boys they're a lot like a cut a hole in the ice but i cut a pretty big hole and it was basically just like jumping off

a diving board into water and what you consider is so fear and do you have fear yeah absolutely absolutely i don't want to i don't want to get hurt because then i can't do those things and i love to do why digit why did you go on splash i think it was just an opportunity to. jump off a platforms and and meet a bunch of people that i had its immediate world that i never had never known anything about hang with kareem abdul-jabbar how good was he it was amazing to train with kareem every day at the pool and watch him progress is he's a natural athlete and he's like he's he's focused and driven and he he really did learn how to dive do like he did some amazing stuff at first he i want to do his first ever backflip and that i know personally i remember my first back with him picture of kareem playing oh yeah he was good at it and he did he did some pretty amaze you like my dear late friend evil knievel. was he kind of guy you admired absolutely sure of the biggest two off contestants have dropped out due to injuries

you ruptured your ear drum right a high dive tell me what happened i was trying some. i was trying to dive that i wanted to do i thought that i built two of the landing on my heads i train my whole life to land on my feet it's like i've been jumping off of things landing on my feet skiing landing like we don't i don't land on my head that's like so you stated competition you couldn't practice in the wardle or yeah i didn't get to practice in the water so i go jump on the tramp and get in the belts and well i just keep going i just i didn't want to give up my didn't think that was a good message to send out there. do you doubt yourself. i think so yeah i think that they have a say why am i doing this sometimes yeah i think everybody does not i don't know some top of them yeah but at the same time when i was at the top of the board and i knew how to lead head first like yeah i def with. the thought before i before you

jump similar to right before he did on a slope it's similar to right as you on a slope or skiing in it's always changing might be almost stopped at one moment ski fast the next it's when you go all over the edge of something that's big it's that's sort of the same feeling except. and you know how high it is because it's thirty three feet you've done it before on the ski hill is like you might have just gone one hundred feet or you might have gone five feet sometimes you can't see anything coming in and they just remember you looked at it from the bottom you hope you're in the right is the thrill of skiing. and it's just turning turning in powder it's like it snows and then we get those those days in the mountains when it's super sunny and there's fresh snow and you're jumping off of things and it doesn't hurt at all except some footage like i said it makes it look a lot crazier than it is really it's just a lot of fog it's you're flying through the air landing in super soft pillows the snow most of the time. i think anybody's exhilarating absolutely i think anybody in

the world could get into it if they had the right the right day you know you just be hooked on do you do you like taking off in an airplane to yeah this is incredible it's a little bit the same yeah that's how i got into flying i hurt my knee and had to get surgery and so as i was recovering from my surgery there's an airport just just from where i. live in squash so i went down there and what kind of plane to fly said just a cessna one seventy two single and it's a little plane it's not too expensive to operate so i want to fly jets and i'd love to fly jet if i got the opportunity with it what's next for you now wouldn't you joined travis to strong those nitrile circus live last year what is that. wall those guys make a t.v. show they have a t.v. show on m.t.v. in the have their their movie in the they're just a crazy group of guys and actually travis was good friends with sarah oh yeah and so and and travis his wife lindsey pastrami because they did

a lot of work together and women's sports foundation so your expertise is rollers skis what do you have is that it's just a ski with wheels really works pretty good tell you the truth i was i was a little skeptical go into as i got off i'm going to be able to do this but i hit the jump once and it's really not that bad well really honestly warry you think you're a little nuts. i don't know no i wouldn't say so i think i like the thrill of not the danger i like maybe you know succeeding if you could ski what would you do what you want to do when you can't ski you can't ski when you're seventy rather you'll ski for pleasure i think i'll be surfing in skydiving i'm always going to be seeking something it's always something for you think you'll never stop right nought as long as i'm alive thanks mom. thanks to my guests rory bush field what a great guy we'll be right back with me larry when are a.j. cares.

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welcome to larry king down today's guest is a.j. because this spring my producers and i introduce the pygmy larry contest fans of the show submitted videos tell us why this story should be featured on larry king now well after receiving many terrific and please today i'm very excited to enter deuce the grand prize winner of the pick me larry contest here is a.j. kirsch a.j. is a professional wrestler who has dreamed of w w e stardom since age twelve he plays forth on the w w e reality competition series tough enough and currently a.j. is part of the commentary team for the wrestling promotion company good slam and he's wearing the shirt let's take a peek at his winning pick me larry video puts up for a t.v. talent and of course larry king my name is a.j. curse and i'm a semifinals in the pick me larry contest which means i have a shot to be your guest on larry king now on or t.v.

and we can talk about a number of different things we can talk about my recent obsession with breaking bad. i think you're right you hate it when you talk about my love of social media. scuse me or we can talk about the ups and downs of chasing a dream of getting signed. and that's why he's here that's a deserving win a very good they very much and i'm i'm ridiculously excited to be here why did you asli ridiculous lee my excitement is beyond scope beyond if it's off the chart quite why wrestling why since age twelve why did you want to beat up people well or not really beat out other of what you want to hold people strangle. you know i don't know what it was about it but i was just flipping through channels one day and you know i was familiar with wrestling in the eighty's and during the heyday of whole kogan and randy savage and all those guys but i really didn't start watching it until the spring of ninety six which was a really exciting time to be

a fan because that's when you had the the monday night wars between then and the c.w. of those you had talent jumping from one promotion to the other if you buy it as an entertainment or as a sport you know i was still kind of under the i wasn't sure i wasn't sure of the time i mean i was i was twelve so it was like i would see certain superstars and i'd still have to go in my folks' room be like wrestling is fake right they're like yeah it's just a show it's just a show. but there was i started watching when i was twelve and the business just started to change at that time it just started to get a little bit more edgy and so i was entering my more rebellious teenage years as i was growing the business was growing with me and i think that's why it was a phase i never really grew you know what about a good slam you call yourselves the most controversial wrestling promotion company in the united states promoting what is it could slam is. it's a show it is just

a ridiculous show and it's pretty much the antithesis of everything the is that we do he is a very family friendly promotion you know they're all about putting smiles on people's faces they like to say and they're they say that they're there for the fans and good slam is not for kids in fact one of our slogans is don't bring your f. and kids there's a live metal band that performs a lot of wrestlers entrance themes they go by a different name every time and they're kind of the kind of gross and funny that make you like giggling that has a great in x. rated no but it's definitely for it's for those fans that were fans during the eighty's during the ninety's during the errors like i said either hogan savage or more more recently wars is for a.j. because it's for me it seems for me bro would do i see it you can see who's playing the first friday of every month at the oakland metro opera house in oakland california and i can see it on television not yet not why does more kids you go on

some channel somewhere we're still a budding organization we're still growing and those are of course t.v. is an avenue we want to look into but we're still we are i mean we want to grow as large as possible all young wrestlers like you so yeah for the most part they're about my age and you know these are all trained wrestlers these are all guys that have you know paid their dues and spent years and years in the business but there is just nothing nothing as fun as you still want to be in but we do we you know if i were offered a contract today. i'm not sure why it's not the business that i fell in love with as a kid i think it's not it doesn't grab me the way you used to really and yeah and you know used to be that we did we was the dream from when i was twelve years old and i did two hundred right i haven't been presented with the opportunity to sign anything close will i came close on tough enough yes but you know if if even as

close as probably a year or two ago if somebody had if they had offered me a contract i would have dropped to my knees in a choir would have started playing in my head in the clouds with a pardon everything but i've come to the realization that i really don't need to sign my name on a dotted line to be happy or fulfilled in what i'm doing i don't need a couple suits pointing at me and saying yeah i think we can make money with that guy to be happy it's to show business oh no no it's not that's to show business is just that it's so it's been so limited and it's just not it's very theatrical it's it is i was there a freshman wrestling is one of the most like malleable and flexible entertainment john was in the world but so it is a gian that i'm hedging on it i'm just so excited about what's happening with good slam that i feel like i'm not sure be worth it can people learn more about who's land be able website oh yeah you can go to birds will fall dot com and learn

everything you need to know how you made the olympics or grow up and mostly right yeah i heard that and i was just that serious that's college wrestling that's amateur wrestling that is legit athletic competition right you like that too yes yeah i did that in high school and club level in college and i just could not believe that i mean i was amazed they were even thinking about dropping it let alone actually having gone through it's a great sport and i'm told it does stone cold steve austin who was here recently and the rock had some nice things to say about you what did they say they did this was actually my. a final day tough enough and the skill challenge for that day was to cut a promo and you know stone cold steve austin i've been lucky enough to enjoy some conversations with him since tough enough and the point he keeps going back to is if you can communicate effectively with your audience then you'll get over and and you know i aced the skills challenge the promo stone cold steve austin said i had

the best promo of the group the rock doing johnson who was there at the time he said i had a great they're both fantastic he said i had the best promo the group i had a trial with the last fall and another legend in the business and arguably one of the greatest talkers in history the american dream dusty rhodes said i had the best promo amongst seventy prospects and i mean look where i am right now i'm i'm sitting across the table from larry king hey mom i'm on their king hey vince i'm on larry king and what was it it was a fifteen second tout which i'm going to do right now live live tout on set with larry king during the interview right now a fifteen second tout and then a sixty second you tube clip got me sitting across from larry king right now just kind of makes me want to throw my hands and go like what more what more what more do you need like what more do you need for me to prove that i can communicate

effectively with an audience you think you think hulk hogan wrestled his way to to a history making no he read the breaks you do a lot of his way into that you're doing very well a good thing a compliment to you if you were a star wrestler as big time russell would you be good guy or a bad guy you'd be good guy you got all your old america looks bored next door right you would be evil he'll have more fun he over you when you don't look evil well looks can be deceiving i mean why you'd rather be would prefer to be a bad guy i really would because there's something about getting that type of just visceral. reaction out of people that just in my opinion just doesn't compare to being a good guy i enjoy when people cheer for me i it's humbling and it's just an incredible feeling but there's just nothing like being hated i know many pro athletes football hockey baseball but as well who like to play on the road and like to be booed. it

riles them up iran is a muppet fires you up and when you get that energy from a crowd you just want to give it back to him tenfold we play a game with all of us will play with you if you only knew ok ready a.j. who's the first girl you have a kissed arena. how will you as a sophomore in high school a little bit little bit of a label late late late bloomer larry where did you kiss her where were you where were you in the room with no this was at my house after school all and homework homework it was homework and i was working in our front i would have an hour we're friends on facebook oh it's good first time in a wrestling ring oh man i think it was my first day of training at the pro championship wrestling work farm in yuba city california i remember taking a bump for the first time and thinking this hurts so much this hurts so much proudest moment i had a match a couple weeks ago with a man who meant toward me in the business

a man who i tagged with in the business and it was what will probably prove to be his final match so to be his opponent in the ring and just to have the match that we did i've been lucky enough where i've had moments that a lot of people can only dream about in wrestling and moments i literally had to run myself out loud that i wasn't dreaming but. that moment having that match with him and sending him off into the sunset the way we did i think is my proudest moment if you are numerous and what would you be doing probably writing worst injury broken ankle i've been lucky. if they were movie. arm again is the first one that comes to mind just because it's so much fun i like michael favorite hair favorite wrestling moment. probably getting that fist bump from the rocks congratulating me on my promo with easy is of going on give me a.j. courage at age thirty five thirty five you twenty nine oh yeah thirty five. hundred slam has taken the professional wrestling world by storm room just just

blown up and is quickly becoming the hottest thing in professional wrestling and entertainment are you married at age thirty five. things loom want to be a father someday yeah yeah someday that is it's pretty far down the line though not the forseeable future it is receiving of the same shawn michaels because. i believed everything he did even even though even when i knew it was a show even when i knew it was just entertainment there was something about just the way he moves and the way he sells and the way he just. he just absolutely enthralls i don't have the best predictor in the world but you are going to be a big star like larry i really appreciate rajoy should say to you a big thanks to my guest a.j. kurtz they were the first ever picked

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