Crazy about the lasso, Tony Alexander is going to play cowboys on M6

• Tony Alexander will take part in "France has an incredible talent" this Wednesday.

• This Héraultais will present an artistic lasso number, his specialty.

• A way for the artist "to make discover a discipline which is not yet known in France," he confides.

  And if it can arouse passions, as I did when I was 14, watching my television, that would be great.

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As a teenager, while his classmates played football or video games, Tony Alexander spent most of his time polishing his lassoing shots, like his models, the Mexican gauchos. "I was training by capturing my little brother!" », Smiles this 42-year-old Hérault. Since then, he has never stopped playing cowboys. This Wednesday, on M6, he will try to seduce the indomitable jury of

, with an artistic lasso number, his specialty.

The Americans, kings of the discipline, call it "trick roping".

“It's about manipulating a lasso, not for capture, but to perform figures,” confides the artist, who goes back and forth in the circles formed by his rope.

It's all a question of rhythm.

If you turn too slowly, the rope closes.

If we accelerate, it gets bigger.

Bringing the rope to life fascinates me.

And it's quite physical, a bit like when you jump rope.

»For this dance teacher, not particularly a fan of westerns, but in love with trick roping, the lasso is a real partner.

“A somewhat temperamental partner sometimes,” he smiles.

"Arouse passions"

This discipline, Tony Alexander fell madly about it by watching

, an adventure game broadcast in 1992, on France 2. Seeing Mexicans trying to catch the candidates of the program with a lasso, the young Héraultais flashed for handling the rope. “I bought a rope, it was a climbing rope,” he says. And I trained, on my own, because the courses did not exist in France. It took me a lot of patience, to understand the techniques, and to implement them. Very quickly, he will go on stage with his lasso. First, at college, in front of his classmates. “I always felt a bit on the sidelines, team sports, it never interested me, he notes. I have always been drawn to things that are a little different. "

His pugnacity paid off: when he was only 14 years old, the young cowboy was spotted by a troupe of acrobatic stuntmen, Los Rios, who took him on his horse show tours.

Since then, with his hat and his santiags, he travels the ferias, cabarets, festivals, weddings ... And it is a video, which he published on YouTube, which caught the eye of the production of

.

For Tony Alexander, the show is a way “to introduce people to a discipline that is not yet known in France.

And if it can arouse passions, as I did when I was 14, watching my television, that would be great.

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