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Outdoor demonstration at a wooden-pole stunt event. A young child with a topknot and white cloth wrap climbs a tall wooden pole in the centre. Behind them, a shirtless man in white shorts balances in tree pose on a pole top, hands in prayer position. A man in a dark polo and navy track pants stands on blue crash mats, gesturing. Other shirtless men in white shorts and two boys in orange cloth wraps watch; trees and parked cars are behind. Roughly ten visible people.

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