80/35 Video: Dom Rabalais and Patrick Fleming do the splits

I'm not sure where this video idea came from exactly, but I woke up Saturday morning with the thought that I needed to get Dom Rabalais of Little Ruckus and Patrick Fleming of Poison Control Center for a video. Specifically, a video of them doing the splits.

I'm a flexible guy, but the splits have never been something I've been able to pull off. The fact that they can break the move out mid show is even more impressive. Patrick needed to do a bit of warming up, but he is working with a body that is about 10 years older and Dom had just performed a few minutes earlier.

I got to spend some time in Fairfield with the Rabalais brothers a few weeks back. There was a story about it in Sunday's Des Moines Register.

So here we go, backstage craziness at 80/35: