Video: Super Bowl Tightrope Performer Andy Lewis' Nuts Are Fine

by Emily Sutherlin | February 6, 2012 at 12:22 pm

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TMZ spoke with Andy Lewis, the slackline trickster who repeatedly bounced hard on his crotch during his show-stealing routine.

All eyes may have been on Madonna as she entered the stage, but when Andy Lewis, who goes by the stage name Sketchy Andy, entered the performance, he stole the show with his slackline performance.

Different from tightrope walking, the practice of slackening involves a stretchy bit of nylon wire that allows for more of a trampoline effect during tricks. How did he not cringe, or curl up into a ball and cry for his balls? He's been doing it for years, he says.

"I started slacklining in 2004, it was my favorite hobby in 2005, my lifestyle in 2006, and since then it has pretty much absorbed me entirely," Utah's Lewis, 25, writes on the Website FiveTen.com.

Lewis has signed up to perform over 100 more shows with Madonna, but this isn't his first time in the spotlight. In 2011, the 6'2" performer showed off his death-defying stunts thousands of feet off the ground -- sometimes while naked -- as part of the 2011 Reel Rock DVD.

"Over time your nuts harden to steel," he says. He also claims he doesn't wear a cup, but he's very careful about "testicle placement". "You just try to not squish and pop them ... so you put them to one side."

I wonder if anyone has ever done studies to show whether or not slacklining interferes with fertility.