He occasionally performed during halftime at Emory basketball games. At a college show, it's strobe lights, smoke, glowing ropes, pumping music-more pure entertainment. I'd like to do for rope jumping what Michael Flatley did for Irish step dancing. The Rope Warrior is well on his way. In 1997, he performed more than five hundred shows, and Fisher says his yearly income hovers near the corporate executive level.
Marketing is extremely important.
I've always felt that if you can't market yourself, there's not much else out there for you to market. Fisher's act has been featured on The Today Show , Good Morning America , NBC Nightly News , and on the cover of USA Today 's Life section. Still, Fisher has had a few celebrity-enriched audiences for his routines, which often involve jump ropes moving at speeds of one hundred miles an hour. It was pretty thrilling. Fisher also performed for Russian President Boris Yeltsin at the opening ceremonies for the 1994 Goodwill Games in St. Petersburg.