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This was a lot harder than you might expect, and maybe it’s because he’s getting older and a lot more impatient. These days he gives me a good two or three seconds to get in a shot, whereas a few years ago he’d balance this thing for the better part of an afternoon. He still gets rewarded, though, and sometimes a giant old poke in the butt.