Share on Facebook Tweet this Share Your average circus features numerous exciting and death-defying feats. There’s no shortage of people flying through the air, and there’s usually plenty of fire involved. However, the human cannonball act is particularly freaky. It takes a unique brand of crazy to watch exploding cannonballs in a cinematic naval battle and think, “I could do that.” Brian Miser, 52, has been human cannon fodder for more than 18 years, and has toured all around the country with the Ringling Brothers Circus.

“The Human Fuse,” as he is sometimes known, is perhaps most famous for launching himself more than 100 feet with a giant crossbow. While on fire. On Saturday, Brian launched out of two separate cannons to help Captain Morgan launch their new spirit, appropriately named “.” The event — which took place in downtown Orlando, FL — was a booming success. We spoke with Brian just before the event, and asked him about everything from his life as an adrenaline junkie to how he feels about his young daughter following his flight path. You obviously have a unique profession.

What was your path to becoming a human cannonball? I started when I was 8 years old, on a trampoline.

When I got on there, and I could flip and twist — it just came natural to me. I graduated high school and went to an amusement park, doing trampoline, and learned to do the flying trapeze there. I did that for 16 years, and decided to make my own cannon and be a human cannonball. I’ve been doing that for 18 years now, and I’ve been shot out of a cannon over 6500 times. It’s a blast (laughs). Haha, love it. Was there a particular moment where you thought, “Hey, I wanna do this”?

Were you inspired by your colleagues? Yeah, I worked with a guy who did the cannon before, and I was totally intrigued by it. One day I woke up and my body was hurting — my shoulders were hurting because of the trapeze — and I thought, “Well, I need to keep flying through the air.” I was just learning to weld and build things and I thought, “You know, I think I want to build a cannon,” and I just started putting my mind to it. I came up with the design, and I just started going at it. I was self-taught. The cannon business is very tricky — no one wants to tell you their secrets of how they work, so I had to learn the hard way. What do you feel comfortable telling us about the machinery of how a human cannon works?

I design them. I have four different cannons — I’m using two of them here [in Orlando], which is kind of unique. I’m doing a shot out of each cannon within a half hour.

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I hit 65 mph instantaneously — it’s 7 Gs at the takeoff, and 9 Gs at the landing. So yeah, it’s hard on the body.

I’m sitting at the bottom of the cannon, and the countdown starts. I take a sequence of breaths, and then when countdown gets to one, I hold my breath and squeeze every single muscle in my body to brace for impact. The cannon blasts, and I go flying out of it.

Related: What’s going through your mind in the moments before you get launched? Well, I’m not in there very long — maybe 15 seconds. Once I get in, I’m ready to get out.

Sometimes I lie there, and I’m thinking, “What the heck am I doing? Man, this is crazy.” But then when I’m in the air and I think, “This is the best feeling in the world.” Flying through the air like superman — no strings attached. Defying gravity; it’s really an exhilarating feeling. Wow, I believe it. Yeah, and sometimes — I’m 52 years old now — I get to the point where my body’s hurting. I wake up in the morning and I’m think, “Ow, maybe it’s time to quit,” but then I do a shot and I think, “Man, I can’t quit — I’m having too much damn fun!” How much “fuse” do you have left, do you think? What would it take for you to quit?

Well, I’m kind of waiting for my body to tell me that it’s time to quit. I do it more part time now, rather than full time.

I kind of pick and choose where I go to work. So yeah, when my body says, “All right, you can’t handle that any more,” then that’s gonna be a sad day.

It sounds like you truly enjoy it, so you might as well keep doing it. I’m doing great things, like this event with Captain Morgan.

They’re launching their new brand: Cannon Blast. It’s an exciting new venue for me, and a new outlet, so I’m really looking forward to it. Yeah, I’d like to talk to you about that. I was wondering if you could describe how the Captain Morgan Cannon Blast Bar Crawl came to be.