Jonathon Contant, owner of the Trapeze School, rigs the trapeze at the Santa Monica Pier on Tuesday, April 29, 2008. Trapeze School New York (TSNY) is scheduled to open on the Santa Monica  Pier sometime in May. This will be their fifth location, with other locations in New York City, Boston and Baltimore. The open-air school provides great visibility and allows passersby to watch the trapeze in action. The trapeze provides a super cardio workout facilitating muscle toning and balancing. It's a fun activity to share with family and friends. Flying classes are open to the public. 

(above) Founder and CEO of  02 Max Fitness, Karen Jashinsky (bottom right) leads her teenage students through a 'Bosa Ball' demonstration during the Santa Monica Chamber of Commerce's 26^th Annual 2008 Wellness & Safety Festival at the Third Street Promenade on Saturday, April 26, 2008.

(left) Sasha Petrenko, 9, and (right) Spicer Emge, 12, from the Los Angeles International Fencing Club, give a demonstration during the Santa Monica Chamber of Commerce's 26^th Annual 2008 Wellness & Safety Festival at the Third Street Promenade on Saturday, April 26, 2008.

(top) Eddie Saleh holds a "Gut Lover" on top of a human tabletop pyramid at Santa Monica's Muscle Beach on Sunday, April 13, 2008.

Boxing coach 'Pete G!' puts his student Karen through some sparring drills atop of the public art sculpture titled "Ocean Park Segue" (by artist Joyce Kohl) on Ocean Park Beach and Barnard Way in Santa Monica on Sunday, February 24, 2008. Fabricated on the site, Ocean Park Segue consists of two raised concrete performance platforms, each made of six horizontally stacked concrete slabs, pivoted to create stairs and overhangs. The surface of the slabs is imprinted with cast beach artifacts both human-made and natural. The platforms are used for sponsored and spontaneous performances, picnicking and playing. The installation measures forty inches in height with a total area of fifteen feet by fifteen feet for each slab.