Pigeon Kings

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I've came out, seen birds struggling,

helped them out, and that's it.

I'll give them a little crack on the shell here and there.

Now there's some guys who'll say,

"I wouldn't do that man, they got to get out of there.

They too weak if they do that." But...

they give you all these rules they think are for life

as far as pigeons, but people have the same problems.

Babies are born early, they put them in the incubators

and all this stuff all hooked up to them.

Trying to say they should die,

'cause they weren't strong enough to live?

No.

You can help them out. They might turn out to be some of your best birds one day.

If I look and I see a bird hatching in the morning, and if I come back in the evening

and he hadn't got too much farther than he was in the morning,

something gone wrong, and I help him out of it.

I just put a little extra cracks going around,

so he can break out easier.

I know once he start breathing in oxygen,

he got to get out that shell soon and get fed, or he'll die.

So, that's why I make sure they get out.

Daddy in now.

He got to feed it.

How many?

20.

-On! Time in. - Time in!

Oh, Jesse!

That was sweet. I don't care what nobody else said,

it was sweet in my book. I liked it like that. Oh, yeah.

Basically these are rollers. These are Birmingham Rollers,

that were brought to the United States by William Pensom.

Pensom brought the original rollers from Birmingham, England.

That's the name Birmingham Rollers.

Roller pigeons are bred to perform.

The average Birmingham Roller can do

four to five revolutions in a split second.

We're trying to get them to perform together,

something like synchronized swimming.

Oh, that's what I'm talking about.

-That's a bust. -

-Let me see what he give. -

Let me have 12.

-12. -Yeah!

So basically, to score you have to have a minimum

of five pigeons rolling together.

A lot of guys don't understand the word together.

That means together.

Not one starts, and then three go,

and then another goes, and then you have a five.

-They have to roll together. -

- How much time is left? - Three twenty.

That's a good kit right there.

You want your birds to kit tight,

you want them all to fly together in one unit.

If you got one that want to lead the pack,

then that's called an out bird.

You get two birds out, then you can't score.

Hey, one of your birds is out the kit!

What the hell is this? My birds is definitely more impressive than this!

- -But we live to fly one more day though.

- -Time.

- Time - Time.

Time!

Yeah, I got it, I, I heard it.

I know.

Okay, so 197.34, score.

Thank you. Thank you so much.

You got to sign here.

-Got to sign? -Yeah.

Right on, okay.

Here in South Central, you score over 100 points,

you're the man. Anything below 25, you aren't shit.

Anything below that, that's considered a donut, or a disqualification, a DQ,

you are getting talked about.

Today we champions, man, we eliminate you all motherfuckers.

That's what we do today, we eliminate you all.

We're going to Red house, right?

No, we are going to Choo Choo's.

Man, don't shoot me. Don't shoot me.

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You see a nigga. Are you ready?

You better be ready to score some points.

I thought something was going on with my brother in law down here,

you all should be in church, you all got the street blocked up

-for these pigeons. -

You got the street blocked up for these birds!

Mr. London!

When the birds work real hard, we open their breast feathers up,

and it should be pink, it's purple. It's real dark. Rest them up a few days.

- And then it come back pink. -It come back pink.

And 20 is full turn times five.

All right, so that would be a 100 raw points. Straight up.

I got that with the rest of them. It was--

-Mr. Jackson, are you ready? -Yeah.

Thank you.

Uh-oh, I got the bird God. Uh-oh.

I got the bird blessing from Mr. London, aw shit.

Oh, boy.

No, he going to be hurt if he don't get up there.

- -That's when he going to be hurt.

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Oh, that motherfucker don't want to get up, what!

Come on, man, it's fly day,

if you don't get your ass up and fly!

- He didn't go up that way. -One of his birds coming down from up there already.

-Yeah. - You got a replacement?

No, I got no replacement.

That's your first out bird then.

So what if he get back up?

Well, he's down more than 20 seconds, he's out, period.

-That little bitch. -One bird down.

Learn your birds. Just learn your birds. That's all you got to do.

It's a lot of work. Them birds should have fought to get back in the kit,

and they didn't, they started doing their own thing.

I won't even use the birds like this.

That out bird still out there?

Yeah, he's, he's way over here now.

Okay, keep an eye on him.

I got him.

They're not very accurate.

No, they're not.

I don't know what's up with today, but you know.

-Hey, you missed some breaks because of that... -Got one out there.

...because him down, can't have one out up there, if you lose your--

-'cause that's two birds, so you missed some... -Alright.

-...that's why, sign here. -Okay.

But that's why you missed a lot of birds.

-See my point? -Alright.

- -Where's that bird at?

The dun?

Ah, here.

I'm a take him in here. Solitary.

Put him over there.

Boothie.

Boothie!

Kids.

Sleepy kids.

Hey!

Come on!

Got to do your homework?

- -Come on.

Uh, uh.

I'm trying to find the, the world cup plaque.

2007 CSRA, old cock, first place, show trophy.

LA Roller Festival, West Side Roller Clubs trophy.

Regional champion for Fall Fly and World Cup.

Second place overall champion for the National.

QSDC Summer Fly champion.

Most points scored in one fly.

It's more work than people think it is.

Everybody think it's real easy.

It's not hard, but it's a lot of work.

It's not hard work, it's just a lot of it.

You got to be very meticulous about everything.

Last round you guys.