Meet the woman who is travelling the world performing as an archer - shooting a flaming bow and arrow with her FEET.<br /><br />Orissa Kelly, 28, began learning gymnastics at the age of three - advancing to performing circus acts and stunts in her teenage years.<br /><br />She honed her skills on aerial hoops hanging from ceilings, but still wanted to push herself further.<br /><br />So she kept trying new things - until she discovered a bow and arrow.<br /><br />Orissa, from Watford, Herts., said: "Out of every weapon I’ve ever worked with, archery bows just felt the coolest.<br /><br />"At one point I even tried doing a handstand with a sword! It definitely wasn’t the best idea!"<br /><br />"I wanted to be so different that no one else could even compare to me - so I came up with an act that no one else was doing.<br /><br />"When I left school, I knew I wanted to perform and I gave it my all, I never got a second job or had a plan B.<br /><br />"I’ve never had any other job than being a performer.<br /><br />"I’ve never handed in a CV, never attended an interview and only found out what HR was a few years ago.<br /><br />“I’ve performed on every continent in the world and have seen some amazing places and also a lot of really crazy places too.<br /><br />“I get to see these extravagant lives and stay in cool villas in the Maldives but then I get to come home back to my loving family, so it’s the best of both worlds."<br /><br />Orissa visited a local hunting shop in February 2015 and purchased a bow and arrow, with the motive of creating an act that no one else had done before.<br /><br />She said: "I loved action films, and was always obsessed with Mulan or Kill Bill.<br /><br />"I remember watching them and thinking, what if these cool stunts were actually real, and I think this is where I really got the inspiration from."<br /><br />Alongside a bow, she also tried wielding various other weapons including swords, but found archery to be her calling.<br /><br />She started practicing foot archery for six hours a day for six months in an open cricket field - braving all types of weather.<br /><br />She said: "I learnt to shoot with my feet before I could shoot with my hands.<br /><br />"I still consider myself more accurate with my feet.<br /><br />Orissa said her training was sometimes "excruciating."<br /><br />She said: "My most common injury was from the bow string on my calf, the string would repeatedly hit it, causing it to bruise, swell, and bleed. <br /><br />"I would also get cuts and bruises in between my toes from gripping the bow with my feet. <br /><br />"The worst pain was actually from the cramps in my feet through - this is something I still get if I take some time off of foot archery. It’s my body’s way of telling me I’m not training enough."<br /><br />And she added: “Sometimes my toes would go numb so I would go back to my car and sit in front of the heater for 10 minutes before going back out again."<br /><br />But her persistence paid off with Orissa going on to compete on Britain’s Got Talent in 2016 - where she was described as “brilliant” by judge Alesha Dixon.
