To be on the safe side, I brought a couple of balloons with me to my last shoot with Phora and cautiously suggested that she would like to try something with them... and lo and behold, she did! So we pumped up a Zeppelin balloon, I showed her that it's quite durable and then she dared to sit on it. She had some respect for it, but in the end we even ride the balloon in pairs until we finally deflate underneath us.