A few months later, Willey made a 15-minute video of physics demonstrations with a group of troubled boys from a remand home.
A local school teacher saw Willey's demonstrations and asked him to perform some of them for her class.
He teamed up with the Norwegian physicist, Kjetil Kjernsmo[8] of University of Oslo, to study the physics behind firewalking.
On 18 October 1997, in Redmond, Washington, Michael McDermott walked across a bed of coals that were at a temperature of 1,813 °F (989 °C).
This firewalk was 165 feet (50 m) long to break the world record for the longest distance walking on fire.
During this time, Willey also appeared on other television shows such as Time Warp,[13] Humanly Impossible,[citation needed] Talk Soup,[citation needed] Steve Harvey's Big Time,[14] King 5 TV,[citation needed] Skeptical Inquirer,[15] Extreme Body Parts,[citation needed] John Stossel's Power of Belief,[16] the Crook and Chase Show,[17] Science Park,[citation needed] Jensen!,[18] Johannes B. Kerner,[19] The Brian Conley Show,[citation needed] Fantasia,[citation needed] Penn & Teller: Bullshit!,[20] Wednesday Night at the Lab,[21] part of the 25th Wonders of Physics in Madison, Wisconsin,[22] and a seven part series on the Shaolin Monks for the Canadian Discovery Channel.