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Get ready to view a presentation of an assortment
of the most incredible feats of all time.
You have seen it on Ripley's TV and Stan
Lee's Superhumans - Now you can see it live.. seeing is
believing!
Zamora's Touring Sideshow is a multi-person
live exhibition of unforgettable human stunts.
Two hours in length, this full evening show features feats
inspired by old-time sideshows, martial arts, yoga, Middle Eastern
disciplines and biological anomalies. The stunts are real,
dangerous and sometimes shocking, all the while presented in a fun
and entertaining style. You've seen them on TV shows like 48
Hours, Real TV and National Geographic's
Taboo. Now you can see them live and up-close. This is extreme
sideshow!

Be prepared to see……
• Traditional Sideshow Stunts
Fire eating and breathing-- Sword swallowing-Neon-tube
swallowing-- The bed-of-nails with 1000 pounds of weight-- Eating
broken light bulb and wine glasses-- Jumping barefoot in broken
glass
• Feats of Chi-Kung
Sword blades pounded into the flesh- Concrete blocks smashed on
the chest- Wooden staffs broken over the back- Full weight
suspension on one sword blade- Standing on eggs
• Feats of the Mystics of the East
Transcending the physical body- Mind over matter-- Sharp skewers
thrust through the bicep muscle, with no pain or injury- The
Bizarre Yogi internal floss
• Weird Science
Electrification of the human body with thousands of volts of
electricity, causing the illumination of bulbs and the ignition of
flames
• Stunts of the Medieval Mountebanks
Bending red-hot metal with the bare flesh, said to be impossible
by James Randi and Bill Nye!.

A review of of a typical show:
Zamora the Torture King from The Western Front
(Canada).
By Greg Woehler
An evening spent at Langley, British Columbia's China Beach
nightclub is usually torturous enough.
The combination of seizure-inducing strobe lights, Jay-Z's
latest opus cranked to eardrum-rupturing levels and over-priced,
watered-down drinks is enough to make most anyone beg for
mercy.
For Tim Cridland, also known as Zamora the Torture King, it
still wasn't nearly painful enough. Zamora, with his feats of
self-discipline, pain endurance and the help of his exotic and
frightening assistant, Slymenstra Hymen, fascinated, shocked and
horrified the eager China Beach crowd the night of Nov. 9 .
Cridland is an alumnus of the Jim Rose Circus Sideshow that
toured with the first Lollapalooza. He also has appeared on FOX's
"Guinness World Records" and "Ripley's Believe It or Not" TV
shows.
He is a small, pale man with a long ponytail. He has permanent
dimples on his cheeks from being pierced so many times and a
slightly forked tongue.
On stage, he is a polished showman, hyping himself and his
exploits. Off stage, he is subdued, understating the risks he
takes.
Zamora started the show with some impressive, though not
particularly shocking fire-breathing tricks.
Things continued in a tame, if increasingly kinky vein, as
Slymenstra, a member of the band Gwar, demonstrated her prowess
with a bullwhip while prancing around the stage in skin-tight
shorts to the tune of Nancy Sinatra's "These Boots Are Made for
Walking."
Zamora then upped the ante with the help of a bucket of broken
glass. He poured the shards onto the stage and walked across them,
holding the microphone near his bare feet to capture the
crunching.
"Now we're getting somewhere," one audience member shouted.
"It's fake," another insisted.
"Dude, don't do it!" exhorted yet another.
Zamora told the crowd a person would have to be nuts to jump up
and down in the glass. He then jumped up and down in the glass.
Still not done with the glass, he called for a volunteer from
the audience and had her stand on his bare chest and jump while he
lay in the pile of fragments. When he got up, his scarred, tattooed
back showed many marks and indentations, but not a single cut.
Next came light bulb-eating and tricks with a rusty, razor-sharp
knife. He also lay on a bed of knives while Slymenstra broke a
cinder block on his chest. Zamora again showed his back to the
crowd, revealing a row of knife marks, but no cuts.
Zamora and Slymenstra then took a short break and encouraged the
audience to buy a drink or two to brace up for what was to come. He
said what the audience had seen so far was merely a warm-up for the
second half of the show.
"Oh my god, I can't believe he did that," Carolyn Sapach of
Surrey said. "I didn't even want to look at some of that
stuff."
Reminded that Zamora said the worst was yet to come, Sapach
winced.
After the intermission came what one audience member described
as "the most messed-up thing I've ever seen."
Zamora told the crowd he needed to floss to clean out the glass
he'd eaten in the first half of the show. He cut a yard-long length
of string and swallowed it, inch by inch, until it disappeared down
his throat.
Next, he took a scalpel - a real scalpel, no tricks - and made a
small cut in his abdomen, about six inches above his navel. He
slowly pulled out the string, hanging Christmas ornaments on it for
an extra flourish.
Audience members stared, slack-jawed at the stunt. This was no
joke or illusion; a man had just cut himself open and pulled a
piece of string out of his chest.
He wasn't bleeding and he didn't appear to be in any pain. He
talked to the audience the entire time; he wasn't even breathing
hard.
Zamora appeared to be the calmest person in the room.
The next stunt seemed almost routine in comparison - the
venerable bed of nails. Zamora added his own flair by placing a
board on his chest and having four very large audience members
stand on it.
It may have seemed ordinary compared to the flossing routine,
but Cridland later said this actually was the most dangerous part
of the show.
"I always think that whenever I get somebody from the audience
on stage it's dangerous because you never know what they're gonna
do," he said. "I know a sword's gonna do what it's supposed to, but
a human being, what are they gonna do?"
Now back to those skewers.
For his finale, Zamora used three foot-long metal rods, about
the diameter of guitar string, but stiffer.
He drove the first through his right forearm. Not just through
the skin, but clean through the muscle.
"Sometimes I scrape against the bone, but not usually," Cridland
said.
The next spike went through the left bicep muscle. Unlike the
first, which slid through fairly smoothly, this one began to bend
as Zamora stabbed it into his arm.
With a clenched jaw and furrowed brow, Zamora struggled with the
stubborn skewer, all the while continuing his narrative.
"It's twisting up like a corkscrew," he told the crowd. Several
in the audience grimaced and bit their lips.
Finally, the skewer worked its way through. Again, Zamora was
not bleeding and didn't appear to be particularly
uncomfortable.
He plunged the third into the space beneath his tongue and
pushed it downward until it poked through below his chin.
Cridland later said the one through the bicep had in fact caused
some distress.
"Yeah, that one was a little uncomfortable," he said. "Nothing
that hasn't happened before though."
Cridland said his worst injury happened a few years ago during a
stunt where a board was broken over his back.
"It was this sort of kung fu thing I did and I think I broke my
rib," he said. "But I went on with the show," "I learn from
mistakes. I looked back on that and learned that I was breathing
wrong."
Thursday at China Beach was just another night for Zamora and
Slymenstra. Friday they were in Victoria, and then in Vancouver on
Sunday. They will be on a Canadian tour for the next three weeks,
performing five to six nights per week.
Just as long as Zamora keeps breathing right.
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