Performance Career
As a sword swallower, Meyer swallows swords with blade lengths ranging from 15 to 30 inches long and up to 21 swords at once. Besides juggling, stilt-walking, fire eating, and eating glass lightbulbs, Meyer’s act includes swallowing daggers, bayonets, sabers, cutlasses, rapiers, the serpentine Flamberge sword, the curved Persian Shamshir sword, 19” surgical forceps, a 20" long screwdriver, a jumbo hedge-clippers, a 40" long broadsword, a giant straight razor, an antique handsaw, a flaming sword with the blade engulfed in flames, a sword with hilt heated to 1500 degrees Fahrenheit, a multiple "sword sandwich" of up to 21 swords at once, and sword swallowing while passing 6 juggling clubs with the sword whipped out of his throat with a whip from 8 feet away. Over the course of his career, Meyer has periodically sustained serious injuries to his throat, esophagus and stomach requiring hospitalization, he has received 35 world records including 7 Guinness World Records, the 2007 Ig Nobel Prize in Medicine, he has been featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not cartoons and the 2008 Ripley's Believe It or Not book, and been featured in hundreds of interviews on radio, TV, network documentaries, and in newspapers and magazines around the world.
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