Friday, December 16, 2005

"The Human Pendulum"


The head carry was never high on my, tricks to train, list. It always seemed to me to belong in the "Dare Devil" category like "The man with the uncrushable skull".
A lot of people did it tho, I have almost a dozen pictures of different men giving it a shot.
Most notable was Cheerful Gardner with Hagenbeck-Wallace, "Blanche" would carry him down the track swinging his body from side to side in about a 90 degree arc, hence "The Human Pendulum".

Posted by Buckles at 12/16/2005 07:00:00 AM

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Not a pretty sight. I think the foot raised above the head is so much scarier. This trick makes me want to wash my hair and that was no easy trick on a mud show. Right ladies?

16 December, 2005 07:57
Anonymous said...

I remember reading in Eddie Allen's book FUN BY THE TON,that he considered this(the head carry) the most dangerous elephant act.Since several individuals had their head crushed or they were killed.
Ringling's,"Yasso" was a famous elephant that did this act around 1930,originally with her mahout
whose name was Gunga..

17 December, 2005 17:49
Anonymous said...

That expression on his face reminds me of mine when my first girl friend in High School,use to want to get frisky.
She sould have had a sign on her jeans that said(double-wide)

17 December, 2005 18:46

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