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Auzzy Blood: Heaviest Sword Swallow

Type

Performance photography

Performer

Auzzy Blood (@auzzyblood)

Date

April 12, 2024

Delivered

19 edited images

Photography

Sven Teel, Blackheart Media Productions

World record debut

This was the night my friend Auzzy Blood debuted his world record heaviest sword swallow, and I got to be right there at the edge of the stage for it.

Hooks, chains, swords, and then the weights. A lot of weight. Hanging off a blade that's already down his throat. The room went dead silent, then lost its mind.

Auzzy is one of the hardest working sideshow performers I know, and he makes it look easy (it is not easy). Proud to have caught this one.

Auzzy Blood in a striped shirt and face paint working the crowd on the mic

Auzzy Blood with a sword down his throat and weights hanging from chains, arms spread wide

Auzzy Blood pulling a hooked chain from his mouth

Auzzy Blood with arms raised and hooks in his mouth, mid-scream

Auzzy Blood holding a chain high above his head under red light

Auzzy Blood lowering a curved blade into his throat under a bright stage light

Auzzy Blood raising a sword overhead before the swallow

Auzzy Blood leaning forward with a blade in his mouth under red light

Auzzy Blood in a leather harness lit by cool blue light

Auzzy Blood with a sword fully swallowed, arms out to the sides

Auzzy Blood from behind, harness straps across his back, sword raised

Auzzy Blood with a sword raised straight up into a red spotlight

Auzzy Blood looking down at the crowd under red stage light

Auzzy Blood in face paint and harness, glowing red under the lights

Auzzy Blood holding a weighted bar across the blade before the record attempt

Auzzy Blood kneeling under a frame of chains and weights

Auzzy Blood rising from a crouch with chained weights hanging from the sword

Auzzy Blood lifting chained weights overhead in a blue spotlight

Auzzy Blood standing tall after the record attempt, weights on the stage floor

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