Zamora The Torture King is the classic modern day sideshow performer. He is one of the founders of the modern day sideshow revival and has been a professional performer for almost 20 years. Zamora has been featured on television shows such as Guinness World Records Primetime,Ripley's Believe It or Not!, National Geographic's Taboo, and 48 Hours, among others. He has appeared many times on The Learning Channel and The Discovery Channel.
Zamora The Torture King has spent years perfecting his chosen craft. Through his knowledge of martial arts techniques, hypnosis, Middle-Eastern teachings, science and anatomy, he is able to overcome dangerous situations - fire eating, sword swallowing, body skewering, electrocution, and more - to emerge unscathed and unharmed … and all in the name of entertainment.
Zamora has performed at Knott's Berry Farm's Halloween Haunt, the largest Halloween event in the world, for 13 years in a row. Zamora is the the first sideshow performer to headline in a show in a Las Vegas casino.
His skills include:
Classic Sideshow Stunts
Fire eating and breathing, The bed-of-nails with over 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
Stunts of the Medieval Mountebanks
Bending red-hot metal with the bare flesh, said to be impossible by modern science
"[Zamora] insists he is not an illusionist and credits "a disciplined mind and meditative techniques" for getting him through the ordeal. His performance art may shock and awe his cool urban audiences, but it's his theories on pain management that intrigue..."
