Chayne Hultgren (born 13 April 1978), known professionally as the Space Cowboy is a world record-holding sideshow, street, and
freak show
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performer.
Act
Hultgren performs a number of acts, including juggling a
sickle
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,
machete
Older machete from Latin America
Gerber machete/saw combo
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and fire torch, or a
battle axe
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, jungle machete and a
butcher knife
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Use
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, whilst blindfolded on a 10-foot
unicycle
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, catching flaming arrows blindfolded shot from a crossbow, suspension (the art of dangling from hooks in the flesh), seven ball
juggling
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,
hat manipulation
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,
spoon bending
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,
levitation
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of himself and other objects,
sword swallowing
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,
psychic surgery
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, the
Human Blockhead trick,
knife throwing
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(with his girlfriend and performing partner Zoe Ellis). His theater act has included swallowing a 2000-volt neon glass tube with a microphone on the end, with his heartbeat audible as the light shines through his skin from the inside.
He has also toured his "Mutant Barnyard". His traveling tent show, displays his collection of historical
freak show
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items including some of the world's most rare and unusual oddities. These include his earliest item, Ditto, the double-bodied duckling, a two-headed cow named Daisy and Maisy, an albino kangaroo, extreme body modification skulls from Peru, shrunken heads from Ecuador and 18th century paintings of bearded women and a young child with lobster hands. He regards this as a traveling "Museum of Mutations and Oddities". One of his latest acquisitions is what is claimed to be the genuine preserved head of
Horace Ridler (a professional tattooed freak and sideshow performer better known as The Great Omi or The Zebra Man, who died in 1969). His collection is said to be insured by Lloyds Bank for 7 million dollars.
Hultgren has performed his shows in a variety of locations, including streets, theaters, the
Sydney Opera House
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, the
Sydney Royal Easter Show
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, the
Edinburgh Festival Fringe
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,
Glastonbury Festival
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, the
Adelaide Festival of Arts
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, the
Gentse Feesten
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(Ghent Festival in Belgium), the
Rotterdam
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Straatfestival, the
Toronto
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BuskerFest, the
Woodford Folk Festival
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and the
Edmonton
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International Street Performers Festival, Movie World.
Achievements
Hultgren is 'Australia's most prolific record breaker' and as of July 2016 he held 44 official 'Guinness World Records' for his unusual skills. Some of his records include: 'Most chainsaw juggling catches on a unicycle', 'Most weight dragged with hooks in the eye sockets', 'Most targets hit with throwing knives in one minute', 'Most swords swallowed underwater', 'Most blowtorches extinguished with the tongue in one minute (temperature of flames reached 1995 °C / 3623 °F)'. His achievement of swallowing 17 swords in 2009 was voted by Guinness World Records as one of the top 100 records of all time, since then he has broken this record many times and his current record for multiple sword swallowing is 27 swords swallowed at the same time. He is featured in many 'Guinness World Record' and 'Ripley's Believe It Or Not' books and TV shows. Bronze life cast statues of Hultgren swallowing swords are exhibited in the Ripley's Museums.
His first record broken was most swords swallowed (17 at once),
then broke that record again, this time scoring 27 swords at the Irish Street Performance Festival (although this 27 swords record is unofficial) and on 8 February 2010 the
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recorded that he broke this official world record by swallowing 18 swords. He also broke the longest distance pulling 411 kg by fishhooks in his eye sockets. He also holds the record for heaviest weight lifted while swallowing a sword. Other records include 'Fastest arrow caught blindfolded', 'Most chainsaw juggling catches on a unicycle', 'Most motorbikes driven over the body while laying on a bed of nails', 'Most flowers whip cracked from the mouth in a minute.
Hultgren holds many "world firsts" such as first double sword swallow, first sword swallow underwater, and his signature trick "The Black and Decker Digestion Wrecker" a power drill with sword attachment which he swallows, and first person to publicly swallow a sword underwater in a tank of live sharks. He was also reported to be the youngest working sword-swallower in Australia, when he was 22 years old.
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Hultgren is well known for his tattoos, which include large angel wings on his back. People also remember him for his 11 piercings, which include nipple piercings, cartilage piercings, a
in his left ear and navel piercing. He also has a
in his chest which he acquired at Tusk tattoo shop in London. It was implanted by "Samppa Von Cyborg" a body modification aficionado.
Due to an internal deformation medically known as congenital division of the stomach, the lower half of his stomach has been replicated and sits lower than the average human stomach, allowing him to swallow longer swords. He can swallow the entire length of a 72 cm sword blade.
In June 2008 Hultgren was featured on the cover of national newspapers in the UK and Ireland, and on the
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