{"id":781,"date":"2015-11-22T17:48:55","date_gmt":"2015-11-22T16:48:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.red-hot-sharp.com\/en\/ssai-und-ich\/"},"modified":"2017-08-10T12:06:31","modified_gmt":"2017-08-10T10:06:31","slug":"ssai-und-ich","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.red-hot-sharp.com\/en\/ssai-und-ich\/","title":{"rendered":"SSAI and I"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"flex_column av_four_fifth  flex_column_div first  \" ><p><section class=\"av_textblock_section\"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock '  style='font-size:15px; '  itemprop=\"text\" ><p><strong>The History of the SSAI und my Job as the european representive<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<strong>Sword Swallowers Association International<\/strong>\u00a0was founded in 2001 by the current President\u00a0<strong>Dan Meyer<\/strong>. The idea was to register all sword swallowers around the world,\u00a0share experiences, to convey appearances, collect money for injured sword swallowers etc.<\/p>\n<p>Since 2008 the SSAI organized the annual <strong>World Sword Swallower\u00b4s Day<\/strong> in\u00a0conjunction with <strong>Ripley\u00b4s &#8211; Believe it or Not!<\/strong> This holyday always takes place on the<strong> last Saturday in February<\/strong> at all the\u00a0Ripley\u00b4s museums <strong>around the world<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Everybody who wants to set a sword swallowing World Record at <strong>Guinness World Records, Recordsetter<\/strong> or others,\u00a0needs to be a recognized as an official sword swallower by the SSAI.<\/p>\n<p>At my early beginning in sword swallowing,\u00a0I came in touch with the SSAI and Dan Meyer. He invited me to become a member of the SSAI and also to\u00a0come to World Sword Swallowers Day 2014 at<strong> Ripley\u00b4s Believe It or Not!<\/strong> in\u00a0<strong>St. Augustine, Florida<\/strong>. There I became an official member of the SSAI. A few days later I became the <strong>official german representative of the SSAI.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>My duties include:<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n<section class=\"av_textblock_section\"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock '  style='font-size:15px; '  itemprop=\"text\" ><ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li>Support the German sword swallowers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li>Search for SSAI-unknown sword swallowers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li>Research for historic sword swallowers who lived and\/or\u00a0performed in Germany<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li>Search for old and new pictures, articles, videos, documents, stories etc. about sword swallowing<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li>Do articles and interviews in the name of the SSAI for the German media like press, TV ect.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li>Collect all information about the first endoscopic investigation that was done in 1868 in Freiburg Germany by Prof. Dr. Adolph Kussmaul on a sword swallower<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n<section class=\"av_textblock_section\"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock '  style='font-size:15px; '  itemprop=\"text\" ><p>2015 I also went to World Sword Swallower\u00b4s Day\u00a0in Florida. This time Dan Meyer and I went to <strong>Ripley\u00b4s Believe It or Not! in Orlando<\/strong>. There we set some personal World Records.\u00a0After World Sword Swallowers Day I became the <strong>official European Representative of the SSAI.<\/strong>\u00a0 My responsibilities now extended to the European area.<br \/>\nSo far I have achieved some success in the search for new and current and old sword swallowers.<\/p>\n<p>2015 I could achieve that I and the SSAI be the contact\u00a0for sword swallowing world records for the <strong>Rekord-Institut f\u00fcr Deutschland (RiD).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In December 2015 I was admitted to the <strong>Hall of Fame<\/strong>\u00a0of the\u00a0SSAI.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"flex_column av_one_fifth  flex_column_div   \" ><section class=\"av_textblock_section\"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock '  style='font-size:17px; '  itemprop=\"text\" ><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.red-hot-sharp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Dan_Meyer_Sword_Swallower_armful.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-411\" src=\"http:\/\/www.red-hot-sharp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Dan_Meyer_Sword_Swallower_armful-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Dan Meyer\" width=\"133\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.red-hot-sharp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Dan_Meyer_Sword_Swallower_armful-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.red-hot-sharp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Dan_Meyer_Sword_Swallower_armful.jpg 403w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 133px) 100vw, 133px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nDan Meyer<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n<div  class='hr hr-default '><span class='hr-inner ' ><span class='hr-inner-style'><\/span><\/span><\/div><br \/>\n<section class=\"av_textblock_section\"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock '  style='font-size:17px; '  itemprop=\"text\" ><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.red-hot-sharp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/ssailogo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-317\" src=\"http:\/\/www.red-hot-sharp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/ssailogo.jpg\" alt=\"Sword Swallowers Association International\" width=\"138\" height=\"144\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nSSAI Logo<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n<div  class='hr hr-default '><span class='hr-inner ' ><span class='hr-inner-style'><\/span><\/span><\/div><br \/>\n<section class=\"av_textblock_section\"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock '  style='font-size:17px; '  itemprop=\"text\" ><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.red-hot-sharp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/1000g87w_2_CYMERA_20140222_152331.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-429\" src=\"http:\/\/www.red-hot-sharp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/1000g87w_2_CYMERA_20140222_152331-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"Ich und Dan Meyer 2014\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.red-hot-sharp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/1000g87w_2_CYMERA_20140222_152331-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/www.red-hot-sharp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/1000g87w_2_CYMERA_20140222_152331-529x705.jpeg 529w, https:\/\/www.red-hot-sharp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/1000g87w_2_CYMERA_20140222_152331-450x600.jpeg 450w, https:\/\/www.red-hot-sharp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/1000g87w_2_CYMERA_20140222_152331.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nMe and Dan Meyer 2014<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n<div  class='hr hr-default '><span class='hr-inner ' ><span class='hr-inner-style'><\/span><\/span><\/div><br \/>\n<div class='avia-image-container  av-styling-   avia-align-center '  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"  ><div class='avia-image-container-inner'><a href='https:\/\/www.red-hot-sharp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/RID-Rekordbuchvorstellung-SSAI-RHSE_\u00a9Moodpix-Alexander-Pihuliaksigned-1030x631.jpg' class='avia_image'  ><img class='avia_image ' src='https:\/\/www.red-hot-sharp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/RID-Rekordbuchvorstellung-SSAI-RHSE_\u00a9Moodpix-Alexander-Pihuliaksigned-300x184.jpg' alt='' title='RID-Rekordbuchvorstellung-SSAI-RHSE_\u00a9Moodpix-Alexander-Pihuliaksigned'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  \/><\/a><\/div><\/div><br \/>\n<section class=\"av_textblock_section\"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock '   itemprop=\"text\" ><p style=\"text-align: center;\">Cooperation of SSAI an the German-Rekord-Institut<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-781","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.red-hot-sharp.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.red-hot-sharp.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.red-hot-sharp.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.red-hot-sharp.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.red-hot-sharp.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=781"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.red-hot-sharp.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1907,"href":"https:\/\/www.red-hot-sharp.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/781\/revisions\/1907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.red-hot-sharp.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}