Wheel of Death (Space Wheel)

The Wheel of Death is a device of acrobatics and was invented in 1930 in the United States. The American Clay Becket it had patented in the 1960s. It consists of a steel structure to a four - in most cases two - drum hoop large, interconnected by a structural treadmills about an axis in the center carrier can rotate.

The Wheel of Death is normally operated by at least two artists, often by larger groups, and part of the repertoire of many circuses. The modern, founded in 1989, Circus Flic Flac became known to him as the main attraction. The renowned clown Bello Nock artistic uses the Wheel of Death.

2009 led the artists Alex Ramien, Pavel Chaska, Marko and Ilian Simeonov for the premiere of Global Village Lake in Dubai for the first time a death wheel with four cages before.

Characteristic of the Wheel of Death are enormous centrifugal forces that occur during the rotation of the device, with more than 8 meters in diameter and overcome during screenings of the artistes or even exploited for art pieces. As a basic exercise the artists run within the two treadmills in the direction opposite to the rotation of the overall design direction, so that they always remain upright, similar to the mechanical swing flying carpet.

To attraction it belongs, if one or both artists climb during rotation on the outside of their treadmills to continue to run there or even perform feats such as jumping rope, running blind with a bag over his head or somersault. If two artists move outside, two more jump up to run inside so that there are four people at a time on the device. Since there with the Wheel of Death is no possibility of securing at demonstrations, it is not uncommon to accidents.