Biography
Richard Turner is one of the most amazing people in the world. Being blind, he became a card shoeler, a rope, an equilibrist, climbing, diver, biker and martial arts master. A man took place in professional and personal life, his biography inspires millions of people.Childhood and youth
Richard Edward Turner was born on June 16, 1954 in San Diego, California, in a large family. Father Jim worked on the creation of parts for the spacecraft John Glenn and Alan Shepard - a second person in space, which made a couple of months after Yuri Gagarin. Joan's mother in school only once received four instead of the five. Laurie's sister, together with her husband, Garrett Dragt controls Dragt Construction, construction company in Idaho.
Brother David - Mechanic and Designer. Another brother Michael became a champion in surfing and a chef for celebrities. Another sister of Debra tragically died in 1971, when her drunk driver hit her.
At the age of 9, Richard fell ill with scarletin, the complication was a sudden impairment of vision. The boy felt as if in the eyes shot a shot. By 1967, vision was twice as worse than the indicator, which is considered legal blindness in California.
But the Turner himself did not realize this for a whole year - it seemed to him that the eyes would see people and objects. Much later, Richard realized that it was sensory vision. In fact, the adolescent has developed an increased touch, and the brain created the illusion of visibility.
The guy studied at a special school for visually impaired in Santi, but did not recognize himself sick. Refused to study Braille's font and tried to live ordinary life. In an interview, the man said that the film "Lord Muh" was strongly influenced. There was a fat mystuous boy whom Beii, and Turner swore to himself that would not be so.
The younger brother David 9 months studied Karate, and Richard joined him. In 1971, the guys were engaged in the leadership of John Murphy. It ended the fact that Turner received a black belt.
In 1972, he became an actor of the Christian theater in San Diego, managed by Steve Terrell, and six months speected on stage. Terrell taught Richard to watch people in the eyes and imitate the body language of an ordinary person so that others do not guess about his blindness.
Also, the young man became the ward of Cascadener Bobby Yerks, who, for example, worked in "Angels and Demonies". The man depicted a Catholic priest, burned alive and crucified in the church. Yersx taught Turner to swing on the trapezoids, walk along the stretched rope and fall right from the height. For some time, Richard performed in a circus, surprising the public with dangerous tricks.
Personal life
In the personal life illusionist happy. Wife Kim Turner received a degree in speech communication and English literature. A woman is also engaged in karate, she has three black belts of this martial art.Now Kim Development Development Director "Universal City", the world's largest film crew owned by Universal Pictures.
The spouses born the son of As Spedes. The family lives in San Antonio, Texas.
Focuses
Although Richard coped with the disease, anger and despair was copied inside it. The guy used drugs, and then traded them. But everything changed, as soon as the young man picked up a deck of cards.
Turner's card mechanics taught Dai Vernon, in 1920 he deceived Harry Hudini himself. The second mentor, Tony Georgeo, worked as a Hollywood actor and was friends with Mafia. He played Bruno Tattallia in the "Cross Father" - of the very gangster, who nodded a knife to the stand of Luke Brasi.
Vernon and Georgeo took a novice to the "Magic Castle" - Anclav Mages and Focussmen in Los Angeles, meeting in the Victorian mansion of 1907. Richard learned from the mentors to find out that the blindness is not a hindrance for a card cheeler, because to see cards and do not need. Everything is based on hand and good memory agility.
For example, Turner in the public offered many times to get a card from a deer, then hung and pulled out her. All the cunning is to remember the shirt to the power and when shuffling, with a thumb imperceptibly returning to the place again and again.
It is important not to just show the tricks, but also do it artistic. In 1978, the magician Ed Marle noted that Richard, unlike most colleagues, an excellent actor, and this makes it so successful.
But the main thing, of course, were training. Turner practiced in the card mechanics for 14 hours a day. Kim assured that one day he hung a deck during sex.
The illusionist learned so good to feel the cards that the United States Playing Card Company agreed to pay him a lifelong rente for testing product quality. Richard, for example, took a deck in hand and said that her humidity is 5.2% instead of the necessary 4.5%.
The magician demonstrated his skills to the show "Who will deceive Penn and Teller?". The leading dog was ate on the exposure of famous illusionists, but they could not "draw" the terner.
Show "Amazing People"
On October 4, 2020, on the channel "Russia-1" showed the 5th issue of the 5th season of the "Amazing People" program, where Richard Turner spoke. The show is devoted to the possibilities of the human brain. It appeared such unicumes as a deaf dancer Andrei Dragunov, Mathematics Dmitry Borisov, Balancing Ruslan Gavryushenko, Balancing. In each release, 7 contestants compete.Voting spectators determine the best, experts are also sitting in the hall: Maria Sistor, Natalia Ragozina, Olga Shelest. The latter was delighted with the performance of Turner and posted a photo with him in his account in "Instagram".
In the final, the winners are found to conquer a cash prize worth 1 million rubles.
Richard Turner now
On June 10, 2020, the documentary film "I like what I see" was released. In it, Russians Maxim and Olga Sudarikov take an interview with Richard Turner. The illusionist spoke about his life and development of abilities, about his wife, as well as about the Dealt motivational system developed by it (dream. Perfection. Analysis. Loyalty. Persistence).