Tim Shieff

Timothy "Livewire" Shieff (born March 24, 1988 in Hartford, Connecticut) is a professional English freerunner. He is best known for winning the 2009 Barclaycard World Freerun Championship and participating on the television programme MTV's Ultimate Parkour Challenge.[1][2] Shieff uses the nickname Livewire while performing freerunning. In 2011 and 2012 he appeared in the televised American Ninja Warrior competitions. In 2014 he appeared on a special "USA vs. The World" edition of American Ninja Warrior, where he helped lead Team Europe to victory over Team USA and Team Japan, and also competed in ANW 's "USA vs. The World II" in 2015.

He won the first series and fourth series of Ninja Warrior UK and was a finalist in the second series.

Personal life

Shieff was born in Connecticut and moved to England when he was three.[3] In 2015 Shieff was arrested for climbing a listed building without permission.[4] He has been a vegan since 2012 for both ethical and health reasons.[5][6]

Shieff is a prominent flat-earth conspiracy theorist, claiming in a 2016 interview that NASA is a "special effects company" that perpetuates the hoax for "fun" [7] and retweeting a flat-earth meme with the comment that the "math doesn't lie" [8] In 2016 Shieff also claimed that a photgraph taken by the Deep Space Climate Observatory showing the Moon transiting the Earth was a fabrication created using Photoshop's "drop shadow tool" [9] He has also praised beardyman for "subtly sprinkling truth" about the flat-earth conspiracy theory [10]

Shieff subscribes to numerous other conspiracy theories, such as chemtrails claiming that there was a "SpaceX launch over California spraying chems everywhere" causing clouds to look "super unnatural" [11] and also stating that "noone denies chemtrails apart from people who have never looked into it." [12]

Shieff also asserts that the Red Cross "cured Malaria with 100% success in 154 cases" but that this was concealed as it was "bad for business" [13]

Appearances

Shieff took part in the filming of the last Harry Potter film entitled Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, acting as a Death Eater.[14]

In 2016 Tim took part in the film SWINE. The film suggests that due to the overuse of antibiotics in animal factory farming there is potential for a superbug pandemic.

Career

Shieff is a member of the World Freerunning & Parkour Federation and of the British freerunning project Storm Freerun.[15][16]

Health improvement


Tim Shieff staring at the sun

Shieff often tries natural and unconventional means to improve his health, such as water-fasting with distilled water. According to Shieff, relieving the body from the task of digesting food, allows it to focus more energy on healing injuries and diseases.[17] He is also a supporter of urine therapy [18] [19] and has spoken positively of breatharianism stating that it is "fascinating stuff [that] makes a lot of sense" [20]

Shieff is also an adherent of water fasting, completing a 35 day water fast in July 2018 [21] 5 days after ending his 35 day fast Shieff claimed that he had become "internally healed" to such an extent that he could stare directly at the sun without harm. [22]

Shieff is a practicer of rolfing [23] an alternative medicine that claims to manipulate the body in order to align its "energy field" with the Earth's gravitational field. It has been found by the Australian government to have no clear evidence of effectiveness [24]

Shieff is a proponent of Iridology, a pseudo-scientific[25] alternative medicine claiming that an analysis of his iris revealed a "blown out adrenal gland" and a "sulphur buildup" in his right eye possibly caused by big pharma.[26]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Barclaycard World Freerun Championship".
  2. ↑ "Tim Shieff - MTV's Ultimate Parkour Challenge".
  3. ↑ "Tim Shieff".
  4. ↑ Raptopoulos, Lilah (16 June 2015). "Go veggie to save the planet, says world champion freerunner Tim Shieff". The Guardian. Retrieved 2 July 2018.
  5. ↑ Allen, Elisa (3 September 2014). "Why I'm Vegan: Athlete Tim Shieff". PETA UK. Retrieved 1 September 2015.
  6. ↑ Orde, Elena (11 March 2016). "An interview with vegan parkour wonder Tim Shieff". The Vegan Society. Retrieved 2 July 2018.
  7. ↑ https://londonreal.tv/e/timothy-shieff-the-vegan-prince/
  8. ↑ https://twitter.com/HumanTimothy/status/766321274830331904
  9. ↑ https://twitter.com/HumanTimothy/status/763293010058678272
  10. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beardyman
  11. ↑ https://twitter.com/HumanTimothy/status/944954643771199493
  12. ↑ https://twitter.com/HumanTimothy/status/935983349067337728
  13. ↑ https://twitter.com/HumanTimothy/status/818964156263071745
  14. ↑ "Freerunner Tim takes to silver screen in new Harry Potter film". This is Derbyshire.
  15. ↑ ":: Welcome to World Freerunning & Parkour Federation.com ::".
  16. ↑ "Storm Freerun - Purple".
  17. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztRzTsl4y7I
  18. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TW2sw9MTYDQ
  19. ↑ https://twitter.com/humantimothy/status/785749820912787456
  20. ↑ https://twitter.com/HumanTimothy/status/412049463889633280
  21. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zx6OtE0ePFc
  22. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oShghC8kvwA
  23. ↑ https://twitter.com/HumanTimothy/status/1031267355257724928
  24. ↑ Baggoley C (2015). "Review of the Australian Government Rebate on Natural Therapies for Private Health Insurance" (PDF). Australian Government – Department of Health. pp. 16, 19, 125–8. Lay summary – Gavura, S. Australian review finds no benefit to 17 natural therapies. Science-Based Medicine. (19 November 2015).
  25. ↑ Hockenbury, Don H.; Hockenbury, Sandra E. (2003). Psychology. Worth Publishers. p. 96. ISBN 0-7167-5129-1.
  26. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjGSBbnKngg&feature=youtu.be&a=
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