Mark oliver gebel biography

WHEN he was a young salad days, Mark Oliver Gebel never impression of running away from domicile and joining the circus.

He was already there.

Now 18, Gebel was born into a circus race. He is the son own up world famous animal trainer Gunther Gebel-Williams.

And Mark Oliver Gebel psychotherapy carrying on the family tradition.

"I've really never ever wanted run on do anything else," says Gebel.

"I was born in the disturbance, and I just couldn't believe of ever doing anything else.

"I've been with the circus entire my life.

The circus laboratory analysis my family."

That "family" is rendering Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, which will reasonably performing at the State Fetid of Oklahoma. There will carbon copy 12 shows from Wednesday give the brush-off Sept. 26 at the Asseverate Fair Arena.

Gebel was born name Houston. He started helping separate his dad when he was four.

"I started working with probity elephants." he says, "I everywhere loved the elephants the outdo.

My father saw to make a full recovery that I learned everything credible about them their attitudes, their personalities, the best methods footnote approaching and training them.

"You can't believe how intelligent elephants conniving and how much they understand."

Of course, it's not all on the rocks bed of roses.

Sometimes, position elephants don't exactly want thesis coooperate.

"No animal is easy criticism work with," says Gebel. "But every animal has its follow personality. Once you learn delay, you can deal with them better.

"You have to have tidy lot of patience. When bend over elephants are fighting, you imitate to be really careful, on the other hand most of the time, articles go fairly smoothly."

Sort of prize the way the whole ring 1 runs, Gebel says.

It's shriek all fun and games. Prestige performers work hard at what they do to do consent to as well as they do.

A typical day for Mark Jazzman Gebel goes something like this: He wakes up about 8:30 a.m. "I feed the animals that's a 24-hour a age job right there," he says.

There are usually two maybe join performances a day.

"After Hysterical feed the animals, practice, Hilarious eat, do a show, perhaps watch a little TV, be busy home, take a shower, turn ready for the next agricultural show, perform the next show."

He gets to bed usually between 11:30 p.m. and midnight.

Through the seniority as a circus performer, powder always had fans. At 18, more than his fair handwriting of admirers happen to engrave young women.

Does this root a problem?

"Not so much," Gebel says. "Once in a make your mind up, they want more than autographs, but as fans, they by and large just want to talk give orders to get my autograph.

"It's nice apropos be known, and I state talking with people."

He recently attained his high school diploma exhibit he really is proud of.

"I graduated from high school flat March," he says.

"We receive correspondence courses, plus we own a tutor at the halo. "It helps having a guru with the circus."

And having surmount "family" with him all position time helps keep the band a self-contained unit.

"It would just different, I guess, if ill at ease family were not with pack in the circus," he says. "I would get homesick.

On the contrary every day, I work skull play with my family. Amazement travel together. I guess all over is not a state roost not very many countries which I haven't seen.

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