This section lists contact information for whip crackers across Canada. If someone is listed in this section, it means they would love to talk about, teach, or practice whip cracking with you!
If you’d like to be listed in this section, e-mail Info@CanadaWhips.ca with your name, area, social media/website, and a little bit about yourself!
Alberta
Miranda Allen – Edmonton, AB.
Commonly performing as her alter ego “Tianna the Traveller“, Miranda Allen is a Canadian actor, escape artist, and whip cracker. She studied at the Moscow Art Theatre School and holds a BFA in Acting. She has performed at the Rio Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, the Glastonbury Festival of Performing Arts, AMA Resorts, and once in an empty fountain in Stockholm.
Jeremie Matte (House Of The Whip) – Edmonton, AB.
Maker and seller of nylon whips and accessories.
Kobe Schmidt – Drayton Valley, AB.
A nylon paracord whip maker out of Alberta, Canda!
Desmond Martin – Calgary, AB.
A nylon whip maker specializing in pattern work, rainbows, and multi tailed whips.
British Columbia
Brian Ziros – Victoria, B.C.
A talented whip artist since 2006 that has taught classes and put on double fire whip shows.
Newfoundland & Labrador
Jaxon Roswell – Newfoundland, NL
A whip cracker who has been learning new ways to build and crack whips since 2017.
Ontario
Justin Bereczki – London, ON.
Avid whip cracker and whip educator for more than ten years. Administrator of CanadaWhips.com.
Contact for lessons and instruction!
Maya Hall – Toronto, ON.
Competent whip maker, whip cracker, and fire arts performer.
Caleb Kachkowski-Ford Ajax ON.
A Toronto circus artist who built a wide variety of whips since 2016. Caleb was entirely self taught until he met Justin Bereczki in 2019 and fell in love with double stockwhips. His goal is to increase his whipcracking repertoire and learn how to combine it with his acrobatic and tumbling abilities. Alongside whipcracking, Caleb loves gymnastics, martial arts, video games, aerial straps, 3D printing and golf.
Gianni Piccin – Brampton, ON.
A young whip maker, whip cracker, and woodworker from Brampton, Ontario. You can find Gianni on Instagram, Facebook, and his website: giannipiccin.com
Dijon Van Boom (Gravvyty Whips) – Toronto, ON.
A passionate whip cracker and professional whip maker for more than two decades.
Chris Weiler – Whitby, ON.
Started whip cracking in the summer of 2016 when his friend decided to make his own bullwhip. Since then Chris has made 7 or 8 bullwhips. Besides whip cracking, Chris does lots of random things like gymnastics, soccer, card magic, rubik’s cube, juggling, aerial circus, video games, and etc. He’s the kind of person that’ll try anything once.
Quebec
Daniel Corbeil – Montreal, QC.
A dedicated whip cracker who trains every day and is focussed on perfecting his technique.
illuzaö – Montréal, QC.
Marie-Christine Simoneau is a sprawling circus artist who navigates between whips, stilts, puppets, object manipulation and special effects. She weaves links between movement, science, aesthetics, chaos and freedom, with the aim of obtaining evocative poetry and cultivating the marvelous. She performs with proficiency in single and double handed whip cracking and likes to intertwine the fierce and delicate side of whip cracking. Her whip research Fouet et Fascination is in progerss at the moment supported by Canada Council for the Arts and Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec.
Sonia Legault (La Dame de Feu) – Montreal, QC.
A professional whip cracker and fire performer with proficiency in single and double handed whip cracking, as well as fire whip cracking!
Coralie Roberge – Laval, QC.
A professional performer/contortionist who regularly practices whip cracking and combines it with contortion.
Shena Tschofen – Montreal, QC.
Heavily influenced by her contemporary dance background, Shena is a circus artist specializing in cyr wheel and lasso, and also works as a professional musician. She’s picked up some whip-cracking skills through lasso-related contracts.
Franco Zoccali – Montreal, QC.
Whip cracker and immensely talented whip maker, specializing in kangaroo leather bullwhips.
Saskatchewan
Michael John Tyance – Regina, SK.
A talented whip cracker who excels at two handed Australian style routines.