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December 9, 2006

Turn Your Body Into a Massive Weapon

Paul and Craig Pumphrey have built there careers breaking stuff. The two brothers are Breaking Technique Experts who hold five world records for outrageous feats of strength.

Fight Science used an accelerometer from their car crash labs to measure the amount of striking force each of these men have, and what you’ll see is amazing. Each of them are able to generate over 2000 pounds of striking force, which is equivalent to a 35mph car slamming into a brick wall!

This type of hard body training isn’t new. The Chinese were doing it thousands of years ago, back at the Shaolin Temple. What is new, is the ability to finally measure the exact amount of force that’s generated by a trained martial artist.

Wolff’s Law explains why ordinary human bones don’t shatter under such extreme force – “If loading on a particular bone increases, the bone will remodel itself over time to become stronger to resist that sort of loading.”

This is just one part of the complete Fight Science series, that airs on National Geographic.

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  • heartofjosh

    Damn, that’s just insane! I hope I’m never on the receiving end of one of their fists. :P

  • madray

    That’s some crazy *hit!

  • rbx6jm7man

    ^amen to both of those comments. that’s just freaky *hite!

  • phanguy

    he could be rhino for the next spider-man movie.

  • vm3z9

    looks like i found my two bodyguards.

  • JwKuo87

    ^you’d better hope they don’t get pissed over their salary or something :p

  • beni

    thats dragonball z right there

  • http://www.myspace.com/bouney b0unce

    lol thats crazy

  • http://www.ndstyles.com/ ndstyles

    Man that’s crazy. Just imagine if you could deliver a single blow to someone who is messing with you. Instant murder!

  • http://www.gamedudex.com GameDudeX

    Ha-do-ken!

  • haz

    wow that guy’s elbow more than three times powerful compared to the hammer

  • jules

    I want that kinda power!

  • http://www.erapo.szm.sk Lenka

    magic elbow, i am close to crying when a hit to door, and this? madness

  • David

    Reminds me of the show special, Xtreme Martial Arts. Time to start training :)

    Can’t wait to watch it on today,

  • beni

    I saw the full show, there are guys stronger then these two, its intense

  • Dexter Kanuto

    Well the power comes from the person’s chi. Well the chi is centered in central part of the human body, just right below your tummy’s navel. This chi is like an aura that grows on the balance of good and evil. As you can see the power exerted by the person, he used his chi likely and carefully. Chi is very much different from your soul. It’s a gift. Chi is exerted and is regenerated once it’s been used. So as long as you live, Chi’s with you all along. Chi is not just located in humans but all around us. It binds us with this infinite source of power. Chi for some is the illumination of oneself.

  • Maurice

    Yah, Yah, Yah… Aura.. Hehehe

  • http://www.myspace.com/tummie tummie

    that fuckin some crazy shit.

  • Craigpnapd

    These guy’s also do breaking & grappling seminars and you need to see this *hit in real life…go to http://www.lucentrocks.com. Tey are for reallllllllll!!!!

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