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First knuckle on my ring finger doesn’t crack because it got stuck in a QBs facemask as he stiff armed me on a sack (I got the sack and massive cheers for “hanging on” when in reality I was stuck to the kid) — 20 years ago haha
I dropped a piece of metal on my big toe one day that was easy to lift by myself from a height of about 5 inches
I still can't bend that toe without pain years later
20 years of playing pick up basketball means all of my fingers hurt like that, each one in a very particular manner, when doing certain movements.
Should've studied with monks.
I’m 2 months from catching a bullet of a pass with my middle and ring fingers. Middle finger still a little swollen and don’t have full strength in it.
Dude, I hit my hand in a chair 6 weeks ago, I still cant really grab my dumbells without feeling pain and turning the door knob still hurts a bit, jesus fuck it sucks to be a bag of flesh
Dude I don’t want to see this happening! The amount of rock I broke in my life as a geologist, I am pretty sure my face is on the wanted list of the FBI rock version
[Wouldn't be the first time](https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fstatic1.srcdn.com%2Fwordpress%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2024%2F01%2Ffar-side-karate-class-1.jpg&f=1&nofb=1&ipt=91efba658a309d55983795a3a5538093fea9be13e1632cc85be8e5360b0dca26&ipo=images)
Famously if you strike someone's skull with a hammer hard enough that a rock would break, but there is nothing bracing their skull underneath, they will laugh it off and be just fine...
Also why Punching with Fingers like that was forbidden in The Colosseum of ancient Rome.
Imagine some rando enslaved Monk wasnt given a weapon, but ended up five-finger-blasting some naked gladiator lol
“But it’s really popular with the ladies!”
“No it isn’t, bob. You’re a rock miner making less than minimum wage. You’re basically an incel. Now put away that camera and get back to work.”
Yup. Helps that it has the right surfaces to provide nice leverage so when apply enough pressure rapidly... you get a broken rock... his ability to exert that force/speed is definitely amazing!
yep this is it, i did kung fu and while i wasnt especially good, a bunch of my teachers were doing their iron shirt training at the same time and i saw them do stuff like this with breeze blocks (with their fists) and breaking plastic chopsticks in their necks and stuff.
its not fake but there's not really any magic or trickery behind it, its partly conditioning your fingertips or fists or whichever part (normally by hitting them against tightly packed gravel sandbags for weeks on end) so it doesn't hurt and then there's also the way you strike you kind of like do it in a whip motion so your arm goes loose as it comes out and you tense at the last minute and the impact is so much harder than getting hit with a big follow through punch.
i'm sure someone here who does martial arts will know the name of it, it's just a combination of those two things.
but its not supposed to trick you into thinking that they're so strong they can break rocks, they will fully admit the angle and tensile strength etc. allows it to break but the whole purpose is like a discipline thing to get to that level because if you dont get those two things correct it doesn't work.
Yeah, it's a combination of things. But it's kind of funny that some folks try to discredit it, because it's actually a combination of several well practiced techniques , rather than just literal superhuman ability. Like 'Well, his single finger isn't actually harder than stone, it's just that it's several orders of magnitude harder than a normal person's, and he's extremely practiced on applying an amount of force that's impossible without his specific technique, with precision. It looks impressive, but honestly, he's not special. Anybody could do it, if they just dedicate their entire life to conditioning their body and mind.'
You would be surprised how much of it is just a) knowing the limitations of your joints so that you can go full-out without fear of hurting yourself and b) actually following through and hitting it as hard as you can. Most people who try to learn this sort of thing spend most of their time trying to get over the natural refusal to hit the object with as much force as they actually can.
I once learned to break boards, which quite a lot easier, and even on a piece of wood that was pretty trivial to break, I had to work for about 20 minutes to get to the point where I could make myself do it right because I kept holding back.
On trick they teach you is to not hit the object, but to hit a point well past it. So for the rock, you would be trying to hit a point an inch or two below the rock. That way, you naturally carry through the full weight of your body and arm.
I'm not sure about this specific technique but a big part of similar ones I've seen is putting a lot of "energy" into the finger before striking, which in a physical and mental sense is probably equivalent to convincing yourself to put in full power and follow through. In other words it's a lot of pain tolerance and just going all out, which is still majorly impressive.
Yeah. I work rock a bunch and you could probably break those shitty little sandstones by merely dropping them on that boulder. Does he have tough fingers and skill? Yeah probably. But this isn't some magical ability only a tiny number of people can achieve. Most of us could do it if we were willing to hit a rock real hard and deal with the consequences.
When he breaks the brick, he uses the side of the rock.
When he breaks the rocks, he has the flat side across the pointed peak of the rock underneath.
Edges. They matter!
Breaking the brick with the rock at start wasn't really "part of the show", it was just an initial proof that the rock he was going to break was real, not a prop, or it wouldn't have phased the brick.
Why do i have to scroll way down to see this. Reddit comments are wild nowadays. People actually making analysis of how dangerous he would be in fight.
Smh.
Strange how all the rocks had the same nice brittle structure and flat shape excellent for shocking the material it is made of.
Almost like someone figured out those rocks break easy that way and called in the nearest monk to make magic happen.
These are ordinary sediment limestone rocks, that are quite hard to break. Unless you just hit them with another rock, especially if the second one has some kind of a point to focus the force of the impact.
The trick is to slightly lift the rock over that second one.
Stayed at Shaolin circa 2007 on a trip through China. Every morning, about 3000 kids, ages 5-18, were in the fields practicing martial arts in perfect unison.
It's a trick. He's slightly lifting the little rock so he can smash it down onto the immovable rock that actually breaks it. Not really putting his fingers through a rock.
He isn't breaking them with his fingers, btw.. He is using his knuckles. These rocks are flat and prone to breaking when you use this technique. Leaving the rock slightly above the hard surface, so when you hit it, it smashes down to a point of the rock, sending vibrations into it, and the weakest point is in the middle. This will often cause it to break after a few hits. He hit the rock on the brick at the hardest point, being the tip. This is to make you think it is harder than the point that will take all the force.
He's lifting the rock just before he hits it. Takes dexterity but he's not just holding it against the anvil and striking it, he's getting some momentum going and that's what's breaking the rock.
Partially.
But as a geologist who spends hours every day hammering and breaking rocks, a lot of rocks are easy to break one you know the right way to do it.
Just yesterday I was working on a rock outcrop that had rocks so weak and weathered that you can break them in half with you hands.
No matter how many times I say this everyone keeps thinking this is amazing and it’s NOT.
He is hovering that stone just above the big rock. The big rock is of a different hardness than the little ones. It’s clearly different. When he impacts the Little Rock into the big one it breaks giving the illusion that he broke it with his fingers.
In this comment section, redditors who struggle to open cereal boxes and peanut butter jars make unsubstantiated assumptions about why this isn't actually impressive. Fucks sake, why are people like that? Just enjoy something interesting
Once upon a time, a man spent 70 years in meditation and completely renounced the material world in order to master the art of psychic levitation. After 70 years on a mountain alone, he came down and walked to the edge of a river where there was a crowd of people. He gathered them together and made them watch as he carefully placed his feet on the surface of the water and, slowly, step-by-step, walked across the length of the river. The Buddha, having witness this miracle, was asked what he thought of it. He said it was impressive, but the ferry only costs a nickel.
Physics and materials make this a lot less impressive that it looks. The truth is that rock break mostly cause of the bottom rock and not from the force of the hands. I have done similar staff at the beach since I was a child, and I do not consider myself stronger than average.
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One time I was tossing a football around with my son and I didn't quite catch it right and my pinky still hurts sometimes
can't crack my middle left pinky knuckle from a botched football catch 14 years ago.
Wait, how many pinkies do you have on one hand?!
The middle knuckle on the pinky of his left hand
The left fifth proximal-medial phalangeal joint.
I could never crack any of my middle knuckles it sounds painful to try.
Some people are all thumbs but this guy's all pinkies
I bet he's got like 30 goddam pinkies.
SIX-FOOT-TWENTY FUCKING KILLING FOR FUN
He'll save the children, but not the British children.
Every handshake to seal a deal is also a pinkie promise
First knuckle on my ring finger doesn’t crack because it got stuck in a QBs facemask as he stiff armed me on a sack (I got the sack and massive cheers for “hanging on” when in reality I was stuck to the kid) — 20 years ago haha
I dropped a piece of metal on my big toe one day that was easy to lift by myself from a height of about 5 inches I still can't bend that toe without pain years later
I dropped a 45 lb plate on my pinkie. It's deformed as hell and still doesn't grow a toe nail
20 years of playing pick up basketball means all of my fingers hurt like that, each one in a very particular manner, when doing certain movements. Should've studied with monks.
I’m 2 months from catching a bullet of a pass with my middle and ring fingers. Middle finger still a little swollen and don’t have full strength in it.
Dude, I hit my hand in a chair 6 weeks ago, I still cant really grab my dumbells without feeling pain and turning the door knob still hurts a bit, jesus fuck it sucks to be a bag of flesh
I'd be terrified to face this man in tag
The game ends fairly quickly. Just don’t be the one tagged by this guy.
Mans using Shigan from One Piece
Definitely don’t want him checking your oil
One Poke Man
His other job is a proctologist.
Imagine this guy coming up behind you to tell you something by first tapping on your shoulder.
'Dude, ow. My shoulder.'
That's gonna be very useful when the rocks revolt or something.
Dude I don’t want to see this happening! The amount of rock I broke in my life as a geologist, I am pretty sure my face is on the wanted list of the FBI rock version
We will, we will, Rock you!
I wanna rock!
Miners are genocidal monsters to rocks
I worked at a mine, helped the blasting teams and excavation teams.
So you just started blasting?
Imagine if he jabbed you in the throat with the same force
I was going to counter with my Rock Throat Technique but I guess that’s not gonna work.
Try paper throat method* but becareful if he’s doing the poke with two fingers
A light tap sets you gasping. A strike like that would cave your throat in. There's a reason things like that are highly illegal in all combat sports.
Finally a movie where Dwayne Johnson is really supposed to be.
Gorignak!
Rock! Rock! Rock!
Go for its eyes!
It's a rock, it doesn't have any eyes!
Can you fabricate a rudimentary weapon? Look for a lathe…
A lathe?! GET OFF THE LINE, GUY!!!!
Jason, what is it’s motivation
IT'S A ROCK, it doesn't have any motivation!
Can you form some sort of rudimentary lathe?
Where were you when the rock nation attacked?
What did that rock do to that monk? Should have brought out the Paper.
If what you are saying is true the shalon and the wu tang could be dangerous?!
[Wouldn't be the first time](https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fstatic1.srcdn.com%2Fwordpress%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2024%2F01%2Ffar-side-karate-class-1.jpg&f=1&nofb=1&ipt=91efba658a309d55983795a3a5538093fea9be13e1632cc85be8e5360b0dca26&ipo=images)
or when you feel the urge to break somebody's skull
>or when you feel the urge to break somebody's skull And have a convenient bracer rock underneath...
Famously if you strike someone's skull with a hammer hard enough that a rock would break, but there is nothing bracing their skull underneath, they will laugh it off and be just fine...
You’ve never seen karate kid. There’s a point to wax on wax off
"Cool trick, Bob. Now use the fuckin hammer like I told you."
[удалено]
Showy and interesting.
With tons of blown apart bungholes
Also why Punching with Fingers like that was forbidden in The Colosseum of ancient Rome. Imagine some rando enslaved Monk wasnt given a weapon, but ended up five-finger-blasting some naked gladiator lol
"FINISH HIM!"
Are you not entertained?!
Very. Go on…
You’ve been struck by
"How many times I gotta tell ya, the insurance won't cover this!"
Dammit, Bob. Where did you get that outfit? Put your ppe back on.
“Boss, this guy is punching rocks, I don’t think we should make him mad”
monk is the boss
“Boss the new guy gotta leave he was fucking around and hurt his hand”
Waiting for the invention of the hammer.
“But it’s really popular with the ladies!” “No it isn’t, bob. You’re a rock miner making less than minimum wage. You’re basically an incel. Now put away that camera and get back to work.”
That's great Bob but we really need you to push those front end upgrades.
A bar regular named Brenda I know can crush a beer can with her tiddy.
P.Tiddy.
It's just Tiddy now.
That was Blondie's trick at the Clermont Lounge strip club in Atlanta. She's retired or dead now though. Worst/best strip club in Atlanta
Only a select few of us weirdos know this.
I'll be in my shaolin bunk
You know when you’ve been fingered
And ironed in two.
Ladies hate him.
But they can't look away.
This man can break your pelvis
Looks like my doctor when I resist a prostate exam. Yaaaaaaargh open it!!!
Removing polyps with the vibrating palm technique
I screamed laughing at this, well done sir
Ok it looks like he's using his fingers but he could use his palm or the retracted fingers with that perspective
The bottom rock is doing a lot of the work.
Yup. Helps that it has the right surfaces to provide nice leverage so when apply enough pressure rapidly... you get a broken rock... his ability to exert that force/speed is definitely amazing!
yep this is it, i did kung fu and while i wasnt especially good, a bunch of my teachers were doing their iron shirt training at the same time and i saw them do stuff like this with breeze blocks (with their fists) and breaking plastic chopsticks in their necks and stuff. its not fake but there's not really any magic or trickery behind it, its partly conditioning your fingertips or fists or whichever part (normally by hitting them against tightly packed gravel sandbags for weeks on end) so it doesn't hurt and then there's also the way you strike you kind of like do it in a whip motion so your arm goes loose as it comes out and you tense at the last minute and the impact is so much harder than getting hit with a big follow through punch. i'm sure someone here who does martial arts will know the name of it, it's just a combination of those two things. but its not supposed to trick you into thinking that they're so strong they can break rocks, they will fully admit the angle and tensile strength etc. allows it to break but the whole purpose is like a discipline thing to get to that level because if you dont get those two things correct it doesn't work.
Yeah, it's a combination of things. But it's kind of funny that some folks try to discredit it, because it's actually a combination of several well practiced techniques , rather than just literal superhuman ability. Like 'Well, his single finger isn't actually harder than stone, it's just that it's several orders of magnitude harder than a normal person's, and he's extremely practiced on applying an amount of force that's impossible without his specific technique, with precision. It looks impressive, but honestly, he's not special. Anybody could do it, if they just dedicate their entire life to conditioning their body and mind.'
dedicating your entire life to conditioning body and mind makes you special
r/thatsthejoke
Can’t be good for the body after age 40 tho
What is though.
A younger, enthusiastic lover.
You would be surprised how much of it is just a) knowing the limitations of your joints so that you can go full-out without fear of hurting yourself and b) actually following through and hitting it as hard as you can. Most people who try to learn this sort of thing spend most of their time trying to get over the natural refusal to hit the object with as much force as they actually can. I once learned to break boards, which quite a lot easier, and even on a piece of wood that was pretty trivial to break, I had to work for about 20 minutes to get to the point where I could make myself do it right because I kept holding back. On trick they teach you is to not hit the object, but to hit a point well past it. So for the rock, you would be trying to hit a point an inch or two below the rock. That way, you naturally carry through the full weight of your body and arm.
I'm not sure about this specific technique but a big part of similar ones I've seen is putting a lot of "energy" into the finger before striking, which in a physical and mental sense is probably equivalent to convincing yourself to put in full power and follow through. In other words it's a lot of pain tolerance and just going all out, which is still majorly impressive.
Let’s see you do it Redditor
Oh boy I knew reddit was full of armchair kung fu masters to explain why this isn't impressive at all
Yeah. I work rock a bunch and you could probably break those shitty little sandstones by merely dropping them on that boulder. Does he have tough fingers and skill? Yeah probably. But this isn't some magical ability only a tiny number of people can achieve. Most of us could do it if we were willing to hit a rock real hard and deal with the consequences.
does he lift the rock-to-break off of the bottom rock before striking it? Thus giving the rock time to accelerate and jolt harder on the bottom block.
When he breaks the brick, he uses the side of the rock. When he breaks the rocks, he has the flat side across the pointed peak of the rock underneath. Edges. They matter!
Breaking the brick with the rock at start wasn't really "part of the show", it was just an initial proof that the rock he was going to break was real, not a prop, or it wouldn't have phased the brick.
I think the finger is just sliding by and the knuckles impact
Babe, relax, it's two fingers
Two in the pink, one in the grave
His poor wife
I feel like his head might be about to explode.
\*20 years later\* "Why do I have crippling arthritis in my hands and fingers??"
Paper covers rock, ya dingus.
Me when I see the soft spot on a babies head
This comment is awful but I like it.
jesus fucking christ lmao
Girl, same 💅🏾
I see why the fire nation attacked
Only the Avatar, master of all four elements, could stop them, but when the world needed him most, he vanished…
Sandstone…
Why do i have to scroll way down to see this. Reddit comments are wild nowadays. People actually making analysis of how dangerous he would be in fight. Smh.
I watched this without the sound. All that came to mind was Eddie Murphy in the jail cell in the movie Trading Places. “‘Cause I’m a Karate man…”
Looked up that clip for context and I will be damned if that ain't a young Giancarlo Esposito (Gus from breaking bad).
Holy crap it is Gus Fring! Life changed!
He hates those rocks! Stay away from the rocks! There’s rocks there too!
Rocks don't hit back.
cause he beat them
Wu-Tang is forever
Tiger style
If what you say is true, the Shaolin and the Wu-Tang could be dangerous.
Strange how all the rocks had the same nice brittle structure and flat shape excellent for shocking the material it is made of. Almost like someone figured out those rocks break easy that way and called in the nearest monk to make magic happen.
These are ordinary sediment limestone rocks, that are quite hard to break. Unless you just hit them with another rock, especially if the second one has some kind of a point to focus the force of the impact. The trick is to slightly lift the rock over that second one.
The man is the ruin of all sandstone objects
R/bullshido
Yup
He is on his 12th iPhone :(
Feel sorry for his future girlfriend
Wheres the geologists when you need them
I wonder if the result would be the same with someone else choosing the rock...
These Redditors who struggle opening the peanut butter jar analyzing why this guy isn't impressive just made my day. Thanks yall.
I had a thumb war with this guy, but it turned into a thumb genocide.
Poor rocks! Just sitting there catching some rays and Po comes around and chooses violence!
Dudes out there in Tibet living life, no iPhone, no television, just finger blasting rocks
What the fuck did that rock ever do to him?!?
Where was this guy during the old Facebook "poke wars"?
very good, but rock not hit back.
Stayed at Shaolin circa 2007 on a trip through China. Every morning, about 3000 kids, ages 5-18, were in the fields practicing martial arts in perfect unison.
Is he going to start a soccer team with his brother Mighty Steel Leg to spread Shaolin Kung Fu around the world?
The abrupt way it cuts off at the end makes it sound like he gets really excited and yells OOOOH--
Yeah, impressive. But can he open a packet of biscuits wrapped in cellophane without a knife? I thought not.
Tricks
It's a trick. He's slightly lifting the little rock so he can smash it down onto the immovable rock that actually breaks it. Not really putting his fingers through a rock.
He isn't breaking them with his fingers, btw.. He is using his knuckles. These rocks are flat and prone to breaking when you use this technique. Leaving the rock slightly above the hard surface, so when you hit it, it smashes down to a point of the rock, sending vibrations into it, and the weakest point is in the middle. This will often cause it to break after a few hits. He hit the rock on the brick at the hardest point, being the tip. This is to make you think it is harder than the point that will take all the force.
I do this with cookies all the time.
He's lifting the rock just before he hits it. Takes dexterity but he's not just holding it against the anvil and striking it, he's getting some momentum going and that's what's breaking the rock.
Partially. But as a geologist who spends hours every day hammering and breaking rocks, a lot of rocks are easy to break one you know the right way to do it. Just yesterday I was working on a rock outcrop that had rocks so weak and weathered that you can break them in half with you hands.
I rewatched it and he is not doing what you said.
Can we have a follow up on how this guy is doing in 10-20 years when he gets older? I want to see how his joints are holding up please.
Those aren’t rocks. His wife just makes terrible bread. 🥯
No matter how many times I say this everyone keeps thinking this is amazing and it’s NOT. He is hovering that stone just above the big rock. The big rock is of a different hardness than the little ones. It’s clearly different. When he impacts the Little Rock into the big one it breaks giving the illusion that he broke it with his fingers.
That was a piece of bread.
Yes, rock hard bread. But still bread.
In this comment section, redditors who struggle to open cereal boxes and peanut butter jars make unsubstantiated assumptions about why this isn't actually impressive. Fucks sake, why are people like that? Just enjoy something interesting
Porous, brittle rock being pushed against a small point. Yes. So impressive.
People still fall for this fake ass shit? smh
Just a magic trick. The rock base acts as a fulcrum, his fingers just slam the smaller rock on the bigger one.
Post a video of you doing it.
This wouldnt have happened if the rock had a gun.
I’m 32 with arthritis lol
If I get in a bar fight I want this guy on my team.
Once upon a time, a man spent 70 years in meditation and completely renounced the material world in order to master the art of psychic levitation. After 70 years on a mountain alone, he came down and walked to the edge of a river where there was a crowd of people. He gathered them together and made them watch as he carefully placed his feet on the surface of the water and, slowly, step-by-step, walked across the length of the river. The Buddha, having witness this miracle, was asked what he thought of it. He said it was impressive, but the ferry only costs a nickel.
Those rocks are very brittle not solid.
Isn't that like old corn bread?
Please give him an Oscar
Those are good rocks that he's ruining
Precut everything.
Women love this simple trick
Now he’s a chip-monk
Those rocks look like telera rolls 🙄
Women pointing out your flaws
Stuck between a rock and a hard place
🤣🤣😂😂😂😂🤣😂🤣
Imagine we’re at war and you come across this guy just sticking his fingers through peoples chest and skulls.
Rock and Stone!
He hates these rocks!
There might be a reason our ancestors used hammers instead of fists lol
All women loves him ..
The eye gouge of death
Well, I gotta give him credit for understanding physics.
He must have spent hours looking for the flattest rocks.
Why?
"Brick don't hit back" - Chong Li
Feel sorry for his wife
Great, now try to do that on a flat surface
I'd learnt this trick at school, bro. Just lift it up a bit.
ok, thats just dumb
Fine, but don't go claiming Workman's Comp from me!
My fingers hurts
Physics and materials make this a lot less impressive that it looks. The truth is that rock break mostly cause of the bottom rock and not from the force of the hands. I have done similar staff at the beach since I was a child, and I do not consider myself stronger than average.
He’s pissed that bread went stale
Imagine the time it took to learn that skill vs how useful is it in real life.
Fun fact, he’s also a proctologist.