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Nasal tire-inflating qigong

Just when you think you’ve seen all the qigong stunts…

This will blow your mind! Incredible footage shows Kung Fu fan inflating a car tyre using his NOSE

A man showcased his unique talent to pump up a flat tyre by his nose in China
He blew the air through a long rubber pipeline and filled up the tyre in minutes
He claimed to learn this by himself and has been practising for 10 years

By Tiffany Lo For Mailonline
PUBLISHED: 11:24 EST, 7 March 2017 | UPDATED: 11:30 EST, 7 March 2017

This party trick could come in handy if you find yourself landed with a tyre blowout in the middle of nowhere.

Newly surfaced footage shows a man with bizarre ability to inflate a tyre by his nose in the city of Xi’an in northwestern China.

Onlookers are shocked to see him put a tube in his nostril and blow air to inflate the rubber ring in just a matter of minutes.

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Tong Junhai claimed to learn this special talent by himself and has been practising for 10 years


A game of nose: Tong put the pipeline into his nostril and positioned to a half-squat pose

The video was taken in Huancheng Park where a ‘team of talent’ showcased their unique skills in front of the public on February 25.

Tong Junhai, 44, boasted to have a massive lung capacity, so much so that he can inflate a car tyre with a few blows of his nostrils.

One member of the public did not believe him and attempted to try it himself by using his mouth.

However, he swiftly failed to inflate the ring.


Tong performed in a talent show in a local park last month - to inflate a car tyre by his nose


Before: The flat tyre is connected to a rubber pipeline, allowing Tong to put it in his nostril


After: Tong discovered his special talent when he did a physical checkup in school

Tong, dressed in a traditional kung fu outfit, then showed off his capabilities and put the pipe to his nose.

He set himself to a half-squat position and blocked one of his nostrils with his thumb.

Taking a deep breath and blowing all of the air out through his nostril and into the pipe, the tyre slowly started to inflate.


The video showed the special talent Tong has, drawing audiences gathering around to watch


The audience could not believe their eyes as the car tyre went from flat to pumped up

Tong told Anhui Television that he discovered his huge lung capacity during a physical checkup at school.

‘My PE teacher got scared and when I get older, I saw people using their noses to inflate a tyre. Maybe I can try it out too?’ he said.

He taught himself and has been practising for 10 years after his failed business.

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Wth!?!?!

Just when you thought you’ve seen everything…

//youtu.be/h7zHY0Pp330

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:confused: :eek: :smiley:

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Well, that’s super practical…

You’ll have to follow the link to see the embedded vid.

SPOILER The extinguishing pipe is a fire hose. One of the 7 people is a kid and another is a baby. END SPOILER

Kung fu master inflates balloons through extinguishing pipe
Duration: 01:23 6 hrs ago

An impressive video has emerged a kung fu master inflating ballons until they burst through an fire extinguishing pipe. The footage, captured in Meishan, Sichuan Province on May 30, shows the man blowing through an extinguishing pipe while seven people stand on it to make the balloons at the other burst.

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Wu Song

We almost ran an image of the snake-through-nose trick on our cover many years ago. It would’ve been eye-catching for sure. We didn’t go with it, but used the image in our DVD Extreme Kung Fu Qigong. You can see it on that cover, right over the word ‘DON’T’

Snakes alive! Kung fu master shows off his creepy skills by pulling a venomous serpent through his mouth and nose

Kung Fu master Wu Song showed off his snake charming talents in Chendu
He pulled a snake through his mouth and nose and lifted buckets with his eyelids
Said he began practicing at 12 years-old and was taught by several masters
Mr Song now hopes in his future that his son will master the same talents

By Rachael Burford For Mailonline
PUBLISHED: 10:48 EDT, 20 June 2017 | UPDATED: 11:01 EDT, 20 June 2017

A Kung Fu master has shown off the stomach churning skills he has been practicing since he was a child.

Wu Song, from Chengdu, China, appears to be able to charm snakes to slither through his nose and mouth and carry buckets of water with his eyelids.

A creepy video, filmed on June 19, shows him casually pulling the small serpent through one nostril and out of his mouth.


Wu Song, from Chengdu, China, appears to be able to charm snakes to slither through his nose and mouth

Mr Song said he began practicing the strange skill at the age of 12, but did not say how old he is now.

He claimed several Kung Fu masters taught him how to train the ‘venomous’ serpent as a child.

‘This snake is a poisonous snake, the biggest difficulty is to tame it,’ he said.

‘Snakes will judge everything with their sense of smell, it is difficult for it to get used to my smell.’


The Kung Fu master showed off his stomach churning skills in Chengdu, China on Monday


Mr Song is also able lift heavy objects, such as buckets of water, using only hooks hanging from his eyelids

Mr Song’s odd talents don’t stop at snake charming. He is also able to lift heavy objects, such as buckets of water, using only hooks hanging from his eyelids.

He now hopes that his son, Xiao Yong, will train as a Kung Fu master. However, Xiao was not enthusiastic about going into training.

He said: ‘Ordinary people cannot do it. In order to inherit the techniques, I should practice a lot. To be honest, it makes me really uncomfortable.’


Mr Song said he began practicing his strange skill set at the age of 12

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More on Wu Song

You gotta follow the link for the vid. This guy has it going on. :eek:

‘Kung-fu master’ carries buckets with his eye sockets while playing instrument through his
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Incredibly bizarre footage of a “kung-fu master” in China carrying buckets of water by attaching them to his eye sockets, while playing some kind of musical instrument through his nose at the same time. The video, filmed in Chengdu, Sichuan Province on June 10, shows the man - named Wu Song - attaching the buckets to his eyes by metal hooks, before smoking two cigarettes and playing a Chinese instrument called a Suona through his nose.

I think this is Wu Song too, just misspelled by the reporter - sloppy considering the hero that the name Wu Song evokes. :roll eyes:

Kung fu master puts hooks in eye sockets to pull three people on a cart
15:00, Sat 10th June 2017
Wuhou Qu, Sichuan Sheng
wclxtx says:
Newsflare says:
A bizarre video has emerged of a kung fu master pulling three people on a cart using hooks lodged in his eye sockets. In the footage, captured in Chengdu, Sichuan Province on June 10, the man called Wu Yong pulls the cart for five metres.

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Cao Yanyou

This is one of those ‘I’d have to see the wrench in person’ deals. If it was a cheap China-made wrench, it probably wasn’t too hard. But if it’s a hardened steel wrench, it would be impressive. Gotta give him cred for doing it backhand at least.

There’s a vid behind the link.

Man uses kung fu to straighten bent wrench in China
By Ben Hooper | Aug. 25, 2017 at 2:13 PM

Aug. 25 (UPI) – A kung fu practitioner in China showed off his skills with an unusual stunt – using strikes from his bare hand to straighten a bent wrench.

The video filmed Aug. 13 in Lianyungang, Jiangsu Province, shows Cao Yanyou using the back of his hand to strike a bent wrench.

Cao shows physical pain after the first strike, which does not appear to make much progress, but subsequent hits eventually straighten out the bent piece of iron.

Cao said he has been practicing kung fu for 30 years.

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Slightly OT

I’ve seen glass eating performed as a qigong trick before. Never thought of it as pica before, just a dumb party trick.

A very pane-ful problem! Chinese man is addicted to eating GLASS and relies on his ‘iron teeth’ to smash it up before swallowing it down with water
Liu Zundun, 71, said his strange hobby has proven to be a fantastic party trick
Footage of his unique ‘talent’ shows him taking a chunk out of a glass with ease
He claims it has been 32 years since he started eating glass
By SONIA RACH FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 12:27 EDT, 14 September 2017 | UPDATED: 13:52 EDT, 14 September 2017

An elderly Chinese man has been given the nickname ‘Iron Teeth’ because of his bizarre addiction to eating glass.

Liu Zundun, 71-year-old, said his strange hobby has proven to be a fantastic party trick and his friends and family ask him to ‘perform’ all the time.

Footage shows him taking a chunk out of a glass with ease, chewing on it as if it were any other edible substance and then swallowing it down with water.

Liu Zundun is seen showing his bizarre ‘talent’ as he takes a chunk out of a tumbler with ease


He can be seen chewing on the glass as if it were any other edible substance

But for all his love of tumblers and beer glasses, Mr Zundun states that he does not drink alcohol, saying he would ‘rather eat a glass than drink from it.’

‘Whenever I visit my hometown, my relatives never believe me when I say I don’t drink,’ he said.

‘I tell them I’ll eat glass instead, and they take a sip of alcohol for every bite I take.’


The 71-year-old says he would ‘rather eat a glass than drink from it’


A chunk that has been taken out of the glass

[QUOTE]
What is Pica?

Pica is an eating disorder that is characterised by the desire to eat items with little or no nutritional value.

This can include stones, sand, paint and dirt.

It is most common in people with learning disabilities and during pregnancy.

It can cause a range of complications if the person is eating something that is poisonous or indigestible.

The person can also damage their teeth and be infected with parasites.

It is likely Mr Zundun suffers from a condition called Pica which is the desire to eat items of little or no nutritional value.

It can cause serious complications however in this case, Mr Zundun claims to have never felt any discomfort in his stomach during the years he has had this odd diet.

He says the only complication is that he relies on one hard tooth to bite the glass as the others have weakened in his old age.

It has now been 32 years since he started and his friends call him ‘Iron Tooth’ as a result.

The native of Daqing City’s Sartu District in north-eastern China’s Heilongjiang Province said he is even asked to perform at weddings.

This is not the first case of Pica to make headlines. Other reported cases around the world include a four-year-old Autistic boy, from England, called Marco Slawycz who couldn’t stop eating plastic.

In India, a labourer confessed he consumes a plate of gravel a day and is addicted to eating sand.

And Emma Thompson, also from England, started chewing bath sponges at the age of three before discovering she liked the taste of kitchen ones better.[/QUOTE]

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Taierzhuang qigong stunts?

I’m posting this on the Qigong Challenges & Stunts thread because it’s the only reference to Taierzhuang on the forum. What is it about this place that there’s such a focus on qigong?

Also copying it to the 2018 Year of the EARTH DOG thread because it’s a CNY thing.

Actually, I just like the clunky translation. :stuck_out_tongue:

The Sixth Grand Temple Fair of Taierzhuang Ancient Town Was Grandly Held.

Between the New Year’s Day and the Lantern Festival, fantastic performances of various kinds will be held in Taierzhuang Ancient Town, including ten-thousand-lantern display, fire dragon and steel sparkle dance, folklore show parade, spring festival flash mobs, overpass busking, stunts performed by rare talent, Shaolin Kungfu and many other eye-catching shows. All of these festive events will definitely provide you with a pleasant sense of the Chinese New Year atmosphere!

Throughout the festival, tourists may enjoy the dazzling and glorious fire dragon and steel sparkle performances at the Fu Xing Square—steel sparkles are splashed into the sky and instantly rain down like meteor showers; shirtless dragon dancers perform wildly with all kinds of skillful twists and turns, both brilliant to the mind and pleasant to the eye. In addition, visitors will undoubtedly feast their eyes with various kungfu performances like Shaolin 8-part Internal Kungfu, Praying Mantis, Kids Kung Fu (Tong Zi Gong), traditional Shaolin Boxing, hard Qigong, pictographic boxing, Shaolin Eighteen Weapons Grand Contest. Besides, folk tourism teams consisting of stilts, Bei Ge dance (a form of Chinese folk dance in which an adult carries a kid on the shoulder), bamboo horse dance and dragon dance thread their way through streets and lanes, presenting one fire festive parade after another. The Spring Festival flash mobs at both the West and East Gate of the ancient town will give the tourists a great impression as well

From the second to the fourteenth day of the Chinese lunar January, our ancient town will be star-studded, inviting a dozen of figures including Liu Lanfang, Hou Yaohua, Li Jindou, Chen Hanbai, Fang Qingping, HeYunwei, Liu Ji and so on. They will present the audiences with a special performance for thirteen consecutive days, with a special show thrown by a star each day, accompanying you with joy and happiness throughout the holiday.

Between February 8 to March 2, awesome performances will delight you at the Temple of Emperor Guan: sideshows, martial arts, acrobatics and Qi Gong are performed by experienced artists on the Buyun Bridge; traditional folk exclusive skills include Golden Bell cocoon, steel bar neck-wrapping, blade-mountain lying, stone-breaking on the chest, human pyramid, fire eating and fire breathing, contortion, Diabolo juggling and acrobatic flips. All these breathtaking performances will surely be mind-blowing and enjoyable to our guests.

During the legal holidays, the whole street is covered with man-made snow along the river from Leisure Inn to Lan Ting *****house Musem. The mix of the antique, classic buildings and the beautiful snow is bound to impress any visitor with the fortune to enjoy the scenery. No other place is more suitable for the tourists to take photos.

When the night descends, visitors have the privilege of appreciating the colorful, gorgeous lanterns of different shapes and styles. On this year’s lantern show, we have themes related to the coming dog year like “Celebrating the Auspicious Dog Year” and “Fortune Dog Greeting”; as well as the combination of both fashion and traditional folklores as “Coral Sea” and “Best Wishes”. The multi-colored, glamorous lanterns will be a feast to your eye when lit up.

We look forward to your staying here at the Taierzhuang Ancient Town from the New Year’s Day to the Lantern Festival, welcome!

Media Contact
Company Name: Laixi trip
Contact Person: Jiuxiao Chen
Email: 1241305096@qq.com
Phone: 18085192252
Country: China
Website: http://sd.sina.com.cn/news/2018-01-01/detail-ifyqcwaq6679800.shtml

Hold the phone…Lan Ting *****house Musem? :eek:

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I don’t even know what’s happening here

It’s an embedded vid so you must follow the link.

CHINESE CULTURE
Kung fu master shows off balancing skills on giant sword edge

Kung fu master Li Wei showed off his skills by walking on a 2cm-width blade of a 15m-long, 5m-high and 1.5-ton sword. Li wowed spectators as he performed balancing tricks at the sword’s tip in Mianyang, Sichuan Province.

This skill is so practical…:rolleyes:

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Police Special Response Team demo

[URL=“https://e.vnexpress.net/news/life/culture/special-response-team-of-police-put-on-astounding-show-of-strength-3908838.html”]
Special response team of police put on astounding show of strength
By Ngoc Thanh April 17, 2019 | 08:11 am GMT+7 They use ancient techniques to smash rocks on their body and prevent sharp objects from penetrating their body.

The 45th anniversary of the mobile police force was recently celebrated by its officers with an incredible exhibition of qigong and other physical skills.

Lying on broken glass when a rock on one’s abdomen is being smashed with sledgehammers is a feat that requires using qigong techniques to prevent penetration by the glass pieces not to speak of withstanding the blows.


The head is a vulnerable part of the body. However, through rigorous training, an officer manages to withstand the blow of a sledgehammer to break bricks stacked on his head.


An officer drops a knife on a colleague. It is is a dangerous exercise but useful in the force since officers sometimes come up against criminals with sharp pointed objects.


Another test of strength where a officer uses his neck to bend and straighten an iron rod.


An officer breaks wooden staffs with his body.


An officer uses qigong techniques and weak pulses in his body called acupoints to twist an iron bar with his eye.

continued next post

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Continued from previous post


An officer places an iron bar against his larynx and pushes a 4.2-ton van with it.


Another uses his abdominal muscles to pull a van.


This officer holds a sword against his neck while pulling a 12-seat, 4-ton vehicle.


Using bare hand to break the bottom of a plastic bottle takes practice.


An officer carries 80 kg with his teeth while standing barefoot on broken glass.

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Real Life application of Martial Arts to Police, Security, Etc work

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Zhang Yilong

That’s one way to water the plants! Chinese kung fu master inhales liquid through his nose and squirts it out from a tear gland in his eye
Eye-watering video shows martial arts specialist spraying water from his eye
After inhaling a glass of milk, he can also write Chinese characters on paper
Zhang Yilong from central China’s Henan province has been training for 10 years
He warned the audience not to copy him as the stunts are very dangerous
By KELSEY CHENG FOR MAILONLINE

PUBLISHED: 07:03 EDT, 23 April 2019 | UPDATED: 07:07 EDT, 23 April 2019

A kung fu master in China has showed off his unusual way of watering the flowers and practicing Chinese calligraphy - with one of his eyes.

Zhang Yilong, a martial arts specialist from Xinxiang, Henan province, has learned the ‘ancient art’ of squirting water and milk from his right eye.

Footage of the eye-watering stunt shows the kung fu master inhaling water through his nose and spraying it from a tear gland towards a pot of flowers.


Eye-watering footage of the stunt shows the kung fu master inhaling water through his nose and spraying it from a tear gland in his right eye towards a pot of flowers


Zhang Yilong, a martial arts specialist from Xinxiang, Henan province has learned the ‘ancient art’ of squirting water from his eye


Before the stunt kung fu master Zhang Yilong is seen snorting water up his nasal cavity

As if that wasn’t impressive enough, Zhang then performed writing Chinese characters on a piece of paper after snorting a glass of milk up his nose.

Zhang said he has been training to do the trick for the past 10 years and claims to be able to spray at a distance of up to 1.7 metres (5.5 feet).

‘At first, I couldn’t snort the liquid up my nasal cavity. After some practice, I was able to transfer the liquid but failed to spray it through the tear gland,’ he said.


As if that wasn’t impressive enough, Zhang then performed writing Chinese characters on a piece of paper after snorting a glass of milk up his nose


Zhang said he has been training to do the trick for the past 10 years and claims to be able to spray at a distance of up to 1.7 metres (5.5 feet)


Zhang warned the audience not to copy him as the stunts are very dangerous

‘I could only squeeze out a few drops of water. After several months, I could reach a distance of 10 cm (3.9 inches) to 20 cm (7.8 inches),’ he added.

Despite this, Zhang has a word of warning for those keen to follow in his footsteps.

‘I want to remind the audience not to emulate me,’ Zhang said.

‘It’s dangerous. I’ve been practising for more than ten years. Please don’t imitate me, especially children,’ he said.

One witness said he was deeply impressed by the performance.

‘It’s unimaginable to drink through the nose and to write out Chinese characters by the eyes. The kung fu master is awesome,’ he said.

Imagine the applications on the street…:wink:

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Kung fu master in China pulls two cars with one ear

//youtu.be/ftS8UdQjpx0

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Here’s a new one for me

There’s a vid behind the link.

How does he do that? Kung fu fighter jumps on water in gravity-defying stunt
Xiao Qiang from Chongqing, China, filmed himself performing a crazy stunt
Mr Qiang used a basin filled with water on a bucket as an implausible trampoline
The video shows the 28-year-old bouncing on the basin without getting wet
By DARREN BOYLE FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 06:14 EST, 4 December 2019 | UPDATED: 06:17 EST, 4 December 2019

This is the amazing moment a man from China performs a mind-bending stunt where he appears to be able to bounce on water.

Xiao Qiang from Chongqing, which is around 900 miles from Beijing, jumped onto the basin of water which had been placed upon two buckets.

Mr Qiang, 28, places his basin next to a wall for a second stunt and successfully bounces on the water before landing safely on the parapet.

Mr Qiang has been learning martial arts for more than a decade which has helped him with his tricks.


Xiao Qiang from Chongqing used his Kung Fu skills to leap onto a basin filled with water by two buckets. Amazingly the 28-year-old ‘bounces’ on the water


Mr Qiang then repeated the trick near a wall, which he manages to land on the parapet

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Xiao Qiang explained

This is basically what I thought was happening here. Nice to have it ‘tracked’. Tech is so cool now.

12.12.2019 10:00 AM
A Kung Fu Master’s Leap Breaks the Internet—but Not Physics
A viral video appears to show a man jumping off water. What’s really going on here?


PHOTOGRAPH: KIRILL KUDRYAVTSEV/GETTY IMAGES

What would I do without internet videos? It’s not just viral cat memes but also amazing humans like this guy, Xiao Qiang. In this short clip, the kung fu fighter appears to leap onto a bucket of water several feet off the ground—then bounce off the surface of the water like a trampoline. Whaaaat?

It’s an illusion, of course, but one that is made possible only by awesome strength and athleticism. Even when you know how it’s done, it still looks cool. So I’ll give you a clue right up front: As he flies through the air, watch a spot around the middle of his body.

Yep, once he pushes off the ground, his center of mass actually follows a normal parabolic trajectory. Just like when you toss a ball into the air, the only force acting on him at that point is the gravitational interaction with Earth. That means he has a constant downward acceleration, producing that familiar path. At this level, it’s normal projectile motion.

But he’s not just a rigid ball; his body is still working as he moves through the air, and that’s where the magic happens. To sort it all out, I ran this clip through my Tracker video-analysis app.

Plotting the Motion

Usually when I do video analysis to track the motion of something through space, I graph vertical position in each frame as a function of time. But there’s a problem in this case. Someone clearly messed with the frame rate in this clip to highlight the “water jump” portion. That means we can’t get a stable time scale.

Instead, how about we plot vertical position against horizontal position in each frame? If an object is moving through the air with only gravity acting on it, the horizontal velocity will be constant. This means we’ll still get a parabolic graph—it’s just a little harder to analyze.

What I’ve done here is trace the movement of three different parts of his body: his head, his feet, and his center of mass. Normally the center of mass would be around a person’s belly, but it changes as you move your arms and legs up or down, so this is a rough estimate.

So check it out: The center of mass (COM) follows the parabolic path we expect. But look at his feet. They reach the top and start moving down—then they bounce back up again, as if he really is jumping off the water. What’s really happening, as this graph shows, is that he’s pushing his feet hard away from his body near the top, then pulling them back up.

Remember the "invisible box challenge” from a couple of years ago? This is basically the water version of that trick.

Internal Forces

But wait—can we model a crazy jump like this? Yes we can, because you don’t really understand something till you can model it. Now, modeling a whole human body in motion is crazy complicated, so we’ll go real basic: just two moving parts—a head and some feet. I can represent these two parts as balls and then find the center of mass between them.

Here’s what a jump might look like with a rigid body. I know, it’s impossible to jump with a rigid body, but just go with me here. The yellow ball is the head, the red ball is the feet, and the white ball represents the center of mass. Notice that everything moves in a parabolic trajectory. (Here’s the code for this animation if you want to see how it’s done.)

ILLUSTRATION: RHETT ALLAIN

Now, what if we want to move the feet down and up to make that crazy water-jump move? This is a little trickier. Remember, the only external force acting on the guy once he leaves the ground is gravity, so the center of mass of the head-feet system (also known as a person) has to follow a parabolic trajectory. What we need, then, is an internal force inside that system.

Let me explain by starting with the momentum principle. This says that the net force on a system is equal to the rate of change of momentum. Like this:


ILLUSTRATION: RHETT ALLAIN

Unfortunately I can’t cut&paste the graph or the vid. You’ll just have to follow the link if you can’t get it from the text.