The collab would be EPIC

Bing chilling

As far as I know, from the 70s and 80s to the present, splitting bricks with bare hands is harder and harder in Chinese kung fu performances. People used to be able to do it relatively easily, not because they were strong, but simply because the quality of bricks back then was poor.

It's absolutely fake. The wood would NEVER split cleanly like that.

Board certified physician here, i could explain what is going on. Each time bone is fractured (micro fissures or big boy fractures), it undergoes re-structuring. Old bone is “destroyed” through osteoclasts, and a new bone matrix is formed through collagen and osteoblasts. This eventually leads to matrix mineralization and formation of new solid bone. This way you make the bone thicker and technically denser. However our bones are not designed to be a different shape than they already are….

Don't know if this will be read, but I have been practicing martial arts for 20+ years and used to teach at a TKD school that did a lot of plastic and wooden board breaking. The key to breaking a proper piece of wood is to break WITH the wood grain, thereby snapping the board cleanly in half. You can see the board in his video is running the length of the board instead of its width, perpendicularly to his strike, meaning there is no way that board would have been broken that cleanly on its width without it being pre-cut prior to the punch. Same board or not, it was definitely faked. P.S. HUGE fan of your content, always insightful and humorous, thank you for the wonderful content you make!

"Boards....don't hit back" - Bruce Lee

The placement of the plank also matters. If the bricks that the plank is laying on are further apart (and they were when he hit it), it becomes a lot easier to break because less of the force is transferred onto the bricks.

The fact he couldn’t break the board at first was probably the fake part lol

I love that you landed a collab without pitching anything or thinking ahead about what content you two would make! I don't know him, but whatever you end up making I'm sure will be epic.

The grain of certainly the first board was in such a manner it's almost impossible or very hard to break by hand. and if broken the grain would make the break very unclean with a lot of big splinters and some maybe still holding the two pieces together. however when we see him break the second board it brakes straight and very clean, So I think either the board was prepared to break or it was another board where the grain was perpendicular to the first one. This "trick" with the grain is often used in boardbreaking in martial arts and most fails are due to either people holden the grain in the boards the wrong way, or if it are multiple boards the boards are stacked with the grains crossed which basically makes it plywood, very hard to break ;) Whatching it a little more he definitely prepared the board the second time. The grain is still the same way but you see a little line in the center of the the thin side of the plank. You can even see it very clearly in the close up. Then we he breaks the plank you see the inside of the plank being very smooth but the top layer being jagged as you would expect from a plank breaking with the grain going in this direction.

I subbed because your just so damn likeable and real. One martial artist to another, thanks for embodying the values of the art. Appreciate you

Scar tissue builds up when you injure something over and over again. Also the difference in breaking the wood is the support size. In the first clip the support is closer which makes it harder and on the 2nd the wood is barely at the end which makes it a lot easier

The collab should be Anton making Hafu go through one of his shaolin training routines

The cinder blocks have been moved further apart, making the middle of the wood weaker

Breaking porcelaine is like breaking styrofoam, especially a tile. Cutting it is what's difficult, but breaking it, is something you do by accident, rather than on purpose...

I learned Iron Palm training from Wing Chun (don't worry, I've since trained Muay Thai and Sanda) and was taught that hitting stuff hard and getting a big deformed hand was not even a real Iron Palm method. Should all be soft training with sand bags or something similar and Dit Da Jow to help the healing. Light impacts for years so the vibrations slowly cause the bones and ligaments in the hands to strengthen over the years. Hands should look completely normal in this method. Not sure if there are other harder methods that are legit or not, but I would definitely rather do things the way I learned as a teenager.

14:14 "he woodn't!" i see what you did there

I gotta say i really like your Content.....ah sheiss drauf. Verfolge deinen Kanal nun seit ein paar Wochen und kann Dem ganzen echt was abgewinnen. Bin sehr von der KungFu-Welt begeistert und hoffe da auf mehr. Humor ist einfach auf dem Punkt gebracht, Freischnauze in die Fresse, manchmal etwas strange aber allen in Ganzen echt geniale Unterhaltung. Gerne weiter so und mehr davon Ranton, you ROCK!! Maybe gehen paar Runden Tekken oder Mortal Kombat? Kann ich mir bei dir gut vorstellen.

that wood broke waaay to clean like it got half sawn

First thing I noticed is that he plank's edges were at 2/3 placed over the stone's surface, when he strikes the wood it's only at 1/3 over the surface and seemed more bent so it becomes more easy to destroy.

Ranton I learned "Iron Palm" from a close friend from China. Basically it has a lot of "mysticism" surrounding it like Qigong.. but basically the TRUE "Iron Fist" is not hand conditioning. It's tendon /fascia training from repeated use. And it also teaches timing for strikes. Lmk what your thoughts are since you've had the real deal at Shaolin! Edit: 100 reps is good for lazy impatient Americans, 300 minimum but 1000 a day is what the oldies from China demand.

the reason why he didnt hit the wood hard in the first attemp is because you cant just commit like it could break your hand

I just tiled my bathroom and I'll say 100% porcelain is easier to break than wood.

Yo I've been waiting for an upload in the Ranton channel for like a year! Didn't realise you were uploading here! Need some Ranton content for sure

11:11 - It's not the same table. - There is a line in the middle of the board (you can see it in the width) and it's coincidentally where the board splits. - When he throws them on the ground, it doesn't sound like a wooden plank, it sounds like air touching the grass

If you look closely to the board the second time he hits it you can tell there is a cut in the middle, so the board was probably cut hin half almost fully and the placed upsidedown, you can also deduce it by the way the wood breaks perfectly in half.

The board he hit clearly shows a seam that has been 'put together' at the point where it split

Nah, it's simple physics. The first wooden board has most of its surface area in contact with the cement blocks giving more area to a dissipate the force applied onto the cement blocks. The second board has the least amount of surface area touching the blocks (the wooden plan is actual on the edge of the two cement blocks). This in turn causes the ends of the wood to "flip upward" when punch downwards in the middle. In other words, it's a lot easier to break on the 2nd attempt into two with little or no training due to its positioning.

I love how supportive this cat is. Always putting wind in peoples sails

Imagine training like this for so long only to get beat with a simple jab LOL

That bamboozle is epic LOL

The 2nd piece of wood was on the edges on the concrete, giving him more leverage. In the first clip, the two concrete slabs are almost totally underneath the wood, making it way harder to break.

He was overcome by the pain bro.

I appreciate the translation plates. Shout out to the highlights man. I wish Random would insert those in his vids

I’ve been watching your vids for like 3 years now. And every time I watch a vid of yours I feel like you’re the kind of bro I call in the morning, to meet up at noon and then you swirl around like an adhs tornado and suddenly its 11 pm and you go like „ all right man, see ya tomorrow“ From Germany btw. So… Yallah bye habubti ♥️🙏🏽

It's absolutely fake. If you could improve this much in one week, everybody would do it. Yey, nobody does.

That wood broke into perfect two square like it was cut by a saw from the middle

The most fucked up hands I've ever seen are from Morio Higaonna, current head coach of Goju-ryu karate. That guy is literally punching a concrete pillar everyday just for the luls.

3:15 Forest tribesmen get their feet super adapted to the moist terrain as well, it's kind of freaky...

RANTON I love your honesty, keep it up!

the bricks holding the board on thne second tameshiwari are more spaced, making it easier, and the break is very straight. i almost never saw wood break straight like that against the grain.

A porcelain tile can break just from putting (not throwing) a box of them down the wrong way.

"Why you want to break boards? What boards ever do to you?" - Mr. Miyagi.

Being able to break the thing that he couldn't before the week, just means, the training gave him confidence and made him believe he could do it and that's why he was able to do it. Cus, bones, muscles need much more then a week to actually become stronger, it needs rest too.

My Wing Chun sifu has been doing iron palm for 40 years and like you said, his hands are basically rocks. His bottom three knuckles are basically just one big slab. When he wants to show off to new students he'll take a river rock in one hand and strikes it with the other, usually breaking it in half right away. Looks like arthritis hell to me but he claims it's not that bad. Only difference between this guy's method and my sifu is that he uses an herbal topical called Dit Da Jow before and after which I actually use when I get bruises or sprains

Random youtuber: _trains for a week_ Same youtuber: *I am power, Im Bruce Lee*

The second board looks thinner! 😂

I believe the correct translation is asbestosis around the joints. It cases MAD arthritis and all the symptoms of it in the highest level possible. It can be surgically removed but it will also need years and years of physical thereapy to (maybe) fully recover motion and strength. I ve done this for my mother for a normal toe osteoarthritis. Hopefully i answered your question Sifu Rantwo!

I did spend some time of my youth breaking wooden boards and also wooden planks. Boards are cut in a way so you break them within the grain, that means when it breaks there is a clean line where it cracks. On the other side, wooden planks are not cut this way because it messes up with the strength of the wood. For that reason I needed a couple of attempts to break the plank and it cracks completely differently, there are a lot of splinters, and your skin will bleed as well. That Hafu Go video is definitely a cap.

The break of the wood is so clean he just cut half of the wood and punched from the other side

5:25 love how when asians roast each other it's always a lack of effort rather than competence that's the issue. it's not that he can't do it, he's just unwilling lmao

I can tell you what's going on with their hands. It's likely two different things. Those two things can happen at the same time, and it's possible for them to compound and build on one another. 1 - Callouses / scar tissue building on callouses / scar tissue. 2 - That kind of training, especially the actual breaking of hard things, causes minor and / or hairline fractures. These fractures never heal fully b/c the training continues and aren't typically noticed. Over the time, in the same was that scar tissue can build on itself, your bones begin to calcify via calcium deposits and this calcification can cause your hands to look deformed if it goes on long enough. That's a rough generalization, but I'm sure you get the idea. Fun fact - He's actually correct about adjusting the bone density. A lot of people write it off as "far eastern garbage", ranked up there with "chi". But, as I mentioned above, consistent pressures causes bone to calcify, which in turn will harden them. The chat saying it'll cause arthritis and it's bad for you, are stupid. If practiced safely, it's not bad for you. Bone hardening already NATURALLY occurs. Are they going to claim it's unhealthy when they see a cowboy's hands are rock solid? A construction worker? A rancher? A professional fighter? It's literally something we evolved with and the ancient Chinese learned to harness it. How the fuck do you think pro fighters can take hits w/o collapsing? Body hardening from spars and intense training. How the fuck do you think a Soldier can withstand the hardships they do? Same. Twitch chat, once again, batting zero for 100 and just being shockingly dumb. It's actually annoying the pace he's doing and the false positive results he's trying to display. You need WEEKS of slow escalation. WEEKS of sand. Weeks of sandbag. And so on. The whole " yo look it's already changing". Nah, sis. It's bruised as fuck b/c you wont let it recover. All you've done is force a cosmetic change in your skin that will go away the instant you stop training. Dude is about to get SO many people injured. "Check me out, I only 'trained" for a combined like 15hrs over an entire week and now I've improved so much I can break shit I couldn't early in the week".

7:02 that caught me off guard. I need new lungs from laughing too much.

I headbutted through a 2.5 inch porcelain counter. I definitely believe he could've punched through the porcelain even without training.

It is absolutely a different board, also if you look close there is a dark line in the middle where it broke indicating a prior cut, easy to see😂😂😂

Lmfao his reaction to click bait is hilarious 😂

Ranton bro. I saw my hand in your video. Lol. That’s you and Jessie. Owe me a collab now to talk kung Fu. Yes. Come on viewers. Thumbs up this. It must be done.

Bro your videos are so entertaining

He has kept the cement holdings farther apart when he breaks the wood.

He can break the porcelain but it is sharp as a razor.

The board prior to him hitting it is a solid piece of wood, the board thats split is composite wood.. And looking at how clean of a break it was I want to say he's cut a groove on the side facing down..

If that board wasn't pre-sawed it would have shattered or at least broke unevenly. Replicating this WILL BREAK YOUR HAND!

That wood looked like it had a cut in the middle.

You can see a line down the middle of the board before it was broken

Bruh my friend literally destroyed his hands by punching a tractor tire for weeks in his village... now I call him Geodude xD

There seems to be a line in the middle of the second plank and that's exactly where the plank breaks too.

Hafu would have a lot of question than our Rantoni

who tf woulda thought years ago that this dude would end up being the biggest meme lord

THE WOOD WOULD NOT BREAK LIKE THAT, IN A STRAIGHT LINE

Dude said wants doctors to check people out because he doesn't understand calluses.

13:59 he wouldnt keep the wood and switch it because then people could look for cuts, especially with the trees (wind) in the background. he also might just not have been asked

hey Ranton, is it possible for future vids for you to show us some kung fu forms? such as tongbay (sorry idk how to spell it) and other hand/weapon forms?

Wood does not break in a perfectly straight line.

Stream content fire, keep it coming

Bro I loved how Hafu Go was like ‘my master said the key to Kung Fu is time’ sir you’re doing Iron Fist for SEVEN DAYS. 😂

Bro, ich hab leider erst vor kurzem deinen Kanal entdeckt und ich glaube, dass ich schon Jahrelang nicht mehr so hart unterhalten wurde. Love it. Muss aber noch kurz was zum porzellan und dem Brett sagen. Das Brett hätte er auch beim ersten Versuch durch bekommen, wenn er es genau so durchgezogen hätte. Bei der porzellan Platte, hat er den selben shit durch gezogen. Hätte bei einer kleineren Platte aber nicht gefunzt. Dazu kommt noch der Abstand wieviel das Brett oder die Platte über steht oder wie hier gar nicht. Und sorry bro, hab nur 8 Jahre shotokan Karate und 9 Jahre classic Taekwondo aufm Buckel und Material wasten gehört halt zum guten Ton. Du kennst es sicherlich auch... Du fällst besoffen aus dem transsexstripclub und plötzlich kommt dir in ner dunklen Gasse ein Brett entgegen. Genau für diesen Moment wird Jahre lang trainiert. Nomma thx fürs entertainen bro.

breaking a plank need months of fist conditioning

If you notice, the first day he punched the wood, the cement blocks are closer making the wood hard to punch thru. The second time its farther apart easier to break wood. Just observation :p

Did you forget he is now a "Shaolin" as well

Bro you tell the truth it's not the same wood 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

lmao that shid was hilarious how they got his ass 🤣

its been cut thats why it was such a clean straight break!!!!

the second board is defo different a) it's more bittle, spotty and thinner and b) the bricks it's resting on are way farther apart

He literally changed how far blocks that are holding the wood stand and the wood seems more slim

The bricks holding the wood are more separated when he breaks it

Your face when he broke the board lfmao And the edits are fire who is doin thoes ?

Training to not fear the pain after punching something too hard to break.

Ranton pronounced a Norwegian word perfectly. "Nivå" Cool

With the wood, it was just physics. When he couldn't break it, there was a lot of overlap of the wood and the cinder blocks. So a lot of the force gets dissipated. When he broke it, the wood was just about an inch or so on each block, so more of the force travels downward through the center.

14:14 "Why would he show a different piece of wood?" "He wood not" I will see myself out

The wood seems to be the same, but it looks like it has mold and that would definitely make it easier to break.

Same piece of wood but the distance between the breeze blocks were not.

4:36 Why do I feel like it's not iron fist/palm but rather iron fingers 💀

This may seem like a really odd aside but it's also related to this. When I was in high school my basketball coach when we were doing weight training in the in-between season told me not to jump down the stairs. She said that constantly exposing your joints and bones to that level of impact is unsafe. There are plenty of athletes who have developed arthritis usually because of their training and the injuries that they incurred through training. I would say even thinking about what you do at a meet all of that is usually done on soft ground that can absorb some of the impact. The tracks that are made out of tire rubber that's why they're made that way. When I was in high school in Detroit all of the new schools had that tire track. And usually I perform better on those then on the classic track.

Board floated a bit when he throw it on the ground

Bing Chilling

If I remember right porcelain shatters when it breaks

Wood would never break this way. It has been sawed!

"guys i'm investigating 😑"