Next time you want to add some variety and intensity to your training: [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sza8krRT7qo"]Viendra Sharma - Detroit - Warrior or Wacko? Indian Talent Show Contestant - YouTube[/ame]
Great stuff - real entertainment in the old (and I mean old) circus strongman, fakir, street martial artist tradition... Can't wait to have a go myself.... Oh, actually, perhaps I will wait a bit...
Is this the Indian equivalent of X factor. Looks like they won with the amount of wedge they got at the end. I am not certain what the sticks were but if they were what I think they were i.e Fluorescent tubes; glade their were no deep breathing exercises. I would’t like to have written out the health and safety risk assessment for that one. Although certainly was a crowd pleaser; do you think it took much rehearsing?? I noticed no mention of ‘if you are of nervous disposition or don’t like the sight of blood look away and kids don’t practice this at home’. However you have to admire their courage and self belief which alone can sometimes get you out of a tight spot.
courage and concentration. search up Holla Mohalla Sikhs gather eery year to do similar tests of courage. Most of them don't do any yoga or internal exercises.
when i was a kid I saw a dervish ceremony is Kosovo. They went into a trance, pay attention trance, which is quite common practice around the world, took out their swords, knives, big needles, and such implements, and started piercing themselves through tongs, stomachs, arms, necks, cheeks. Interestingly no blood, no wounds, smiles and song all around. This type of practice is very common in India, and this video is an example. It is mind over matter again. Mind changing our abilities by pure will. Not magic. No mysticism. But definitely no mechanics.
an example of what i ma talking about [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jqjanrj4KII&feature=related"]Ritual Of albanian islamic Sect - YouTube[/ame] and another [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3YXxkla0Ow&feature=related"]Phuket Vegetarian Festival 09 - YouTube[/ame]
There are "Freak Shows" that have pierced testicles, lips and nipples that they hand huge weights from. Mick Foley dove off a 20 ft cage. I know a Dominatrix who has a cliet who likes his scrotum nailed to a board Some people handle pain better than others Needles in the face is actually very easy - it is the thought of it that puts most off. Are you seriously suggesting that this below is an example of higher spiritual conciousness?
Which literally ANYONE can do - no meditation or any other such thing required. Ear, tongue, belly, scrotum, those horrible plastic ring things in lobes, tattoos are all the same things as those "religious" ecstasies above. The Sikhs were just tough!
Yeah i've been meaning to. a interesting thing to note is the use of certain "herbs" by some members of the community to induce "bezerker" states... I'll try to find some video sources on it and create a thread pretty soon!
Some of that stuff I can accept, but some of it cant be real. At 2:20 he is struck with a bladed weapon in the abdomen. Mind over matter can explain some stuff, but flesh is still flesh and if you poke it with something sharp, it will give way.
