The Overly-attached Armadillo

Excuse me, but I was reading your "How To Be A Shaolin Monk" guidebook, and I'm confused about something. What's this part here about "Step 1: Get a guy who isn't nearly as strong as you to operate the drill while you push it away with your hand"?

Difficult to be sure, what with stroboscopic effects and all, but that drill seemed to be turning anti-clockwise. Still scary, but not /quite/ so scary.

There are plenty of ways the human body can exceed the limits of what people would typically expect, both in situations that require training, and in a lot of situations that don't require training. Some of the things in the video, or variations of the same principles, end up being done by ordinary people in confidence building workshops (or in physics demonstrations), and just need some guidance on how to do it. Other stuff it is very difficult to gauge what, it any, limits are being pushed. There have been a few too many examples of martial arts masters claiming to be impervious to weapons getting hurt when tested by someone other than one of their students. Turns out students can be good at pulling their punches when risking hurting someone they look up to.