Did Hafu Go Fake His Kung Fu Video?

[@hafu]

The collab would be EPIC

[@Beyzs1]

Amazing

[@youwatch2muchtv]

look at how in 14:32 it breaks perfectly in half. Sus

[@stranger3989]

Ur mom

[@bri_obones2826]

i love how your not mad he's clowned on you

[@milofitness7726]

Is the board real?

[@spitzkopf_crabs2393]

Bing chilling

[@moosejuice4231]

Chilling Bing

[@yumi4004]

Ching billing

[@No-lx8uh]

Lao gan ma

[@nunosantos00]

I think i commented about this thing and said i don't think people can do this,only hurt themselves and some bro was there saying bro be quiet. What the hell?

[@diya4959]

wo yo bing chilling

[@DoccOtt]

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….

[@dantefromdevilmaycry9857]

So what types of problem do you get when those thing happen cuz I'd imagine these type of stuff don't come without consequences?

[@sodeiku]

can i be Saitama if I do his training, though?

[@manzanasrojas6984]

@@sodeiku Hes saying your hands will become bone bricks eventually kek

[@DoccOtt]

@@dantefromdevilmaycry9857, anomalous bone growth could lead to muscle atrophy and/or chronic soft tissue pain. Hafu did say that nerve damage is possible and this is true, you could have multiple problems with your nerves after repeated trauma. This could even lead to sympatic-reflex dystrophy and cause inmense pain + osteoporosis.

[@DenerWitt]

thats all good and whatnot, but this is a week long training. Theres no way he made any sort of actual meaningful improvement. He prob was just more committed on breaking his hand at the last try.

[@mqtaidmqtaid]

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

[@steffanofumo]

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

[@osuplaeyurreallygood]

I think he was just scared to put his full power into it at first because he didn't want to hurt his hand too much, but the week of iron fist training gave him the confidence to put his full power into it. Iron fist training doesn't make you stronger it just lets you put in more power without it hurting as much

[@ionsilver557]

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.

[@tonyperkins192]

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!

[@Hi_im_adel_]

Yes! exactly, saved me some time from explaining the same thing, I'm a wood worker and I know shit about grain, there is no way you would break it this way, even if you full on smashed it with a sledge hammer (or something blunt that would deffo break a plank like this) with the grain going like this, it wouldn't be a clean break, no way on earth

[@ahnaffaiyaz1892]

Used to do Kyokushin Karate for 1.5 yrs and I agree. Wood boards where the grains are horizontal(they go left to right) are basically not possible(or super hard) to break. The wood grain has to run vertical(they go top to bottom) that way when you punch the plank, it just follows the grains downwards and splits in half. Way easier to break. Also the whole deal with him making a big deal of training his fist for a week and then his fist is strong enough to break stuff is just anime power up bs he did for content. An average person can break a wooden plank with just their natural bone strength. I never did any specialized training and I was still able to break one plank with a closed fist for my belt test(and i was and still am a 5'2 skinny lil bitch), it didn't even hurt that badly.

[@bonzaipeter]

i just lost time to explain it allso .. i studiet carpentry and i allso broke some shit as a kid and a youngster allso. If he would even try to break that piece of wood he tried on.. he would just obliterate his hand and knuckles.

[@kevinblonski5756]

You are all right. Where he punched was NOT at all where to wood broke and there is a small mark, on the sides, that looks like it's pre-cut but from underneath the surface (10:42 and 10:46). Wich, coincidently, is where the plank broke. Plus, after a full week of training, there is no way he could do what he could not, at the beginning, from the simple fact that his hands had no time to heal and calcify properly.

[@froschkenig]

Thanks, that's exactly my thought.

[@shawnbreen6419]

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

[@Fanaro]

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

[@valentinotto88]

that wood broke waaay to clean like it got half sawn

[@onsokumaru4663]

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

[@thomaseelvelt907]

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.

[@99Lezard99]

exactly

[@godtoHrD]

OP is correct

[@AfferbeckBeats]

Yeah, this board would likely bounce off an axe or hammer let alone a fist.

[@DanielIkpeama]

Precisely

[@albertobernal2537]

Competely agree, the direction of the grain here maximizes difficulty and it is absolutely impossible break cleanly. It's fake, regardless of wood quality

[@tendo6385]

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.

[@AfferbeckBeats]

On the other hand, that gives it more opportunity to flex instead of break. If you chopped that board with an axe with the bricks in that placement, it would likely bounce. If you put the bricks much closer, it would result in a far more destructive chop.

[@qscar200]

plus it was pre cut tihi

[@felixmervamee7834]

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.

[@SilencedButNotForgotten]

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

[@4321jojoba]

yeah, it was like a 90° cut against the grain. I guess it had a slot milled on the bottom side.

[@Phoenix-6103]

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

[@HannahYael-MayaDevi]

The second board looks thinner! 😂

[@BromdenChief]

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

[@riptide_w]

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

[@vaughnsangalang7934]

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

[@IronBodyMartialArts]

He was overcome by the pain bro.

[@swagmiredoesall]

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

[@kornelparoczai1763]

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

[@I_Might_B_Wrong]

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.

[@partnermammoth2562]

yes but can still make arthiritis and nerve damage tho so keep that in mind

[@ProgSnob14]

I learned Iron Palm from Shenmue 2

[@partnermammoth2562]

@@ProgSnob14 no idea what that is bro

[@sghost128]

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

[@gabrieledibernardo2488]

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

[@HanniSeidenba0525]

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

[@Reverend_Mojo]

My father was a logger, He Lost his honor to a tree. I now avenge him!

[@HanniSeidenba0525]

@@Reverend_Mojo xD then sir, you should go after the logs. Break logs not boards.

[@Reverend_Mojo]

@@HanniSeidenba0525 I tracked the specific trees path past the sawmill. I'm now finding everything it ever made. My next battle is with a baby crib

[@DaanVanAsch]

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.

[@bryanoldaker3730]

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😂😂😂

[@jimhuper]

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

[@partnermammoth2562]

fam it cut in a perfect line that is huge BS wood don't break like that

[@SamytyKill]

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...

[@DadBodFit]

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.

[@nomaschalupas2453]

I learned Buddhas palm from a soccer playing shaolin monk that went into the life of crime and learned his training as a kid from sacred text he bought from a homeless man really was the true Buddha palm.

[@peterwang5660]

@@nomaschalupas2453 very funny.

[@DadBodFit]

@@nomaschalupas2453 I've seen that film. It's shaolin Soccer

[@jimjambananaslam3596]

Stephen "Wonderboy" Thompson says he only does 200 reps a day, but I guess he's American lol. If you think about how much we rely on our hands and fingers and fine motor skills on a daily basis, you'd have to be a real meathead to do this 1,000 times a day if you ask me.

[@DadBodFit]

@@jimjambananaslam3596 I agree with you. When I was learning my style, I could only do 100 reps daily I had too much in my life to commit more it just makes the process slower but you'll still get results.

[@tjhernandez4073]

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

[@IceX92]

That bamboozle is epic LOL

[@IronBodyMartialArts]

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.

[@yty1941]

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

[@DenerWitt]

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

[@qwazyr]

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.

[@methanesulfonic]

lmao I just checked it and he actually changed the position of the board to make it easier

[@qwazyr]

@@methanesulfonic Yup exactly

[@Yourebeautyfull]

You are right about it 's just physics part. Wood does NOT break in a straight line against the grain of the wood. So obviously it 's fake. Doesn 't matter what type of wood, or it 's condition with the weather or how it was placed or what ever. Wood simply does not break in a clean line when hit against the grain. This is not rocket science, this is very basic common sense that even a toddler should be able to comprehend.

[@winterwarden]

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

[@Teurrael]

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!

[@zahanavez3776]

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.

[@banditvinchenzo347]

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

[@ruwellsalatan7774]

Hafu would have a lot of question than our Rantoni

[@izzudom1967]

Collab never happened 😢

[@sammythesuesarthouse]

Ranton pronounced a Norwegian word perfectly. "Nivå" Cool

[@solotopp]

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.

[@majanielsen2480]

somehow everyone seemed to miss this

[@partnermammoth2562]

much more important it snapped cleanly tf? it was already cut wood that breaks doesn't snap like that

[@ben05]

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

[@ohihassan693]

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.

[@griffone2389]

Bing Chilling

[@MArifgame]

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

[@mitchelllaeli]

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

[@akenu87]

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.

[@Madchad6969]

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

[@ElSenorEls]

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

[@coleharris1945]

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".

[@gorrammudder1600]

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

[@kahele1000]

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

[@hjge1012]

Even if it's the same piece of wood, he clearly spaced the cinder blocks differently.

[@KenLinx]

11:10 There's a crack down the middle before he even punched it..

[@youwatch2muchtv]

14:32 so when a man punches a piece of wood it breaks PERFECTLY in half like that? SUS.

[@SilencedButNotForgotten]

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

[@dzzthink3655]

Why would anyone practice punching wood for a week?

[@aspext232]

If he tries so he will achieve what he really wanted to achieve

[@AlphaQHard]

@@dzzthink3655 Ask your mom

[@joelgonsalves625]

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

[@b_HAUNT]

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

[@lukasusdaordon2406]

still waiting for the collab

[@laokon]

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.

[@Dmitry2184]

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

[@Igotthatjizz]

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

[@Jeff-sr6fx]

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

[@docaff]

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.

[@Geralt-sama]

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.

[@sirturtle4681]

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

[@mephistomaul]

Kein Brett bricht so gerade ab, außer man schlitzt es unten ein!

[@al55848]

There's a glue line on the edge of the board on the second attempt. The board splits on that line. Almost a perfectly straight cut.

[@no1EvilMinion]

Wood does not break in a perfectly straight line.

[@jovanpejic]

12:24 How realistic when the crack line is both with wood and porcelain as if it were laser cut :D it looks nice that it has been precut

[@manzanasrojas6984]

11:10 Its already bending downwards lmao definitely tampered with also, the "cut" is way too clean for a fist, definitely precut.

[@ROBERTHOCKER]

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

[@vl5008]

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. 😂

[@souffleneutron]

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

[@pticek2594]

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

[@kahmo1110]

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 ♥️🙏🏽

[@sharkfinnigan]

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

[@deadpain2483]

You are right. The wood is fishy. 12:40 you can see there's a crack where the wood broke. Look at the side in the middle.

[@mrcrowe1848]

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

[@thelegendsunshine119]

spar with Hafu go.......

[@steinstemmer8963]

Wood does not break like this, unless you put a cut into it beforehand. 11:13 is where you see the "broken" edge. He didn`t even try to make it look legit... The tile is easy to break.

[@painfall]

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

[@anonimodesconocido1559]

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

[@luisgomez8635]

Hell no that isn't the same board that he actually breaks. Looking along the edge of it, its 100000% different.

[@norelfarjun3554]

Wood is made of fibers. You can see the direction of the fibers, these are the stripes you see on the wood. Now, when you break a uniform piece of wood, you'll see the fibers snap in slightly different places, creating the splits we all expect to see when wood breaks. Notice the way this piece of wood is broken. A straight and smooth line. Something there is not behaving as you would expect.

[@Slowhand195]

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

[@HokiHumby]

breaking porcelain like that was literally nothing. could've broken it by dropping a small weight onto it.

[@ogre_on_top_]

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

[@greenman7131]

0:28 PLEASE i need it

[@willyumfys]

both the wood and the porcelain broke too cleanly with a straight line in half, plus the wood clearly had a line where it broke

[@bioswat96]

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

[@1dimtim]

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

[@wwoodz84]

The second piece was scored to break. It broke clean... You can see it for a frame how clean the "break" is

[@nocultist7050]

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

[@stevecarlisle7341]

It's not the same piece of wood, which appears to be pine. Pine is easy to break, but doesn't separate. The new plank snaps like particle board, separates like particle board, looks like painted particle board, and has no grain like particle board.