A Chinese kung fu master that can put an electric drill to his head without it damaging his skin has been giving a demonstration of his skills.
But 24-year-old Zhao Rui is the first to admit it’s not something people should try at home, saying that when he was first learning to toughen his skin up, he had accidentally drilled a hole in his head and ripped off a chunk of skin.
He said: «It was pretty painful but I got better and I learned from the experience and now I can practice pretty often without any problems.»
And to prove the point he used the drill held against his head for 10 seconds and after he removed it, sure enough, there was no blood, only a bright red mark where the drill head had been.
The kung fu master may be only 24 years old, but he started learning martial arts as a child after becoming fascinated with the discipline and at the age of 16 ran away to join a Shaolin Temple where he studied two years before leaving to continue his studies in kung fu from other masters.
He specialised in focusing on free combat and Qigong, and now he is a master himself where he practices at his home in Fuxin township in Mianzhu city in southwest China’s Sichuan province.
The drill is just one of the stunts he uses to demonstrate his skill, and he also can use his supertough skin to lie on sharpened spears without any of them piercing his body, or can bend an iron bar by pressing it between his throat and a wall.
He said: «I believe in making my body supertough, believe it or not I used to be quite nervous as a youngster but now that I can break stones with my head I have found it has given me lots of self-confidence.»