I met Dennis years ago. He told me he realized how strong he was when he was a boy, he was lugging a heavy boat tarp up a hill with his Dad and when he got to the top, his Dad said he didn’t even help him.
He is very strong for sure, but there is also a technique involved that makes it possible, at 3:06 you can see how he preps the pages so that when he pulls, only a portion will actually be engaged at a time which makes it easier(by no means easy). Thats not taking anything away, why should he work harder than he has to.
I forgot to say, that part you saw is part of a clip in Stan Lee Superhumans in which he explains how to do the trick you mention, so they could see him doing the real feat later: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-H8golExMhp4.html
It might be something related to how when a dead body is shocked it can launch itself multiple meters, which has caused scientist to speculate on the real strength of human muscle tissue and his brain might have something that stops it from setting a safety limit on his muscles.
When humans are thrown far across the room when getting electrocuted, our muscles tighten up and then it just unleashed or some shit, we basically throw ourselves. Our muscles if ever at full strength could lift well over 1 tonne! That's so annoying, I can barely lift my little sister who weighs 35kg and was wearing a 15kg vest, so ok, I was lifting 50kg altogether, but i was still struggling though, so my muscles could actually allow me to lift 50kg like it's nothing, but my brain will never let me be that physically strong though, and all because my shitty tendons and ligaments are fucking weak! My bones, not a problem, bones are meant to be tough as fuck, especially the femur!
Guys, those limiters which are built into our tendons are called golgi. Some people are lucky enough to have their golgi set really high. I always did heavy physical jobs. I used to be able to unload a shipping container containing 800 x 25kg bags and stack them 1 tonne to a pallet, four to a row for ten rows high, in three hours. But I knew a guy who was six feet four and weighed next to nothing who could do that in an hour and 20 minutes! Now as a champion Powerlifter I was probably at least twice as strong as he was, conservatively speaking. But he could out-work me! He was about the best man in the business when it came to unloading containers. No one could beat his time. Yet he didn't work out, he was a smoker and a drinker. He could even approach his personal best while working with a hangover! We had a guy in Powerlifting, Glenn Waszkeil who was a top five in the world in his weight division powerlifter. He was the strongest lifter in Brisbane, our capital city, yet he weighed 60kgs!! With him entering every single competition it certainly kept me humble when I'd finish my three squat attempts before he'd even done his first attempt! He could out squat me by at least 50kg back when I was in the 100kg class and new to the sport. I was stronger than the bodybuilders I trained with, but not by that much. Glenn was 10 times Australian champion in a row! Undefeated on Australian soil. I consider that to be the real measure of a man's strength, not some novelty act, no matter how well it's being performed.
A close friend at university was convinced that I am an alien because he could not understand how am so freakishly strong. He had already witnessed many displays of my strength just from playing around at school. In the gym he tried to ridicule me by announcing that I was going to showoff somehow by front squatting what the power lifters were struggling with for back squats. He was standing next to me so I warned him for his safety that I going to press this overhead and I did. He went from giggling to speaking in tongues. A bodybuilder missed the event and asked me what happened so I pressed it overhead again. Why are humans so weak? I am not hating. What is inhibiting a human from activating their motor units at will outside the presence of adrenaline?
I always thought this was a trick until i did a job for a friend of D.R.s in N.J. IT WASNT until i looked around the garage and realized all this metal was bent by hand....there is some technique but strength is key
Yeah agreed. What I think most people forget is that with standard weight training good technique can help you lift or push more weight, whether that be bench pressing or deadlifting etc people with promised technique are often more capable of exerting force
I know it is a joke but the police have a handling procedure for known steel benders. The police find out when agitators claim they were threatened with a feat of strength to make them back off.
I loved The Best Damn Sports Show Period episode Dennis was on in 2004ish where he cut a deck of cards in half, held 2 motorcycles in place for 20 seconds, broke out of shackles etc. It was funny
Saw a lot of this when in high school. All the farmers sons who were used to manual work since they were kids were super-strong. Around first year of high school my cousin saw his farmer friend lift a half-barrel with water in it clean off the ground and move it to another location - just after my cousin and another friend failed to lift it off the ground together (the two of them together could hardly lift it). He said he was shocked at just how strong this kid their own age was. Kinda scared him. I knew that guy in school and he would clench his fist and veins would pop out on his forearms LOL Really nice guy. You could not meet a nicer guy who actually stepped in once when some older guys were about to pick a fight with me and a few of our friends...those guys saw him and walked off LOL
@@1999Supercooldudeman it's pretty possible I bent my pliers and I'm 14 my uncle bent a steal pull just like this dude did he actually broke it on my life
@@yt_bh_entitys5694 Interesting, have you done research to find out which gene allows you to use that many muscle fibers and if you've heard of anyone that can use 100%
I’ve bent metal myself before but it’s obviously VERY difficult, I’ve bent some spoons easily but I later found out it was made out stainless steel which bends like soft plastic, As of right now, I’m 13.
That’s unbelievable. You’d think the nail would go through his hand. But then to drive it through a pan? I’d like to see acceleration numbers on his hand. It must be off the charts.
Yeah imagine having his genes and a full martial arts training regimen. A sport that is all about a high power to mass ratio and he is absolutely gifted for it.
What a bunch of violent miscreants! Sport fighting has rules specifically against using hand strength on an opponent. Dennis Rogers or any person who can bend a 60-penny nail can easily maul the best MMA fighters because no fight skill can defeat hand strength that exceeds that of an adult male chimpanzee. Sport fighters would have their facial bones pulverized and any parts in the hand gets crushed or torn off. Bending steel requires bone density and that bone density more than doubles the mass of the hand and therefore doubles the energy transfer to a lethal level. Dennis Rogers would easily kill any fighter in the ring with hand strength alone.
el mas fuerte es denis rogers sin duda por muchos hombres fuertes lo que hace el nadie lo hace jalar un avion romper cadenas partir barras de carcel una fuerza descomunal
And also because obviously he has also some leather to protect it from puncturing his hand, nevertheless it's an amazing feat also. Believe me I know what I'm talking about.
I REALLYYYY want to see Dennis Rogers punching power on like a punching machine something or on something else... because its obvious he has superb and super finger.. forearm.. and hand strength bending and breaking objects like that... So I ABSOLUTELY want to see what his punching power is like... SORRY... HAD TO COMMENT THIS... IM CURIOUSSSSS... I want to see it before he gets too old... hope it's not too late... maybe my comment can make a difference I'm hoping so
@@fuzer4047 Also about your technique sometimes too making things more easier and subtle for proper advancement and completion furthermore 👌 why dont you post a video of you on punching machine then? 👌
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This type of strength is mind over matter stuff. It's the same as walking on hot coals and novelty stuff like that. It is impressive, but not more so than real strongmen lifting 400 pound stones. I notice this program likes to pay out on bodybuilders. Those guys are freaky strong in their own way as well.
Not true. You have no clue what you are talking about. Bending steel requires physics. There is no magic or mysticism of any sort -- just straight up physics.
@@donrowlett2886 . .Then how did the Mighty Atom do it? He weighed less than 150 pounds and only ever trained with 40lb dumbbells . . when he even trained at all. . . . It's you who doesn't know what you're talking about. How do you explain the fire-walkers, fire-eaters, the lying on a bed of nails while having boulders placed on their chests smashed with sledgehammers guys . . the list goes on and on. I used to bend half-inch concrete reinforcing bar around my neck, but that was just using my strength which I developed over a lifetime of powerlifting which turned me into a 270 pound ball of muscle. If anyone would know what was possible or impossible naturally, it'd be me. The Mighty Atom was the singularly most prominent example of an ordinary-sized man performing superhuman feats using . . God knows what . . to do them. He was a top level master of Jewish Mysticism, Cabalism, call it what you will. He could drive a nail through a piece of wood, then pull it out with his teeth!! Come on Physics, explain how that's possible! Then he'd bite the nail in half.
Arthur Black Couple things. Fire eating, bed of nails, and the concrete and sledgehammer thing(which Dennis Rogers has also done many times) aren’t the same thing as what’s happening here. Fire eating, if done properly, you won’t even feel the heat. Both the bed of nails and concrete/sledgehammer is all about distribution of the force. If done properly, anybody will be fine. I’ve seen guys break cinderblocks over their head with a sledgehammer. It’s all physics.
@@theneoenigma2094 . . You still haven't explained how the Mighty Atom could pull a nail out of a piece of wood with his teeth, then bite it in half . . . then there's the feat of holding back a Cessna from taking off by tying it to his hair!! I maintain there's something supernatural going on there . . and in Dennis Rogers as well.
This is stupid it's all about his technique, you can see he uses his legs in most of his bends and has a specific way to rip the phone book. I will say it's somewhat impressive at his weight and age, but have him do some actual strength lifts and we will se the truth.
@@corycherrier4743 what type of metal? I for instance, found I can do the things he can, and bend (unbraced) without using my legs, steel bars that require 600lbs of force to bend, and my bodyweight is 140lbs.
