Humans, and feats that appear superhuman

Who are normal humans in life that have done things that you would think to do superhuman? What are some of their feats? They can be in any type of category, from fighting (I'm expecting some Bruce Lee stuff), to intelligence, to strength, and everything else.

A person that always comes to my mind with having mind-blowing feats and strength, is the Canadian strongman Louis Cyr (who lived in the 1800s). He was arguably the strongest man....ever. He was documented as lifting nearly 4,500 pounds (18 men on a platform) above his shoulders. I didn't think that was even possible!

(I wonder if there's any crazy intelligence feats out there. They sound like they'd be harder to document than any types of displays)

Bruce Lee:

Lee's striking speed from three feet with his hands down by his side reached five hundredths of a second.

In a speed demonstration, Lee could snatch a dime off a person's open palm before they could close it, and leave a penny behind.

Lee could break wooden boards 6 inches (15 cm) thick.

Lee could cause a 300-lb (136 kg) bag to fly towards and thump the ceiling with a side kick.

Lee performed a side kick while training with James Coburn and broke a 150-lb (68 kg) punching bag.

Lee's combat movements were at times too fast to be captured on film at 24 frames per second, so many scenes were shot in 32fps to put Lee in slow motion. Normally martial arts films are sped up.

"Bruce Lee:

Lee's striking speed from three feet with his hands down by his side reached five hundredths of a second.

In a speed demonstration, Lee could snatch a dime off a person's open palm before they could close it, and leave a penny behind.

Lee could break wooden boards 6 inches (15 cm) thick.

Lee could cause a 300-lb (136 kg) bag to fly towards and thump the ceiling with a side kick.

Lee performed a side kick while training with James Coburn and broke a 150-lb (68 kg) punching bag.

Lee's combat movements were at times too fast to be captured on film at 24 frames per second, so many scenes were shot in 32fps to put Lee in slow motion. Normally martial arts films are sped up.


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Lynne Cox.  She actually is a bit superhuman, as tests have been run on her concluding that her body basically has a more effective way of regulating its core temperature and is also far more buoyant than it shoud be.  Feats?

Destroyed both the men's and women's records for the fastest crossing of the English Channel... as a 15-year old. 
A year later, after her record had been broken, she did it again.
Became first woman to swim the Cook Strait of New Zealand.
First person to swim the Strait of Magellan.
First person to swim the Cape of Good Hope.
Swam across Lake Baikal in Siberia.
Swam across the Bering Strait from American to Soviet territory.
Completed a 1.2 mile swim in Antarctic waters in 25 minutes.  A normal person would be suffering from hypothermia in under 5.

The English Channel is dangerous.  The list gets more and more dangerous with each line.  Heck, the third and fourth are dangerous for ships. Obviously, the last few are completely insane. 

Usain Bolt ran 100 meters in 9.69 seconds.
That's pretty much around 10 meters every second

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(I wonder if there's any crazy intelligence feats out there. They sound like they'd be harder to document than any types of displays)"

"That Japanese Guy Who Eats like 40 Hot Dogs in 3 minutes is Superhuman

lol
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Ray Allen's shooting is superhuman

Richard Sandrak when he was a kid. The dude had an 8-pack at the age of 7!

He was also the arguably strongest pound-for-pound person around.

Chuck Norris > Everybody

his dad gave him steroids i thought

Steroids or not, his physique is still out-of-this-world and he threw something over 50 punches in 15 seconds. 115 I think

LMAO

"Jay Leno's Chin is Superhuman...
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"King Saturn said:

"Jay Leno's Chin is Superhuman...
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Thats true"

my dad once lifted a whole tractor trailer off of his foot with ease after it had been crushed, and went for a month without realizing that his leg was broken in five different places (both were separate incidences though)

"my dad once lifted a whole tractor trailer off of his foot with ease after it had been crushed, and went for a month without realizing that his leg was broken in five different places (both were separate incidences though)"

Bump , this is an interesting thread .
 

"There's also the story of Samson in the Old Testament of the Bible. He is told to have performed feats such as 1) killing a lion with his bare hands 2) killed one thousand enemy soldiers with a donkey's jawbone as his only weapon 3) ripped the city gates (probably made of bronze or iron) of Gaza out of their posts and carried them on his back to the top of a large hill almost 40 miles away 4) used a fraction of his normal strength to bring down an entire temple just by placing himself between two support pillars and pushing.  I'm not trying to start any sort of religious debate here. This is just what the Bible says. If you don't believe in the Bible then we don't need to get into all that. "

 Stephenie Meyer and her ability to manipulate the minds of all the teenage girls in the world is superhuman

" There's also the story of Samson in the Old Testament of the Bible. He is told to have performed feats such as 1) killing a lion with his bare hands 2) killed one thousand enemy soldiers with a donkey's jawbone as his only weapon 3) ripped the city gates (probably made of bronze or iron) of Gaza out of their posts and carried them on his back to the top of a large hill almost 40 miles away 4) used a fraction of his normal strength to bring down an entire temple just by placing himself between two support pillars and pushing.  I'm not trying to start any sort of religious debate here. This is just what the Bible says. If you don't believe in the Bible then we don't need to get into all that. "

" Resonate said:

"King Saturn said:

"Jay Leno's Chin is Superhuman...
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Thats true"

Indeed "

This guy is fairly superhuman .
 

Bas Rutten's Kick 

Hmm, I'm sure I know of something...

" @Power NeXus said:

" There's also the story of Samson in the Old Testament of the Bible. He is told to have performed feats such as 1) killing a lion with his bare hands 2) killed one thousand enemy soldiers with a donkey's jawbone as his only weapon 3) ripped the city gates (probably made of bronze or iron) of Gaza out of their posts and carried them on his back to the top of a large hill almost 40 miles away 4) used a fraction of his normal strength to bring down an entire temple just by placing himself between two support pillars and pushing.  I'm not trying to start any sort of religious debate here. This is just what the Bible says. If you don't believe in the Bible then we don't need to get into all that. "

Samson was badass. "

" Bruce Lee:Lee's striking speed from three feet with his hands down by his side reached five hundredths of a second.In a speed demonstration, Lee could snatch a dime off a person's open palm before they could close it, and leave a penny behind.Lee could break wooden boards 6 inches (15 cm) thick.Lee could cause a 300-lb (136 kg) bag to fly towards and thump the ceiling with a side kick.Lee performed a side kick while training with James Coburn and broke a 150-lb (68 kg) punching bag.Lee's combat movements were at times too fast to be captured on film at 24 frames per second, so many scenes were shot in 32fps to put Lee in slow motion. Normally martial arts films are sped up. "

How about Echo location!  Just like Daredevil people can 'see' with sound. It's somethng anyone can do, it just takes practice.  These are two guys that can do it: Ben Underwood, Daniel Kish.  One of them is even  does mountain biking and he's totally blind.  Kish even teaches other people how to do it.

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