the road less traveled - a story i'd read

i figure in a day and time saturated with crappy reality shows, my life is as good as any... here goes.
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So I was watching TV the other day and ran across a documentary. There was a person interviewing a 6 year old chinese kid who looked like a miniature Mr. Olympia, obviously I paused to watch a moment. It appears that this kid is somehow related to superman... The interviewer has the kid flex a few times and then has the boy start doing pushups. Let me tell you, when the counter hit 100, I was impressed. 200, I was speachless. 500, I thought, this has to be a joke. 1000, Yea... at 2200 push ups (all of which, mind you, are being video taped and counted on a hand held counter by the interviewer) the interviewer asks the child if he'd like to stop because he looks tired. The child insists he's fine, the interviewer tells the child there's nothing more to show, everyone's impressed and he could quit. The child hesitantly states that he will simply do a few more and then stop. When the interviewer asks "well how many more?" The child responds, "maybe 1000?" The child went on to do over 3500 total push ups. So I googled around and found an article about the child. Now while the article might give rise to skepticism, I know that the boy can do at least 3500 in just over an hour. There's gotta be a video of this online somewhere... the documentary was in Korean... So I'll continue scouring the Korean video sites... If you find it let me know!

The article:
Lu Di, 6, flexes his muscles as other young kungfu students watch at a kungfu school in Central China's Henan Province July 26, 2006. According to school president Shi Yongdi, Lu did 10,000 pushups in three hours and twenty minutes four days ago. Since he shows so much promise, Shi says the school will waive his tuition for ten years.


http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200607/28/eng20060728_287677.html
 

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