It's okay to be shot with a cannon, a man with the strongest stomach in history "Frank Richards"

"Frank · "Cannonball" · Richards"Was born in 1887 and was a performer active in the first half of the 20th century by exhibiting art at the carnival. His Uri is a strong stomach which is also said to be "the strongest in history". An adult man jumped and rides on his belly that lay on his back, a wooden plateSledge hammerIt seems that he was okay even if he shook it down against his belly. Furthermore, I could withstand this stomach even if I was about 47 kg in weight.

Nonetheless, he never felt pain, he said he was restricting the performance of receiving a cannon to the stomach only twice a day. Incidentally,Dempsey RollWe invented boxing's Hot Death Blow namedJack DempseyEven body blowing of it is received.

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The following movie shows the performance of receiving the cannon made in 1932 in the stomach. By the way, the image of the moment when the cannon is shot is hard rock band "Van Halen"11 studio album by"Van Halen III"Jacket is used for.

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This plump man is "Frank" Cannonball "Richards".


People make rows and in turn punch to his belly.


A facial expression that does not make you feel like you are replying at all.


I can not let him come even with a blow over weight.



The scene changed and a cannon appeared.


Setting the shell





Serious look with spectacles


Waiting for cannon launch with the feeling of "camou"


A cannon was released, and the shell hit the stomach of Richards. Truly he also fell down.


However, it stands up quickly.


From another angle again


A gun rounds flying ......


Clean hit on the belly and blown away behind.



And I got upset, but soon it got up.


Sequence which subsequently accepts people's punch with stomach.


Although dozens of quick punches are driven, there seems to be no particular impact.


Now I'm hitting something like a hammer. It is not likely to endure if you are an ordinary person.


Next is a jump. Adult men jump one after another to the stomach of Richards and get on board, but Richards is quite amazing at the wind where the wind blows.


And also the performance of the cannon.


After standby ......


Rapid release!


It is still blown away by the shocks behind the scenes, but you can feel a margin from the immediate standpoint.


Again from another angle. Certainly I am catching a shell with a stomach.


And again Richards will be hit by a hammer.


This time I will be hit by chairs ... ...


The chair is destroyed and it is the end.


Frank Richards who showed such performance only died in 1969 at the age of 81. It was life that kept on hard performance that others could not imitate at all, but it seems to have been surprisingly long lived.