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Remarkable footage has surfaced in China of a man chopping bricks with his hands.

Deng Shaohua, from the City of Chongqing, cut 37 bricks in 52 seconds by hand as he showed off his amazing kung fu skills to his neighbours.

Deng says he started training at the age of 15 to improving his health because he was often sick as a child.

The training has left Deng with a very strong right hand, which is 6 cm thick, about twice that of most people.

When he's not copping bricks, Deng works at in the customer service department of a mobile phone retailer.

SOUNDBITE (Mandarin) Mr Deng:
start from 01:14 "It hurts when I chop bricks or stones too hard."
start from 01:32 "Your fingers need to be strong enough before you learn to chop bricks, otherwise you would be injured easily."
start from 01:43 "It is impossible to start from steel balls. I used peas to practise my fingers muscle at the beginning, and then reduced the amount of peas and replaced by steel balls. Now I use half half."
start from 01:58 "Fingers play an important role in the practice of Chinese kung fu. It says 'The strength of ten fists is weaker than a palm, a palm is weaker than an elbow and an elbow is weaker than a finger'. Fingers are the strongest. They can pierce you skin.'"
start from 02:28 "Two thousand times."
start from 02:40 "This action can strengthen your whole body. The bag contains 10kg steel balls."
start from 02:54 "When people train their fists and palms to the highest level, they can destroy everything."
start from 03:05 "You need some skills rather than strength only."
start from 03:32 “I often practise harder at the end of the training.”