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Guts and glory

KOCHI: It is painful enough to imagine a bike riding over you once, but to have it repeated 678 times! That is what Shelfy Jose, a Karate coach from Kottayam, achieved on Sunday.

Mr. Jose thrilled a large gathering at Marine Drive in Kochi, including his wife Siji, children, and mother Rosamma, with his feat of physical prowess. He later told reporters that everything was possible with practice and that he was looking for a place in the Guinness Book of Records.

A calm Mr. Jose waved from the raised platform on which he lay to the bike riders to stop as they passed over him for the 678th time. There were 25 bikes involved in the show.

A member of Citizens’ Sports Club, Kottayam, Mr. Jose is not new to doing the seemingly impossible. He has already had a man break a 100-kg granite boulder placed on his tummy. Breath control and exercise of the stomach muscles were what it took to achieve this, he said.

As a Karate black belt, Mr. Jose has coached over 5,000 students and has won medals at the university level in gymnastics.

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