There's the silent, contemplate-y monks, and then there's the Shaolin Monks, who attain spiritual harmony by mastering the sort of skills you tend to see in Mortal Kombat.  I mean, they can't freeze you or anything, but it's not impossible to imagine that some of them could remove the spine from your still-living body with a single stroke.

Check out this guy's action, as he throws a needle through a sheet of glass. Oh, and better yet - the clip is slowed down to 1000 frames-per-second.  Badassery personified, ladies and gentlemen.

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