Eric Campbell

Even the older practitioners can perform extraordinary acts of strength, lifting as much as 200 kilograms in weight.

Look, as a very serious program, they hesitated for at least a quarter of a second before enthusiastically saying, do it, you know.

Reporter involvement is a cheesy old meme from way back in the early days of John Logie Baird.

When you're doing this sort of thing, you do have to watch the reporter suffer.

And so, at Master Tu's urging, I was initiated into the ancient world of Yinjiao Gong.

So, what do I do with this?

Yeah, so that's like that, then that goes through.

I don't need, I need the thick one, do I?

Why am I doing this?

Geoff, we might do this.

Can you just wait in the other room for a minute?

Actually, to be honest, I had to call for assistance.

If you're doing a story, no matter what it is, you have to do it to your fullest, and this was no exception, so I had to endure that indignity as well.

I was thinking this is probably a very bad idea, but once you're in there and you've got the TA, you know, the per diems for the shoot and everything, you can't really back out.

You've hired the van.

No, and I didn't anticipate I'd be spending the next 12 hours lying in the fetal position in the hotel room.

But I still hold the Australian record.

I can't feel any immediate health benefits.

It's very much as you'd imagine it would be.

It rather hurts.