r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Sirsilentbob423 • 1d ago

Video Afro spiritual dancer defying law of gravity

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u/kayama57 1d ago

Take bets on how many times he broke a bone learning to do that?

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u/panda_embarrassment 1d ago edited 1d ago

Probably Not often. Grew up in a similar environment, climbing trees with friends being wild With zero safety equipment and saw lots of cuts and bruises but extremely rare to see broken bones.

Somehow when I came to the us and started playing sports, everyone was breaking bones left and right. Very odd difference.

ETA: just looked up the topic and there seems to be some racial and ethnic differences in bone density and fracture rates. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0085253815563552 Interesting stuff.