Modern-day samurai defeats 26 watermelons in glorious combat

In his 17th century book Go Rin No Sho (“The Book of Five Rings”) famed Japanese swordsman Miyamoto Musashi writes of his preferred one-handed katana-wielding technique, “Just as one man can beat ten, so a hundred men can beat a thousand, and a thousand can beat ten thousand. In my strategy, one man is the same as ten thousand, so this strategy is the complete warrior’s craft.”

In the video above, a powerful man of purpose named Ashrita Furman has clearly put Musashi’s teachings to good use in service of striking down a vicious onslaught of 26 watermelons. In doing so, Furman has been awarded the Guinness World Record for most watermelons sliced in half on one’s stomach in 60 seconds, just one of more than 200 titles currently held by the master swordsman and underwater hula-hooper.