Reuben De Jong Fails To Break Guinness World Record In China

Foreign strong man slams into Chinese tempered glass. This story tells us one thing, that when foreigners come to China wanting to break records, it won’t be that easy

This guy is so unlucky, he doesn’t know that Chinese people must have face, that when there are foreigners/guests, [Chinese] always bring out the best…

The foreigner in the above video is Reuben De Jong, from New Zealand, and he is trying to break his own record. In 2009, he broke 15 panes of tempered glass. Here, he is trying to break 17 panes. This video has been viewed over 800k times since it was uploaded on Youku by Anhui Television a few days ago (not including other copies and on other Chinese video sharing websites) becoming one of the week’s top viewed and discussed videos.

A copy on YouTube:

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The male Chinese presenter in the end speculates that Reuben failed maybe because of the day’s temperature and the quality of the glass being too good.

Below is the video of Reuben De Jong setting the current world record of 15 panes of glass broken consecutively (briefly shown in the above Chinese video) in 2009. At that time, he beat the previous world record holder Martin Latka‘s earlier record of 11 panes of glass.

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Comments from Tianya:

时空穿越部部长:

Hahaha, LMAO, I’m willing to believe this is an advertisement… Such cupware for the foreigner.

谁家的猫爪子:

I think the previous record was 15 panes.

However, coming to China, [he] only breaks one, and had to hit it so many times too. 囧…

海王星的这一端:

This I saw when CCAV broadcast it. My parents cried out…ai ya passing clouds!

蔺相小如:

To be honest, at the time, I wasn’t kind and laughed rather uncontrollably, especially after he ran into it many times without success, and then finally taking off his helmet saying, “I don’t understand”. LMAO.

lzqz11:

Such a tragedy for this foreign brother.

热血在山林:

You wanted us to see how niu you are…but don’t you feel stupid now…

犹恐落花:

I laughed. I bet this brother will harbor a lot of hate and bitterness towards Chinese glass for the rest of his life~

lrrh1986:

I still remember when that building in Shanghai fell over. The building had fallen over, but the glass didn’t shatter.

zwufengm:

Made a fool of by us, haha.

Bring out the good glass and you won’t be able to break it. Haha.

Comments from Mop:

只要妳快乐:

It isn’t that China can’t manufacture good [quality] things, just that the profit [price] isn’t reasonable. These days, there are many first-rate products in the world that are all made in China.

蛤蟆骑天鹅:

That foreign girl isn’t bad!

开着奔驰溅你一身屎！:

Oh great Heavenly Kingdom! I love you… only with regards to glass.

4.我爱胸大肌

LMFAO…Heavenly Kingdom’s glass!

楼上那男人:

The Heavenly Kingdom has finally toughened up before Westerners, the glass was very calm!

再注册不上就要崩溃了:

If those were bulletproof glass, then not only would it be not gei li but it would also cause Chinese to lose face, because that would be cheating.
However, it doesn’t seem like bulletproof [glass].

偶尔来一下下_love:

He will never again come to China to challenge [the record].

奔驰C280:

China’s tempered glass is world class. Remember the Fuyao Glass boss that donated 100 million yuan after the Wenchuan Earthquake [Sichuan Earthquake]?? Mercedes Benz, Bentley, and Maybach all use Fuyao glass!!

虽枯香不改:

I guess everyone did not watch closely enough. That was held with a Guinness World Records Adjudicator on the scene supervising. All of the glass panes were inspected by Reuben and the Guinness World Records Adjudicator and the procedures are very strict! It must be said that Made in China is very impressive/convincing!