Short Bending

Short bending is one of the easier bending feats to get started with. The classic strongman act always involved bending one or more 60D (called 60-’penny’) nails. When you get to this level you are on your way. You can watch one bent in the following video.

There are several ways you can grip a nail to bend it. The three most common are double overhand, double underhand, and reverse styles (the latter is the one I prefer and show in the video above). Below you’ll see Jedd Johnson bending the Red Nail, which is a challenge nail put out by Ironmind that few people in the world can do.

Nail bending takes a tremendous degree of hand, wrist and full body strength. For more read this my article on How to Bend Nails.

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