Martial arts coach plans to shatter 80 tiles on raw eggs – and her own record

Ms Jennifer Li, the newly appointed 22nd leader of Zi Wu Men Gongfu, which started in China. She is the first woman and person outside the country to lead the group. ST PHOTO: AZMI ATHNI
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SINGAPORE – In 2024, martial arts coach Jennifer Li, 58, hopes to crush her own record from 2023, when she sliced 69 ceramic tiles, each balanced atop a raw egg which remained unbroken. In total, she smashed 76 such tiles, though seven eggs broke.

The feat, documented in the Singapore Book of Records, was seven years in the making, even though it took just 30 seconds to execute.

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