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Young Cuban who crushes cans with his back could win Got Talent Spain

If he manages to travel to Spain, the young man from Sancti Spíritus is preparing a performance for the contest in which he begins by “pulling a colleague’s motorbike, which weighs about 500 kilograms, with his shoulder blades.”

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Young Cuban crushes a can of beer with his back

The young Christian Manuel Castellano Rangel intends to reach Got Talent Spain. Photo: Facebook/Victoria Rinavera.

In 2018, the young Cuban Christian Manuel Castellano Rangel tried to get into the Guinness Book of Records for his skill in crushing beer and soft drink cans with his back. However, almost six years later, one of his aspirations is to impress the audience of the Got Talent Spain contest.

According to the newspaper Escambray, a few weeks ago Christian communicated via Instagram with the board of directors of the well-known show and with several talent scouting agents. “We love what you do. We want you here,” they responded from Europe.

“If I get the necessary financing to reach this world-famous event, I will be able to show the world the skills with which I was born and those that I have also managed to build with a lot of effort and I believe that, once and for all, I will be able to transcend,” the young man from Camagüey and resident in Sancti Spíritus explained to the media.

But Christian hasn’t just settled for crushing cans. If he manages to travel to Spain, the young man from Sancti Spíritus is preparing a performance for the contest in which he begins by “pulling a colleague’s motorbike, which weighs about 500 kilograms, with his shoulder blades,” says Escambray.

When he tried, the young man “discovered that he moved it easily. When he detected that the Guinness was 1,070 kg, by a boy from India, he tried it with a friend’s mother’s car, which was close to a ton,” the report added.

Christian narrates that they added 100 kilograms of weights to the motorcycle and he moved it.

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“What happiness. It was difficult for me because I trained few times and only for one day, but if I had structured the training like the one with the cans, I would have achieved it, I think, with more ease,” he said.

He affirms that for the moment he is preparing to reach 1,500 kilograms of traction, a task for which he trains with the aim of holding weights with his scapulae and also breaking compact discs, which he does not consider complex, but he believes that “if no one has done it there,” he also intends to “destroy barriers and limits.”

He attempted his first mark on May 5, 2019, when he crushed 20 cans in one minute and climbed to 23, 25 and 30, he told the Sancti Spiritus newspaper.

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