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If you took all injuries into account, there'd be hundreds.

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The thrill of then becoming a Guinness World Record holder outweighs injuries.

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VO: This is Lisa Pitman.

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- Hello!

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And this is Chris Pitman.

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- Hello!

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And together they're the world's most powerful couple.

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Ow!

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Lisa and Chris are both black belts in Tae Kwon Do and well trained in the art

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of power breaking. What is power breaking you might ask? Well, it's this.

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A single strike or kick that breaks a stack of materials.

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Usually wooden boards

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Or sometimes roof tiles.

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And this couple isn't just well trained. They're both record holders.

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Isn't that right guys? Guinness World Record holders.

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Between us, we've got seven Guinness well records,

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so basically we smash stuff.

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I'm a seventh Dan black belt in Tae Kwon Do. Seven times European champion,

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one time world champion, one time World Cup champion.

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But really I was missing something,

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which was a Chris.

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We met and fell in love. Three months later on, I left my home in Wales,

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left my business and traveled up to England.

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It was literally a whirlwind.

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This is my Tae Kwon Do hand, this is my normal hand.

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No this is before Lisa. After Lisa.

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My training started when I met Lisa 13 years ago

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When I was his instructor. Very painful days. Very painful days.

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She's still my instructor. It still, it is still painful days.

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Our first ever world record attempt was in April, 2013.

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We didn't really realize what we were getting ourselves in for.

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You can't practice a thousand roof tiles -your body won't stand up to it.

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We failed. We did both walk into the local hospital. The doctor said,

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if you remember, she said,

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"Either your hand is broken in several places

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or you're made of iron."

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Seems it was made of iron.

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We were then invited on tv.

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Chris broke the world record on that day and I didn't.

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And he proposed to me on that day as well and I said I couldn't marry him until

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I've done my own world record.

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It all happens for a reason because then, third attempt - broke the world record

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for the fastest time of breaking a thousand roof tiles.

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"I am off to the hospital to get my hand checked out, but I'm fine."

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We had three between us by the time we got married.

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Oh God. That one. That's the one. - Yep

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This was the most amount of pine boards broken in a minute.

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B efore every world record and you see it set up, it's daunting.

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Your stomach, you feel sick. It's awful.

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The nerves and the fear of failure is just awful.

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I didn't think it was possible.

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Within that minute, it's like a day's worth of energy.

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It was mad. We just went crazy.

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The damage that'd done to my hand was significant.

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That was the best feeling ever because we are celebrating together.

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We're feeling amazing. We've helped each other achieve it.

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People say, well, why do you do that? We inspire our children.

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They absolutely love it.

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It's almost like we do it for them. It's what makes the club go round.

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One of our students said to us, when I get older,

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I'm gonna break your Guiness World Record. And I loved it.

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And I remember saying in the reply, "well, that's cool and I will help you."

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Obviously, I won't (laughing) Obviously, I'll trip him up.

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Hopefully next year we'll do another world record.

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Make it a nice even number of eight, but then 10 sounds - double numbers -

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that sounds good. (laughing)

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We'll see.