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EXCLUSIVE: NOT ALL HANDS ARE EQUAL, AND YOU'D BE HARD PRESSED TO FIND ANY ABLE TO MATCH THE CLUBBING-PROWESS OF THE ONE AND ONLY MR HAMMERHAND WHO'S ABLE TO SNAP BASEBALL BATS WITH

AN OPEN PALM 15:20, 20 May 2025 We can all be a bit heavy-handed at times, few of us though could rake in million of views and forge an online personality out of it. Muhamed Kahrimanovic’s

looks deceive. The pensioner has the appearance of a grandfather with unflashy glasses and a ring of blond hair. But to the world, he is Mr Hammerhand, a plank-snapping,

breezeblock-shattering TikTok star who made a name for himself annihilating objects with his bare mitts. He owns the Guinness World Record for the most baseball bats broken with hands in a

minute – 68 – and even had an ill-fated cameo on America’s Got Talent. Now though, the 66-year-old seems to have found his home in short form social media content. Article continues below

The German resident, who was born in Bosnia and Herzegovina, now runs the Mosan Gym in Hamburg. “I've been doing martial arts for 50 years and I have a very big energy in my body and

mind and I have much power,” he said. He rarely pulls expressions, but seemed to soften when he talked about the man who taught him what he knows. “I learned from my Korean master, Master

Park Eung Joon, 45 years ago. In my younger days when I used to fight – he was my role model and I asked him if I could learn his art, and that’s how it all began in 1987.” He’s a taekwondo

master himself now with some reports claiming he has as many as 26 Guinness World Records. The evidence of his skill is clear to see on his countless videos on Instagram and TikTok, with

everything from walnuts to concrete slabs falling victim to his brutal limb. It looks stiff, the flesh on the side of the palm appearing solid and swollen. It’s something he has worked on,

with training videos showing him seemingly hardening his asset on brick walls. The consequence is a uniquely-dangerous weapon few others in the world could claim to possess. It’s one too he

says could cause injury if used against a person. “The arm would break in two pieces,” he said with that unflinching face. Despite spending his life becoming a taekwondo master, recent years

have seen him reap the benefits of his work in a celebrity sense few could have predicted when he started out with Master Park all those years ago. He posted information about his Guinness

World Records attempt online. “Suddenly it went viral with over 100million views,” he said. From here the requests to keep posting kept coming in. One day he claims he had over 26 million

views. “I have big plans ahead, and the greatest challenge will be the showdown between me and ordinary people around the world, using the hands. “And my biggest personal challenge will be

to break over a tone of at least 25 concrete slabs, each one weighing 50kilograms. “And I want the baseball bats of Louisville – the strongest basketball bats in the world – and to try and

break one.” Baseball bats are big on Mr Hammerhand’s radar. In one video, he and some of his students at Mosan do pull ups from a baseball bat at the same time to prove its strength. Then,

Mr Hammerhand snaps it in half with a clean chop, before grabbing the remains and splitting them in two length ways down the wood. Article continues below Eggs too are regulars. Often he

will nestle one in his closed fist as he then uses it to reap destruction on some unsuspecting wood below, only to then crack the end end of the egg to prove it’s sustained structural

integrity among the wreckage.