Guinness record-holder Ron Sarchian can split 42 watermelons using karate chops in one minute, now fights cancer.
Ever since thumbing through a frayed copy of the Guinness Book of World Records as young child, Ron Sarchian has been fascinated with the notion of performing an activity faster or for a longer time period than anyone else in the world.
In his years doing stunt work for television and films, Sarchian, 58, has been set on fire, thrown off buildings, crashed cars, been blown up and was a debris dodger — a job that involves running through an explosion while trying to avoid being hit by flying bricks. Fitness professional and stuntman Ron Sarchian holds 32 world records, all documented in the Guinness Book of Records.
On Jan. 27 Sarchian was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, a form of cancer with a high mortality rate, the same type of pancreatic cancer that took the lives of Patrick Swayze and Steve Jobs. Sarchian was told by his doctors he was in for a battle and would need to endure several rounds of chemotherapy to shrink the tumor and then go under the knife to have the tumor removed.“Why me,” Sarchian said to himself. “What about the guy who smokes three packs of cigarettes a day and is 100 pounds overweight and he is fine.”“Every day, when you wake up, you don’t know how you are doing to field,” he said. “It changes your sense of urgency about life.
Just days before the surgery, Sarchian snapped 185 pencils with a karate chop in one minute to set his thirty-fourth world record.
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