Ahlfors, Josefine ( "Fanny" Josefine)
Anissina, Marina
-- Worlds FreeDance. With Gwendal Peizerat. Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1998.
Azzario, Quincy and Azzario, Kate
-- Azzario Sisters. Hand balancing act. Circa 2009.
Ben Zvi, Hemda
-- Amir Guetta and Hemda Ben Zvi. Street acro. 2017.
Bonny, Mimi
Canter, Holland
Cilione, Angela
-- Stage posing. 1995.
Cocca, Alexandra (b.k.a. "Alex" Puccio)
Alexandra completes a one-armed chin-up while holding a weight with her other hand.
Couric, Katherine
Eamranond, Pamela
Fadal, Tamsen
Fehr, Soundra
Gladkaya, Irina
Goudz, Brigitte
Graff, Jessica
Heffelmire, Charlotte
Hendrick, Alicia
-- Alicia performs 40 one-armed push-ups for charity.
Holland-Keen, Leigh
Khuong, Victoria ( "Victoria Vives" )
-- Victoria hiking up and down hills. While carrying a man on her shoulder.
-- Victoria carries a man piggyback. Then picks up a second man and carries them both offscreen
Kitamura, Tomoko (b.k.a. "Lioness" Asuka)
Klaus-Carter, Sabine
-- Sabine leg presses one, then two guys who are sitting on a leg press machine to challenge her.
Kornacki, Lauren
Kovalcuk, Bogdana
Bogdana performs a few one armed pull-ups on a bar.
Bogdana scales a garden arch in Greece using hands alone and performs a couple one-armed pull-ups.
Laree, Alexis (b.k.a. "Mickie James"😉
Latona, Amanda
Leander, Madeleine
Lemaire, Jennyfer
Lyons, Niccola ("Tankerbell"😉
Maier, Michelle
Makeeva, Irina
Matveeva, Elena
Young Russian woman performing over 100 consecutive 2-handed strict-form push-ups.
Norley, Keri
-- strapped, rear-end-of-car lift.
Otto, Sharon
-- Sharon Otto leg presses 1,000 pounds.
Ruiz, Ginger Griep
-- Cirque du Soleil. "Supermom" aerial silk performance. La Nouba, Solstrom. 2006.
Schoenfeld, Melody
Stern, Erin
Wattel, Maria
Whitmore, Lisa
-- Apex Acrobatics. Shhh. Gym rehearsal short set to Bjork's famous song. 2007.
-- Apex Acrobatics promotional trailer. 2008.
-- Apex Acrobatics. Troxy Swing performance. 100 Years of Jazz in the UK. 2018.
Yokota, Rimi ("Jaguar" Yokota)
BONUS SECTION
Car Movers
Car movers list, actual and otherwise. The real ones are pretty impressive ...
Feats by Unknown Women
ASTA Pungency Units.
Most people are familiar with the Scoville scale, which measures the hotness of chili peppers. However, this scale is kind of inaccurate, which is why real professionals scoff at the Scoville scale and rank their spices with ASTA pungency units. This scale measures the pungency of a pepper with a technique called liquid chromatography, which enables a more accurate score than the Scoville scale. But since the Scoville is fairly well-known and standardized, the ASTA scale is mainly used for measuring the color of pepper products. This is important, because the quality (and price) of a chili powder is usually tied to the deepness of its red color.
The Sydharb.
People who have visited Australia might have encountered this mysterious unit that pops up in official documents and ordinary conversation alike. The strangely named sydharb is a rough measurement for a large volume of water. It’s named after Sydney Harbor and is used in roughly the same manner as the Wales and Belgium are used for land.
One sydharb is roughly the amount of water in Sydney’s harbor area—about 562,000 megaliters during high tide. Unsurprisingly, the unit has never gained popularity outside of Australia.
Furlong, Firkin, And Fortnight.
Many strange measurement units have started as a joke or as one person’s strange idea that eventually gained traction. The Furlong, Firkin, and Fortnight System (FFF) is neither: It’s a rare case of a completely arbitrary measurement system that parodies other systems. It’s based around three basic measurements: the furlong for length (200 meters, or 220 yards), firkin for mass (40 kilograms, or 90 pounds) and fortnight for time (1.2 million seconds, or two weeks). The fortnight is based on an old English unit, while the others are deliberately ridiculous.
Although the system’s three basic units (and their many derivatives) are little more than a joking commentary on the many ridiculous systems of measurement that exist, they actually do see some use. “Furlongs per fortnight” and “firkins per fortnight” are known in-jokes that mean “any obscure unit.” The microfortnight (1.2096 seconds) is often used alongside the more legitimate time units in computing—as a sort of engineer joke. For instance, Google’s converter function supports the microfortnight.