“Look, Mom, No Hands!”

There’s something in the air in Russia that makes men and women push the envelope and become the most belligerent possible version of themselves. We don’t mean it in a bad way, as if they’re going to be aggressive towards other people. No, they’re simply aggressively fighting the odds and challenging the limits of what’s possible.

Like a Russian matryoshka, Russian folks will do something extraordinary and attempt to follow it up with yet another layer of awesomeness. Americans are done with being weightlifters. Russians, though? They will only stop when their teeth are as strong as their forearms!