Wolfgang Manicke has had to resist ripping down houses with his bare hands for the past two years.
It may sound more like a condition of anger management, but it’s actually a condition of him being on the show Stan Lee’s Superhumans.
“We had an agreement with Stan Lee. We had to wait until it aired before we are allowed to do it again,” Manicke, a Prince Albert martial arts instructor, explained.
The show, which runs on H2, the History channel, takes a look at people who make impressive and sometimes outlandish claims to see if a person can actually follow through.
“Maybe I’m a little bit crazy, I don’t know,” Manicke responded when asked why he tears down houses.
Even though ripping down houses without any equipment might seem crazy to most people, it’s nothing new to Manicke. He had taken down 25 other houses before the episode was filmed.
When the episode was filmed he was joined by a team of 15 from the martial arts studio he works at.
This episode of the show created by comic book icon Stan Lee looks at people with superhuman strength.
It’s entitled “Robot man” and will air on Sunday evening, over two years after it was filmed. Twenty minutes of the episode will be dedicated to Manicke and his team.
Manicke admits he was concerned that it wouldn’t air at all in English after the show took a hiatus. In the meantime he had watched it broadcast in both Spanish and French.
However, several weeks ago he was contacted by the show’s host, Daniel Browning-Smith with the good news that it would air on August 4.
Unfortunately Manicke and his team likely won’t be having a viewing party since they’ll be packing for a martial arts World Championship in Dublin Ireland. The following morning they’ll be on an airplane.
While many from Prince Albert have already seen the house being torn down in video or in person, the broadcast will put the city on televisions across the world.
“For people to see us do the house breaking, we didn’t just do it for ourselves. They’re going to do it for Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. We did it for the city,” he said.
Not only that, but Manicke received a bit of an extra ego boost from the show.
“They took me to the University of Saskatchewan. You will see it in the episode, they actually checked out my strength. They put me on the computer and it was something I didn’t know before – how hard I can hit, how hard I can punch.”
