What do you get when 2016 participants decide to put their hands and feet together?
A New World Record of course!
On July 1st, if you happened to have been visiting Taiwan, you might have seen this wacky weird group trying for a world record for the most people to receive foot massages (reflexology) simultaneously.
1,008 reflexologists and 1,008 tourists from Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Malaysia and Singapore, all volunteered to rub, and be rubbed, for 40 minutes in this record event.
The Taiwan Tourism Bureau organized the record foot feat to promote their health tourism. “Reflexology” is among the most popular practices in Taiwan for relaxation and improving general health.
Guinness had set the requirement to have at least 400 participants receiving treatment for at least five minutes on each foot, a feat the 2016 participants managed with ease.
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JonItN
Oh boy! What a useless thing…
Tracy D
yeah we wouldent wanna reduce stress or produce endorphans, improve circulation or anything like that.
homegym
I would try if i was in Taiwan :-).
DARKWING DUCK
I wouldn’t rub your feet if a genee popped out of them.
Tourex
Bring out the air fresheners,and open the windows please!!
Geoff
I was there!
“tourists from Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Malaysia and Singapore”
What about everyone else? I’m from Britain and there were plenty of us, as well as Polish, Slovakians, Americans, Canadians, Guatemalan etc etc so not as limited as the article states.
It wasn’t at all smelly and even less useless as we all got free 40-minute foot massages which would otherwise be quite rare right?
rhon
i know that there are different strokes for different folks but this is a tad ridiculous.
clowangel
…Weird. O_o; At least it was free?
taiwan or japan
Umm… why’s this filed under “Japan”? This happened in Taiwan no?
Tracy D
I wonder how the media tried to embellish this story? But lets face it judging from the typical comments found on this page, people would rather hear and see about violence.
GuestToday
I love female Asian feet!
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