At Least 21 Treated For Burns After Attempting ‘Fire Walking’ at Tony Robbins Event
- Posted on July 21, 2012 at 12:36pm by
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(The Blaze/AP) — Fire officials in California say at least 21 people were treated for burns after attendees of an event for motivational speaker Tony Robbins tried to walk on hot coals.
The San Jose Mercury News reports that at least three people went to a hospital and most suffered second- or third-degree burns.
Robbins was hosting a 4-day gathering called “Unleash the Power Within” at the San Jose Convention Center. Witnesses say on Thursday, a crowd went to a park where 12 lanes of hot coals were on the grass.
Tony Robbins (Photo by Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images)
Robbins’ website promotes “The Firewalk Experience” in which people walk on super-heated coals.
Witness Jonathan Correll says he heard “screams of agony.” He explained it was hard to watch as one young woman appeared to be in so much pain.
“I heard wails of pain, screams of agony,” he said. “It was horrific.”
Correll continued: “It was people seriously hurting, like they were being tortured… First one person, then a couple minutes later another one, and there was just a line of people walking on that fire. It was just bizarre, man.”
Henry Guasch, 19, said that after walking across the hot coals while chanting his mantra, “cool moss,” he felt powerful.
“Overcoming something like that, it’s a breakthrough,” he said, explaining that he slowed his pace at one point and got a minor burn.
Another fire walker, Andrew Brenner said the keys to making it across the coals without getting burned are faith and deep concentration.
“I did it before, didn’t get into the right state and got burned,” said Brenner. “I knew I wasn’t at my peak state. I didn’t take it as serious.”
Fire Capt. Reggie Williams says organizers had an open fire permit and emergency personnel were on standby.
“We discourage people from walking over hot coals,” Williams said.
CBS San Francisco has more:
Also, for your viewing pleasure, a previous Tony Robbins fire walk can be viewed here:
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Comments (154)
Skunkherder
Posted on July 21, 2012 at 2:28pmMyth Busters did an episode on this.
They found that you had to let the coals burn down a bit to get a nice layer of ash on top, which acts as an insulator. When they walked at a slow even pace they had no problem, when one tried to go fast, he got burned.
Sounds like the people running it didn’t let it burn long enough before the people walked on it. It is not mind over matter, it is just science.
Report Post »The_Jerk
Posted on July 21, 2012 at 3:11pmCrazy zealots.
Report Post »The-Monk
Posted on July 21, 2012 at 3:16pm21 burned by hot coals, all burned by Tony Robins.
Report Post »BryanB
Posted on July 21, 2012 at 5:24pmHi Monk……
You want the really egregious thing about this ????
All those people that got burned, actually paid Tony Robbins money, to hospitalize themselves. And then they blamed themselves for not being worthy.
“And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.”
Report Post »black9897
Posted on July 21, 2012 at 5:41pmIf they want to clear the burns up all they have to say is shallow Hal wants a gal.
Report Post »The_Pointy_End
Posted on July 21, 2012 at 6:14pmWhat kind of dumb-dumb thinks they can change/control science with the power of their mind – LOL. I would call this a learning lesson.
Report Post »Wyatt's Torch
Posted on July 21, 2012 at 6:38pmStoopid newbies…they forgot to first soak their feet in Tony Robbins Sure Fire Magical foot balm, elixir, and laxitive solution (made from 100% organic snake oil)
Report Post »Brooke Lorren
Posted on July 21, 2012 at 2:28pmOne of my FB friends went to this thing. I hope he’s okay.
Report Post »TurboCat
Posted on July 22, 2012 at 8:09amI never could stand that Tony Robbins guy. He even LOOKS like a con man. It’s just a bunch of stupid new age magical thinking. “Think Positive”. “Think Happy Thought Boys n’ Girls!” Gimme a friggin’ break!
Report Post »Baja
Posted on July 22, 2012 at 10:48pmIf he’s really a friend, he needs an intervention.
Report Post »MeteoricLimbo
Posted on July 21, 2012 at 2:23pmAvoid hardwood coals. Mesquite and oak would make for toasty digits I would think. Was Oprah there?
Report Post »bigdaddyt46
Posted on July 22, 2012 at 7:10ami just signed up for my first firewalk. my only caveat was that i be allowed to tie porthouse steakes to each foot
Report Post »EyeofthePatriot
Posted on July 22, 2012 at 10:20pmLOLOL! Best.Comment.Yet!
Report Post »Meyvn
Posted on July 21, 2012 at 2:21pmDumbass alert!
Report Post »scuba13
Posted on July 21, 2012 at 2:41pmOnce again adding Encinom and alcohol spells disaster for the Encinom family.
Report Post »Seagal45
Posted on July 21, 2012 at 2:12pmWow people walking on hot coals got burned? Ya gotta be kidding me. Stupid is as stupid does.
Report Post »Mikev5
Posted on July 21, 2012 at 1:35pmPeople that pay to go to these kinds of things… Self-help crap are addicted to them and they don’t usually find what they want they find small amounts of soul healing but never what they expected so they continue to go to them looking for that all embracing final self-help program. I have a friend that has attended so many of these and I have never seen a change in him other than thousands of dollars vanishing into the promoters pockets. But he continues to take these programs and feels happy for a few months. He always feels better and healed but then again he continues to go to them so is he really getting any cure I mean real think on that.
I say a sucker is born every second as Mister Fields always said.
Report Post »randy
Posted on July 21, 2012 at 2:09pmAnd yet, person after person kept walking?
MORONS!
Report Post »Isitover
Posted on July 21, 2012 at 2:13pmYou nailed it. I have a relative who spent lots of money, and 6 weeks of her life at one of these places. Came back with a ” Master’s Degree”. Now she’s spreading the “new age” way of life for $90.00 a pop. She can’t explain, how the rest of us took 6 years of school to get our Master’s, and she only 6 weeks. ” But it’s the same degree”. That’s how smart they are.
Report Post »randy
Posted on July 21, 2012 at 2:15pmAn actually it was P. T. Barnum that said “A sucker is born every minute :)
Report Post »Mikev5
Posted on July 21, 2012 at 5:39pmrandy ok
Is that correct ok I always like W.C. Feilds that guy was a crackup
Report Post »DoomsdayProphet
Posted on July 21, 2012 at 1:32pmBlood on hands of Obama, Mitt and NRA!
Condolences are empty words – what actions are you gonna take?
By Editorial Board / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
A story on drudge, this title. Can I ask who Editorial Board is?
Report Post »LRC
Posted on July 21, 2012 at 3:52pmUmmmmmm, wait…what? Obama, Romney, NRA were at the fire walking event?
Report Post »barber2
Posted on July 21, 2012 at 4:26pmLRC: No. But DOOM was sent on a Troll the Blaze assignment ….
Report Post »progressiveslayer
Posted on July 21, 2012 at 1:26pmGives new meaning to carbon footprint.
Report Post »MeteoricLimbo
Posted on July 21, 2012 at 1:33pmnow that was funny Progressive. Thank you for the bit of humor today
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on July 21, 2012 at 1:34pmLiterally.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on July 21, 2012 at 1:40pm@SLAYER
You slay me ;-)
Report Post »oicu814me2
Posted on July 21, 2012 at 3:56pmHA HA HA
Report Post »HA. Now thats funny right there, i dont care how you are.
MeteoricLimbo
Posted on July 21, 2012 at 1:19pmI got this visual of lemmings.
Report Post »Chrono_Sleuth
Posted on July 22, 2012 at 4:28amThat’s exactly what it is. Group behavior can be very dangerous. Easy to lose your self in the guiding flow of the masses. Kind of sad really, but we’re all prone to this once we think we are a part of something grander than ourselves.
Report Post »tommyg524
Posted on July 21, 2012 at 1:18pmMatthew 6‘Beware of practicing your piety before others in order to be seen by them; for then you have no reward from your Father in heaven. 2 ‘So whenever you give alms, do not sound a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, so that they may be praised by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward. 3But when you give alms, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, 4so that your alms may be done in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you.*
You don’t need Robbins, a fistful of dollars, red hot coals, or feet afaire to praise Jesus in your private setting. Sheeple need to stop trusting all these imposters.
5 ‘And whenever you pray, do not be like the hypocrites; for they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, so that they may be seen by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward. 6But whenever you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you.*
Report Post »JustPeachy
Posted on July 21, 2012 at 2:31pmTommy, Robbins isn’t even trying to promote Christianity. But it is a type of “religion” of sorts. It’s one in which people rely upon themselves and themselves alone–also known as “humanism.“ ”Humanism” merely comes under various names and guises, but it’s basically and totally “self-reliance.” Essentially they are their own gods, masters, saviors, etc. Oldest line in the Book: “I can do this myself.” And yes, just like cults, it has its goats!
Report Post »tommyg524
Posted on July 21, 2012 at 7:01pmok so would you also please tell me what you thing of the current status quo in the u.s.a., assuming you live here somewhere…would you rather live in rural 1949 or in urban big box 2012, i want to know, and WHY, sincerely, thanks for your gentle response
Report Post »tommyg524
Posted on July 21, 2012 at 7:15pmhey just peachy, I know he’s not trying to support Christianity, why do you have to label it? Humanism? Where did you pull that from? in other words, you believe HUMANS, the same lowly life form who eat eachother in the name of profit to expell a religion which would, what… serve all in the name of what, conformism?? Talk to me junior. Talk to me about the corporate states of america which produces nothing now but pain now, can you say “batman”? Can you say “I lost my home?”….“my job”, my future? My family? I don’t want to be dependant on anyone, but I have found myself dependant on the corporate states of america. Of which, or whom, i have had to wake up at 0500 every morning to support. Can you honestly say “Thanks corporate america for all you’ve done “? Really? if you can then you’re part of the problem, brainwashed completely, or just rich off of the rest of us.
Report Post »Maxim Crux
Posted on July 21, 2012 at 1:17pmI guess they did not have enough faith.
Report Post »tommyg524
Posted on July 21, 2012 at 1:12pmJesus said, in so many words, to go into your private room to pray, not to be a hypocrit and shout
Report Post »from the pulpit displaying your supposed powers. This is an example of brainwashed sheeple following some human brainwasher. How stupid, just stupid. Read the New Testament. Pry in private and from your heart, you don’t need some other human to validate your sincere relationship with Jesus.
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Posted on July 21, 2012 at 1:11pmI heard that barefoot hot coal walking, eating glass, sleeping on a bed of nails, and the trading of Ron Paul Congressional Softball cards (personally signed by Paul, with the words HOME RUN) is in store for all Ron Paul acolytes in Tampa….
Sounds like a hootenanny!!
Report Post »tommyg524
Posted on July 21, 2012 at 1:19pmYou lose.
Report Post »TelepromoterNChief
Posted on July 21, 2012 at 1:20pmOkay, that was funny.
Report Post »LazloWhoopingcough
Posted on July 21, 2012 at 5:15pmYeah, that was funny as hell.
Report Post »skippy6
Posted on July 21, 2012 at 1:11pmThey forgot to go really fast and put ice on their feet!!!!!!
Report Post »skippy6
Posted on July 21, 2012 at 1:16pmDid Penn and Teller cover this on the Bullsh@t show??
Report Post »TelepromoterNChief
Posted on July 21, 2012 at 1:11pmPay me a ton of money and I will let you walk across some flaming coals all you want.
Report Post »chips1
Posted on July 21, 2012 at 1:21pmWas this declared one of Obama’s “shoe free zones”?
Report Post »The-Monk
Posted on July 21, 2012 at 1:10pmIn some parts of the World this is called the Santa Clause test.
Those who have been nice don’t get any coal; those who have been naughty, well….
Sooooo, JZS; don’t try this. You’ve been a very naughty boy. LOL
Report Post »bnewbs1
Posted on July 21, 2012 at 1:10pmWhen you play with fire……………………..
Report Post »B4B
Posted on July 21, 2012 at 1:09pm“Another fire walker, Andrew Brenner said the keys to making it across the coals without getting burned are faith and deep concentration.”
No, the key is to keep moving, go fast, thereby limiting the time your flesh is in contact with red-hot coals.
Report Post »LMAO, for me the take-away line was “We discourage people from walking over hot coals”
The-Monk
Posted on July 21, 2012 at 1:17pm@B4B
I asked a fire-walker what the trick was. He said to wet the feet then let get a coating of grey, already burned, coal dust to coat the feet. Then walk very fast. The coating prevents the hot coals from touching the flesh before you are able to take the next step.
Sometimes the grey dust falls off….
Report Post »gsplgtr
Posted on July 21, 2012 at 1:04pmTony Robbins was last seen running out the back door with an arm full of cash laughing hysterically!
Report Post »strangerlsd3
Posted on July 21, 2012 at 1:00pmShallow Hal wants a gal…
Report Post »nzkiwi
Posted on July 21, 2012 at 12:57pmThere seems to be a never-ending supply of stupid people.
Perhaps this is how the cults get their adherents, by tapping into this fountain of imbecility.
Report Post »Psychosis
Posted on July 21, 2012 at 12:57pmyou cant fix stupid
Report Post »SCREW-WINDOWS
Posted on July 21, 2012 at 1:07pmObviously they missed the memo Obamacare hasn’t kicked in yet your on your own.
Report Post »LeadNotFollow
Posted on July 21, 2012 at 12:48pm…
Report Post »Why would anyone blindly follow this guy, and walk on hot coals?
Gonzo
Posted on July 21, 2012 at 12:57pmI think they are just looking for a higher power…in the wrong place.
Report Post »SCREW-WINDOWS
Posted on July 21, 2012 at 1:03pmO bozo thinks he can walk on fire and water.
Report Post »chips1
Posted on July 21, 2012 at 1:28pmSCREW:
Report Post »Now that’s a pay per view moment. Rule #1. He can’t walk faster than a Prius.
The-Monk
Posted on July 21, 2012 at 12:47pmThe Coal was also hosting an event called, “Unleash the Power Within”.
Sounds like a scheduling issue…..
Report Post »CatB
Posted on July 21, 2012 at 12:43pmAfter one or two .. who are the idiots who followed? .. for that matter what is wrong with number one and two. I can’t stand to listen to this guy .. let alone pay him money to be physically injured.
Report Post »progressiveslayer
Posted on July 21, 2012 at 1:24pmThese simpletons are most likely obamazombies so they have no sense.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on July 21, 2012 at 2:35pmYou are correct .. people who need someone to tell them how to run their life .. can’t figure it out on their own .. I had help also .. it is called “The Bible” .
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