Physiological Study for Spoon Bending

There have been many TV programs in which persons demonstrate spoon bending. We are not so much interested in this, but we are interested in the mechanism of why a hard spoon bends. However, we think that it has not been reported using scientific methods because spoon bending is used as an entertainment on stage or as a child's game. We worked with a male student at a junior high school who can perform spoon bending easily. When we made physiological measurements during spoon bending, we found results were similar to physiological phenomena seen in qigong and ki-aikidou. We understood that this respiration played an important role in this spoon bending.