A competitive power breaker has been wowing followers on TikTok with her incredible feats of strength.
A software engineer by day, in her spare time Laura Napoli competes as part of the US and World Breaking Association, and she often shares videos of herself training and performing with her more than 250,000 followers.
Breaking is a martial arts technique that essentially involves using your hands, elbow or leg to break through an object.
It's used in a range of different martial arts schools, including taekwondo and karate, but has also sprung up as its own individual effect, with breakers like Napoli competing in events all over the US and the rest of the world.
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In competitive breaking, contestants are usually required to smash through a stack of boards made of of wood and other materials.
It's pretty intense stuff, and Napoli's accomplishments are seriously impressive. In her videos, she can be seen punching through thick stacks of wooden boards like they're pieces of paper, and she's even taken on concrete boards too.
In one video shared by Napoli to TikTok, she can be seen participating in an online breaking tournament, moving between different stacks of pine wood boards standing half a meter in thickness, which she makes quick work of with her bare fist and elbow.
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In another she can be seen smashing through concrete slabs with the heel of her bare foot, with a third video showing her breaking stacks of wood while dancing in an inflatable unicorn costume.
Napoli's skills have won her thousands of fans online, and has revealed a small but tightknit community of women breakers that she does her best to support.
'You are an absolute force, definitely inspired by your strength,' one person commented on her page, with another writing 'This is the definition of a strong powerful woman!'
'You got me over here wanting to break stuff,' another person joked.
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Napoli also had words for people who criticise her activities, telling one person who said she should focus her strength on a 'real fighting sport', 'Who says I don’t know how to fight? I destroy lumber for fun, you don’t think I couldn’t destroy some punk if I wanted to?'
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Hannah Smith