... San Juanito", which takes place every February. Locals affix homemade explosives to heads of hammers. The explosives were made with matches, sulfur and ...

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Every year, Mexicans celebrate 'San Juanito' by detonating homemade explosives with giant hammers—58 injured in 2025. Original Creation. This ...

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The hammers are fitted with homemade explosives made of potassium chlorate and sulfur, which are hit against stones or iron plates, causing a ...

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The 300-Year-Old Exploding Hammer Tradition of Mexico. VICE · 917K views ; 420kg Giant Firework Shell Story | The YONSHAKUDAMA ☆ ONLY in JAPAN.

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Max Campbell writes about Thomas Prior's photographs of men wielding exploding sledgehammers at a festival in the Mexican town of San Juan ...

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San Juan de la Vega is most noted for its unique exploding sledgehammer festival as a tribute to San Juanito, which takes place every February.

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Known locally as the " Los Martillos Explosivos", it takes place every year on Shrove Tuesday in the small town of San Juan de la Vega, in the Mexican state ...

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San Juan de la Vega, Mexico — Locals strike explosives with hammers in a centuries-old ritual honoring 'San Juanito.' Despite dozens injured ...

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Every February for centuries, locals in a small town in Mexico have thrown a bombastic festival unlike any other in the world.

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