Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
- Location
- Inside my skull
Samurai cuts gun pellet in half with sword
- Thread starter Ming the Merciless
- Start date
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Beebo
Firm and Fruity
- Location
- Hexleybeef
Ninjas don't need safety goggles.
could have easily taken an eye out.
How many takes do you think it took?
could have easily taken an eye out.
How many takes do you think it took?
Meh. It's a plastic BB so will have been travelling slowly to begin with; even moreso once it's travelled the "70ft" to the bloke with the sword because they're light and slow down quickly.
On top of that it's heading almost directly towards the guy so should be relatively visible and predictable.
Not to say that there's no skill involved but it's not the superhuman feat they're trying to sell it as.
On top of that it's heading almost directly towards the guy so should be relatively visible and predictable.
Not to say that there's no skill involved but it's not the superhuman feat they're trying to sell it as.
Dogtrousers
Kilometre nibbler
Skim reading the forum thought this thread would be interesting. I read "Samurai cats with sword"
Seevio
Guru
- Location
- South Glos
Also, not a Samurai.
Drago
Legendary Member
- Location
- Suburban Poshshire
When I was a kid we used to do that with real bullets and wooden toy swords.
Time Waster
Veteran
One take but several ninjas!
twentysix by twentyfive
Clinging on tightly
- Location
- Over the Hill
My eyesight reports it wasn't cut in half. Ming taking liberties (again) 
Yes it's not a superhuman feat, but it's pretty impressive nonetheless. Airsoft guns aren't that accurate at 70 ft. They can be quite good, hitting other players in skirmish games, but not thickness of a sword blade accurate so the shooter couldn't just have been aiming at an agreed point that the swordsman has practiced to swing through. He would have been aiming at that rough area but not enough to rely on it. Velocity falls off a lot as the plastic BBs are very light, so the swordsman would have been able to see it coming to a degree but would still need fast reactions. At a constant 200mph the pellet would have covered the 70ft in 0.22 seconds but with the slowdown it may have been something like 0.3s. That's still less time than a batsman in cricket or baseball has to react and the blade and pellet are fractions of the size of bat and ball.
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FrankCrank
Old layabout
Reckon Kwai Chang Caine would of brushed that pellet aside like a pesky fly, then duffed up a few bandits into the bargain.
Beebo
Firm and Fruity
- Location
- Hexleybeef
Im not interested until he can catch it in chop sticks.
steveindenmark
Legendary Member
I was too frightened to watch. 😁
