Nicky82 wrote on Mon, 07 November 2011 21:53

Diane Castle wrote on Mon, 07 November 2011 21:46 Niknokitueu wrote on Mon, 07 November 2011 05:57 I must say, the bit about him cutting a pea-pod in half lengthwise is dang impressive. It feels like it has to be faked, but watching it in slow-mo is awesome. ...And as for cutting the bullet mid-flight... my head assplode The peapod is pretty impressive, even if he got to set the height of the support at the optimal height for him to make a horizontal cut. So that's a bit of fudging there. Plus, no one said how many tries the guy got before the one that worked. The bullet? It's not a bullet from a firearm. It's a plastic ball ejected from a launcher made to look like a real gun. The plastic is far easier to cut than a real bullet, and the speed of the launched ball is so slow that the man can draw his sword and slice through the air before the ball gets to him, from what, 16 meters away? And no one says this only took four or five tries. It might have taken all afternoon. Chou can do this stuff EASILY. Diane the curmudgeon I would think that if anyone managed to hit a bullet with a sword in RL, there would be a broken sword.... and for making clean cuts, I would think that the bullet spin would make it pretty much impossible.

I've not done the numbers, but I would guess that if we assume a lead bullet (rather than one of those 'steel-jacketed' ones I've heard of (lead being soft)), a good-quality sword and the collision being onto the sharp of the blade, that a broken sword would definitely not happen.

Of course, I might be wrong. Any one done the numbers or have a youtube link?

[edit] ahha... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBFlYwluqMk
Of course, there are other videos showing swords being broken...

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Diane Castle wrote on Mon, 07 November 2011 14:46

Niknokitueu wrote on Mon, 07 November 2011 05:57 I must say, the bit about him cutting a pea-pod in half lengthwise is dang impressive. It feels like it has to be faked, but watching it in slow-mo is awesome. ...And as for cutting the bullet mid-flight... my head assplode The peapod is pretty impressive, even if he got to set the height of the support at the optimal height for him to make a horizontal cut. So that's a bit of fudging there. Plus, no one said how many tries the guy got before the one that worked. The bullet? It's not a bullet from a firearm. It's a plastic ball ejected from a launcher made to look like a real gun. The plastic is far easier to cut than a real bullet, and the speed of the launched ball is so slow that the man can draw his sword and slice through the air before the ball gets to him, from what, 16 meters away? And no one says this only took four or five tries. It might have taken all afternoon. Chou can do this stuff EASILY. Diane the curmudgeon

I am pretty sure I saw a Deadliest Warrior or Myth Buster episode (or something) were they tested if a katana could cut a bullet. I remember the result being that if the bullet hit the blade edge the bullet would get cut and the blade would get scratched, but the the person with the blade would simply have 2 holes instead of one. Assuming they somehow were fast enough to do this. (the test was shooting a sword that was held by a vice grip)
edit: spelling

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