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    160km/h is 44m/s, so the ball took .2s to reach him from the hole in the net. It's hard to tell how further behind the net the machine shooting the balls is, but, even with another 4m it'll be .3 seconds. The sound of the machine could buy him may be a little extra, but still the reaction is very impressive.

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    especially since he hits it as it going past him, not like a batter would!
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    160km/h is 44m/s, so the ball took .2s to reach him from the hole in the net. It's hard to tell how further behind the net the machine shooting the balls is, but, even with another 4m it'll be .3 seconds. The sound of the machine could buy him may be a little extra, but still the reaction is very impressive.
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    Holy crap Batman, impressive.

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    It is impressive. He can draw his sword incredibly fast, but his is not 'cutting' at the ball as much as making his sword pass through the same plane that the ball will pass through. And because the ball is going fast, it will hit his edge somewhere along the way and split. There are various slow motion videos in which this is explained in detail.

    So while this is very impressive in terms of speed, he is not hitting at the ball. The ball just happens to split itself on his edge. The fact that he hits the ball is rather 'meh' compared to the fact that he can get his sword out so fast without snags or tugs. I've done this, and there are a lot of motions to carry out at uncomfortable angles. He is faster than I can imagine.

    He does this kind of thing at least semiprofessionally. He is a regular celebrity in Japanese tv shows and does this sort of thing on a very regular basis.
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    Ha Ha , I played the video several times with my finger poised on the mouse ready to click the pause icon and was only able to freeze the video on impact once , even though I merely had to move my finger a fraction of a inch. Sight or Sound; A Study of Reaction Times
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    I think I've seen that guy (maybe it was another person..??) on an Australian tv show doing a similar thing with a golf ball.

    It's pretty impressive to me. Yes, he is only having to deal with one plane really (just getting the height right holding the sword horizontally) but getting it out of the sheath etc. He's pretty quick!

    What I'd like to see, just to see if it were possible, is whether he could cut down through the ball as it went past (vertical movement). Sword already out of course.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Grazor View Post
    Seen the Bruce Lee ping pong before, always thought it was BS but that looked for real.
    Sadly it is BS. At least in the sense that it was produced for a Nokia mobile phone ad with an actor who kinda looked like Bruce and a ton of CGI. Sorry

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    Dang, I thought that was too good to be true.

    Also not trying to play "can you top" but it made me think of this, from one of my all time favorite movies. If need be, skip ahead to 1:00 to learn about how to shoot a gun BEFORE you touch it.
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