Modern-Day Samurai Can Slice a Speeding Bullet with His Blade. (video)

There are some things you would only expect from superheroes or action heroes; like slicing a bullet in half with a blade. So when a real-life, modern-day samurai does it, it’s certainly worth ooh-ing and aah-ing over. Isao Machii, who has been honing his sword skills since the age of five, is able to slice a pea-sized bullet traveling at 200 miles per hour, fired at him from a BB gun from about 70 feet away, in mid-air.

The bullet is a tiny pellet, over 4000 times smaller than a baseball. Since the pellet is so small and travelling at such a high speed, a normal person would have no chance of seeing it at all. “I honestly don’t believe I can cut this if it was stationary on a chopping block with a chef knife. He’s going to do it while it’s flying through the air, with a Samurai sword,”

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