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Samurai slices 100 mph fastball with sword in Japan
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| Oct. 14, 2015
| Ben Hooper
Posted on 10/15/2015 5:21:55 AM PDT by JoeProBono
TOKYO, A Japanese swordsman dubbed a modern-day samurai sliced a 100 mph fastball in half 30 feet away from where it was launched by a pitching machine.
Isao Machii, who previously made headlines when he dueled a sword-wielding robot and sliced a shrimp traveling 80 mph through the air, drew his sword after the ball was fired from the pitching machine and sliced it in half in midair.
Video of the stunt, posted to YouTube by Oricon News, shows the ball was clocked at 100 mph in the air and was fired from a machine 30 feet away from where Machii was standing.
The video closes in on some of the remains of the baseball, which appears to have been sliced almost exactly in half.
TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Sports
KEYWORDS: isaomachii; samurai; swordsman
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To: JoeProBono
So he’s really good at…choppin the balls?
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posted on
10/15/2015 5:28:57 AM PDT
by
cartan
To: JoeProBono
Cool. But when did baseballs become hollow?
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posted on
10/15/2015 5:29:31 AM PDT
by
Moltke
To: JoeProBono
If this had been done when John Belushi was still alive, we could imagine the Samurai skit ‘Samurai Strike’.
To: Moltke
Any chance the core could have fallen out? I’ve never actually sliced a baseball in half so I have no idea
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posted on
10/15/2015 5:35:48 AM PDT
by
muir_redwoods
(Freedom isn't free, liberty isn't liberal and you'll never find anything Right on the Left)
To: Moltke
Really cool and I suspect the fastball was a tennis ball not a baseball.
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posted on
10/15/2015 5:37:51 AM PDT
by
Tupelo
(Honest men may go to Washington, but Honest men do not stay in Wahington.)
To: Moltke
Pitching machine baseballs are not real baseballs. They are a lot better at holding their shape.
A real MLB ball will actually get non-round very quickly after being hit only a few times.
To: Moltke
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posted on
10/15/2015 5:38:47 AM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(SOME IMAGES MAY BE DISTURBING VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED;-{)
To: JoeProBono
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posted on
10/15/2015 5:41:11 AM PDT
by
ETL
(Ted Cruz 2016!! -- For a better and safer America)
To: Tupelo
I think its probably one of those hard rubber baseballs that they use with pitching machines. At least they did when I played in highschool... a long long time ago.
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posted on
10/15/2015 5:42:16 AM PDT
by
kjam22
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To: Ronaldus Magnus III
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posted on
10/15/2015 5:42:20 AM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(SOME IMAGES MAY BE DISTURBING VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED;-{)
To: JoeProBono
Now if he could just learn how to use a baseball bat instead (hey, it could happen) the Rangers could use a good hitter.
Missed it by "that much" [obligatory Get Smart youtube clip]
To: JoeProBono
More of a bunt. Seems he moves the sword after it is sliced
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posted on
10/15/2015 5:48:17 AM PDT
by
Vaquero
( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
To: JoeProBono
Looks like it would have been high and inside. He should have checked his swing and taken the ball, instead, he got a foul. Strike one.
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posted on
10/15/2015 5:49:19 AM PDT
by
outofsalt
( If history teaches us anything it's that history rarely teaches us anything.)
To: JoeProBono
Ok now I see a t in the slow motion gif.
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posted on
10/15/2015 5:50:13 AM PDT
by
Vaquero
( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
To: JoeProBono
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posted on
10/15/2015 6:00:24 AM PDT
by
ETL
(Ted Cruz 2016!! -- For a better and safer America)
To: Ronaldus Magnus III
Belushi’s samurai was his only funny character IMO.
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posted on
10/15/2015 6:02:17 AM PDT
by
Vinnie
To: cartan
So he’s really good at…choppin the balls? Yeah...a real nut cutter.
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posted on
10/15/2015 6:03:07 AM PDT
by
Bloody Sam Roberts
(Democracy is not freedom. Democracy is simply majoritarianism. It is incompatible with real freedom.)
To: ETL
How sharp is this?
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posted on
10/15/2015 6:04:29 AM PDT
by
Daffynition
(*We are not descended from fearful men*)
To: Daffynition
How sharp is this?I see what you did there.
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posted on
10/15/2015 6:05:11 AM PDT
by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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