Watch this. Now imagine what an augmented/adept character could pull off.

Not to be a wet blanket, but the guy firing the pellet was firing a WHITE pellet while standing in front of a black background.

It's still pretty fucking impressive and I sure as hell couldnt do it, but I'd be FAR more impressed if he could do it with a more realistic situation.

If you look at the vid, the swordsman had his eyes closed near the end of the swing/cut. Impressive, but I think it's more of a trained reaction to that if he consistently swings his sword at a set height at a set time, the pellet will impact & cut itself on the sword. He's not swinging the sword at the pellet, he's bringing the sword up to where the pellet will impact it & cut itself.

Still an impressive feat to bring the blade up to the height/location by the time the pop of the gun is heard.

I wouldn't piss with this cat. Thanks for the link Elfenlied, I intend on sharing this with a few people.

Pretty neat, but I agree that perhaps the most interesting part is to think of what would be possible with a bit of augmentation. In reality though it's hard to say how staged this was, it's possible that they tried it like fifty times, even though they obviously want it to appear that they just went out there and did it once and that was that. It's even possible that it has more to do with the gunman aiming at the correct spot, which the samurai draws his sword to every time. That guy is still a boss, I'm just sayin.

Eh, i watched the show {good premise... but the execution... meh}.

They never mention anything bad about the cases. {How many times did they try... also it is JUST a airgun-pellet} Sure, i am certain that the guy is pretty awesome. But just HOW AWESOME?

Awesome enough I'm hiding behind him when the Zombies come.

Amen to that.

That video needs more Augmented Reality ... Oh, Japan has our back there. Now I will never be able to think of another Adept who isn't in some way tempted to load up some self congratulatory AR on their contacts/glasses/goggles/earbuds etc...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?src_vid=Qzhs1...&feature=iv