Top that Grasshopper! Jaw dropping moment Samurai cuts in half 200mph BB gun pellet fired at him from 200 yards away
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UPDATED: 17:47 GMT, 2 March 2012
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It is the stuff you only see in Hollywood films.
A sword-wielding Samurai cuts a pea sized bullet traveling 200 miles per hour, fired at him from 70 feet away.
But this is real-life and the super human feat has been achieved by Isao Machii, a modern-day Samurai who started honing his unbelievable sword skills when he was a child.
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Incredible: Isao Machii's sword skills have become so accurate that he can slice a tiny pellet when shot at him from a BB gun
He was taught by an old master from the age of five and has now graduated to become the headmaster of a samurai school.
Machii's sword skills have become so accurate that he accepted the challenge from filmmakers to see if he could slice a tiny pellet when shot at him from a BB gun.
All of the action happens at such an incredible speed that it is almost impossible for the human eye to register.
Amazing: Machii's sword skills have become so accurate that he accepted the challenge from filmmakers to see if he could slice a tiny pellet when shot at him from a BB gun
In order to capture this amazing feat on screen, filmmakers used one of the world's most sophisticated high-speed cameras for slow-motion analysis.
Machii is recorded at 250 times slow motion performing the incredible feat.
The Guinness World Record holder shows incredible hand eye co-ordination to pull off the challenge.
Incredible: Isao Machii cuts a pea sized bullet traveling 200 miles per hour, fired at him from 70 feet away
RamanI Durvasula from California State University was stunned.
She said: 'This is about processing it at an entirely different sensory level because he is not visually processing it. This is a different level of anticipatory processing.'
Proof: the BB gun pellet after being sliced in half by Samurai Isao Machii
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