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All I can say is if there ever was a video that needed 1080p, this might be it.

Yeah, but can he patch a hole in a sock? That's the real question.

That was about five times longer than necessary.

I can do that.

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Can he walk on rice paper without making a sound?

Isn't it "walking on rice paper without tearing it up"?

Keeping it in slow motion throughout emphasizes just how fast his hand moves at the moment of letting go of the needle. I felt like this will take a while but once the throw started it was all worth the wait.
-Karl

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That was about five times longer than necessary.


Yeah, I let it spool up and then started at 1:10 and that was about right.

Wonder how he learned to do this. I wish Catholic priests could find such hobbies.

Looks like an unusually thin piece of glass

I wasn't as impressed as I thought I would be. He's closer to the glass than at first appears and that's one heavy duty needle; much larger than I imagined.

Yeah, looks like a small nail rather than an ordinary needle.

The title" Very fast handed monk throws a large nail through a unusually thin piece of glass, while standing closer then you would think, yet still makes you wonder if he can stand up to Kwai Chang Caine's abilities, but , you will be happy he's not molesting catholic children, while you wish this video just skipped the first minute". Might not climb up the ranks very fast.

I agree that it's thin glass and a heavy needle thrown at point blank range. It is trickery but just like street magic it still takes a kind of skill.

Give him ten more needles and see if he can make a smiley face.

Liked this? Then you should also check out the slowmo one of him looking for it in the haystack for a week.

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All I can say is if there ever was a video that needed 1080p, this might be it.


I was kind of wishing they had shown it in real time first.... Do you think baseball teams are scouting him now?

i saw that life once in a show called "masters of shaolin kung fu" touring europe. It was the highlight of the show, pretty impressive when seen live (there was a ballon behind the glass back then). It took a lot of tries, he tried it on several occasions during the show because allegedly it was such a difficult thing to do. the slomo clip takes away the "wow" effect somehow.

I thought the title said a needle through a piece of grass. The whole start of video I was looking for the grass, "where is that blade of grass?" I was thinking. "Well, certainly I will see it when he hits it" I thought. Of course, I just couldn't make it out because it's a tiny piece of grass and this will be frickin' amazing when he hits it with a needle!

Suddenly, there was a hole in the screen, "What the..??" is my thought. Wait... waitaminute.. then I look to see the title said GLASS not grass! "well," my first thought is, "Well, that isn't very impressive at all, a piece of glass is huge, how could he miss a piece of glass?? What is the big deal here?" I was indignant, "why, I could hit a piece of glass with a needle!!" I boasted! then it occurred to me, "wait, I could hit it but I couldn't make it go through the glass." And then all was revealed.

tl;dr I'm an idiot.

With slowmo this video could have been 1:40 shorter.

it's a finishing nail, not a needle.
still neat though.

My first question is, how fast does a needle massing x grams need to be moving to go through a piece of glass y millimeters thick? Considering that tornado winds can put a piece of straw several inches into a tree, I'd have to say probably not much faster than a good fastball (~150-160 kph). I think the trickiest part is probably the timing of the spin, to get it to hit when perfectly perpendicular. Otherwise it would simply deflect.

I dont think it goes through the glass either.

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