I expected that guy to just pull out a katana and totally flip out and kill everyone.

*dupeof=http://videosift.com/video/Machine-Gun-vs-Katana

This video has been nominated as a duplicate of this video by Ryjkyj. If this nomination is seconded with *isdupe, the video will be killed and its votes transferred to the original.

I've lusted after a Coldsteel katana for maybe a decade. Maybe I'll have the money to burn when I'm as old and rotund as those dudes demonstrating
That pig head was really nap, but going through nine rolled tatami mats in one strike is really impressive. Oh well, back to Mount and Blade
Also - did they fill those boots at about 3:00 with meat? These dudes creep me right out

Not only do I doubt most baseball players could un-sheath, swing, and chop a chunk off a 93 mph fastball with a katana, I doubt you could consistently hit anything more than a pop up off the same pitching machine, with a bat. If an average person could do this, or even productively hit a 93 mph pitch, you would see a lot more good players in the MLB, and a lot less benchwarmers.

>> ^village1diot:
Yeah, most ball players could do that. I probably could, and I haven't played in years.

upvote for Dragon Twister!
I think he would kick the Star Wars Kid's ass, in a wooden-katana-vs-floor-lamp battle.

If he practices 2 hours a day, he'll lose the weight. But since he gets winded after 6 minutes, he'll have to work up to that. It's better than seeing kids play WoW all day long.

Even more importantly, pros use their katanas as stabbing weapons, take note.

Nice, very nice. I love seeing stuff like this, and it instantly reminded me of my all-time favorite piece of bladesmithing, the Norimitsu Ôdachi (http://japantrip.tripod.com/nodachi/norimitsu.html). One of my ambitions is to one day see it myself in real life, but that will not happen withouth some sort of miracle, I take it these things are locked up and hidden pretty well.

That there is a 377cm blade with a 226,7cm cutting edge. And unlike many other ceremonial ôdachis which are composed of two or three pieces and then welded together, this thing is one solid piece of folded steel, made in the same way traditional katanas were made. Mind boggling.

Then there's always the sword of Goujian (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sword_of_Goujian). The damn thing was buried in a tomb underwater for over 2000 years, in a wooden black lacquer scabbard, yet when they pulled it out the blade wasn't tarnished at all and was still sharp. These are the sorts of things I find more beautiful than anything else in the world.

Love it. I wonder what the katana guys would think of him.

Edit: http://www.surlatable.com/product/gift+types/by+price/ultimate+gifts/shun+bob+kramer+7-piece+knife+block+set+w-bonus.do

Tags for this video have been changed from 'national geographic, katana, sword, japan, samurai, weapons' to 'national geographic, katana, sword, japan, samurai, weapons, art' - edited by choggie

>> ^gorillaman:
I love that we're finally living in a world where stabbing someone in the back with a katana is considered the 'moral thing'.


At least he didn't settle with the chainsaw.

Not sure how well you recall the movie, but no one was stabbed in the back... The only person to meet the sharp end of the katana was Maynard, who got slashed across the chest, and then stabbed in the gut.

At any rate, the moral thing he references there was when Butch had the opportunity to get out of the store while Zed was busy with Marsellus, but he chose instead to go back and rescue a man who quite likely still wanted him dead.

At any rate, it's a great movie!

I love that we're finally living in a world where stabbing someone in the back with a katana is considered the 'moral thing'.

One of my friend's fathers once chased a census worker down the road while brandishing a katana. Not a lie. The father WAS insane, but yeah, still! It happens, I suppose? Maybe Census workers are the expendable unlucky henchmen of the US government?

The geek is strong in this one.

I bet you have a name for your katana too.

>> ^Raigen:
http://img196.imageshack.us/img196/9264/img00068y.jpg
There's one of my two Katanas. And yes, I took this with my Blackberry right this second, and yes, that is a photo of Chewbacca signed by Peter Mayhew. What you don't see next to it is the photo of Darth Vader signed by David Prowse.
And, yes, I am a geek, so shut up already.