I wouldn't be surprised in the slightest when the revenge prank on the guy goes stabby stabby.

*quailty shooty stabby stealthy action

I SPECIFICALLY ASKED FOR THIS!

You know what movie was missing from this list? Citizen Kane. It was Citizen Kane, it was Citizen Kane -- IT WAS CITIZEN KANE!

Suddenly feeling very stabby.

There used to be a magician at Knott's Berry Farm that demonstrated this trick pretty close to the audience and then explained that he had trained for years to create the pathway through his body for the sword to pass through.

The arm is particularly easy because of how the muscles are arranged around the bone. It passes right below the biceps. Not much going on in this particular, dare I say "easy" to pull off location of bloodless stabbiness.
I don't know if the Knott's magician is still there or not, but it was a "magic" show that explained the science behind older, more simplistic tricks like this.

Also included were lots of different types of electricity stunts (static electricity, powering light bulbs through people, etc.), which have fallen to the wayside with magicians because most people nowadays understand electricity and it's not as gut wrenching as this scar tissue build up dealio.

I upvoted for Ricky's reactions and David'd ridiculous goading, but the trick itself is le sigh.

The magician at Knott's had a fairly visible scar on both sides of his arm, as he likely performed the trick A LOT. Serious needle mark action. lol. Blaine probably rarely performs this trick and perhaps used other material, like make up, latex or some such material, glue, creams, etc.

Just briefly stopping by. I pulled up my stakes a long time ago.

Hope you've been well. Make sure to drop me a line when your CD drops. September, isn't it? Don't forget, or I'll get stabby.

Not a dupe because it's longer but the long stabby portion has been sifted

http://videosift.com/video/Long-Stabby-Thing

I am by no means a cutty stabby person, but after this I looked around a bit. This is basically kendo: ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMxlqayAwG8&feature=related ) and you are right, it doesn't look like this at all.
What these guys are doing is called kenjutsu ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIxt3Zd6K0k ) which seems to be a whole other thing (kinda like comparing judo to karate). When you check out more of that kenjutsu stuff it all of a sudden looks a lot more "realistic".

Also, I am pretty sure that standing with your guard completely down and just moving your shoulders is probably not a valid sword fighting technique, but maybe this guy is just so bad-ass he doesn't care.

The stances employed according to far more geeky interweb friends is something like "Tamiya-ryu" or "Jigen-ryu" (somewhere between the late 15th and 16th century) and it actually involves mostly diagonal/vertical slices to the torso to try and kill your opponent in one blow. The goal was pretty much always to hit the enemy's throat and failing that slice the opponent in an up to down diagonal motion while denying your opponent to do the same.

Screw that man, I saw with my own eyes once, one of those things plunged a stabby thing all the way through Frodo.

>> ^Mauru:

My question then: can anybody provide a video/image-link to a "proper" super-hero landing?
Let's say the conditions are as follows:
A) you need to be mobile afterwards
B) you are holding a potentially breakable/stabby/shooty device
OPTIONAL C) You are jumping/falling from a certain height
Try to give conditions for that landing to succeed for bonus points. Let's also say bonus points for style.
I immediately get a image of parcour-style stuff...


I like this landing.

>> ^Mauru:

My question then: can anybody provide a video/image-link to a "proper" super-hero landing?
Let's say the conditions are as follows:
A) you need to be mobile afterwards
B) you are holding a potentially breakable/stabby/shooty device
OPTIONAL C) You are jumping/falling from a certain height
Try to give conditions for that landing to succeed for bonus points. Let's also say bonus points for style.
I immediately get a image of parcour-style stuff...

I dont have evidence from a movie or w/e, but a good landing should look something like this: http://www.monkeysee.com/play/11426-parkour-landing-and-rolling


The idea is you want you legs to absorb some of the force, but also transfer some into the roll. You want to distribute the energy of the fall over the longest period of time (or space - see http://www.ehow.com/video_2360720_break-fall-jujutsu.html). I think the reason the 3 point landing is so bad is also the reason it "looks cool" - its a big impact entrance, it dents the pavement and creates a little shockwave. Unfortunately in real life all reactions have equal and opposite reactions...

My question then: can anybody provide a video/image-link to a "proper" super-hero landing?
Let's say the conditions are as follows:

A) you need to be mobile afterwards
B) you are holding a potentially breakable/stabby/shooty device
OPTIONAL C) You are jumping/falling from a certain height

Try to give conditions for that landing to succeed for bonus points. Let's also say bonus points for style.

I immediately get a image of parcour-style stuff...

I must admit, Bjork makes me a little stabby...but if I ignore her, that was a great song!

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I'm a bit of a DM fanatic, and I've played this a LOT since you've posted it. I don't want to say every day, but....close.
Thank you!!

right on.thats awesome!
this is my new fave i cant stop playing:
http://videosift.com/video/sucker-punch-army-of-me-bjork-feat-skunk-anansie

Would it be wrong of me to make a crack about these two ladies and my long stabby thing

>> ^Jinx:

You call that a knife? This is a knife!
Also, I thought the women were in on the joke, they were just playing it down because they wanted to keep their jobs.


That's not a knife that's a spoon...

Ah, come on man, they're just being coy. We've got to give women more credit for their ability to tell dirty jokes with a straight face, especially Australians. If you check out their banter starting at 1:05 again, the women definitely get their own jokes about long stabby things. Though whacking them off from a distance is good too.