Samurai Sword vs 9mm

[rayesyn]

one cool video:

http://video.google.ca/videoplay?doc...87790122256202

[nano]

Whoa!

[najibs]

Whoa!

So if I ever get a gun pulled on me, I'll just whip out my samurai sword, and I'll be safe.

[buddhaboy12]

So if I ever get a gun pulled on me, I'll just whip out my samurai sword, and I'll be safe.

Not necessarily... rather than getting shot once, the bullet splits into 2. So you get shot twice

[nahim.a.a]

In old times it was a custom to 'test' a newly build Samurai sword for the nobility on a prisoner who was going to be executed. Even today its common practice to test the sword on a life pig.

[bottomfeeder]

No biggie.

The sword has a width cross-section of 3 inches and razor sharp edge

The bullet was just a lead bullet - with no copper jacket - very soft.

Think of it this way - you think that the bullet should do more damage because it is travelling fast... but that does not matter. Imagine the following - what do you think would happen if the soft lead bullet was stationary and the sword moving at 500 meters per second? Do you think the sword would cut through the bullet? The sword and the bullet meet at 500 meters per second - it does not really matter which one is moving. but I could be wrong - can anyone disprove?

[rayesyn]

good analysis bottomfeeder, sorry i can't disprove you. i'm still amazed by that video.

No biggie.

The sword has a width cross-section of 3 inches and razor sharp edge

The bullet was just a lead bullet - with no copper jacket - very soft.

Think of it this way - you think that the bullet should do more damage because it is travelling fast... but that does not matter. Imagine the following - what do you think would happen if the soft lead bullet was stationary and the sword moving at 500 meters per second? Do you think the sword would cut through the bullet? The sword and the bullet meet at 500 meters per second - it does not really matter which one is moving. but I could be wrong - can anyone disprove?

[corrupt123]

Another reason I want to learn Kendo.

Unfortunately though, in todays society, especially our North American one, you'd have three pounds of lead inside you before you unsheathed the sword

[veryhuman]

the same show did this w/ a bigger machine gun. the sword got owned.

[vrus]

I heard tupac got shot .

[elusion]

crazy

[Brownbear]

I heard tupac got shot .

what a lame thing to say...

cool video btw.

[MizTEcK]

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[ian1386]

Think of it this way - you think that the bullet should do more damage because it is travelling fast... but that does not matter. Imagine the following - what do you think would happen if the soft lead bullet was stationary and the sword moving at 500 meters per second? Do you think the sword would cut through the bullet? The sword and the bullet meet at 500 meters per second - it does not really matter which one is moving. but I could be wrong - can anyone disprove?

not sure what you're talking about, since I haven't watched the movie yet, but a bullet going at 500m/s is much different than a sword going 500m/s, reason being is that the inertia of the sword is MUCH more since it has more mass. If the sword is 1000 times heavier than the bullet, then it would take 1000 times the force/resistance to stop it in the same amount of time as the bullet.

[eelfliw]

In the beginning of the video they shows a concrete block being split in half by the bullet.....

Would be interesting to see what happens to the sword if the concret block was fired at the sword at the same speed as the bullet.