Baseball Sliced in Half at Nearly 100 miles per hour!

Hey! It's Japanese master swordsman, Isao Machii. Remember his last vid? He's back with another stunt which involves slicing a baseball in half from a pitching machine! (Slow-mo replay at the end)...

In the video, Machii waits on a tatami mat-covered platform, just over 30 feet from the baseball pitching machine, before drawing his blade and cutting the pitched ball cleanly in half, with what seems to be an almost laser-like precision.

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Robot VS Japanese Samurai Swordsman

This robot can slice a bean in half - lengthways! But so can his teacher, Japanese swordsman Isao Machii. The robot was designed by Japanese engineers to copy the moves of the renown samurai sword master, cutting hard-angled cuts with speed and precision. Machii is so swift and precise, he can slice a BB gun pellet fired at him at about 200 km per hour, (see 2nd vid), but he still lost the swordfight to the machine. In the end, it was the first to reach 1000 cuts! ...  

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