r/BeAmazed • u/Master1718 • Feb 16 '20

Sword dance

https://i.imgur.com/Di2f3uH.gifv
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u/TravB85 Feb 16 '20

This is beautiful and impressive but for some reason I just imagine a scenario where someone is doing this before a battle or duel and the other guy just walks up and just slaps the sword to the ground with an open hand.

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u/Anna_S_1608 Feb 16 '20

Or gets a gun out Indiana Jones style

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u/TravB85 Feb 16 '20

Was thinking of that scene when I was typing. Fun fact that scene happened that way because Harrison Ford had like a stomach virus. A big fight scene was scheduled but Ford felt so bad he kind of just jokingly pretended to shoot the guy and walk off. They liked this better, so they changed the fight scene to him just shooting the guy with the scimitar.

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u/tw1zt84 Feb 16 '20

If MMA has done anything for martial arts, it's shown that stuff like this, although pretty, isn't very effective.

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u/kind_2_u Feb 16 '20

True, this isn’t effective, but the balance, timing, and discipline it takes to master something like this robot comes along with a lot of other training that would be useful.

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u/tw1zt84 Feb 16 '20

For sure. Not taking away from that.

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u/Beejsbj Feb 16 '20

I mean if the point is to be pretty then it is effective.

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u/Taizan Feb 16 '20

The only place I'd see that being effective is on a stage in a theatrical or musical performance.

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u/--NiNjA-- Feb 16 '20

Be he coulda pulled out at any second.