Isao Machii is a modern-day Samurai warrior with super-human abilities with a sword. He began his studies of the ancient art when he was five years old, and now leads his own samurai school.
In 2011 Machii sliced a speeding pellet in half with his sword. He was filmed as his sword cut through the pellet (travelling at 200mph) shot from a BB gun at a firing range outside Los Angles. The filmmakers used a special camera to slow down the film by 250 times, enabling viewers to see Isao's blade cutting into the pellet as it was travelling at high speed.
Dr. Ramani Durvasula, an associate Professor of Psychology from California State University witnessed the event and said that he could hear the blade connecting with the object, but was unable to see it with his naked eye. "This is about processing it at an entirely different sensory level because he is not visually processing it," Durvasula said. "This is a different level of anticipatory processing. Something so procedural, something so fluid for him."
Machii holds numerous Guinness World Records, including one for most sword cuts to straw mats in three minutes. He achieved his record of 252 cuts in April 2011, on the set of Lo Show Dei Record, in Italy.
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