Let’s try a reboot. I posted these yesterday and we got sidetracked on the mundane and really tangential issue of the Constitution and liberty…. Hardly anyone noticed (or commented on) the awesome awesomeness of the Bruce Lee footage. Keep your eye on the ball Threedonians… Bruce Lee is on your screen.
Well I noticed, and commented. Honestly, if somebody told me you could play ping-pong with nunchucks I would have said, “Only with CGI.” I still think Asian martial arts are overrated, but Bruce Lee was some kind of genetic mutation. No wonder he died young.
I saw that Lars… The match thing was pretty cool too.
The first video I would go with being fake, as the ball as that slight strobing indicative of CGI without enough render passes and the physics on the ball looks slightly off (just slightly).
Yeah… apparently it’s a Nokia ad — sort of like when the vacuum cleaner co. inserted Fred Astaire dancing with a vacuum cleaner — except better CGI. oh well… I knew it was too good to be true.
You mean it *is* fake? I’m actually relieved.
That is too funny! I am just checking up on the last few days’ worth of posts today. I saw Floyd’s first posting of it and immediately thought, “there is no way that’s real.” I didn’t bother commenting because I figured the post was so old nobody was paying attention to it any more!
Here’s how I knew it was fake; I’m the best ping-pong player any of you have ever met, so I know a thing or two about ping pong balls. They are spheres. A nunchuck is a cylinder. Even if Lee could time the nunchuck so that it strikes the balls it is impossible for me to imagine he could consistently get the angle of attack between the nunchuck cylinder and the spherical ball correct. You’ve got an arc hitting an arc. Impossible. You might (MIGHT!) have a chance if you put incredible upward spin on the ball by swinging the nunchcuk up, but I don’t think human reflexes are good enough to time it.