Comments on: You Are Still No Match for Bruce Lee’s Balls of Fury http://www.threedonia.com/archives/10142 These are our principles. If you don't like them, we have others... Thu, 09 Feb 2012 22:55:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Rufus http://www.threedonia.com/archives/10142/comment-page-1#comment-37308 Rufus Thu, 16 Jul 2009 16:03:42 +0000 http://www.threedonia.com/?p=10142#comment-37308 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. 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.

]]> By: Lars Walker http://www.threedonia.com/archives/10142/comment-page-1#comment-37219 Lars Walker Wed, 15 Jul 2009 17:33:12 +0000 http://www.threedonia.com/?p=10142#comment-37219 You mean it *is* fake? I'm actually relieved. You mean it *is* fake? I’m actually relieved.

]]> By: Floyd http://www.threedonia.com/archives/10142/comment-page-1#comment-37211 Floyd Wed, 15 Jul 2009 16:36:57 +0000 http://www.threedonia.com/?p=10142#comment-37211 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. 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.

]]> By: David Marcoe http://www.threedonia.com/archives/10142/comment-page-1#comment-37208 David Marcoe Wed, 15 Jul 2009 16:26:21 +0000 http://www.threedonia.com/?p=10142#comment-37208 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). 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).

]]> By: Floyd http://www.threedonia.com/archives/10142/comment-page-1#comment-37205 Floyd Wed, 15 Jul 2009 16:19:10 +0000 http://www.threedonia.com/?p=10142#comment-37205 I saw that Lars... The match thing was pretty cool too. I saw that Lars… The match thing was pretty cool too.

]]> By: Lars Walker http://www.threedonia.com/archives/10142/comment-page-1#comment-37203 Lars Walker Wed, 15 Jul 2009 16:13:29 +0000 http://www.threedonia.com/?p=10142#comment-37203 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. 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.

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