Old Footage of Sword Catching

This is a clip from a documentary on the very first World Martial Arts Tournament. IT followed people from all over the world, placing special focus on the "Black Knights" from New York.

I am uploading this clip to provide evidence that sword catching is possible, which was supposedly busted on MythBusters.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• mythbusters
• catch
• catching
• sword
• ninja
• magic
• martial
• arts
• gary
• busey

[BlackSoulsAion]

"Jiujitsu takes down any karate black belt" <--Typical Ignorant "Western" influenced franchised response. When r people guna get its the practitioner not the style..Its the training and the wielder. Its an ignorant cliche that has showed to b wrong over n over in history. But I guess if you keep getting ur history from UFC and MMA ull never understand that. Wtf do so many, "my cock is bigger" dudes flock to grappling. Ur not Alpha of anything; complete devolution of martial arts if u ask me.

[MasonicResistance]

if it was a full atack.. the karataka was on floor in 2 pieces. It is NOT posible to stop a full stike atack of a nihonto bearhanded like this!!!

[ronjutsu]

@Marsuvees1298 its been done and the monk got his ass handed to him

[CrimsonGetsu]

Any demented person who tries to do this will get the skin of his hands cut clean off and then take the full blade to the forehead.

[BudokaiTH]

Myth my ass!

[KenshenSim]

<8 o Cool!

[Marsuvees1298]

@BlackSoulsAion I would like to see any martial artist in America fight a Shaolin monk.

[IIIArrow711]

@ShinGan1 well of course he held back a little, his plan wasn't to kill the guy. What makes it amazing though is that he still did catch the sword without fear or cutting himself a feat almost none of us could achieve, without training of course.

[NewEnglandBudo]

@NewEnglandBudo Oh, these guys were from Oyama's NYC Kyokushinkai dojo. It was often the lead demo by their groups at various tournaments.

[NewEnglandBudo]

The trick is, as others have mentioned the sword was stopped and the man clapped his hands onto the blade. The rough handle of the blade would not give from the person's hand pulling on it. The swordsman's strong grip could just twist an iota and the hands would be cut. This is a staged routine that I saw many perform back in the 70's,

[AEgamesFtw]

However, the particular mythbusters episode about ninjas was very very weak. Just because their water shoes sucked, they assumed nobody could make more well deisgned ones? Just because james couldnt catch a full speed arrow first try from VERY CLOSE RANGE means a ninja who trained for years cant catch one from further? Same with the sword thing, very, very weak episode.

[betty122671]

@ShinGan....you're 100% right. i've noticed how controlled was the swordsman's swing. well, it's a show exhibition. i think in reality, the karate dude should think twice before catching a wild sword swing.