It's feet per second vs. frames per second, as Gav and Dan join forces with three Shaolin Monks, who show off one of their most challenging skills-throwing a needle through glass. The Super Slow Show, Only on RU-vid.
Can I safely assume that a lot of people were disappointed it didn't go straight through? Edit: based on the number of likes and replies of a comment I posted 4 years ago I think I can safely assume yes.
@@aym_gei9708 It was pretty funny wasn't it?! BTW something seems to be wrong with your shift key or whatever. I think a good friend could help fix your issues.
Bro what? Modern Shaolin is like 50% or more tourist attraction, a lot of what they do now is impractical just to look good for the onlookers. Their life and training is almost an open book.
Honestly the needle is kinda big and it's not anything special it's just accelerating the larger than normal needled to a high enough speed and letting it go so that the tipe hits the glass perfectly causing a small break that sends shards through which are what pop the balloon. Like yeah that takes years of training but it's not some special energy like what they say.
@@goldcobragaming3689 "it's just a wee bit of unbelievably precise speed, acceleration and accuracy, no big deal, just a couple decades of dedicating your life to training"
Bruce:"How did you guy enjoy it?(to Gav) Gav:*does outro* "So if you liked the video like,coment and subscribe down below." Boy straight up ignored and Shaolin monk
So the needle didn't go through but still, it went fast enough, straight enough and hard enough to actually pierce glass. Something that weighs less than an ounce. Everyone in the comments is making it seem like no big deal.
Pressure is what's required to pierce the glass, the equation for it is force / area. This means that the smaller the area of impact (i.e. the tip of a needle), the more pressure is generated. I'm not saying it's not impressive, but the physics behind it show it is far from impossible.
@@SirShifter still, energy is mass x (speed^2), we can reasonably say that this needle doesn't get most of its impact energy through its mass, so it relies on the sheer speed given by this Monk, also the needle needs to strike at a certain angle, or it may just bounce off as the glass redirect its energy because of the angle. So far I agree that pure physics tend to say that it's not that incredible on the mathematical side, but since it's not a canon firing a needle in a straitgh line but a human arm, I'll still call it awesome
@@sarojolibois6088 what you were mentioning - energy equals mass x the speed of light squared - is actually the conversion between mass and energy when the matter itself can be changed to energy and vice versa. The more correct formula to use would be F = m x a = m x dv/dt. So to phrase it, as the mass of the needle is small, the monk would have to generate a huge acceleration. I'm not saying you're incorrect, you've got the basic idea and I just felt the need to correct you.
Imagine dedicating 10 years of your life to a feat of staggering accuracy and force, only to have some random internet chuds roast you because it wasnt impressive enough.
It is about the nieder penetrating the glass pane. So a apart actually Wenz through the glass. Also the Shaolin Monks call it like that, and in honour to their Tradition and skillset they titled it like this.
@@jdevil6453 That's not what they do at Shaolin though. It's more disciplining the body by pushing it to it's limits and increasing said limits. Both physically and mentally. They don't spend all their time throwing needles at glass panes. While the intent of Shaolin is not to show off, but more discipline the mind and body with harsh training. At the end of the day, this discipline can equal people being impressed at the amount of strength and self control a monk or warrior monk of disciple has. You've only seen a sliver of that Monk's potential you know. Search up "Shaolin Warrior Monk" you'll probably be astounded. That's what they spend their life doing, not throwing needles at balloons.
3:50 the needle pokes through to the other side for a split second but due to the trajectory, falls back out of the glass. It does go through, just not all the way.
we love the commitment involved to do something like this, but when you say "a needle is going to go through glass" and not "a needle is going to poke a hole through glass" (which is impressive enough), the air of expectancy somehow changes.
Agreed, this was not a needle going THROUGH glass. The Slow-Mo guys have another video, called "Running Through Glass In Slow Motion". Nobody will accept it when they just bash against the glass to break it. We expect a person to literally running all the way THROUGH the glass. This needle thing is a big let-down for me.
@@PleiadesRuby Comparing something "poking through even only a little" with flimsy, flexible material is not the same as with a solid, fragile material. The needle did not go through. It hit with enough force to break the glass and send shards flying in the sae direction as that force, sure. But the needle did not actually pierce the glass.
I was under the impression that it would go all the way through, but still... that is incredibly hard to do. Cracking a pane of glass with something as small as a needle. Edit: So apparently you can.. I wish they had done that, it would have been really cool.
It's actually rather easy to crack glass with a very small sharp tip, the only problem is to get enough force behind it. Look at the tools that are available for rescuing someone from a car, it's just very small sharp tips that put pressure onto glass.
The reason it didn't go all the way through was because of the angle the needle hit the glass, it didn't just crack the glass it punched a hole in it about 10x bigger than the needle point. If the needle was straight when hitting the glass it would've slipped right through.
You can get the needle all the way thru the glass... but it has to be thrown so perfect. it was actually in an episode of Mythbusters once, They did do it after hundreds of tries.
@@UroSenpai no it does not. it punches a hole into the glass. also, 4:26 , do you see how big that needle is? i'd say that is almost a nail. 10 years for this? no longer than a month
For those of you that don't understand "the dance" or think it's just some added magic show theatric, what he's doing is essentially a meditative kata specific to this feat that operates as a focus tool. By performing this during his training of the feat and right before presenting the feat - it opens up a greater deal of trained muscle memory as opposed to the muscle memory of just the practiced throwing act alone. In other words, by using this tool every time he throws the needle it gives him a greater chance of performing the act with the same skill level he has during practice when the pressure is off. This is why serious martial arts schools still teach/employ techniques like this; they build skillful consistence.
For martial arts that have absolutely no practical use outside of recitals like this sure. This isn't a martial art though. Its just a showmanship routine. Put them up against anyone who trains real martial arts and they'll get destroyed within seconds every single solitary time. Its been proven countless times already. Theyre basically just stage magicians doing a different type of magic.
@@umungus518 As a tool for training muscle memory and enhancing the retention of what you've learned - yes it is indeed practical during training. There is real science in meditative practices/ routine not just in martial but literally everything that involves learning at a high level; but at this point, the logic of this practice as I explained it should be easily understandable. And yes the needle throw itself is for presentation - it is not the martial art itself but rather 1 of their many training methods (likely moreso based in discipline and philosophy).. Fairly useless for combat, sure - no denying that But as far as the kata, no one with a half a brain is going to do a kata or meditative practice before a real life confrontation - that would be stupid. So.. I'm not sure where my explanation lost you. Also - please show me one of the "countless times" where an actual devoted warrior monk entered the octagon and lost because I'm betting you wont find 1 example. There is a difference between McDojo "martial arts schools" and serious lifelong training in any traditional martial arts style. Not sure you realize this but the many schools and forms/styles that make up mixed martial arts are offspring's of Shaolin (chinese kung fu), Muay Thai, Jujitsu etc. This includes everything from traditional Japanese Karate, Kenpo, Sando, and even kick boxing. As this is simply the nature of acculturation and how these martial philosophies have evolved with time and appropriation. We're not talking about garbage like Aikido, Wushu or the 100,000+ cult-like McDojo's teaching fantasy - We're talking about lifelong devotion to knowledge practiced and refined over thousands of years with the associated cultural practices/tools handed-down thereof. So please, tell me in your best Dr. Phil voice how a lifelong practitioner of traditional shaolin has spend his life, in any way, in useless practice?
because it takes 10 mins to learn how to ship badly made glass with a needle. the other spots on the glass at 3:48 is either failed attempts or bubbles caused by poor glass manufacturing.
@@xyr3s Wrong. The angle is important because it adds rotational force to the impact. They have to make use of every method of generating power because the needle has very little momentum. They need to time the throw perfectly so that the needle rotates into the glass at the exact point of impact. It combines the speed and energy of the needle being thrown as well as the energy from the needle rotating into a very precise point.
Everett Burgin thats the core of the energy in the body its where a belt buckle would be every movement in your body you make comes from or starts there.
Steve Right, because your beliefs are based on the complete and utter understanding of the universe and the mechanics that govern our reality. Shut up.
FacePuncher 420 it’s like saying you own a Lamborghini but you never drive it outside, what’s the point lmao. These guys had hi speed cameras which makes even more sense for them to reveal their true potential.
In case you didn't know, these aren't Shaolin monks lol These are performers. The only reason they learned how to do this stunt is to show it off as a form of entertainment. And they did show their best, the very reason the were there to film their stunt is proof that none of this was a waste of their time. You really think its that easy to find real Shaolin monks let alone collaborate with them for what? Money? RU-vid fame? lmfao Like you said, it would be nothing more than a waste of their time.
FacePuncher 420 he is saying that these 'monks' practice shaolin arts to provide entertainment. They are not like legit shaolin monks most likely, or they aren't anymore.
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i love the fact that the dude in the background wears glasses to protect his eyes from flying glass pieces but in the other hand the monks who actually hold the glass panel and throw the needle don't care
At the last part, the monk sounded really disappointed to know the reality that the needles never did in fact punctured through the glass as for what they've believed it should be,,, good throwing skills though
This is an example of Spallation where an object hits the surface of another object and a compression wave travels through the glass and breaks chips off the other side. The object (in this case a needle) doesn't actually go through the glass. Spallation is what often kills tank crews, when a shell hits the tank but doesn't actually penetrate the hull, but pieces chip off the inside of the tank and bounce around killing the crew.
Actually, if you look closely at the second throw in the superslomotion you can see that the needle did make a whole that it could have gone through if it was straighter.
@josephsolowyk7697 It's more complicated than that, you have to take into account the Statiophonic Oxygenetic Amplifiagraphiphonic-deliververberator (You probably have to be a Bill and Ted's fan to understand that.)
Honestly the fact that he threw a needle hard enough to send glass shards from the other side of the pane into a balloon is even more astonishing than just chucking the needle straight through. The needle is so light that all the force necessary to achieve that comes solely from him.
absolutely not. firstly the bulshido (all the warm up theatrics) is always hilarious. secondly, it would probably not take more than a month (probably less) for an ordinary (healthy) person to learn how to do this. Ultimately all this is, is learning to throw a needle hard enough to crack thin glass, so the breaking shards on the other side very easily pop the balloon pressed right up next to it. I particularly loved the reveal that the needle is not making its way thru the glass. That was funny. Shaolin monks everywhere going .
@@suttemussttittti2279 sure. but first they have to send me the exact type of glass and the needles they are using so i can practise for a month with those. glass varies in quality, and needles in weight. For all we know they using some type of unique weight needles and very low quality glass.
They dont train for 10 years chucking a nail at a pane of glass from 2 inches away. They "train" for 10 years to build the "chi" and unlock the right "chi gates" to do so. Much like the one inch punch.. er.. packs a punch when done right, it doesnt take a decade to learn. It is estimated that it takes 10 thousand hours to become a master of something, which is about 416 consecutive days. Now you could stretch that out over 10 years to master, but that is only 2.7 hours a days for 10 years. They likely train for 12+ hours a day, cutting the time down to 3 and a half years maybe less to master their chi.
Well it sais needle through glass not hitting and bouncing back off don't get me wrong it's very impressive but it didn't go *through* the glass so one could ask are you blind?
It's impressive that they can consistently break a pane of glass with just a thrown needle but you really set the bar high by saying the needle would go through the glass. I shouldn't be disappointed but I am
I thought they meant the needle would zip through the glass like a bullet. It’s just breaking the glass and bouncing off. The broken glass is what actually breaks the balloon.
that's technically possible: if we assume a 1kg mass 💩, free falling 0.2m into water, that's going to be on the order of same force as carried by ~=5g needle, traveling ~=150kph 🤔
Fun fact: Tank rounds do the same thing when they fail to penetrate the armor of another tank, spalling the interior armor into the crew inside. The armor blocks the round, but the kinetic force punches through.
Same thing happens in banned boxing moves, where you can punch someone and k*ll them even though you never actually harmed the skin (in some cases, not even bruised the skin), but that energy passed through, hit the organ's and well, yeah.... Same thing also happens with a strong shockwave which can k*ll a person from the inside out without leaving any easy to spot signs. What I see here is not so much the needle creating the whole but creating the energy needed for the glass to break apart and thus making the whole, the needle itself never actually passed through the hole itself.
@@thephoenixking1086 Shortstop punching, it's the precursor to the 1 inch punch. Same concept as a guy getting full force blasted in the boys vs the fingertip tap. It sends the shockwave but leaves everything free to absorb it instead of the force traveling back up the arm and packing things together. Every 5 seconds after you get hit, a new level of pain sets in if you can't breath through. This is why the concept of core is so vital in martial arts. Chi is essentially the core you create when you flex your gut to pack everything together and you create shockwaves out of that to put into your opponent by releasing the tension down a limb in a wave of flexes that aims to bounce off the target rather than punch through as most are taught. Messed up part is that you spend ages learning something you'd never use in your humane inner self. By the time it's mastered, it's locked away because it's too cruel.
I think the idea is more about demonstrating the fine muscle control required to throw a small, light object like a needle with the force to break glass.
Everyone is saying how disappointing this is because “it didn’t go through”. It clearly poked all the way through the glass and went through, it just didn’t come out the other side. It’s just as impressive.
Sans the Skeleton I think you need to read and stay in school because “through” means to make a hole or opening in (a physical object). Don’t be ignorant, they were right.
@darknightoftroy I looks like the needle was going through, but getting caught by the glass and bouncing back out. a perfectly perpendicular hit probably would go through, but getting the angles accurate enough for that Is likely to require who knows how many years of training on top of what they already have
@darknightoftroy agreed. I'd love to see a needle throwing machine set to give it the same amount of power as a human, but with the reproducibility of knowing exactly what angel it hits at every single time
Then look really closely at 3:50. You can see the little end wiggling on the other side for a split second. It's come through, but immediately falls out again.
Imagine focused energy with pin point accuracy, who needs a gun? All you need is a needle going through your eyes and lodging in your brain 🤯 Awesome skill 😎
I'm so glad I watched this again. Because it reminded me of how they don't actually throw the needle THROUGH the glass as much as the needle simply fractures the glass, and then bounces off of it from the same side that it's thrown from. The needle never actually penetrates the glass.
it looked like the needle was going to go through, but it wasn't straight and ended up getting caught on the glass which is why it bounced back like that
What gets me is that Dan's flinch LOOKED instantaneous, but in slow mo you can see that the glass fragments had already flown away before his hand even moved.
well.. this would be an assassination technique, with poison on the tips.... .... do you think that needle would break your skin? through your clothes too?
So the needle through glass is sorta like the concept of a HESH tank shell. It doesent actually penatrate it just sends a shockwave through the glass and sending shrapnel through the other side
Kassim's right, it never goes through the glass, it bounces off and chips it, just like a rock chip on a windshield. What pops the balloon is small glass fragments blowing out the other side. A bit of false advertising.
