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Post by Karoliner on Apr 21, 2015 23:03:49 GMT
I've been cutting with my Condor Bush Cutlass lately (my technique is definitely improving! Lots of fun when you can get silent cuts on water bottles!) and this happened today. Didn't get it on film, but I got pictures... I tried to put a lot of speed into the cut, and the top half of the bottle just sort of inverted and went into the lower half, both still full of water... One second it was one bottle, the next it was like this, seemingly without an in-between. Weird stuff. Seems I can't post pictures from my phone, so hang on a minute.
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Post by Karoliner on Apr 21, 2015 23:07:23 GMT
Pictures aren't quite in there right, but oh well.
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Post by RicWilly on Apr 22, 2015 6:24:18 GMT
That's a new one.
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Post by Arkhane on Apr 22, 2015 6:44:17 GMT
That's pretty strange. But bottles are known to behave erratically when in flight. Lol
I had a double stack once when I was starting doubles. I cut the bottom bottle, but I either hesitated or missed the second cut and the top bottle landed perfectly balanced, cap down. Got it on video, too. I think Ric Willy had a similar occurrence on one of the warm-up cuts for the current game of SWORD. Weird schnitt, man, weird schnitt.
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Post by MOK on Apr 22, 2015 14:53:16 GMT
Cool!
I've managed something very similar, once, but the top half was smaller and quite empty...
I'm fairly sure the trick - if you wanted to try doing this on purpose - is to start turning the blade around for a return cut technically a little too early, in the tiny window of time when the cutting edge has already exited the bottle, having cut all the way through it, but the body of the blade is still within it, so you sort of flip the top half of the bottle up and over with the back of the blade.
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Post by RicWilly on Apr 22, 2015 16:35:28 GMT
LOL I couldn't do that semprini on purpose no matter how many times I tried.
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Post by Karoliner on Apr 23, 2015 4:42:53 GMT
I actually had a hunch that since it was a really fast and hard swing, I probably went from the handshake to the hammer grip mid swing, and as a result torqued the blade.
It was strange, I didn't even see the bottle go airborne...
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Post by ineffableone on Apr 23, 2015 5:02:02 GMT
I have actually seen a video of this done on youtube, like you it was accidental, but still an amazing thing to happen. I wish I could remember who's video it was or find the video for you to see. But maybe knowing there is a video someone might find it.
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Post by Mikeeman on Apr 23, 2015 5:10:06 GMT
Rick has a video where he made an entire bottle flip over and stand on it's cap.
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Post by chrisperoni on Apr 23, 2015 5:24:35 GMT
Reminds me of the offer Paul had for a bunch of free sword stuff if anyone could reproduce that cut where the top half of the bottle lands on the stand right side up with the water still in it. -- weird cuts just happen sometimes and sometimes it's the sword imho. The leaf blade I just made a hilt for always cuts bottle into spirals if it doesn't go clean through
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