Throwing a Needle Through Glass in Slow Motion
Throwing a Needle Through Glass in Slow Motion
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 YouTube.
If you look really closely 3:58 you can see 4 dots. Are the failed attempts to throw it thru the glass??
And sorry for my bad english i am a 14 years old dutch kid?
good eyes kid ??
Lolol
English was fine and you are correct.
They only showed the successful attempts.
Kees Van Aalst 14 years old and english like that? Should probably start paying attention in class.
What you’ve done is debunked the Shaolin needle through glass technique.
@Lord Emilous The monk also released MUCH closer to the glass which means the striking end of the needle is still rotating forward (towards the glass) – Dan’s has passed ‘level’ and is moving AWAY from the glass
Physics of this: the needle spins in the air, which makes the outside end of it move faster. On impact, the needle bounces back, but the energy transfer makes the glass explode on both sides, sending shards into the balloon.
What people see at 3:48 is not the needle going through glass, it’s it showing through the hole. It’s still outside the glass, at that moment moving back.
The trickster throws the heavy end forward, it swings fast, has heavy momentum, breaks the glass.
The host throws pointed end forward, no momentum behind it, because it’s light. Plus the other host moves the glass pane away, reducing the net speed of impact.
UnoerKgreS
In any event, it’s impossible to throw the needle at any appreciable forward velocity without imparting angular momentum; thus even in a just-before, bang-on, or just-after, perpendicular configuration at impact, the center of mass is going to be levered _away_ from the hole, unless under very rare circumstances the glass-crack races through the entire pane and the whole body of the needle passes through (albeit _very_ slowly, most of the kinetic energy of the needle will have been converted into breaking covalent bonds in the glass).
At 1:30 , the monk says that needle will go THROUGH the glass…but in reality(as we saw in the slow mo), needle just hits the glass and bounces back…it DOESN’T go THROUGH the glass.
New title – “Bouncing a needle off glass”
Moldygreenbean if I had said I put a knife THROUGH your hand , it would have meant that the knife comes out of the other side of your hand.
Lukos
That’s why we say ‘slice a cake’, instead of ‘pass a knife through cake’. Let’s not equivocate over the meaning and real-world use of verbs.
Moldygreenbean
People don’t say that though. They say “stab something”; and they don’t mean penetration _plus_ the whole thing going out the other side, let alone releasing grip of it.
*GENIUS*
WHEN YOU WATCH SLOW MO GUYS ON 0.25 SPEED
*I AM GOD*
2:45 OMG ?
Carlos Fung Oh. Mia. Gand!
Lol Gavin looks like Howard from the big bang theory in that shot.
Jonny Easton qw
Jonny Easton a
Why is that monk so condescending ?
I thought monks had a shaved haircut.
If somebody almost did what you’ve been practicing for 10 years, in one try.
You’d be a little condescending as well..
Plus this is a bit of a comedy channel, they like to make things fun. I’m assuming he was just doing that. Doing a little bit of light hearted ribbing.
Not so difficult, I can do this everyday with a spark plug…
I think there’s a lot of woosh going on here
Friday Harlowe, mate a needle and spark plug a pretty fucken different
Friday Harlowe Oh sure and I can definately do it with a hammer
why are people so blind to the sarcasm that you have spoken? ohh thats right, we live in a world full of morons…
Gabe
Why are people blind to the sarcasm you alone appear to have heard ‘spoken’?
“Bouncing a needle off glass”
Fixed it for you.
Bouncing a small nail off glass. Fixed it for you.
RentableDwarf These are prerecorded and the titles are chosen ahead of time
+Don Nash +1 that was a fkin gnarly “needle”
It didn’t go through lmao
I could do that in my sleep, and only in my sleep. (Dreams)
Lit Piano123 lolol
Lit Piano123 a little tip for life.. jokes are funnier when you don’t explain them..
chris sittig But then you get those people who are like “Uh what do you mean?” so yeah you have stupid people.
I find slow motion so fascinating to me ^_^
don’t you find slow motion fascinating to me too?
ud like the new galaxy s9 then
it actually didnt go through…
It penetrates through the surface, but doesn’t make it all the way through. Different contexts of the word “through” but both are valid if you ask me.
You have to put more energy in order to believe it did
It never went through though…
Ty Schmidt
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He may need a few more years, today he just played “just the tip ”
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*NOBODY* actually plays “just the tip”. We just say we are.
Holy
Yes, the key verb is _thrown_ perpendicular, not just land… perpendicular; and its impossible to throw the needle with any appreciable forward velocity without imparting angular momentum.
In the situation at hand, even if the tip lands at the moment the needle is perpendicular, the spin will carry the body of the needle off-perpendicular so that the thing’s center of mass will be levered up to strike the rest of the glass above-puncture-area. A similar argument if the tip strikes just before perpendicular
A bit of it did in the second throw
It would go through if they hit the proper angle
Richard
That’s exactly what I argued (above) wouldn’t happen. Because of the spin, the needle’s center of mass will _always_ be carried off-perpendicular to the puncture, whatever the angle.
Those shaolin monks could be holding a *wet noodle* and I’d still be running in the opposite direction.
WTF
Hey it is Well That’s Fantastic
Tony Nguyen true
nice
Adam Celadin with anything in his hand would make me run away. Proper thrower.
Was it really the needle and not the glass fragments that popped the balloon?
Isn’t that what he said in the video?
2:57
I love these guys ^_^
I was hoping for the needle to go straight into the glass like a bullet.
that’s what i thought
I agree, but sadly we’re not in an anime/manga or movie, and for the real world, these dudes are already phenomenal…
Pre-expectations can be a dangerous thing, lol.
2:45 Oh my gahhh
wow surprised to see u here.. ? what Pokemon would u use against these monk? ?
ok2431 yup. Same question here.
Reversal Good to see you my dude been subbed for 2 years
wow
Myth busted ….hey that’d be a good premise for a T.V. show.
So throwing something AGAINST glass is the same as throwing something THROUGH glass now?