Oct 6, 2007 - An amazing demonstration of swordsmanship where Master Hidy Ochiai slices an apple over the neck of his son with a sword - while blindfolded!
I attended Hidy Ochiai's dojo for a couple of years, 2009 - 2010, when I lived in Binghamton. He's a pretty cool guy. The volunteer is his son. I talked to the son about this demonstration. He did not know there would be a second chop. He was about to start getting up when it happened.
I have been involved in MA for over 50 years and was a student of Sensei Ochiai for a few. The man is a great instructor. His father was one of the top Kendo Masters in Japan. This man knows how to use that sword.
I have Know Master H. Ochiai,for many years He did the Eulogy,At my Master's Service,That demonstration is as real as real can get!!! Ochiai, Sensei, so good to see you still pushing forward .
To any disbelievers, this is no hoax and Master Ochiai is no joke. I studied under him in the 80s when I was a teen and in high school in upstate NY. He was and is still amazing. He gave no less than 100% in his instruction and demanded no less from his students in return.
I was on TH-cam & stumbled upon this video. I was fortunate enough to go to an event in Buffalo in the 70s & saw him do the Apple Bach then. Very amazing & so good to see him still at it after all these years.
For the several idiots that seem to be posting comments yes the sword was obviously dulled but the man still sliced the apple twice with a dull sword blind folded without crushing the mans wind pipe when he did make contact twice. Which none of you could even remotely come close to achieving.
StonedBastardStudios announcer made it clear this is a demonstration of the focus and concentration karate mastery makes one capable of. It's fascinating how insecure and stupid folks are when they demonstrate they aren't capable of enough focus to understand what's being demonstrated. I knew this master many decades ago. His level of focus is unparalleled. Anyone who can do better.make a video, with or without a live throat..post it..or shut up.
I trained with Sensei Ochiai in Vestal between 1981 and 1985. I was an inconsistent student and as a result never became proficient in the style. But many of the things he taught us I have carried with me for the rest of my life. I'm almost 63 years old, I run 3-5 miles every day and train in boxing, and I attribute my ability to train in something physical to Sensei. He's a great man. I will always carry him in my memory as long as I live
This is my teacher. Master Ochiai is an ambassador of the Japanese martial arts Washin Ryu (a sister style of Goju Ryu). He is a very soft spoken man who is in his 80's. That sword is sharp. I have seen and held it myself. For those who doubt I can attest that this is not fake. He is an amazing man. The person who was laying down is his son. He used to do it when he was 10 or so and he's in his 40's. I have sparred with him. He hit me once and it was like a steel rod going through me.
I was in his dojo in the 1980s. It was a great honor to spar him. Once he hit me in the solar plexus in such a way that I felt nothing, just a light tap. I acknowledged his point, bowed and got back into fighting stance. 3 seconds later, I crumbled to the ground, temporarily not able to stand or breath. Everyone laughed. I laughed too. But that's how great he was. His movement and his precision. It was almost like magic
So I can just imagine the guy who was lying down gets up all perfectly fine, cheering, arms up, and then 2 seconds later blood starts leaking and he realizes there's a huge gash in his neck and the video just ends abruptly
I went to Vestal high school (Vestal is where the dojo is located). I was in the graduating class with is youngest son Brent. I've seen him do this in person, and it's disconcerting......and absolutely awe inspiring
it would be awkward if the master failed, the stage drapes quickly comes down revealing the message, "Thank you for coming. No refund" to the horror shocked audience.
I'm from Upstate, NY and Hidy Ochiai is a local legend. He's a true martial arts expert and there is absolutely nothing fake about this video. I don't know of another person in the world who can do this and I challenge anybody to find one.
This is not fake. It is incredibly dumb and amounts to a well practiced trick with a sword. First, no real Japanese sword art demonstrates this sort of thing. You will never, ever, never, ever see something like this at a traditional embu for any sword art in Japan. There are several reasons for this. First, it shows nothing of value for the use of the sword. Second, it is a ridiculous risk to take with a student's life for the pure purpose of showing off. Third, it would be considered inappropriate and embarrassing given the historical viewpoint of tameshigiri (test cutting) which used to be done on criminals and prisoners of war. It is a dark piece of history that the Japanese would rather forget. So much so, that some schools in Japan forbid any test cutting of any type, even on tatami, which is now the standard target. What he is doing is using the part of the blade closest to the habaki like a paper cutter to cut almost straight down, pressing, rather than swinging the blade through the apple. This lessens the chance he will cut his student by eliminating the function of the blade as it was designed. It is a parlor trick. That doesn't mean he isn't cutting the apple, but he isn't using the sword in a way for which the blade was designed. Despite the announcer saying a "full swing of the sword," it is nothing of the sort. It is like Shaolin monks bending spears. It's still dangerous, but there is a specific technique to it that is for its own purpose and not much else. It takes practice, but it has very, very little, if anything, to do with fighting. It is a show.
Precisely. A "full swing" would've ended bloody and not on TH-cam. I know from personal experience how sharp Katana's are and they're not to be played with like a normal kitchen knife.. No matter what your controll is, a "full swing" would've applied the full power and sharpness of the Katana and caused an instant death to the person. Katana's deserve more respect then cleaving apples infront of people....
I got myself into a surgery by stabbing my iaito into my hand when I tried to perform setei kata 12 really fast. I wonder what would have happened if it was a shinken, jesus. I wouldnt even have my hand anymore then xD
I know someone who ran a shinken through his bicep doing Tachiwaza from the MJER. He managed to not decimate his arm, somehow. I know of another person who scalped himself doing o chiburi. Swords, as you know, are dangerous, and demonstrations like this aren't helping.
They both were using their Ki energy. His assistant was using his Ki and that is why he never got cut. You can see the blade just bounce off his throat from the force of his Ki. Just AMAZING!
This is an old stunt that has been on display over and over with or without blindfold. Years ago I've seen a Vietnamese master doing multiple cuts blindfolded wielding dual sabers at the Budo-Gala. Despite what all the fans say, it is a trick: Not only does he use the portion near the handle that has much less momentum than the monouchi, but he also breaks his swing mid-stroke and does a push cut instead of a drawcut. You can try this little experiment at home: place an apple on the skin of a raw pork roast and punch your biggest kitchen knife through the apple like in the video. You will find that the blade splits the apple, but doesn't break the skin unless it is extremely sharp. Skin or meat is actually quite hard to cut w/o a slicing motion. That is not to say that this stunt can be done by everybody, far from it. You need a lot of training in order to be able to manipulate a sword in that manner, especially blindfolded. Indeed, it can be extremely dangerous - volunteers who ended up in the ER with a cut throat can attest to that. Yet, stunts like these don't demonstrate martial prowess. I'd rather see a BB cut mid-flight or even just some plain ol' tameshigiri.
Exactly, many years ago in Vietnam, there's a Vietnamese master could cut an apple on others head with blindfolded. But he dead in an accident and now nobody in hís sect can do like him. His name is "Trần Hưng Hiệp", you can search his information on Google. Sr about my bad English.
say all you want, the fact is this requires great skill. dont like it then go do something better. sick of you internet haters degrading the works of greatly skilled people
I saw Hidy Ochiai at a tournament in Chicago in the 1970's. He was much younger but still was a badass! A big guy took a sledge hammer and smashed a huge piece of concrete Master Ochiai had on his back. As the two pieces of concrete were falling to the floor he immediately went into a no handed front flip to his feet again. Brought the house down!!!
The "volunteer" didn't expect him to go for that second blow, and got whacked pretty hard -- and how did the master know that his first blow didn't catch the apple dead on, if couldn't see it? Blade sense? It's a good act, but that sword couldn't have been very sharp, or else the assistant would have had his throat cut on the second blow at least.
That is a bit wrong. Notice how he cuts with the lower end of the blade. That is the last part you want to hit with because there is close to know power generated there. The torque is so low that it does not matter. You want to hit with the last 1/3 of the blade, starting from the tip.
No,for a katana,it is most powerful at the tip...in fact,samurai,swordlearners,kendoka always attack with the tip and mono-uchi(you can google it,it is the striking area of the blade...This is not broadsword using strength attack...The purpose of katana is to cut,pierce enemy with speed. Why don't you check videos about katana? like this /watch?v=EDkoj932YFo
Tetsuya Hinomura "Asians can do what you can't..." Lol you're an idiot and people like you set the human race back with your dumbass mentality. You have a Japanese user name but I wouldn't be surprised if you're some self-hating neckbeard weaboo from the U.S.
Tetsuya Hinomura dude, every sword uses speed to maximise the cutting potential every swort is sharpest near the tip and is used primarly in the top end area of the blade otherwise halfswording and other techniques would be kinda dumb ;) dont confuse european swords with axes and blunt objekts, they are on the same level as asian swords in this clip you see a short cut with the lowest part of the blade, so almost no potential in it, and a blade is not cutting just by contact to cut with a blade you need to push or pull it the apple was very likly split by pressure. human tissue is way more flexible and cut resistant
Well, it's that show is how much strength and accuracy determining this show. If he slashed too much strength, he end up chopped that man's head. If too weak, he barely cut apple and stopped at middle. That's the reason why this show is epic
I've actually trained under Master Ochiai myself, and I'd like to say, he is no swordsman. What he IS, is a very professional, and amazing martial arts teacher. All these people in the comments section complain on how he's not a real swordsman. It's because he's not. He is a karate instructor, so in tune with his own body he actually was contracted with cancer, and was able to fight it off purely through willpower. He truly is an amazing man. While this may have been a marketing stunt, or some sort of show, it inaccurately shows what this man is capable of.
wow I would like to hear him give some advice one how to be one with the sword I have heard swords speak before but I'm sure it was baby steps compared to his level of oneness
Drezin86 it's proven that depression things that come with that like poor esteem, lack of confidence (or will power), plays a psychological role in enhancing illnesses. PTSD for example is a neurobiological disorder, your mentality and physicality are both connected and play a vitality in your survival.
I can't believe on how many bad comments I read here. Nobody of us can do that even in a life, so please, respect.... An amazing demonstration from a MASTER.... T
Someone said in comments ''it looked like the blade bounced of his throat'', then other comments ''blade is not sharp''. Well look closer. Blade does bounce, blade is well sharp. Pay attention to the way he cuts the apple : on a cut he turns / slides the blade to one side so it doesnt land on a throat with full force on the actual razor edge. Efectively he just slaps with the sharp edge, because direction of the force shifts from blade edge to its side. Apple simply makes it easier to do the impact shift. Take a sharp knife, put it 90 degree to your skin, and scrape it to either side. Now do same motion as if you were to cut directly onto skin - nothing will happen, it will bounce of skin due to angled motion.
Did he use iaito? Im pretty sure i saw the edge hitting his throat and if it were sharp,it Would definitely not bounce off his throat without a nasty gash.
Folks how easy is it to criticize. Think about how many years of practice the master must have taken. Think about his concentration level, his mental calmness and strength. Above all he was doing that in front of a huge numbers of audience. Hats off master.
I used to be a student under Master Ochiai, and he has over 60 years of martial arts experience, he first started his karate in Okinawa, and lost in a duel to the death. He had his stomach cut open, and his organs fall out, but by his sheer power of will he managed to somehow put his guts back in his stomach and crawl to the nearest hospital.
+Kamina Elric You might laugh but a similar thing happened for real during the Falklands War in '82. A Gurkha soldier had his guts fall out from mortar shrapnel that struck him. He begged for death from a fellow Gurkha nearby who, ignored his pleas, picked up the unravelled guts and stuffed them back in by hand! They strapped his stomach closed with a field-dressing and got him to a nearby aid-station where he survived and recovered fully in a month or so. I read about this in Soldier Magazine (A British Army magazine) commemorating the 20th aniversary of the war in 2002...
I watched him do this back in the early nineties. he demonstrated how he taught himself, by using half cooked pieces if rice layed out on a table. he would pick up the pieces of rice by cutting half way through them, that way they would stick to the sword. he demonstrated this before doing the apple cut.
I studied under one of his students who’s a 6 or 7 th Dan I saw this apple slice with sword. Wow he’s amazing I saw that at Wesleyan University how I want to volunteer but my teacher thought I wasn’t ready
@@chunkz3163 to really cut through skin, you don't just chop downward, you have to have some pull in order to slice, the apple is rigid allowing it to be cut, while the skin is not, so in order to cut it, you would have to apply some pulling or pushing force as well.
Stupid...means nothing. Except that there are folks out there dumb enough to let a blind folded person cut an apple in their neck with a sword... What the hell is going on around me?
I am appalled. It's as if this man has never heard of daiki zakuretsu in his life. Would a true swordsman, versed in the intricate and time-honored dharma of the otaru watashin, engage in such demeaning parlor trickery as this? I think not. This is a disgrace to takoberujutsuka such as myself who take our art very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very seriously. This is such a disgrace, in fact, that I have shat my hakama, which has in turn upset my mother who now must clean it in the traditional way, per my insistence. Terrible. Simply terrible.
+j4m ahem... Let me properly handle it, for I'm an authentic premium-edition japanese: YESU! UI MASUTO DESUTUROYU DE FURISHU AMERICAJINSU HU DISUGUREESHI AUA BERI KURUTURI. INU NEMI OFU DE MASUTERUSU YAKISOBA ANDO BURAKI KAMEN RIDER: BANZAI!!
No good swordsman would pull a stunt that silly. It's embarrassing to those of us who take the study seriously. All the mechanics are wrong. He even puts his sword in his obi incorrectly. The noto was terrible: no saya biki whatsoever. He just recklessly shoves it on in there like a virgin on prom night. (Lousy zanshin, too.) Anyone who has taken more than a couple months of sword could do better. He actually hit his throat on the first cut, so the sword wasn't even sharp. Regardless, disgraceful parlor tricks. This guy is no swordsman at all.
People gotta eat too, just like you and me. If you can feed yourself without no real harm what is the problem here? If you see it as fake then you have solved the case Shaggy and Scooby. In other words who cares, it's just entertainment. The last time I checked the want ads I didn't see a real demand for 65 + sword wielders.
I've been practicing karate for more than thirty years, and I don't think I've ever seen a worse martial arts demonstration. It would have been merely bad and in poor taste if the man performing the cut had any skill, but this is terrible. The cut is so sloppy you can actually see the sword bounce off his assistant's throat, and he has to repeat the cut at a closer distance to actually finish dividing the apple into two pieces. It's as if someone devised this stunt as a way to convince people martial arts is nothing more than people learning tricks, like a magic act or a trained animal.
+John Hanley if you look at the slow motion, he actually makes two separate cuts on the apple, leaving it in 3 pieces. (the first cut was on the left side of the apple from his POV, and the second on the right side of the core). I'm not a kendo practitioner so I defer to you on the other points you make, and I'm in agreement about using martial arts as stunts/tricks. Unfortunately, there is a history of these types of demonstrations in many schools (going back to HK/China and Japan). Sort of a form of marketing and saying, our school is better than your school.
Devoti . Martial Arts start developing 2000 years ago. 95% population was farmers, peasants etc...no tv no internet. MA is/was circus tricks and dirt road fights.. During second world war, the Japanese were prepared by type of gymnastics.. No Martial Arts. Bullets, grenades and bayonets was. I totally agree your comment. And Myke is a hero. Short, bulky and too young. But punches ...wow!
I have had the blessing of see Mater Ochiai when I was a top tournament fighter in Buffalo. He was great and true.He would come to my sensei John Overton tournament him and many other great masters.I am Reggie Mann from World Fighting Arts. I used to be called Trouble Mann.I would like to thank all of the great masters I have seen and learned from.God bless you all.
I saw Master Ochiai do this in his Dojo in 1980 after the apple he set a soft piece of rice and cut it half way through and as he pulled the sword back the rice was stuck on the edge of the sword. Those who trained with Master Ochiai know his abilities. The man that is on the table was the same one that did it in 1980 as a child.
I haven't seen him in 60 years. He would watch me as I waited on the street for my father to pick me up . I thought of him as my secret protector. Few in binghamton knew who he was but I did thanks to my uncle J Katsu.
My ex-wife and I had a few good times together an one was seeing Mr.Hidy Ochiai,in 1974, perform this and no matter what anyone says on here, the man is awesome If you think he is fake like I did until I was chosen out of a group of fighters left in the tournament. The sword was very sharp, he also did the bed of nails and they too were sharp and the swords he climbed upon and walked. .. Respect the man!
I studied under one of Ochia's first certified black belt instructors Maurice May back in the 70's. I have seen the apple slicing demo live and it is for real.
I've tried this to my friend. He is no longer with us and I am currently on my third year of my sentence.
haha
Hopefully the FBI aren't reading this lol
Im sorry but he would have to be and idiot to let an unprofessional do that to him in the first place
@@brandonvessell4659 Natural selection? :D
Frank Turtle Luck , did you think he meant the Adam’s apple 🍏?
"Oh and there is one more thing"
Volunteer: " **giggle** im in danger"
... Why there are so many channels with that photo swear to God.
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@@jkf16m96 idk man
Didn't even know we her the same pfp lol
Grandmaster salary: $2,500
Assistant salary: $100
Assistant's insurance: $25,000
This little maneuver is gonna cost us another 10 years...
I attended Hidy Ochiai's dojo for a couple of years, 2009 - 2010, when I lived in Binghamton. He's a pretty cool guy. The volunteer is his son. I talked to the son about this demonstration. He did not know there would be a second chop. He was about to start getting up when it happened.
2:34 The volunteer twitches. "They didn't tell me about the blindfold, man..."
😂 the volunteer is actually His Son, I use to train with them both.
@@Dan_Hill43 That's quite an honor!
I have been involved in MA for over 50 years and was a student of Sensei Ochiai for a few. The man is a great instructor. His father was one of the top Kendo Masters in Japan. This man knows how to use that sword.
Me too … I must know you 🤗
The sword smashed the kids throat like it was two bunnies going at it.
The cuts were so fine that his head fell off backstage
Thought he lost it, with second slice and yelling
Absolutely poor form. He only managed to cut through the apple. I could've cut through both.
R/woooooosh
@@rf9614 actually, you woooshed
@@tiagocunha4821 wooooosh
Wow
@@rf9614 Bro shut up lol, go back to 4chan
Fruit ninjas do exist. Except the masters win blind folded.
" any volunteers to have an apple sliced off their throats "
Sound of wind blowing in trees.
I have Know Master H. Ochiai,for many years He did the Eulogy,At my Master's Service,That demonstration is as real as real can get!!! Ochiai, Sensei, so good to see you still pushing forward .
2:58 his fingers were 1 second from being chopped off... guess the guy lying down didn't know there were 2nd chop.
a true swordsman would never risk the life of another living thing for a demonstration or anything else
A good thing no ones life was at risk eh
The damn thing bounce on his neck, wtf...
The volunteer was the real master.
To any disbelievers, this is no hoax and Master Ochiai is no joke. I studied under him in the 80s when I was a teen and in high school in upstate NY. He was and is still amazing. He gave no less than 100% in his instruction and demanded no less from his students in return.
Bravo Japan!
I was on TH-cam & stumbled upon this video. I was fortunate enough to go to an event in Buffalo in the 70s & saw him do the Apple Bach then. Very amazing & so good to see him still at it after all these years.
@doggone tihsllub
For the several idiots that seem to be posting comments yes the sword was obviously dulled but the man still sliced the apple twice with a dull sword blind folded without crushing the mans wind pipe when he did make contact twice. Which none of you could even remotely come close to achieving.
StonedBastardStudios announcer made it clear this is a demonstration of the focus and concentration karate mastery makes one capable of. It's fascinating how insecure and stupid folks are when they demonstrate they aren't capable of enough focus to understand what's being demonstrated. I knew this master many decades ago. His level of focus is unparalleled. Anyone who can do better.make a video, with or without a live throat..post it..or shut up.
He'd be handy to have around if you were too stoned to peel potatoes
i like your thinking
+Khoi Le it's a joke
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I trained with Sensei Ochiai in Vestal between 1981 and 1985. I was an inconsistent student and as a result never became proficient in the style. But many of the things he taught us I have carried with me for the rest of my life. I'm almost 63 years old, I run 3-5 miles every day and train in boxing, and I attribute my ability to train in something physical to Sensei. He's a great man. I will always carry him in my memory as long as I live
The guy with apple: “ if i survive this i promise not to waste my life playing Fruit Ninja!
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I'm pretty sure the guy with the apple is his oldest son Derek. Not 100% sure because I haven't seen him since the early 90's, but it looks like him
This is my teacher. Master Ochiai is an ambassador of the Japanese martial arts Washin Ryu (a sister style of Goju Ryu). He is a very soft spoken man who is in his 80's. That sword is sharp. I have seen and held it myself. For those who doubt I can attest that this is not fake. He is an amazing man. The person who was laying down is his son. He used to do it when he was 10 or so and he's in his 40's. I have sparred with him. He hit me once and it was like a steel rod going through me.
I was in his dojo in the 1980s. It was a great honor to spar him. Once he hit me in the solar plexus in such a way that I felt nothing, just a light tap. I acknowledged his point, bowed and got back into fighting stance. 3 seconds later, I crumbled to the ground, temporarily not able to stand or breath. Everyone laughed. I laughed too. But that's how great he was. His movement and his precision. It was almost like magic
So I can just imagine the guy who was lying down gets up all perfectly fine, cheering, arms up, and then 2 seconds later blood starts leaking and he realizes there's a huge gash in his neck and the video just ends abruptly
ok......
:D
Hahaha... I love dark humor
I went to Vestal high school (Vestal is where the dojo is located). I was in the graduating class with is youngest son Brent. I've seen him do this in person, and it's disconcerting......and absolutely awe inspiring
Imagine if he sneezed while cutting the apple
it would be awkward if the master failed, the stage drapes quickly comes down revealing the message, "Thank you for coming. No refund" to the horror shocked audience.
I'm from Upstate, NY and Hidy Ochiai is a local legend. He's a true martial arts expert and there is absolutely nothing fake about this video. I don't know of another person in the world who can do this and I challenge anybody to find one.
OMG, that was fantastic. I have to give kudos to the guy who assisted.
This is not fake. It is incredibly dumb and amounts to a well practiced trick with a sword. First, no real Japanese sword art demonstrates this sort of thing. You will never, ever, never, ever see something like this at a traditional embu for any sword art in Japan. There are several reasons for this. First, it shows nothing of value for the use of the sword. Second, it is a ridiculous risk to take with a student's life for the pure purpose of showing off. Third, it would be considered inappropriate and embarrassing given the historical viewpoint of tameshigiri (test cutting) which used to be done on criminals and prisoners of war. It is a dark piece of history that the Japanese would rather forget. So much so, that some schools in Japan forbid any test cutting of any type, even on tatami, which is now the standard target.
What he is doing is using the part of the blade closest to the habaki like a paper cutter to cut almost straight down, pressing, rather than swinging the blade through the apple. This lessens the chance he will cut his student by eliminating the function of the blade as it was designed. It is a parlor trick. That doesn't mean he isn't cutting the apple, but he isn't using the sword in a way for which the blade was designed. Despite the announcer saying a "full swing of the sword," it is nothing of the sort. It is like Shaolin monks bending spears. It's still dangerous, but there is a specific technique to it that is for its own purpose and not much else. It takes practice, but it has very, very little, if anything, to do with fighting. It is a show.
Precisely. A "full swing" would've ended bloody and not on TH-cam.
I know from personal experience how sharp Katana's are and they're not to be played with like a normal kitchen knife.. No matter what your controll is, a "full swing" would've applied the full power and sharpness of the Katana and caused an instant death to the person.
Katana's deserve more respect then cleaving apples infront of people....
I got myself into a surgery by stabbing my iaito into my hand when I tried to perform setei kata 12 really fast. I wonder what would have happened if it was a shinken, jesus. I wouldnt even have my hand anymore then xD
why so cynic.
I know someone who ran a shinken through his bicep doing Tachiwaza from the MJER. He managed to not decimate his arm, somehow. I know of another person who scalped himself doing o chiburi. Swords, as you know, are dangerous, and demonstrations like this aren't helping.
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The purpose of the blindfold was as a backup wound dressing
They both were using their Ki energy. His assistant was using his Ki and that is why he never got cut. You can see the blade just bounce off his throat from the force of his Ki. Just AMAZING!
I could NOT be the man on that table!
That is true skill to be able to complete such a task. Amazing...
This is an old stunt that has been on display over and over with or without blindfold. Years ago I've seen a Vietnamese master doing multiple cuts blindfolded wielding dual sabers at the Budo-Gala.
Despite what all the fans say, it is a trick: Not only does he use the portion near the handle that has much less momentum than the monouchi, but he also breaks his swing mid-stroke and does a push cut instead of a drawcut.
You can try this little experiment at home: place an apple on the skin of a raw pork roast and punch your biggest kitchen knife through the apple like in the video. You will find that the blade splits the apple, but doesn't break the skin unless it is extremely sharp. Skin or meat is actually quite hard to cut w/o a slicing motion.
That is not to say that this stunt can be done by everybody, far from it. You need a lot of training in order to be able to manipulate a sword in that manner, especially blindfolded. Indeed, it can be extremely dangerous - volunteers who ended up in the ER with a cut throat can attest to that.
Yet, stunts like these don't demonstrate martial prowess. I'd rather see a BB cut mid-flight or even just some plain ol' tameshigiri.
I have several quite sharp blades at home and can confirm that just with pressure they don't really stand a chance against skin.
Well there's that show called "Stan Lee's Superhumans" and one episode features Isao Machii of Osaka that cuts an bb in mid flight :)
I know, Isao cutting BB out of the air is much more impressive.
Exactly, many years ago in Vietnam, there's a Vietnamese master could cut an apple on others head with blindfolded. But he dead in an accident and now nobody in hís sect can do like him. His name is "Trần Hưng Hiệp", you can search his information on Google. Sr about my bad English.
say all you want, the fact is this requires great skill. dont like it then go do something better. sick of you internet haters degrading the works of greatly skilled people
When he put the blindfold on I was like, "Oh snap!"
That was cutting edge!
Seriously a great demo.
His level of control is evident in every single move he makes. That cut is just the only sign of mastery we are looking at.
So that's where the Fruit Ninja sensai came from...
This was 4 years ago and I reply just to hope you have notifications on so I can annoy you
@@generalrotholz977 oh my XDDDD😂😂😂😂😂
"Apple sliced with sword"
Me: why
*_"Apple Sliced With Sword"_*
Also me: why not
Man you're so cultured. I wish I could have the vast stores of knowledge you have!
I saw Hidy Ochiai at a tournament in Chicago in the 1970's. He was much younger but still was a badass! A big guy took a sledge hammer and smashed a huge piece of concrete Master Ochiai had on his back. As the two pieces of concrete were falling to the floor he immediately went into a no handed front flip to his feet again. Brought the house down!!!
Master? More like Grandmaster to me..
The "volunteer" didn't expect him to go for that second blow, and got whacked pretty hard -- and how did the master know that his first blow didn't catch the apple dead on, if couldn't see it? Blade sense?
It's a good act, but that sword couldn't have been very sharp, or else the assistant would have had his throat cut on the second blow at least.
i agree with you
That is a bit wrong. Notice how he cuts with the lower end of the blade. That is the last part you want to hit with because there is close to know power generated there. The torque is so low that it does not matter. You want to hit with the last 1/3 of the blade, starting from the tip.
No,for a katana,it is most powerful at the tip...in fact,samurai,swordlearners,kendoka always attack with the tip and mono-uchi(you can google it,it is the striking area of the blade...This is not broadsword using strength attack...The purpose of katana is to cut,pierce enemy with speed.
Why don't you check videos about katana?
like this /watch?v=EDkoj932YFo
Tetsuya Hinomura "Asians can do what you can't..." Lol you're an idiot and people like you set the human race back with your dumbass mentality. You have a Japanese user name but I wouldn't be surprised if you're some self-hating neckbeard weaboo from the U.S.
Tetsuya Hinomura
dude, every sword uses speed to maximise the cutting potential
every swort is sharpest near the tip and is used primarly in the top end area of the blade
otherwise halfswording and other techniques would be kinda dumb ;)
dont confuse european swords with axes and blunt objekts, they are on the same level as asian swords
in this clip you see a short cut with the lowest part of the blade, so almost no potential in it, and a blade is not cutting just by contact
to cut with a blade you need to push or pull it
the apple was very likly split by pressure. human tissue is way more flexible and cut resistant
Well, it's that show is how much strength and accuracy determining this show. If he slashed too much strength, he end up chopped that man's head. If too weak, he barely cut apple and stopped at middle. That's the reason why this show is epic
fantastic discipline, technique and control.
I've actually trained under Master Ochiai myself, and I'd like to say, he is no swordsman. What he IS, is a very professional, and amazing martial arts teacher. All these people in the comments section complain on how he's not a real swordsman. It's because he's not. He is a karate instructor, so in tune with his own body he actually was contracted with cancer, and was able to fight it off purely through willpower. He truly is an amazing man. While this may have been a marketing stunt, or some sort of show, it inaccurately shows what this man is capable of.
ich bin erstaunt ,dass er sich für so einen Scheiß hergibt .........wenn man genau hinguckt schlägt er auch durch ...einfach peinlich
Cured himself of cancer through sheer willpower? Oh, come on now...
And this whole thing is extremly tacky. I can't see a true master doing something that belongs in a narnival sideshow.
wow I would like to hear him give some advice one how to be one with the sword I have heard swords speak before but I'm sure it was baby steps compared to his level of oneness
Drezin86 it's proven that depression things that come with that like poor esteem, lack of confidence (or will power), plays a psychological role in enhancing illnesses. PTSD for example is a neurobiological disorder, your mentality and physicality are both connected and play a vitality in your survival.
For everyone posting "fake" comments, we cordially invite you to be the volunteer sometime.
hahaha...😂
there is an old Japanese saying , Never give a crazy man a sword !!!
ok just find somebody to hold the apple
with every breath, the technique and form changes.
Time really flies by I remember seeing him do this demonstration when I was 18 and he had dark hair
If the apple had a shotgun it would have been a whole different story.
I would piss in my pants only when I hear the draw. :D
😂😂 same here. I would have suffered a life long ED after that.
I appreciate the courage meter of the volunteer
Incredible control.
that shit slammed his throat lmao
I can't believe on how many bad comments I read here. Nobody of us can do that even in a life, so please, respect....
An amazing demonstration from a MASTER.... T
If there’s no trick I admire the trust of the assistant rather then the insane performance of this master
It does require trust and the will to relax and not tense up. That's how you get cut, when you don't stay relaxed and loose.
Someone said in comments ''it looked like the blade bounced of his throat'', then other comments ''blade is not sharp''.
Well look closer. Blade does bounce, blade is well sharp. Pay attention to the way he cuts the apple : on a cut he turns / slides the blade to one side so it doesnt land on a throat with full force on the actual razor edge. Efectively he just slaps with the sharp edge, because direction of the force shifts from blade edge to its side. Apple simply makes it easier to do the impact shift.
Take a sharp knife, put it 90 degree to your skin, and scrape it to either side. Now do same motion as if you were to cut directly onto skin - nothing will happen, it will bounce of skin due to angled motion.
Did he use iaito? Im pretty sure i saw the edge hitting his throat and if it were sharp,it Would definitely not bounce off his throat without a nasty gash.
+clubdriver As long as its not a slicing motion it shouldn't cut unless there is enough pressure.
The skin is very resilient and there was no drawing motion. It scored but didn't cut.
Plot twist: the “human” was a robot dummy.
Folks how easy is it to criticize. Think about how many years of practice the master must have taken. Think about his concentration level, his mental calmness and strength. Above all he was doing that in front of a huge numbers of audience. Hats off master.
I used to be a student under Master Ochiai, and he has over 60 years of martial arts experience, he first started his karate in Okinawa, and lost in a duel to the death. He had his stomach cut open, and his organs fall out, but by his sheer power of will he managed to somehow put his guts back in his stomach and crawl to the nearest hospital.
+Kamina Elric
You might laugh but a similar thing happened for real during the Falklands War in '82. A Gurkha soldier had his guts fall out from mortar shrapnel that struck him. He begged for death from a fellow Gurkha nearby who, ignored his pleas, picked up the unravelled guts and stuffed them back in by hand! They strapped his stomach closed with a field-dressing and got him to a nearby aid-station where he survived and recovered fully in a month or so. I read about this in Soldier Magazine (A British Army magazine) commemorating the 20th aniversary of the war in 2002...
If you pay attention he tilts his sword to bounce it off and only cuts to the side of the apple.
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Thank you
When the blindfold arrived, I honestly expected the student to jokingly go, “Ah outa here!!”
I watched him do this back in the early nineties. he demonstrated how he taught himself, by using half cooked pieces if rice layed out on a table. he would pick up the pieces of rice by cutting half way through them, that way they would stick to the sword. he demonstrated this before doing the apple cut.
I studied under one of his students who’s a 6 or 7 th Dan I saw this apple slice with sword. Wow he’s amazing I saw that at Wesleyan University how I want to volunteer but my teacher thought I wasn’t ready
I heard of a legendary ninja master who could chop the man's head off without touching the apple.
why did he have to swing twice tho, he did that guy dirty.
I know Hidy Ochiai and in his defense he isn't a scam artist nor a fraud. He is a very well respected martial artist and has done very well.
You are Hidy Ochiai.
such a great control 👏👏👏
I love how cameras expose the truth
What "truth"? LoL
People actually fell for that? omg.....
I mean you try to cut a apple on someone’s throat with Folded Steel ...
What do you mean
@@chunkz3163 to really cut through skin, you don't just chop downward, you have to have some pull in order to slice, the apple is rigid allowing it to be cut, while the skin is not, so in order to cut it, you would have to apply some pulling or pushing force as well.
@@prodigypenn so..?
@@chunkz3163 so . . . Nothing, you asked something, I answered, that's all
Gorgeous precision
Sensei Ochiai is a great person and teacher
He can only cut the apple, he cannot cut the throat. Such a mediocre. Lol
practice and technique..there is no ki. Anyone here can do the same..practice makes perfect.
there is ki you ignorant fool
tane
Nope..no one has ever demonstrated or measured Ki..
no amount of training can prepare me to be that guy with the apple on his throat
The son regrets asking his dad to cut him some apples as a kid.
Stupid...means nothing. Except that there are folks out there dumb enough to let a blind folded person cut an apple in their neck with a sword...
What the hell is going on around me?
I am appalled. It's as if this man has never heard of daiki zakuretsu in his life. Would a true swordsman, versed in the intricate and time-honored dharma of the otaru watashin, engage in such demeaning parlor trickery as this? I think not. This is a disgrace to takoberujutsuka such as myself who take our art very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very seriously. This is such a disgrace, in fact, that I have shat my hakama, which has in turn upset my mother who now must clean it in the traditional way, per my insistence.
Terrible. Simply terrible.
Damiel Frenk Indeed a terrible disgrace to all practitioners of the art of food preparation ^^
+j4m ahem... Let me properly handle it, for I'm an authentic premium-edition japanese:
YESU! UI MASUTO DESUTUROYU DE FURISHU AMERICAJINSU HU DISUGUREESHI AUA BERI KURUTURI. INU NEMI OFU DE MASUTERUSU YAKISOBA ANDO BURAKI KAMEN RIDER: BANZAI!!
Damiel Frenk clean your own hakama!
Idk if everyone else is blind or if I am but you could see the volunteers while neck move down when the sword struck
what an amazing skill.
dull blade
and a dull blade cuts the apple like a butter. haha
HayPagibig yeah i am a sword collector and i cut with them, sorry a sharp edge doesnt bounce off flesh lol, that is a joke
No good swordsman would pull a stunt that silly. It's embarrassing to those of us who take the study seriously. All the mechanics are wrong. He even puts his sword in his obi incorrectly. The noto was terrible: no saya biki whatsoever. He just recklessly shoves it on in there like a virgin on prom night. (Lousy zanshin, too.) Anyone who has taken more than a couple months of sword could do better. He actually hit his throat on the first cut, so the sword wasn't even sharp. Regardless, disgraceful parlor tricks. This guy is no swordsman at all.
True. No real swordsman would risk the life of a volunteer for the vanity of doing a demonstration.
A real swordsman does not need to proove anything to anyone but himself.
KillingSpree Productions words of the worlds best swordsman
People gotta eat too, just like you and me. If you can feed yourself without no real harm what is the problem here? If you see it as fake then you have solved the case Shaggy and Scooby. In other words who cares, it's just entertainment. The last time I checked the want ads I didn't see a real demand for 65 + sword wielders.
drew13600 So what is it you're trying to say? Eat the apple if he's hungry? LOL, are you serious about this comment?
Spectacular my respect
That assistant has a great trust to its master
I've been practicing karate for more than thirty years, and I don't think I've ever seen a worse martial arts demonstration. It would have been merely bad and in poor taste if the man performing the cut had any skill, but this is terrible. The cut is so sloppy you can actually see the sword bounce off his assistant's throat, and he has to repeat the cut at a closer distance to actually finish dividing the apple into two pieces. It's as if someone devised this stunt as a way to convince people martial arts is nothing more than people learning tricks, like a magic act or a trained animal.
+John Hanley he was slicing with the wrong "key"
xdevilx86 ha!
+John Hanley if you look at the slow motion, he actually makes two separate cuts on the apple, leaving it in 3 pieces. (the first cut was on the left side of the apple from his POV, and the second on the right side of the core).
I'm not a kendo practitioner so I defer to you on the other points you make, and I'm in agreement about using martial arts as stunts/tricks. Unfortunately, there is a history of these types of demonstrations in many schools (going back to HK/China and Japan). Sort of a form of marketing and saying, our school is better than your school.
+Boyd McCollum Why?
John Hanley why what?
shame. this isn't any type of martial art. This was a magic circus entertainment offending Karate
its not magic.. its a sword demonstration
van miller ok
Devoti
Yep...or circus tricks...
Or...rhe X Factor...
van miller
Demonstration but it doesn't mean is effective in oudays
Devoti .
Martial Arts start developing 2000 years ago. 95% population was farmers, peasants etc...no tv no internet.
MA is/was circus tricks and dirt road fights..
During second world war, the Japanese were prepared by type of gymnastics.. No Martial Arts.
Bullets, grenades and bayonets was.
I totally agree your comment.
And Myke is a hero. Short, bulky and too young. But punches ...wow!
Professional Skill.
Thanks.
Incredible skills!!!!
Why was I thinking this was a going to be an SNL skit I had never seen before.....
I have had the blessing of see Mater Ochiai when I was a top tournament fighter in Buffalo. He was great and true.He would come to my sensei John Overton tournament him and many other great masters.I am Reggie Mann from World Fighting Arts. I used to be called Trouble Mann.I would like to thank all of the great masters I have seen and learned from.God bless you all.
It would be quite flattering to do something so cool that most people call it fake.
this is more thrill than any thriller movies
A very different kind of swordsmanship from what is generally practiced in Japan.
It is true, I am a student of Master Ochiai and yes. In his youth there was a duel.
Being able to find the apple with eyes blindfoldes is a great feat, whether the blade is sharp or not.
There are two holes on the eye mask.
Thats amazingggg
I saw Master Ochiai do this in his Dojo in 1980 after the apple he set a soft piece of rice and cut it half way through and as he pulled the sword back the rice was stuck on the edge of the sword. Those who trained with Master Ochiai know his abilities. The man that is on the table was the same one that did it in 1980 as a child.
I haven't seen him in 60 years. He would watch me as I waited on the street for my father to pick me up . I thought of him as my secret protector. Few in binghamton knew who he was but I did thanks to my uncle J Katsu.
My ex-wife and I had a few good times together an one was seeing Mr.Hidy Ochiai,in 1974, perform this and no matter what anyone says on here, the man is awesome If you think he is fake like I did until I was chosen out of a group of fighters left in the tournament. The sword was very sharp, he also did the bed of nails and they too were sharp and the swords he climbed upon and walked. .. Respect the man!
I studied under one of Ochia's first certified black belt instructors Maurice May back in the 70's. I have seen the apple slicing demo live and it is for real.
I like how he hits the neck of the 'volunteer' with a fucking katana