Hello!
Today we have the world's fastest card thrower.
Oh!
Oh!
Dan: It just disappeared.
Gav: It's like a knife did it.
And a fast-draw world champion.
Dan: Oh! That was so quick.
Gav: That was very quick.
- Hey, what's going on? - Hello, Rick.
How are you?
Good.
What is your speed record?
My speed record?
Ah, I can throw a playing card over 90 miles per hour.
What?
No.
Oh!
Oh!
Geez, I reckon I can throw a card.
- Let's see.
- Yeah?
Yeah, let's see where you're gonna throw it.
I'll just chuck it.
All right, let's go.
That's really actually pretty impressive.
You try throwing it.
I've never thrown a card.
That's perfect.
That was a...
- We'll just cut that out.
- Yeah, get rid of that.
So how did you figure out that you could throw a card that far?
Well, I'm a magician, so I always have cards on me.
And I was a baseball pitcher.
So I put the arts together.
And I came up with a card throw the same way that I would throw like a curveball or a pitch.
Do you think that you could get a card through the carrot?
It's gonna be really tough but I will do my best.
Yeah?
All right, here we go.
- Oh!
- Oh!
I didn't even feel it.
Like it just disappeared.
Looks like a knife did it.
- Look.
- That is crazy.
Gav: Do you put much work into your concentration face?
Yeah, thanks.
That's the problem that I have.
You should probably work on that.
I can't. I can't fix the face, I'm sorry.
Gav: It wasn't a glance.
It actually bounced off the internals of the carrot.
The carrot looked top.
Now we've repositioned the Phantoms over Rick's shoulder.
And we got some celery.
- All right, ready?
- Yeah, I'm ready, I'm good.
That is like a really clean cut.
I don't think my teeth could even get it that clean.
Geez.
No. Messy.
Dan: Whoa, just goes straight through.
- Wow.
- Rick: Nothing.
Incredibly clean.
Dan: Wow.
Gav: I love that.
It's such a satisfying moment.
Dan: Do you reckon you could get through two of these?
Rick: Let's try it.
- Yeah?
- Yeah.
- All right, here we go.
- Yep.
Oh!
Look how much it's holding on by.
Just a thread.
Through two. You say you've never done this before?
Never done two before.
Oh, lovely.
And it's falling.
- Held on by a thread.
- Yeah.
Gav: I reckon you could go through two.
And then maybe even hit a third one.
Rick: Do you wanna try?
Gav: Just find the critical celery amount?
Dan: Let's just find the critical celery amount, yeah.
Okay, here we go.
Oh!
It definitely stuck in.
But that seems to be the limit.
I think it did hit into it, yes.
So it wasn't inaccurate. It was perfectly accurate.
It just didn't go quite through it.
So we found the critical celery protection amount.
Whoa!
Dan: That was a clean cut on both of them as well.
Rick: I've never seen anything like that.
Rick, phenomenal skills.
Thanks so much for showing us your speed.
Yeah, it's really impressive. I was shocked.
Thank you so much for having me.
Cool. Thanks for coming.
Thanks.
Next up in our post of extremely talented and fast people, we have a man who can fire five bullets from a handgun in a second.
That's right.
We got fast-draw world champion, Jon Rivera, with us.
- How's it going, Jon? - Good. Pleasure, Gavin.
- Jon.
- Good to see you.
Dan, pleasure.
That was a quick handshake. I like it.
That's my business.
Because stuff tends to come out of a gun relatively quickly, we're gonna use the V2511 today.
We'll be rolling at 28,000 frames a second.
So super extreme slow mo.
Super extreme slow mo.
- Super mega.
- Okay, cool.
Hopefully, the shots will come in right about a quarter of a second to 22/100s of a second.
To put that in perspective, you blink your eye at 22/100s of a second.
Seriously impressive stuff.
- All right.
- Only if I hit.
What we're gonna be using is blanks.
Basically using black powder.
And, of course, there's some secret ingredients I can't tell you about.
We got other powder in there.
Really?
There's a magnet at the end of the gun.
And a magnet in each of the balloons.
You boys ready?
- Yeah.
- Ready.
Oh!
I think one of those was a twofer.
I think the last one was a twofer.
- Yeah.
- We'll count it.
Okay, well, let's check out that high-speed footage and see exactly what happened there.
Gav: There's the balloon.
Dan: That was, what, five rounds in under a second?
Gav: Yeah.
Dan: With a manual weapon you have to cock every time.
I struggle to do that with a semi.
Gav: There's almost no time wasted between the hand coming back and the trigger being pulled.
Like it's always ready.
- Extremely efficient.
- Yeah, sure.
Boom.
Gav: So he missed that.
Dan: I couldn't tell that that happened.
Gav: No.
Dan: He went back for it!
That was impressive. He was like...
Missed that.
Next one, going back, doing that again.
I was like, wha.. what happened?
I love how he had five shots. He missed one.
He's like gotta get both.
- Got to make this count.
- Yeah.
Hopefully, you enjoyed that post and we'll see you in the next post of the "Slow Motion Stories"