"His nose got left behind"

[Weird Harold]

One of the comments about a staged punch to the head filmed in super slow-mo on "Time Warp" -- a new Discovery channel series showcasing all of the strange and often beatiful things the human eye and normal TV cameras miss because they happen too quickly.

It's probably not a series that is going to introduce any earthshattering information but watching fruit explode and ballons pop in slow motion is as good away to pass a half hour as anything else on TV.

ETA: Episode one repeats twice this week:
Mar 20, 8:30 pm

(30 minutes)
Remind Me Time Warp
Episode 1
TV-G

TIME WARP will reveal our world in astonishing and spectacular new ways, by radically changing the lens of time. We will be able to see and appreciate things that are normally beyond our senses because they take place much too quickly, or too slowly.

ETA: Episode one repeats Mar 19, 2:00 am;
Mar 20, 8:30 pm and Mar 21, 12:30 am.

 

[Guest]

A bit different take on this is "stage" fighting.

There's a trick, a knack, obviously.

Done properly ,with someone on stage clapping their hands - probably easiest to put in synch - or someone operating the sound effect backstage, coupled with the slapper aiming at the slappee, the slappee turning face at the exact moment, away from the audience, so the slap whizzes harmlessly by. . .

It's great fun to practice with students. We spent a couple of days in drama class perfecting punch and slap techniques.

 

[Weird Harold]

A bit different take on this is "stage" fighting.

There's a trick, a knack, obviously.

Done properly ,with someone on stage clapping their hands - probably easiest to put in synch - or someone operating the sound effect backstage, coupled with the slapper aiming at the slappee, the slappee turning face at the exact moment, away from the audience, so the slap whizzes harmlessly by. . .

It's great fun to practice with students. We spent a couple of days in drama class perfecting punch and slap techniques.

The super slow motion camera would expose the fakery.

The staged punch referenced by the title was anything but fake, although it was "pulled" a bit -- not quite as hard as would be done in a real fight. I don't think anyone can turn their head fast enough that the inertia of the tip of the nose will cause it to bend over and touch the cheek below the eye though.

Another interesting segment was discovering how a dog drinks -- it bends it's tongue backwards to form a cup when it laps at the water, not forward as you'd expect.