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<blockquote data-quote="JohnSnow" data-source="post: 3976040" data-attributes="member: 32164">Okay, what about this? Can a normal person break stone, rock, or wooden beams by smacking them with their bare hands? Can they break an iron bar on their heads? Can they support their body on six spear points without them piercing their skin? Most people would say &quot;no, they can't.&quot;But Kung Fu masters in the real world can do all of these things. These are seemingly supernatural feats which can be demonstrated today.Ponder that.And as far as european myths being limited to &quot;realistic&quot; leaps goes, I could bring up Cu Chullain's &quot;salmon leap,&quot; but that seems too easy...I think it's largely a matter of flavor. It'll be interesting to see what abilities &quot;martial&quot; characters get, and at what levels.You can find some info about a trick archer named Howard Hill from the 1930s &amp; '40s who could accomplish feats most people would find hard to swallow - shooting quarters out of mid-air at 30 paces, cutting strings with his arrows, and so forth. That's obviously not supernatural, but it's really flipping impressive.The video is &quot;Cavalcade of Archery&quot; (1945), which is included on the recently released 2-disc special edition of The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938). Hill performed the brillian arrow stunts in the movie, which is why he's on the disc.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="JohnSnow, post: 3976040, member: 32164"] Okay, what about this? Can a normal person break stone, rock, or wooden beams by smacking them with their bare hands? Can they break an iron bar on their heads? Can they support their body on six spear points without them piercing their skin? Most people would say "no, they can't." But Kung Fu masters in [i]the real world[/i] can do all of these things. These are seemingly supernatural feats which can be demonstrated today. Ponder that. And as far as european myths being limited to "realistic" leaps goes, I could bring up Cu Chullain's "salmon leap," but that seems too easy... I think it's largely a matter of flavor. It'll be interesting to see what abilities "martial" characters get, and at what levels. You can find some info about a trick archer named Howard Hill from the 1930s & '40s who could accomplish feats most people would find hard to swallow - shooting quarters out of mid-air at 30 paces, cutting strings with his arrows, and so forth. That's obviously not supernatural, but it's really flipping impressive. The video is "Cavalcade of Archery" (1945), which is included on the recently released 2-disc special edition of [i]The Adventures of Robin Hood[/i] (1938). Hill performed the brillian arrow stunts in the movie, which is why he's on the disc. [/QUOTE]

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