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Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2007 9:13 am
by Kolya
Does not make sense either.

Or is it my English failing me again?

Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2007 10:41 am
by Shadowstalker
Deathblaster's statement or mine?

Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2007 11:47 am
by Kolya
sorry. I meant Deathblaster's..

See just failed again ;)

Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2007 12:18 pm
by Ron Caliburn
It makes sense . . . though only barely.

Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2007 12:19 pm
by Kolya
I re-read it a few times, marginally better.

Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2007 11:40 pm
by Shang Li
Movies and particle beams have to do with my reasearch how?

Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2007 11:44 pm
by Bert_the_Turtle
You'd be surprised Shang Li.

Remind me to rent The Matrix if you come over in August.

Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2007 11:46 pm
by Shang Li
I have seen it.

Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2007 11:49 pm
by Bert_the_Turtle
Ahhh, well the entire thing got sidetracked when I mentioned I'd actually literally dodged a bullet once and then someone mention The Matrix and it snowballed.

Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2007 11:55 pm
by Holister
Wow...this is this I read this thread, but I can so relate to this.

What you have described is like what happened to me that night in December a few years back when I shot that kid.

There I was standing in the snow, the wind whipping past me, then all at one time seemed to slow down, each snow flake I could see. I could see the kid pulling the gun out of his coat. Then, like, I don't know how to explain it, it was as if I was casually drawing my piece as if I was at the firing range. Then a "pop", not a loud bang, just a faint "pop" over the sudden silence of the moment. I could see the bullet as if in slow motion leave my gun and crawl its way to the kid's head. Before he could pull the trigger, he was dead, the bullet hit square between the eyes.

I can never forget that one moment in time, mere seconds, but it seemed like an eternity. I could never explain the sensation until now.

Thanks Guys, I mean it.

Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2007 11:57 pm
by Shang Li
Ah ok.

And for the rest of you, dodging bullets is NOT impossible, just improbable. I myself have been fortunate enough to intercept a bullet with one of my blades a time or two. (I dont recommend trying, even after many years of training and practice I still have less than a .002% sucess rate)

Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2007 12:03 am
by Ron Caliburn
No, dodging bullets is impossible.

Making it harder for someone to accurately shoot at you is possible and highly advised.

Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2007 12:09 am
by Shadowstalker
As Ron said most people can't dodge bullets those that seem to are more likely dodgeing where a person intends to put a bullet. I realize that may seem to be a weird statment to some, but if you know what you are looking for it is possible to be faster than the person pulling the trigger. To some this would seem to dodgeing bullets but it is not.

Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2007 1:11 am
by Kolya
Potato pahtahto. :P

Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2007 1:13 am
by Bert_the_Turtle
Uhhh, no guys, I heard the shot, turned around, saw the bullet and moved out of its path.

I don't know how.

I'd rather not dwell upon it.

Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2007 1:16 am
by Kolya
Wanna try again? :P

Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2007 1:20 am
by Bert_the_Turtle
Sure, I'll be the shooter this time.

Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2007 1:21 am
by Kolya
You really going for a challenge, huh, with the pistol so close to your temple.

Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2007 1:25 am
by Bert_the_Turtle
We're getting off topic again.

Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2007 1:26 am
by Shadowstalker
You think?

Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2007 2:12 am
by Holister
"If you can dodge a bullet, you can dodge a ball!"

Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2007 3:23 am
by Shang Li
"Yes sir, we will land this plane wherever you say sir, your in charge." :P

Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2007 9:37 am
by Ron Caliburn
Very, very few bullets in use today are subsonic (ie sound of the shot is faster than the bullet) but they do exist.

It would have to be a long shot with a subsonic bullet for Bert to do that.

or Bert is a precog and don't know it.

Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2007 9:50 am
by Kolya
Agreed.

Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2007 12:06 pm
by Shang Li
Hmm. Possibly a good point. Perhaps in times of extreme stress the mind "peeks" into the future just a brief moment? (Could one of our resident experts explain to me how regular pregonition works?) It would help to explain how certain fighters seem to just "know" where the next attack is coming from, and where it is going.

Belive it or not, even though I have been able to achive the state almost at will (as long as I can center) for a few years now, this is the first time I ever decided to look into the how and why of it.

Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2007 12:12 pm
by Kolya
Could be mere intuition and therefore have no explanation.

Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2007 12:15 pm
by Ron Caliburn
I don't consider it precognition for me. In my 30 odd years I've spent most of them training for or participating in combat. I've spent more of my life training and fighting than I have done anything else, including sleep.

With practice and expeirence you learn to anticipate. You know that when certain muscles twitch on the chest or the eyes focus on somehting that someone is going to attack in a particular way.

Everyone has them, they are called Tells.

The better you are at finding these tells, the more likely you are to get a step ahead.

Even with my armour, I cna't take the pounding that someone like Willie or Huntress can - so it's the tells that usually make the difference between life and death for me. Knowing when and where the strike is coming gives me the oppourtunity to escape.

Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2007 4:36 pm
by Natasha
Reflex. Quick processing of facts. Muscle memory. Some intuition. A bit of many things...

Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2007 4:49 pm
by Kolya
Could explain why some people with training or experience are capable of pulling off amazing feats..

Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2007 5:08 pm
by Natasha