Guy Catches Arrow with His Bare Hands from Inside a Speeding Skoda

How manny of you knew until this very moment that there’s such a thing as a record to beat for the farthest arrow fired and caught in a moving car? Well, there is, and it was set and recognized by Guinness at the beginning of September.

At that time, Olympic archer Laurence Baldauff fired an arrow at the Zeltweg air base in Austria, but not before martial artist Markus Haas took off down the runway while sticking out of the sunroof of a Skoda Octavia Combi vRS 245.

At exactly 57.5 meters (188 feet) away from the starting/firing line, the man met the arrow while traveling at speeds of 134 mph (216 mph). Thus, a new record was made.

The timing of Haas and his driver had to be near perfect, as 70 meters away from where Baldauff fired the arrow stood a wooden target meant to stop the projectile. That gave the martial artist only so many meters and a window of only 0.5 seconds to catch the 68-centimeter long arrow.

As per Skoda, the entire stunt was nothing more than a homage to the carmaker’s logo, which is, you guessed, a winged arrow. Setting it up took no less than four months to prepare, says Skoda.

The Czech carmaker is not the only brand of the Volkswagen group pitting human or animal athletes against its cars. In January, a SEAT Leon Cupra went against Olympic javelin champion Barbora Spotakova in a best-of-three system that was just barely won by the four-wheeled machine.

Fast forward to June, the same car was unleashed on an obstacle course at Barcelona’s Royal Polo Club against a horse named Calgary.

In the video below you can watch the incredible Skoda meets arrow stunt.