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Red Bull is giving us answers to all sorts of questions nobody ever thought about asking, but we can’t say we mind. After that rugby versus Formula One car challenge from earlier this year, it's now time for a much more elegant sport to match its powers against a performance vehicle.
With a new discipline comes a different car, and also a different challenge. Playing tug-of-war between a fencer and a car would have made no sense since power is the least important attribute for a practician of this sport. In fencing, it's all about finesse, accuracy, and, above all, speed.
Well, speed also happens to be something that people who build race cars bother with, so why not make this contest an acceleration test? That's exactly what Red Bull has in store for us here, and it's a welcome change from the display of brute force in the previous video.
Unless you have some personal reasons to like the sport, you've probably never watched a fencing match for more than a few minutes, and there's a very good reason for that: you don't really see anything during the live transmission.
The fact they both celebrate afterward doesn't help either. Hell, it's hard to distinguish who hit first even during the slow-motion replay. So while these people deserve plenty of respect, it's just not one of those sports that can gather lots of viewers in front of their TV sets.
One of the most frequent attack moves is the forward lunge, where the fencer puts everything they've got in this all or nothing charge. If successful, the point is won; if the opponent manages to block it, then the counter-attack will most likely be unstoppable. That's why the lunge has to be lightning-fast.
Faster than a 600 hp Nissan race car off the line? You'll just have to watch the clip and see for yourself what happens in this weird zero-to-ten-feet acceleration challenge that Red Bull devised.
Well, speed also happens to be something that people who build race cars bother with, so why not make this contest an acceleration test? That's exactly what Red Bull has in store for us here, and it's a welcome change from the display of brute force in the previous video.
Unless you have some personal reasons to like the sport, you've probably never watched a fencing match for more than a few minutes, and there's a very good reason for that: you don't really see anything during the live transmission.
The fact they both celebrate afterward doesn't help either. Hell, it's hard to distinguish who hit first even during the slow-motion replay. So while these people deserve plenty of respect, it's just not one of those sports that can gather lots of viewers in front of their TV sets.
One of the most frequent attack moves is the forward lunge, where the fencer puts everything they've got in this all or nothing charge. If successful, the point is won; if the opponent manages to block it, then the counter-attack will most likely be unstoppable. That's why the lunge has to be lightning-fast.
Faster than a 600 hp Nissan race car off the line? You'll just have to watch the clip and see for yourself what happens in this weird zero-to-ten-feet acceleration challenge that Red Bull devised.
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