Quoth The Raven "Diceman" in
4263bfee$1 snipped-for-privacy@news.iprimus.com.authe terminal velocity bounce is true, and as for the sword/body topic, sword makers in Japan experimented for many years on capital punishment victims for many hundreds of years until they perfected the design. it also takes a martial arts expert to wield the sword precisely to slice through a body. later they used pics and fresh bamboo scarecrows to simulate a human body. all of this had been documented (I'm not bothering to look on the net for sources).