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Pirate MythsEpisode Title: Special 11: Pirate Special

Original air date:1/17/2007
Myth Title: ---- Slow to Fall


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  • Test which knife will work the best, and at what sharpness.


  • Make a sail that is one thickness at the beggining, and gradually gets thicker, and ends at the thickness need so that you don't get injured.


  • Jump off about a foot or two before the sail ends.
  • Get/make a sail without reefs.

  • Land on your feet, instead of turning in the air.
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Kyle_314159 Pirate "knife slowing fall" discussion 0 Dec 17 2007, 5:28 PM EST by Kyle_314159
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There was an interesting documentary on how they actually did the stunt knife fall for the Douglas Fairbanks movie - it would have been nice if they had included a short section on that.

The knife was fixed through the sail to a block of wood behind the sail. This block of wood was on a counterbalanced rope system in a vertical direction.

This meant that the actor was actually holding onto a very solid metal rod and had a controlled descent.

Naturally, the sail hid the mechanism which was behind it.

They also covered off items such as doing the big slide down theatre curtains (a hidden slide behind the curtain) and other swash-buckling exploits. Excellent stuff, from the days before they had digital effects.

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