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I can catch flies with my bare hand. I don't kill them though, just let them go from windows.
To the same vein: I can catch mosquitoes with one hand. Like, just grab them in my fist in the air.
Good one! You gotta creep behind them as they launch backwards. They'll hold still until they see a shadow move over them, gotta go slow in that case.
Yeah. Eventually I meet some more agile ones but after a couple miss I learn their tactics too.
How do you know it isn't the same fly and their descendants who have learned to be caught by you? Presumably it's some fly rite of passage.
I... would be honored I guess. :)
Huh, I'm the exact opposite.
I've managed to kill a couple of flies by swatting them out of the air with my bare hands.
The trick it to get good at swinging a sword. Then when there's a fly that's doing the continuous loop thing, get in a spot and smack them with the same body mechanics as sword swinging.
Jackie Chan is that you?