Bullwhip Kata and Cord and Dart

[Johnlogic121]

Years ago when I was studying Isshinryu, one of the first arts that I studied, someone in my dojo went to a tournament and got to see a great martial artist preforming a Bullwhip kata. There are stuntmen in Hollywood who have perfected Bullwhip technique for special movie scenes, and the Bullwhip is a very difficult weapon requiring much practice. You can injure yourself if you are not careful and the end of the Bullwhip moves at 200 miles an hour, actually 'cracking' in the air with a lot of destructive force. The top performers with Bullwhip can do things like safely crack the whip against the cigarette in a person's mouth while riding by on horseback, but this is extreme indeed. Has anybody seen anything like this, or perhaps another exotic weapon not normally seen in martial arts? I have seen 'cord and dart' on television. The cord is about 22 feet long and the iron dart is thrown repeatedly and retracted from its full length. The practitioner coils the cord around his body and throws the dart in any direction in a 360 degree radius towards somebody's eyes, and whn he wraps the cord around himself, he catches the dart and throws it again. Anybody else seen exotics like these or different from these?