In the right hands, bullwhips can halve playing cards or deliver earsplitting cracks. And then there’s April Choi, a whip performer. She can play Jenga with a whip, flicking individual bricks from a ...

Professor Alain Goriely might not be Calamity Jane riding the Deadwood Stage but he could just be one of the first people to truly understand what makes a "whip crack-away". As a staple element of ...

At the beginning of the COVID-19 outbreak, one of John Cantin's martial arts instructors showed up with a bullwhip and asked if anyone wanted to learn how to make it crack. "I could not get it to ...