Honor Guard Demo at Japan’s National Defense Academy is Very Satisfying to Watch

What made this performance particularly impressive is the fact that they all did this without any sort of sonic aid–musical or otherwise–to time their movements.

Moreover, the guns they used in the demonstration are actually real. According to the National Defense Academy’s Twitter, the students used real M1 Garand rifles that weigh at about 4.3 kilograms (9.5 pounds) each, SoraNews24 reported.

In the clip above, which has already gained over 1.31 million views at the time of writing, the Honor Guard demonstrated their gun handling skills by twirling and throwing them.

After one person pulls a routine, the next one to him follows and copies it; this will continue until the very last person at the end of the line.

The same concept was performed in another silent drill that the Honor Guard did, which is also captured in video and posted on Twitter; but this one has lesser views than the viral clip.

As it turns out, the Honor Guard at the National Defense Academy are pretty popular. They usually draw in huge crowds when they are performing at any United States and Japanese military festivals. Here are what some netizens wrote on social media, as translated by SoraNews24:

Even in kicking and passing the rifle, the Honor Guard has to make it extra:

Featured image via Twitter / NDA_GoH