Chinese joker comes up trumps: He slices fruit and vegetables with plastic playing cards in bid to set Guinness world record

• He flings plastic playing cards as fast as high-speed train
• Aiming to slash record 18 cucumbers in under a minute

Oddjob was a pretty menacing James Bond villain when he sliced through concrete with his steel hat.
But even he would be impressed with Ye Tongxin who can leave deep cuts in fruit and vegetables with ordinary plastic playing cards.
Tongxin, a 48-year-old Chinaman, is attempting to set a Guinness record as the best in the world. It may look simple, but he has been in training for the past 10 years.

Sliced: A watermelon slashed deeply by the playing cards thrown by Ye Tongxin

Card sharp: Chinese Ye Tongxin is attempting a Guinness world record after 10 years' of training

During the day Tongxin is a manager of school buses in his  home city of Nanjing in east China's Jiangsu Province. Every night, he practises two hours throwing cards as fast as a high-speed train.
Cucumbers or the fruit towel gourd might look simple to cut because their skins are crisp, but unlike other card-throwing ninjas, Tongxin can slash apples and watermelons just as easily.
He uses a six-and-a-half-feet frame on which he hangs cucumber-shaped bags to practice his  throwing and slicing skills.
According to Tongxin, the cards he throws travel 50 meters in a half second, so that means his plastic projectiles fly out of his hand at 360kmh.

In training: Ye Tongzin spends two hours every night throwing cards at fruit and vegetables after he gets home from work

Slashed: The cucumbers severed by the playing cards which hang from a frame used for training by Tongxin

His best performance is cutting a row of 12 cucumbers in 47.2 seconds but his goal by the end of the year is to cut 18 cucumbers in under a minute to create a world record.