I don't know if anyone has mentioned the scene in "Big Trouble in Little China" at the start, where Wang goes to chop a beer bottle in half with a cleaver and instead it spits across the table. Where Jack (Kurt Russell) nabs it real casual like, one handed, and says
"It's all in the reflexes, Wang."
Apparently that was just one of those things, and was included in the movie because it was so totally priceless.
(if he hadn't buggered his shoulder on a routine grounder throw Russel was on his way to playing 2nd base in the big leagues, or so goes the story)