Re: (TFT) Shield rush in Melee --> Momentum of heavy blows.

[Matt Fraser <mfraser@canada.com>]

If you figure the ultimate club is a baseball bat and the ultimate club
swinger is a professional baseball player, we can get a pretty good idea of
the forces involved.  I did a quick search on "bat speed" on the internet
and here is what I found:

A good player can swing a 33oz bat at about 95mph (I don't know where in the
bat this is measured, but I would assume near the sweet spot).  33oz is .935
kg.  95mph is 42.5 m/s.  This puts the momentum at 39.7 kg m/s which using
Rick's example would knock the 100kg guy back at about 0.4 m/s.  I think
this would be enough to knock him back a hex or so.

Cheers,
Matt Fraser

> > I don't know about any studies but I
> > could guess.  I can bring my hand from over
> > my head, a bit behind me to pointing at my
> > knee in 3/4 of a second about.
>
> I can do it in less than a tenth, but I've practiced doing just that for
> many thousands of hours, and that isn't even close to my favorite shot.
> (Favorite is a right hand inside backhand over the shield edge while
> fighting with 2 swords, but I digress)


> > I could easily see my estimate being
> > off by a factor of 2, but I would doubt that
> > my guess is off by a factor of 10.  So in
> > summary, there is enough momentum to knock
> > you off balance maybe, but it won't send
> > you flying.
>
> I'd disagree. I'd say it was by at least a factor of 10. There's guys
faster
> than me out there.
>
> There is a claim that a single handed sword was measured doing 200 mph
> (~90m/s) at the tip, but it's unsubstantiated.
>
> I do recall a speed test from an old 'Bujin' magazine that put the single
> handed rattan stick as the second fastest weapon measured, behing the
> yardstick, but can't quite remember the speeds measured. For some reason
> 140fps comes to mind, but I can't be sure.
>
> Neil Gilmore
> raito@raito.com
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