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

["Dan Tulloh" <dwtulloh@zianet.com>]

and what about a giant swinging a 3+3 club?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Matt Fraser" <mfraser@canada.com>
To: <tft@brainiac.com>
Sent: Sunday, November 16, 2003 1:53 PM
Subject: Re: (TFT) Shield rush in Melee --> Momentum of heavy blows.


> 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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