(TFT) Re: TFT Digest V4 #70 (various)

[Mark Tapley <mtapley@swri.edu>]

> From: Ross Gottlieb <baron43@att.net>
> LOL - No offense taken; a strong hobbit indeed!

No kidding. I suppose if we meet I'd better call him "sir"!

> From: Joey Beutel <mejobo@comcast.net>
> ... I've always thought
> Melee does a pretty good job of making people who are good or even 
> great be GOOOD or GREAT, but not in a DND, "can't be killed by a knife 
> while your asleep because youre level 20" sorta way.

Agreed. A ST13/DX11 guy with a halberd gets your attention almost no 
matter how advanced you are. Four of them *really* gets your 
attention.

> From: "Jay Carlisle" <Jay_Carlisle@charter.net>
> Ouch!
> I just busted my tucus trying that.

Sigh. Now I'm going to have to get hurt trying this.
I'll wait until I get home, so the family can dial 9-1-1 for me.

Just to make sure I've got it, the drill is start on the floor, push 
straight up, pick up hands, rotate about head-to-foot axis so I face 
(briefly) at the ceiling, and get all the way around so my hands are 
under me before I get back to the floor, then check in for outpatient 
rhinoplasty, right?

> From: "Jay Carlisle" <Jay_Carlisle@charter.net>
> I'm stuck with a handful of vampire sessions as a result.

Sigh. What is it with the 6 foot mosquitoes? They're everywhere these 
days. The "Twilight" effect. Sigh.

> Kung Fu 'one inch' punch ~600 lbs force; flying double kick ~975 lbs
> Karate straight punch 800 lbs; side kick 1000 lbs
> Taekwondo punch 900 lbs; spinning back kick 1575 lbs
> Boxing punch 1000 lbs
> Muay Thai grappled knee strike ~2200 lbs (~35 mph)
> Pumphrey elbow strike or head butt ~2200 lbs (~35 mph)
> 55 lbs @ 35 mph ~2200 lbs
> 5' 10" 156 lbs ideal (139 / 173 range)
> 6' tall at ~165 lbs ideal weight by Hamwi formula. (147 / 183)
> 6' 4" tall ~184 (163 / 204)
> 6' 11" tall at ~ 220 lbs ideal. (195 / 244)
> Pumphrey shoulder ram ~4000 lbs
>
> Craig Pumphrey 6' 4" 250 lbs
> Paul Pumphrey 6' 4" 235 lbs
> Jay 5' 10" Notpumphrey 165 lbs
> http://www.kungfumagazine.com/ezine/article.php?article=675
> (a discussion of many of the Figures involved in generating the above data
> and some of the limits of the measurements)

Some of those are really surprising. Flying double kick < 1/2 of an 
elbow strike? Wow.


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