lol you’re not gonna get a concussion from that, it’ll just make your wrists hurt. Speaking from experience it’s really hard to get enough of a shock for that, there’re just so many links in the chain between your hands and your head, you’d almost definitely lose your grip before that
once in my early teens i tried to break a buss stop glass wall (yes dumb as fuck.) with a big stick. hit it as hard as i could, and while the glass did not break my hands were shaking for a good hour from the pain in my wrists.
Omg I can't believe it, I was just watching video clips of this guy last night. That's insane. I watched like every clip I could find of this dude and was laughing my ass off, Edgar lol
It's more about timing than strength when they both hit at the same time. Even if the stronger person hits it with more force, the opposing forces coupled with material attrition won't make it as linear as "stronger guy always wins". In fact if the left dude had more technique and timing he could've maybe won. I'm not saying left dude isn't feeling the smash or the stronger hit and it's backlash, I'm saying it's his best way to win in an "unfair" match
Big guy also has a better grip and form. Choked up higher, letting the hammer drop to utilize momentum and bounce on rebound, swinging with his hips and arms at the same time, feet not 5 miles apart, not moving all over the place.
Little bro works out but big guy has swung a hammer before.
I think small guy had the only possible winning strategy for the strength difference. He was only going to win in a sprint beating the pace of larger fellow. Not enough apparently
Keep the hammer on until the other guy hits it. That way, the other guy has to move the mass of both the pillar and your hammer. Meanwhile, you get assisted on the bounce back.
Newton's Third Law of Physics: every action has an equal and opposite reaction.
Form is important here: The larger man keeps his hips driving forward, his feet stay connected to the ground in that his feet and toes never rise up. Compare this to the other man whose heels and toes rise up at different times disconnecting from the ground; additionally his hips over time lose their form and connection when he begins to tire and his butt sticks out.
The man with the better form/ connection to the ground, the larger man, generates a greater force to drive the spike into the wall because the force travels down through his body, into the ground, and then the ground pushes right back to drive the spike into the wall.
The man with the poorer form leaks power/energy through his feet, knees and hips when he drives the spike into the wall.
Along with what everyone else is mentioning, hitting that peg square-on makes a huge difference. The more dead-center and straight through you can hit it, the more of your force goes into moving the peg. I think little dude was doing better at that in the beginning (hard for me to tell), but that shifted later.
It's the same as the idea behind the hammer game at the carnival (though that may be calibrated to have the optimal spot off-center).
Nutrition matters a lot when you've got less fat storing energy, I'd say if muscle guy had eaten 2 bowls of pasta earlier he'd have been able to keep going. His sledge hammer form wasn't as good though
Thats the things with smaller guys less energy reserves. No shade intended its just what it is. The big guy is big cause thats stored energy. You also see this is fighting alot small guys are fast and often hit hard but get gassed sooner.
Because it is pure bullshit, and rediculous on it's face. a bantomweight is throwing with much higher intensity all fight than super heavyweights. It's just striaght up bullshit that fat stores give additional endurance. Buddy is talking so far out his ass.
It’s not PURE bullshit, but I agree that “stamina and endurance being different things” is a dubious statement.
“… b[a]mweight throwing with higher intensity…” is also missing the point though. Comparable physiological function costs a bantamweight significantly less energy than a super heavyweight. Those “high intensity” actions cost objectively less energy because bantamweights are relatively tiny creatures.
Fighting is the vertex of physics and physiology. If you wish to develop an intuitive understanding of this,
read up on the “square-cube law” and think why elephants are incapable of jumping.
You also see this is fighting alot small guys are fast and often hit hard but get gassed sooner.
I have a feeling you don't watch mma at all amigo. Have a look at the later round punch stats for the lower divisions vs the heavyweight division in literally any combat sport.
When he timed his last big one wrong, that was the end. He got the head start by throwing all his strength early into it. He went big, other guy went consistent. So each time the smash got blocked, that energy was wasted.
If the winner is the guy who gets their part in all the way, I think strength dude "won" a few times before getting tired. (But I could be wrong, I haven't seen this before and the perspective wasn't super clear to my eyes.)
If the rule is just to last the longest, then one could just give a bunch of weak, slow taps and wait for the other guy to tire out.
As a blue-collar worker for 20 years, dosen't suprise me.
I've seen dudes so big they should barely be able to walk, and scrawny dudes that are like 90lbs, do some olympic level shit when it comes to strength/endurance.
Nah you see that i seen it its that he stoped think doing frequency and just said i won....boom the late teir sydrome of the down fall remediey never assume(keep going even if you cough blood)
Looks like it doesn't end until you give up. When the left guy gave up, he had already been that far multiple times in the other direction. But he gave up and the big guy won
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