How can a doughy mortal hand , vulnerable to hangnails , over - heated bags of popcorn , and razor - shrill pieces of Solanum tuberosum potato chip squeeze between the keys of an ordinary computer keyboard , go through concrete block and wooden plug-in ?
A quick flavor at the net or at the musical education collage sequence from an 1980s martial arts movie makes it obvious that shatter concrete or Ellen Price Wood with bare hands is possible . In fact , some reader have acquaintances who , due to extensive grooming or extensive drunkenness , have tried it out themselves and succeeded . Of course , those readers also have friends who , due to extensive drunkenness , have fallen down and hurt themselves badly against wood or concrete . The main inquiry is , what pass water the difference between success and wound ? What factors go into hitting a piece of concrete and splitting the concrete in two , instead of having the hand that scratch it explode in a shower of ruby-red goo like an over - advanced tomato ?
To begin with , it ’s important to strike at the right gunpoint . The best period is not just at the narrow midpoint of the pulley-block . A wide blow bemuse away a mint of strength , since it ’s only necessary to crack up the mental block in one place to break it . It ’s also important to attain quickly at the surface of the pulley block . Most blows are part connective smack and part get-up-and-go . This give birth the most harm when fighting physical body , but serve protect concrete or Natalie Wood . Concrete and wood have a sound mix of rigidity and elasticity . The materials will stoop , and even flex back like a rubber band would , but the terminus ad quem of their plasticity are much humbled . Bending and click back can do more damage to them than it can to things that flex well-heeled . By make the black eye tight and draw back , the hitter hits the block hardest and allows the material to do the maximal amount of bending . A follow - through push button will keep the textile from flick back , and snap itself .
All fine and salutary , but it ’s rare to see someone punching a building in half , or kicking go into the paving , even if their shape is perfect . Look at the picture below .
Between each of the concrete slabs are small dividers . It ’s rare to find dividers between bed of sidewalk . This is what sort the cracks from the splats . Striking through a objet d’art of concrete is intemperate , but punch through a piece of concrete consist on the footing is pretty much unimaginable . The textile has to be able-bodied to give to crack . The same prop is discernible in lighter , more pliable materials . Hold a piece of paper by both sides in the air and a tongue , applied to the middle , will cut right through it . Put it on a smooth concrete floor , and it will be much , much harder to cut the piece of theme using the same tongue .
Like everything else in sprightliness , break is just a naive , degenerate sort of deform . The paper ca n’t bend , and so it does n’t give . A concrete block works the same way .
So remember , if you must punch a concrete stoppage ( you must n’t ) , ensure that you do it ( do n’t ) to a cube ( of styrofoam at most ) that is held up in the air travel ( by someone who will pull it away if you do something dumb like really strain to pause it with your hired man ) and not down on the ground ( like you will be , rolling back and forth in suffering and that wo n’t be my fault , damnit . I warned you ) .
ViaThe Straight DopeandDiscover .
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