took a nap and Came Back Wrong
Pure genius on display here, lads.
happy birthday gromit
Holy shit, is there anywhere to get that tiger art as a print?
james potter:
this makes me so sad. its supposed to be smoked but its just sitting in a police station like. like a caged brid. a sea wourld whale. they are putting it out for a show but it doesnt get treated how it deservees
talkative cats are the backbone of society. when you look at a cat and they go “mrrp?” at you? that’s what it’s all about baby
divorce court judge ruling a couple has to just stay together cause they both suck so bad they shouldnt be allowed to subject anyoone else to their behaviours
this is making me CRY
POV you are Benny
Wait for the master.
The amount of confidence oozing from this dude
i re-watched it several times, looking for what he does differently. finally i spotted it. look at the line of motion in his strike. it’s not especially fast, he doesn’t wind up more than the others, and it’s not a matter of strength – the guy who knocked over the stand probably put more muscle into it. but there’s a unity of movement he has that the others lack. his body and sword are all one curve. everything moves at once along the same line.
from a physics perspective, that means all the force he’s applying is concentrated at the point of contact between his sword’s edge and the target, and it moves at just the speed that breakage propogates through the material. too slow and it wouldn’t have enough force; too fast and he’d get ahead of the break, shoving the target over instead of cutting it.
from a writing perspective, that means that i should focus on describing a master swordsman’s smoothness more than their strength or speed, and can also have witnesses be confused at the effectiveness of strikes that don’t actually seem all that fast.
Martial arts are all about physics, my karate sensei is has a mechanic/physics diploma and he loves to explain the biomechanics of human body and how this was turned into fight via martial arts. It’s a very good way to teach. The sword master has a larger stance of the feet, much more than the others, allowing his barycenter to lower and thus giving more stability. This, united with the movement of the sword that follows the angle of his body increases the power of the blow without actually using too much muscle strength. Pretty sure he’s also just tending (not contracting) the muscles under the armpits, near the rib cage, the serratus anterior. That makes a huge difference.