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minus-squarejaderolinkfedilink3•11 months ago Gauges measured stress on the metacarpals during punches and slaps on padded-dumbbell targets created with a pendulum-like device. I take “a pendulum-like device” to mean they suspended either the arms or the targets and swung them to a collision.
minus-square@fidodolinkEnglish2•11 months agoThis whole device sounds morbid but hilarious. Did they like strap dead bodies to a swing and position them like Superman and swing their bodies into a wall fist fist?
minus-squarejaderolinkfedilink1•11 months agoThat would have been awesome, but I suspect that it was just the arms and that it was powered in some way, hence “pendulum-like”.
I take “a pendulum-like device” to mean they suspended either the arms or the targets and swung them to a collision.
This whole device sounds morbid but hilarious. Did they like strap dead bodies to a swing and position them like Superman and swing their bodies into a wall fist fist?
That would have been awesome, but I suspect that it was just the arms and that it was powered in some way, hence “pendulum-like”.