Unsapien
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"Sling your words like cannon balls."Vari, M.Twain
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I've broken branches too. I particularly like it when you sling low, and many of the ground plants, fall in a line as if suddenly snipped with an invisable blade.
Although, many bones of the body are padded with fat or muscle there are a great deal exposed to external blunt trauma. Take the radius and ulna in the arm, or other long bones like the ribs or tibia, these are very vulnerable. The flat bones in the skull seem particularly open to this assult.
If I remember correctly some martial schools in acient japan trained their swordsman in slicing/chopping limbs, by wrapping bamboo with straw mats. This would effectively simulate flesh on bone, and offer a more realistic resistance to the blade. I don't know much regarding this testing system, but you can find more if you look up "Tameshigiri".
I wonder if we couldn't set up a similar system for slinging, to measure a stones impact. Considering how much force might be obsorbed by skeletal muscle we might find some compeling results.
-Unsapien
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