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Something That Has Always Bugged Me

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Mira:

--- Quote from: Conspiracy Theorist on July 03, 2022, 10:41:12 AM ---Murphy was considered something of a master with a stave, although in Battle Ground she admitted that Bradley would beat her into submission on a regular basis with his weapon. I doubt following the soul gaze though that Bradley will show Harry his technique, and frankly I don’t think Harry could pull it off, even if he did.

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You are talking about coordination, something Harry admits he wasn't overly gifted with, he also admits he isn't terribly good with a sword. If you will notice most gymnasts, dancers, are usually under six feet in height.  It is what it is, but while Murphy maybe good with a stave, if she pointed one at something nothing would happen, Harry with a point and a word could blow it to hell..

Conspiracy Theorist:
Unless it was a human. More often than not Harry faces adversaries who are ostensibly human, and as such magic is out of the question and he generally ends up engaging them up close and personal. For example the choking incident with Nicodemus. In such circumstances the magic in his staff is less useful than the wood. A nice thick, seasoned length of wood has saved Harry on numerous occasions one on one, and whilst he is not the most experienced swordsman, Lea certainly had no complaints when he bared his blade in the cemetery. She really was quite satisfied by Harry’s exertions, even though his size may have counted against him.

Ed0517:

--- Quote from: Mira on June 26, 2022, 04:14:30 AM ---I think he must of cracked it on the popup.  What you need to do is go back and listen to the sound when the bat hit the ball.  I bet you can hear the crack even if the bat didn't come apart at that moment.  Notice announcers usually know the minute the bat strikes the ball if it is broken from the sound it makes.

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they didn't say so, and I didn't think so ... but I used Alonso because I had seen it that day. Bo Jackson did it after striking out, so the bat was intact until his knee.

Mira:

--- Quote from: Ed0517 on July 04, 2022, 06:14:15 AM ---they didn't say so, and I didn't think so ... but I used Alonso because I had seen it that day. Bo Jackson did it after striking out, so the bat was intact until his knee.

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Was it? Unless they had a before close up, you wouldn't see an existing crack before he broke it over his knee.  Or there is a trick to it, which apparently there is;

According to The Hardball Times. Here is the physics of it;


--- Quote ---The force on the bat intended to break it can be applied rapidly or slowly. Or, if you prefer fancier language – dynamically or quasi-statically. Here’s a way to understand the difference. Go get an uncooked piece of spaghetti and hold one end in each hand.

Breaking it dynamically means very quickly snapping it in two. Put another way, you apply the force rapidly. Quasi-static means slowly applying the force so the spaghetti gently bends more and more until it eventually breaks. For most materials, the breaking force is different in the two cases.

In the case of breaking a bat in game situations, we know from high-speed video measurement that the force is applied dynamically because the entire bat doesn’t have time to bend before it breaks. Check out this famous broken bat hit by Hunter Pence off Joe Kelly in the third inning of the 2012 NLCS.
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It also goes into how a bat is shaped and knowing where to apply the force at the weakest point.  In other words, the players that do it make a dramatic impression, but it apparently is something they studied and perhaps practiced before hand.

Conspiracy Theorist:
I am confused is this baseball? I was talking about wood in his staff not about sporting wood involving Harry. As far as I am aware Harry never even swung his staff at the Eye of Balor in Battle Ground, so he didn’t even manage to get to first base with Ethnui.

However Harry is far more used to striking out than getting a home run. He prefers to watch, remember the story involving the tuatha and the goat? That’s more Harry’s speed.

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