Highest Real Life Striking Strengths

[sir_pudding]

Nobody conducts weightlifting trials while shooting at the participants (well Uday Hussein may have).

[cdru]

Originally Posted by Tomsdad

Skull hits don't qualify for hurting yourself as they are DR2 not DR3+ (well human skulls anyway)

This isn't strictly realistic as people break knuckles on skulls, might be worth a house rule.

Martial Arts has a rule for hurting yourself by hitting the skull

[Tomsdad]

Originally Posted by Flyndaran

When a child, I easily lifted my uncle who weighed far over 300 lbs. fully off the floor and to chest height. Not a proper squat or deadlift but not totally unrelated. He was surprised and did not appreciate it. But while stronger than average, I was certainly no musclebound pre-teen.
Strength is far more equatable to reality than any other stat, but that does not make it very equatable all things considered.

When you say you lifted him to chest hight do you mean he was lying down and you stooped down, picked him up and lifted his entire body to your chest height. Or do you mean he was standing and you walked up to him put your arms around him leaned back and lifted him off his feet and his upper torso was resting on your chest?

(don't get me wrong the latter is still impressive but the former would be amazing as humans are harder to lift than equivalent weights loaded on bars or gym equipment)

[Tomsdad]

Originally Posted by cdru

Martial Arts has a rule for hurting yourself by hitting the skull

Does it? Cool!

[Tomsdad]

Originally Posted by AlexanderHowl

We are not talking about average people here. I grew up handling horses and could pick up two 50 lb hay bales, one with each hand, when I was 14 (long before I damaged my back in the US Navy). Some of the guys I know at my gym mass 400 lbs of pure muscle, and they can lift an average guy with one hand, and they are not the most impressive people at my gym. .

They're still pretty impressive! 400lb would put them at the heavy end of WSM competitors and you say they're not the biggest in you gym?

Originally Posted by AlexanderHowl

We have a guy that looks like a 5'6 version of Wolverine who is capable of curling 120 lbs for six reps of 20 each arm in 10 minutes (which would be an Arm ST of 18). .

Only if you equate dumbbell bicep curls to one handed overhead lifts. (and he's doing so without benefit of training and effort*)

also isn't a 5'6" version of Wolverine...just Wolverine ;-)



*although yeah again I agree the GURPS EE system doesn't really work for activity that falls between "I can do this every 2 seconds all day without stopping" and "I burn a FP every rep". Usual provisos regarding trying to model very specific RL activities that aren't GURPS' main focus and the application of common sense apply.

[Bengt]

Originally Posted by Tomsdad

also isn't a 5'6" version of Wolverine...just Wolverine ;-)

Nah, he is just 5'3". :)

[Tomsdad]

Originally Posted by Bengt

Nah, he is just 5'3". :)

Aha (bet he's great at squat, bench and deadlift)!