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Dammann · 07-03-2011, 02:49 PM

It is a good question, because on one hand, a martian shouldn't be able to lift as much weight, but should maybe have the same capacity for absorbing damage.

Also, although the strength required to lift a weapon of a certain mass is altered, the strength required to move it around and absorb or alter its inertia would be the same. I am thinking of when I wanted to train with the monk spade, back in kung fu school, many years ago. The test for determining whether a student was eligible for training involved holding the monk spade level with the ground for an interval, which is a fair test of wrist strength. You need to have that for using a weapon that has a 30-40 pound metal weight on the end. I failed to test successfully to begin monk spade training. But I might have actually passed that test on Mars! Then I end up having difficulty keeping control of the weapon during training.

07-03-2011, 02:49 PM	#4
Dammann Join Date: May 2011	Re: Gravity, ST, and Terrans on Mars It is a good question, because on one hand, a martian shouldn't be able to lift as much weight, but should maybe have the same capacity for absorbing damage. Also, although the strength required to lift a weapon of a certain mass is altered, the strength required to move it around and absorb or alter its inertia would be the same. I am thinking of when I wanted to train with the monk spade, back in kung fu school, many years ago. The test for determining whether a student was eligible for training involved holding the monk spade level with the ground for an interval, which is a fair test of wrist strength. You need to have that for using a weapon that has a 30-40 pound metal weight on the end. I failed to test successfully to begin monk spade training. But I might have actually passed that test on Mars! Then I end up having difficulty keeping control of the weapon during training.