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Originally Posted by Tomsdad
Fair enough, how did they display this extra Arm only ST?
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There's a young lady who bags groceries at my local grocery store. Probably as a result of a birth defect her left arm is non-functional. She does with one arm what other people use two for and her one functional arm shows unusual muscular development.
"Works at my local grocery store" doesn't rate as "exotic" to me.
There are other similar examples of "compensatory development" among he handicapped but Arm ST appears to e quite common among some athletes. Probably every top gymnast has it. They support their entire weight with only their arms in both static and moving situations for significant periods of time.
I've already mentioned the bodybuilders and their overdeveloped arms.
There are reverse cases where older people (probably including myself) have lost more strength from their legs than their arms. In gurps this could be represented by reducing regular ST by say, 2 pts but buying 1 level of Arm ST. It was very obvious durign both physical therapy and regular life that he had little strength in his legs but still had near-normal strength in his arms. It's a fairly common pattern.