Your comparison of throwing and catching makes me think of the Caber Toss. Where a 79kg wood trunk gets, well, tossed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caber_tos

Your comparison of throwing and catching makes me think of the Caber Toss. Where a 79kg wood trunk gets, well, tossed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caber_toss https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caber_toss The key to this, and to mentioned in the article, is accelerating/decelerating not the object, but the centre of gravity.