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Ice is very similar to concrete pavers; it's both rigid (i.e. requires a lot of force to deflect), but brittle (i.e. takes very little deflection to break).
by aidenn0 3y ago
Ice is very similar to concrete pavers; it's both rigid (i.e. requires a lot of force to deflect), but brittle (i.e. takes very little deflection to break).
- crtified 3y agoUnderstandable. Still, nothing will detract from the visceral wonder that I could never forget after seeing, in person, an extremely high ranked karateka (i.e. second in the world, in his style) chop a seemingly solid block of ice over a foot thick. I suspect that, while there might be "a trick" behind these things, extreme achievements in that field are still rare and accomplished acts, as they are in any. The wonderment need not be fully extinguished.
- aidenn0 3y agoOh, it's absolutely hard, but like many things the apparent difficulty and actual difficulty are only loosely related, and good showmanship (perhaps a more polite term for "trick") will involve maximizing the apparent difficulty while keeping the actual difficulty manageable. You see similar things with e.g. juggling where entertainers will do a lot of things that make it look harder. This doesn't mean that it's not difficult to juggle 7 objects.