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The guy also implies that by swinging a nunchaku you can "build up inertia"

Wow, all the prompt replies. Thanks everybody. Hmm, interesting, a lot of physicists seem to also do Martial Arts (or at least, the ones that do are all responding to this). Thanks for all the input, but I will say I was aware of most of the information presented (not to discourage...

Does anybody know a good source for information regarding the physics of Martial Arts? I'm a long time Martial Artist and an amateur physicist, and I think a better understanding of the physics behind a lot of my techniques will allow me to refine and develop better techniques. And yes, I do...

Yes I can, I was not asking for ideas, I was merely asking if it would be worth investing my time in, or if it was just a really basic phenomena my teacher just wasn't aware of. Anyway, thanks for all the responses, they've all been very helpful.

Yes, that's one of our hypotheses. The interesting thing to note was that regardless of how fast the wave was moving, it always froze when the tension was released. That's what you think. Invariably so, but that was the point of the lab (showing how hard it is to measure dynamic waves), and...

Ok, first I'll mention that I'm completely new to these forms (first post) and all that jazz. Anyway, on to the subject of the post. In my physics class (high school level only, mind you) we were doing a lab with long slinkies to show the properties of waves and such. Our teacher wanted us to...