Martial arts evaluated.. show called Fight Science..

[bushido_man96]

There's one bit where one of the bigger guys generates more force using his arms than he does swinging a sledgehammer.

i doubt very much that guy uses a sledgehammer very much in his life and probly doesnt know how to use it very well. if you get a construction worker who knows how to use a hammer and he's a martial artist i tend to think the hammer would generate more force. if not why do we even have sledgehammers to begin with? we would just punch things into place.

I think that some of this gets into comparing apples to oranges, as well. They aren't used to do the same things. While a punch may be able to travel faster, the sledgehammer will have more mass behind it. Also, the likelihood of the sledgehammer traveling a straight line is unlikely....they usually go from up to down in a circular path. It is kind of along the same lines of the car crash comparison.

[DWx]

... I still found it impressive Even without comparing it to a sledgehammer I don't think many people can do that.