I was never a wall puncher. I would give that wall a palm strike instead.
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So you have to turn six before you can take hand damage. Got it.
And that's just the people who got injured.
My take away from this graph is that the older you get, the less damage you take from punching walls (except at 50 where the spell temporarily weakens)
Am 53. Totally agree.
The old dudes would still punch walls if their hands healed like they did when they were young
That sounds like a very US problem.
Akshyually, the extended use of drywall would say otherwise.
...what?
In Europe you learn to respect walls at a very young age.
You don't deliberately kick a table leg with your toes either, you just know with certainty it will only give you pain.
Drywalls have some cushioning to them, they first compress then flex.
Brick is completely solid, it hurts even at very low speeds when hit with bone. Just knocking on it is painful.
Go outside, pick a nice flat pavement stone, put two sheets of paper over it. Now use your knuckles and knock around on it for a bit, then see what your instincts tell you when you think about punching that.
My guess for the injury rates is you expect drywall, thus your body allows you the speed and force you can take on drywall, but then you hit something harder like a metal strut.
If you already expected something of similar hardness you could never use that much force.
Nice.
Nice.
I'm curious what is going on with the spike at 50. Maybe related to lots of alcohol at big birthday celebrations?
This seems to be a pretty small sample size, so i assume it's just fluctuations that happened by pure chance
Could be rounding errors. At 50+, you don’t care about your exact age anymore
I assumed this chart is from hospital data, which does care about age
At 50 your hands finally heal from that injury at 45, so you can start punching walls at full strength again.
I think it's a small numbers problem. I'd love to see the data they're basing this from.
The source is at the bottom of the picture. I would just assume its a US study, because its a study about idiots.
The Y axis seems to be absolute numbers with the highest around 75 total. So yeah, small numbers.
That Y axis label is beautiful.
Why does it go up at 69?
because its fake
I'm not sure that one 69-year-old wall puncher really counts as 'going up,' but bones that old get pretty brittle.