Grrl Power #1272 – Gracilis-less
If you were betting that Sydney would defeat Sydney in the next matchup, then you’ve been paying attention.
You ever pull a muscle so badly that a totally unrelated part of your body spontaneously charley horses itself?
So it seems obvious that I need to elucidate upon Sydney’s featherfall passive. It doesn’t work if she’s touching the ground. It basically works until she’s her own height from the ground, and then there’s like an S-Curve of gravity reasserting itself as she goes below five feet.
Her “distance from the ground” as far as the featherfall passive is concerned is based on her center of gravity. This will vary for people based on muscle and fat distribution, but for women it’s usually just below their waist, a man’s is higher, around the xiphoid process. This assumes someone isn’t a skips-leg-day bodybuilder or they don’t have a huge ass or chest. Sydney’s is a bit higher than a 36-24-36, but not by much. So if she’s falling feet first, once her, let’s say navel, crosses the 5′ mark, she’ll start to accelerate, but that means she only has about 3′ in which to do it. If she’s laying flat on her back in the air, above 5′, she’s capped at about 2 meters/second. As she drifts below 5′ she picks up about 1 meter per second per second, which means she’ll actually start accelerating. At 3 feet off the ground, she’d be at something like 4m/s/s, and a foot off the ground, she’d be almost up to 9.8m/s/s. But being that close to the ground, she won’t have much time to build up speed.
Which means if you give her a judo toss, she’ll probably hit the ground at about 1/2 to 1/3 the speed you’d expect, unless you really put some stank on it once she was over your shoulder. She can be accelerated into the ground by force, but if you’re 100 feet in the air and throw her at the ground, she’ll slow down pretty quickly, although it depends on how much force is used.
But it doesn’t work if she’s touching the ground, which means she can still trip and fall over stuff like a dumbass. She’d actually be in a better position in some cases if slips so hard that her feet leave the ground.
Did you know that tungsten hexafluoride is 11 times denser than air? Please do not breathe it in an attempt to make your voice lower. It is toxic and highly corrosive. Sulfur hexafluoride is the one that lowers your voice. Why am I mentioning tungsten hexafluoride? Cause I started writing about how Sydney’s featherfall would be like falling through different mediums of varying density, but I think you guys get it. No need to spell it out like I’d started to. But it does make me wonder how falling through an atmosphere consisting of WF6 would affect your fall speed. I assume it’s a lot more complicated than “you’d accelerate 1/11th as fast as you would through our usual nitrogen/oxygen/etc atmosphere,” but maybe terminal velocity would be 1/11th? I found reddit post claiming that acceleration through WF6 would be 1.8m/s/s, but I’ve no idea how accurate that is. Obviously, being 11 times denser than Earth mix atmos would cause the barometer to need a few more hash marks, and “sea level” PSI would be, I’m guessing, 172 pounds per square inch, roughly? What I do know is that if Humans found a planet where the atmosphere was all WF6, we’d mine the shit out of it, because tungsten is rad.
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Oh no! Superheroines in a deathtrap! Well… a tickle trap. Okay, not trapped, trapped, but… look, three of the girls are getting tickled. Actually, in a way, seven girls are getting tickled since the other four Harems will feel this as well, but technically it’s only the three shown in the picture since Harem insists there’s only one of her – it’s just confusing since she can be in 5 places at once.
As you can probably imagine, Patreon shows what happens if they laugh, and also has a comic revealing who is behind this nefarious situation.
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That was painful just to look at.
“SOCKS, you have betrayed me”
The Joy of Socks.
Was about to comment on Syd fighting in socks
socks with tread will help a little. on the other hand I’ve done gymnastic dance and dance technique barefoot for years. the only thing is wear the right shoes to practice pirouettes in. trust me on this. walking is really challenging if you don’t.
Even then, they only work if they are tight: tread doesn’t work (for sock or shoes) if the feet are loose inside them
Well, technically, the sock (or shoe) remains in place, the foot on the other hand…
The socks are now on The List.
is socks going on THE LIST?
Sydney to surprise anyone and win is as easy as a utility belt addition. Unmaker in tomato sauce, edible capsule and just Breathe after close range.
I’ve done this split before, bounced my backside off the ground, came back to standing position before grabbing my groin and crumpling to the ground directly in front of 3 lieutenants who scooped me off the ground to cart me back to my sergeant.
The circumstances sparking the split were different but the results were the same.
I’ve done it, too. “Fortunately”, I have hypermobility syndrome, so I just embarrassingly tore my jeans. On the ski slope. Man, that was cold.
For any normal guy who wasn’t regularly doing stretches, it’s potentially crippling. But Sydney would be doing stretches, of course, and women are a bit more flexible in the hips than men to begin with.
I am not blessed with hypermobility.
I had a pulled groin, the medic took immense pleasure in teasing me about it before she commented on me blushing (thanks a lot, doc! Ua jerk. Lol) and I was on “profile” for a bit.
Couldn’t participate in activities we were assigned, training, PT, nothing.
My sergeants commented on watching me vibrate at the universe resonant frequency on the sidelines because I wasn’t “allowed out to play”.
“He has a busted vertical hold adjustment! Look at him!”
Professional anatomist here… Sydney’s injuries will result from the extremity of her stretch, not its speed or how hard her torso bumped the mat on her way down. This isn’t something her Feather-Fall would help much with, if at all.
But if it happened slower the inertia of her body would have been less and probably not forced that wide stretch.
If you are going to call out your attacks, call out the wrong attack
Like, “Overtheheaddownardspike” when you intend to kick from behind
If you look at sparring videos of Muay Thai they very often call out their moves. It is considered good sparring style.
Of course they do not do that in a fight.
that seems complicated- if sparring is practice fighting, when do they practice not calling out their moves? train the way you fight and fight the way you train and all that. me I just wanna drive a train.
Yeah, sparring is learning the moves including how to counter them, in an actual the only thing you are calling out for is a medic or your mummy
Learn the moves: recognize the moves: counter the moves
It is practicing for a worst case scenario: That a well-trained opponent can RECOGNIZE your moves as you wind up for them.
I can say that I’ve had the experience of waking up from a dead sleep with the vague feeling of something being wrong, bending my legs ever so slightly, then having one(or if I’m “lucky” both) of legs instantely go into a Charlie Horse.
It’s a wonderful reminder that I’m not drinking enough water, because I’ve noticed that only happens if I haven’t been drinking enough.
I can’t imagine how painful that would be to *anyone* who has never stretched that far, never mind the whole male/female thing.
If I was in her position I’d take advantage of the fact. People taking over my body unaware of the the fact my body isn’t used to certain actions,
“Speed and surprise count for more than strength”.
Speed and surprise are more fun to draw/animate/choreograph, but really strength counts for a lot. There’s a reason big guys often don’t bother learning how to fight very well. They don’t have to.
NOBODY expects the Halo Inquisition! Our chief weapon is surprise… surprise and speed… speed and surprise… Our two weapons are speed and surprise… and ruthless efficiency…. Our *three* weapons are speed, surprise, and ruthless efficiency… and an almost fanatical devotion to the tropes… Our *four*… no… *Amongst* our weapons…. Amongst our weaponry… are such elements as speed, surprise…. I’ll come in again.
Anyways, if you’re talking lethal combat rather than drunken brawling at the pub after a soccer match, then speed and surprise and a gun are much better than strength.
And range. Don’t forget range. Strength is useless if you can win before the opponent get’s close enough to touch you.
True, but Sydney will never be a 100 kilo body-Nazi. She has to learn to play to her strengths.
Also, A teeny little knife is a huge equalizer. Just saying
Wait, a Charlie Horse is just foot or leg cramp?
Get that sometimes, specially the foot (where it feels like the muscles are trying the make the toes touch the heel)
Fortunately have discovered a connected muscle that many probably have never thought was connected to the foot: the thigh muscle! Massaging that helps when can’t move the leg to stand on to relieve the tension
Sydney why are you wearing socks on the mat hun?
104. Is that Sydney’s weight. I can see the starts in the one hundred range but has a 0 in the middle. and only one line for the bottom of the number. said line is straight so not a 7 or a 9, but also not close to the 0 like it would be with a 1 (the comic’s 1 lacks the expanded base my 1 has) but the 4’s bottom line does match
oh god I missed some grammar and spelling errors.
Sooo…. Dislocated hip? She should have known better though. Her strength is in the punches and use of her balls.
Nah, you wouldn’t dislocate your hip that way, you’d strain your groin muscles. (There are so many of them I’m not going to bother listing them…)
Although any strain that actually causes a “celery twisting noise” would be pretty serious. Strains are usually inaudible. Unlike dislocations, which are more of a popping noise.
Nah its not that serious. The celery twisting noise is from the emergency celery that Sydney keeps on her person at all times, as do most vegetarians (as per vegetarian law) and Time Lords.
I’m surprised that no one’s noted this yet, but Math gave Jabberwokky the very same advice way back when she was introduced.
Math’s advice was to not power up in the middle of a fight and to not rely so much on her powers.
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-237-the-tongue-is-mightier-than-the-sword-as-are-boobs/
Ooooooohhh!
Looks like somebody pulled a hammy….
And a groiny.
No, that’s called “pulling a Sydney” :P
On a positive note, we haven’t seen the team doctor since the comic was in double digits.
… ooookay, Jabberwokky just MIRROR IMAGED herself between frames 4 and 5 (left-arm-up-right-down to the opposite). That’s some serious 4D-fu! 8-o
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TIL that the “xiphoid process” is a thing. Sounds more like something one of the demons would have than a human, lol.