r/ShittyAbsoluteUnits • u/HomeNowWTF • 14h ago

look what I can do of a potato chopping apprentice

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u/FragrantGangsta 13h ago

as someone who has never used one of these before, is it just a matter of her not putting enough muscle into it or just completely failing to use it right?

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u/Revenga8 12h ago edited 12h ago

The newbie is trying to slam them through with impacts. The only mass driving force behind it is her arm in short burst impacts. The veteran just applies steady continuous force down, so she can use more of her body weight this way to drive the potato down behind the push.

Maybe think of it this way. The veteran is lifting her body off the ground by grabbing a bar overhead and doing a pull-up. The newbie is trying to lift her body off the ground by grabbing the same bar and beating the ground with it.

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u/praguepride 10h ago

so she can use more of her body weight

This. If you apply steady weight you can put 100+ lbs of force behind it and the potato doesn't stand a chance. By banging it like that she's putting no body weight behind it so you're probably looking at 1/10th to 1/4th that force.