I'm no physicist, but I do recall that while time is extremely important and I know that elongating the time *lessen* the force (such as jumping from a height and bending your knees), but where talking about steel here.

The steel isn't going anywhere and is stationary. I don't think handle material (unless really, really soft) can lessen froce. Even if the Res-C gets squashed upon impact (elongating time, absorbing force as you stated), Noss is still following through with his strokes.

I guess what I'm trying to say is, we also have factor in real life. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

Equations are good, but there are variances with equation and actual events. ( <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/doh.gif" alt="" /> I should have mentioned that in my earlier post)