Give me a hand?

[George K]

Remember the scene in Saving Private Ryan where the soldier is walking along Omaha Beach carrying his blown-off arm?

Yeah.

You might have to go full screen to catch this.

[Horace]

Exactly how they teach it in machete fighting school.

[George K]

@Horace said in Give me a hand?:

Exactly how they teach it in machete fighting school.

Is that from personal experience, or something someone told you?

[taiwan_girl]

[Horace]

@George-K said in Give me a hand?:

@Horace said in Give me a hand?:

Exactly how they teach it in machete fighting school.

Is that from personal experience, or something someone told you?

According to the books I've read on machete fighting, if you really want to improve, you should wield two machetes at the same time. That guy is going to be so disappointed.

[Copper]

After he runs away, he comes back and casually picks it up

What’s the option?

[Doctor Phibes]

I can't tell for sure, but wasn't that a prosthetic arm that came off in the fight?

[Renauda]

A friend of mine, a machinist, lost his left hand ring finger and pinky while performing a burnishing task with emory cloth on a lathe. It was a routine task he had performed thousands of times over forty years. This one time the cloth somehow caught and took his fingers. He said he felt a pull, looked at his hand then looked back at the still spinning tool. His fingers were at the back of the lathe. He turned off the lathe, picked up his fingers and walked over to the shop managers office and said we had better go to the hospital.

It was only after about 10 or 15 minutes passed while driving to the Emergency that the shock and first signs of pain started to happen.

[George K]

@Renauda said in Give me a hand?:

It was only after about 10 or 15 minutes passed while driving to the Emergency that the shock and first signs of pain started to happen.

It's amazing how that happens. When I severed my left achilles tendon, it was probably about 10 minutes before it started to hurt. It might have been delayed as long as until the ambulance arrived.

[Axtremus]

I once had my fingers pinched by a closing car door. It also took a while before I feel the shock. I could reopen the car door, close it again properly, walk away for a bit ... then all of a sudden my vision went "white noise," like when the old analog TV gets no signal, and I had to sit down. :man-shrugging:

[Horace]

@Doctor-Phibes said in Give me a hand?:

I can't tell for sure, but wasn't that a prosthetic arm that came off in the fight?

The lack of spurting blood makes no sense otherwise. Light sabers are a different story - as they cauterize wounds while making them. But those were not light sabers - probably. I will await further information.

[Doctor Phibes]

@Horace said in Give me a hand?:

The lack of spurting blood makes no sense otherwise.

As does the lack of blind panic. He's very much 'been there, done that....'

[Horace]

Street fighting has maybe the biggest difference between how cool it is to talk about it, and how cool it looks when people actually do it.