Quote Originally Posted by Mr. Mask View Post
Curious about weaponizing the human body. They had a piece on it with this program: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHKPNbtSyHI

I'm not so sure about their dramatized example, but it is clear you can make your bones pretty hard and your muscles pretty strong, regardless. The question is: How much? How hard and strong can human bone become? Would you have had knights who could smash baseball bats with their bare limbs (based off that piece about what a knight is expected to do, I can imagine so)?

What does this mean for combat, in the end? As impressive as these bones and muscles seem for sport and civilian life, a sword swung by a weak man will still cut into the strongest man. At the same time, strength and endurance can be useful for war, allowing you to keep up the fight.
This video has fair amount of 'bullshido' - a lot of stuff is over colored for the purposes of TV...

But yeah, muscles, tendons and bones of nak muay, so thai boxers of highest level are definitely ridiculously conditioned compared to 'Average dude'.

Same thing with any actual full contact striking style, generally. Although many actual Thai boxers take it to the extreme (often ending being wrecks in their 30-ies sadly).

Any impacts of limbs against bats and other stick are absolutely pointless and suicidal beside some demonstrations obviously.

Doesn't matter how rugged your bone and muscles are, if impact is so violent that bat brakes, your limb is going to be damaged as well.