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There's a video regarding Mortal Kombat characters uppercutting people hard enough to launch them into the air, and the uploader gives a calc for it.
This is a very common feat in fiction, so can this be used for profiles, perhaps be put on the References for Common Feats page, similar to how the calc for Snapping a Human Neck has a source from Vsauce?
The calc gives a Lifting Strength of Peak Human (5,000 N) at minimum, to Class 5 at most (15,000 N), however he states that this is assuming that the person getting punched is like a static, unmoving object that's getting launched. But the fact that the neck moves around and the skin of the face getting smushed in the process means that it'll take more force than these calcs say, I'm inclined to go with lower-end Class 5 for a middle range for this, as I don't think even the strongest boxers have been able to launch a person in the air with an uppercut.
This is a very common feat in fiction, so can this be used for profiles, perhaps be put on the References for Common Feats page, similar to how the calc for Snapping a Human Neck has a source from Vsauce?
The calc gives a Lifting Strength of Peak Human (5,000 N) at minimum, to Class 5 at most (15,000 N), however he states that this is assuming that the person getting punched is like a static, unmoving object that's getting launched. But the fact that the neck moves around and the skin of the face getting smushed in the process means that it'll take more force than these calcs say, I'm inclined to go with lower-end Class 5 for a middle range for this, as I don't think even the strongest boxers have been able to launch a person in the air with an uppercut.
