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Questions about two A Song of Ice and Fire feats

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First question, can the calculation of destroying a wooden door apply to this feat:
The thin wooden door split with a thunderous crack beneath the heel of Shagga's boot. Pieces went flying inward, and Tyrion heard a woman's gasp of fear. Shagga hacked the door apart with three great blows of his axe and kicked his way through the ruins.
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Second question, how fast is Jorah Mormont in this feat:
Qotho whirled, cursing. The arakh moved so fast that Quaro's blood flew from it in a fine spray, like rain in a hot wind. The longsword caught it a foot from Ser Jorah's face, and held it quivering for an instant as Qotho howled in fury. The knight was clad in chainmail, with gauntlets and greaves of lobstered steel and heavy gorget around his throat, but he had not thought to don his helm. Qotho danced backward, arakh whirling around his head in a shining blur, flickering out like lightning as the knight came on in a rush. Ser Jorah parried as best he could, but the slashes came so fast that it seemed to Dany that Qotho had four arakhs and as many arms. She heard the crunch of sword on mail, saw sparks fly as the long curved blade glanced off a gauntlet. Suddenly it was Mormont stumbling backward, and Qotho leaping to the attack. Te left side of the knight's face ran red with blood, and cut to the hip opened a gash in his mail and left him limping.
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While knowing that Jorah Mormont's opponent, Qotho, has baseline subsonic (34 m/s) combat speed via being able to create afterimages, what is Mormont's precise combat speed to be able to block some of Qotho's blows, but not all of them? Still at 34 m/s? Lower (33 m/s, 32 m/s, etc)?
 
The door was thin and it took Shagga multiple hits to fully demolish it, so no.

As for Qotho's speed, it may apply, yeah. And Jorah's speed should probably scale mostly 1:1, it's not all that uncommon for higher-level fighters to have difficulty tracking each other's strikes without reading previous bodily cues such as stance shifts, muscle twitches, et cetera. It's why a lot of stances in armed and unarmed martial arts also double as basic static defenses that protect more vulnerable areas; cuz even if you're pretty even with your opponent you're not always gonna react correctly or even on time.
 
As for Qotho's speed, it may apply, yeah. And Jorah's speed should probably scale mostly 1:1, it's not all that uncommon for higher-level fighters to have difficulty tracking each other's strikes without reading previous bodily cues such as stance shifts, muscle twitches, et cetera. It's why a lot of stances in armed and unarmed martial arts also double as basic static defenses that protect more vulnerable areas; cuz even if you're pretty even with your opponent you're not always gonna react correctly or even on time.
So Jorah's combat and reaction speed is 34 m/s like Qotho?
 
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