Would you please provide a link to the original challenge (Paulo's post)? Thank you

The striker is not in range for a head strike, he doesn’t accelerate all the way through but rather lets the bat ”fall” onto the pipe (likely unconciously to avoid injury) and the blocking pipe is held too low to actually stop or deflect the strike if the range was right.

@hospo.warrior3664

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That sounded pretty solid to me. Also the dents in the bat wouldn't be there if he was lightly dropping it as an attack. I 100% trust Ray Floro's ability to defend with a metal pipe.

@Chiburi

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@@hospo.warrior3664 If you don’t see it, click on the settings symbol in the top right corner and slow the speed down to 0.25x. Screencapture it and play it frame by frame. You can clearly see that the strikes are out of range, and this is why they don’t land to the head. The blocking pipe is held too low, you can’t block a downward strike holding the weapon in front of your face like that if the striker is not cooperating intentionally or unintentionally. It’s geometrically not possible. Strike number 3 looks like it actually hit the mask, and if you look at where the blocking pipe is and where the tip of the bat is, had the striker moved in just a little bit more you could see that the extended range certainly would land a blow to the head, because the block is held too low. It’s simply geometrically not in the right position to protect the head. This only ’works’ because there isn’t an intent to actually hit his head/mask, and there is no owning up to it. It’s not my opinion that the strikes are out of range, it’s objectively so. Just look. Strikes 6 and 9 are direct hits to the hand, but this isn’t acknowledged. The hits are with the very end of the bat, and as the hand and the head can’t physically be in the same space, the range is simply not there to land a strike to head. It’s very strange that this video was uploaded in the first place, since the footage proves that the experiment was not done correctly. As for the force of the strikes, yes they are heavy enough to do damage, but there is a difference between hitting *at* an object and hitting to strike through the object. Not everyone will see this. It’s not unusual for beginners to unconciously direct their strikes to the object that is defending rather than at the target behind the object, or to avoid hitting the hand if it’s in the path of the strike. The striker should have been corrected by Ray, instead of him telling the striker to hit harder (and out of range).