Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-14640999-20140724024429/@comment-11188061-20140810031603

Tsubori wrote: Wow... Okay, first, Yang could get hit into the air and redirect her course using rudimentary skydiving techniques. Such as tilting your body. It's not hard. JNPR was still pulled along this wind tunnel, and was caught in the same area that had been cracked. Thus is serves to reason that the force there is equal to the one JNPR was in, if slightly less due to dispersal. Ren stopped it because his focussed his aura to his hands, yes... So? Ruby could do the same thing then. And could you re-explain the part about... the ground being at his back...? I can't discern what you mean there. I actually calculated the force of that snake strike some time ago, and it ended up being some 125 tons of force, IIRC.

Found it. http://rwby.wikia.com/wiki/User_blog:Tsubori/Ren_no-sells_a_snake

Yeah, so unless you can muster up some calc placing the force of that crash to be 125 tons of force, I see no reason other characters wouldn't be able to stop that truck. And don't go calling it a "Gag feat" or something. ... So she somehow thought to tilt her body while spinning out of control and crashing through the roof? Are you hearing yourself?

Mercen-X's explanation is likely the most correct, because the much softer 'crack' and subsequently short shriek afterwards where she dropped in suggested that she simply got on the wrong foot and tumbled by accident afterwards. After all, you do not 'skydive' with your back facing towards the ground.

The center point of the wind tunnel did not hit anyone of Team JNPR, not to mention that it was a short burst thing Ruby managed to come up completely due to environmental factor. So the whirlwind blew them off their feet - Aura doesn't give you massive weight, so they would've been blown away just like any other civilian. There was enough force to keep them stuck there until the rush is over, but in the end wind is still just wind.

Penny stopped a speeding truck who forgot how to break with both feet on the ground. Suppose that she had Aura (or any energy similar), then she would have to divert them to two points: Her arms and shoulders, and her feet. That means her leg strength is obscenely strong to barely move from her standing position at all, with ease.

Lie Ren was on the ground with his back and shoulders leaning against it for support. He doesn't need to gather his Aura anywhere else but his hands and shoulders, thus having a greater concentration of force to defend himself. He still struggled to push back the force which was understandable, but that means that had he tried to block this blow on his feet instead, he would've been blown away like a leaf, like you know, that 'wind tunnel' you're so proud of showed you?

Not to mention that it was do or die. Lie Ren clearly did not want to put himself into such a situation, and that desperate act was a last resort defense. It's undeniable that it's very risky, but it was either that or die. On the other hand, Penny was as cool and solid as a freaking mountain when she stopped the truck.