"if you can dodge a wrench you can dodge a ball" scene from Dodgeball is actually solid advice, amirite?

Ok but let's get the opinion of a physicist here: would a wrench also fly faster than a ball? Because if that's the case, it could also make more aerodynamic sense.

by Anonymous 2 days ago

A wrench can fly faster due to weight alone, as the dodgeball would lose more speed over time due to air friction, so if you dodge a wrench, you dodge a ball!

by rowan30 2 days ago

Is it an unladen wrench?

by Anonymous 2 days ago

An African wrench maybe, but not a European wrench is my point.

by wallace06 2 days ago

Are you suggesting wrenches migrate?

by Anonymous 2 days ago

Who are you, who are you so wise in the way of wrenches?

by Anonymous 2 days ago

I dunno but I've been dodging child support and selling coke and if we're talking simple physics, air resistance - yea I could hunt the homeless for sport

by Anonymous 2 days ago

not a physicist but you can absolutely throw a wrench faster than a ball sized like a basketball purely due to like, grip. however a wrench does not go appreciably faster than a rock or a baseball thrown by someone who has not trained to throw baseballs.

by Anonymous 2 days ago

Ok, but what if you can't dodge a wrench?

by Possible_Speech 2 days ago

Then logically, we can make no claim about whether you can dodge a ball.

by Vegetable_Sorbet3121 2 days ago

I mean if you don't dodge the wrench, I don't think you're dodging balls for a bit.

by Medalockman 2 days ago

This guy doesn't deny the antecedent

by Cool_Elk_759 2 days ago

Then you better get back to the doorknob

by Anonymous 2 days ago

The problem with this method is how disproportionate the risk when compared to the result. You are running the risk of potentially injuring or even killing someone to make them dodge faster. Also, PTSD is never an advantage. Okay, let's pretend for a second that you won a dodgeball tournament. Is it really worth a lifetime of flinching and jumping in panic every time someone raises their hand in your direction?

by Serious_Syllabub5145 2 days ago

We must all make sacrifices

by Hudsonandreanne 2 days ago

When one falls, we continue.

by Carolyn51 2 days ago

There's no risk of injury if you just DODGE

by Good_Sir 2 days ago

PTSD is evolutionary progress. Did you flinch at that sound in the bush? Maybe you didn't get eaten

by Anonymous 2 days ago

PTSD is rarely just flinching at loud noises. It's often a crippling mental disorder.

by willisbatz 2 days ago

Like many mental disorders, PTSD is an evolutionarily advantageous response taken to a crippling extent. OCD is verifying things taken to the extreme to soothe anxiety. Anxiety is fight or flight taken to an extreme that makes you freeze and avoid. PTSD is taking that flinch response to avoid the claws coming from the bush to an extreme that is disruptive.

by Anonymous 2 days ago

I don't know if it's evolutionarily advantageous, but it's at least not disqualifying. Remember, evolution works on the basis of "good enough". For example, having your windpipe right next to your esophagus is really stupid from a biomechanics perspective, but it's good enough that it works long enough to procreate.

by willisbatz 2 days ago

If you can dodge traffic you can dodge a ball That first throw from Rip Torn hitting Justin Long in the head with a wrench was one of the funniest things I had ever seen.

by randallehner 2 days ago

Well they're two entirely different things that behave differently when thrown. And one is teaching you to just fear for your life plain and simple vs the other actually being practice for the game you're training to play. They have nothing to do with each other and don't equate which was the entire point of the joke behind the line in the movie.

by First_Tension 1 day ago

I mean that's the idea, the joke is that training to play dodgeball by incorporating head trauma and traffic accidents is overkill

by Anonymous 1 day ago

Yes my under 15 baseball team won every game because our training sessions were hectic. We were pushed hard and had to train at full speed led by adults. When we came up against other teenagers it seemed so slow.

by Anonymous 1 day ago

Unfortunately, the path to mastering dodging a wrench entails serious brain damage and bodily injuries.

by lockmansydnie 1 day ago

Is it necessary to drink my own urine? No, but i do it anyway because it's sterile, and I like the taste

by Johnsonfabiola 1 day ago

But is it necessary?

by Anonymous 1 day ago