How would you know the appropriate pressure to apply? If we are going to science lets science!
If Floyd weighed nearly 225 lbs., Chauvin probably wasn't much more than 200 lbs. Also, if I run trial on myself, 200 lbs. is over my body weight. I guess I should have made an equation for the rock bags as a percentage of body weight based on Chauvin's : Floyd's estimated/known weight ratio (e.g. your weight * 0.90; based on the aforementioned guesstimate).
Well it sounds like you are well on your way to busting this myth!
Wouldn't Chauvin's weight be fixed and not vary? His weight doesn't change based on who he's interacting with during an arrest. Why would it be different if he's kneeing on your back as opposed to someone bigger or smaller?
You would want the right knee to have more weight than the left, but not a lot maybe 60% of the weight. It looks like, from the bystander video, that the left leg is just keeping his head down and immobile.
It should be fixed in the case where someone might question, "What if Derek Chauvin 'leg choked' ME?!?" In my case, I just want to see what would happen if someone 90% of my body weight, similar to Chauvin : Floyd body weight, kneeled on my back and neck? The question changes from 'what if this specific officer kneeled on me?' to 'what if any officer kneeled on me in a similar situation?' As I mentioned elsewhere in the thread, I don't have the extra size and musculature of a 6'4" hominid to resist additional external forces and the stress they'd put on a body. So, going the proportional weight route made the most sense to me. That's also why I put this stuff out into the community at large. It might be total horseshit and then I go waste my time and effort crudely recreating a retarded scenario when I could do it better.
Most of Chauvin's weight is on his other bent knee, So if he weighs 200 pounds, set your device for perhaps 70 pounds.
Sounds right to me. I'll end up with even distribution because of how basic this setup is. Someone with more engineering skillz than I could probably think up a better way to handle recreating the scenario and customize neck vs. back loads.
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