Muai Thai Kick!

Almost forgot to post this,

Team (4): Izzy A, Andrew M, and Darren G and Gabriel.

We talked about doing a calculus based project on a Maui Thai Roundhouse kick (Martial Arts- K1 Kickboxing). Still have to figure out the mathematics around it but the general idea for now is:

1) Rising the leg up, shifting, and pivoting on the heel would produce a ‘curve’. y=f(x)

2) The actual ‘impact kick’ i.e. a straight line would be the ‘derivative’ (Still working out the kinks in this little scenario). dy/dx=f’(x)

That’s only the rough idea for the beginning, we plan on pin pointing on something very specific (how to calculate the amount of power a Kick-boxer would deliver depending on velocity, weight blah blah blah).

i.e. Our ‘goal’ is to make a formula calculating power relative to mass and speed.

We decided on this because it’s ”organic” and bizarre which makes it more fun. ^^