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How Much Does Spinner’s Super Knife Knife Sword Weigh?
Inspired by the question posed by @hearth4days, I decided to take a stab at figuring out how heavy Spinner’s original sword from the Training Camp Arc is and put it into context.
The estimates for the weight of the blades making up the super knife knife sword, which I’ll now refer to as the SKKS, were based off of which blades resembled the ones on the following chart.
When I had trouble guessing the correct weight between two options, I rounded down to keep from overestimating the total weight of the SKKS. With that said, here are my calculations:
10 Swords at 14oz = 140oz = 8.75lbs
7 Swords at 1.5lbs = 10.5lbs
4 Swords at 2lbs = 8lbs
6 Swords at 2.4lbs = 14.4lbs
6 Swords at 2.8lbs = 16.8
5 Swords at 3.3lbs = 16.5
4 Swords at 5.3lbs (to estimate the core beneath the visible swords counted) = 21.2lbs
Added together = 96.15lbs
Doubled to estimate the unseen half of the SKKS = 192.3lbs
Now that the bulk of swords are calculated, I can add on the weight of the other items:
1 Hilt estimated at 7.7lbs (weight of your average claymore) = 7.7lbs
5 Belts (including the one at the hilt) at 10oz = 50oz = 3.125lbs
1/2in Chains at 2.4lb/ft x 5ft to wrap around the blades = 12lbs
All together, the SKKS comes to an estimated total of 215.125lbs. And that’s using rounded down estimations!
From what I can gather, the weight an average man can lift depends a bit on their style (low bar squat, bench press, deadlift, overhead press, barbell curl, etc.). For example, novices can deadlift about 225lbs for a single repetition while experienced dead-lifters can reach well over 400lbs. I looked at the weight training stances where multiple reps are performed while standing to simulate the stances used for sword fighting. In these, an experienced lifter can do 130lbs for 10 reps in an overhead press (175lbs 1-rep max) or 115lbs for 10 reps in a barbell curl (155lbs 1-rep max).
Spinner is an inexperienced hikikomori who took up villainy on a whim and had most likely never even touched a barbell before that moment, and here he is swinging that 215lb monstrosity every which way without breaking a sweat! Keep in mind he’s also running around with the damn thing, while weightlifters usually stay in place to focus all their energy on the arm exercise. Apparently Spinner saw those routines and said, “But you know what would be cooler? Adding cardio to it!” The absolute mad lad!
What Spinner is doing should be at least somewhat of a challenge for an expert and practically impossible for a novice, but this sweet lizard boi who’s favorite thing is video games just looked at those facts and went, “RIP to you guys I’m built different.” And honestly...
Good for him!