Talk:Vertical flywheels

Horizontal vs. Vertical advantage?
I've been doing some pondering, and the more I think about, the more skeptical I become of the notion that Horizontal beats Vertical as sure as paper covers stone. When you watched S3 vs Shredder for the first time, did you actually believe that Shredder would have an advantage simply because of its disc orientation? I know I didn't.

I think the explanation is simpler - the disc with more Newtons (Mass times acceleration*) has the advantage. Vertical spinners are hard to balance, so on average, they have to be lighter and spin slower than their horizontal counterparts.

Because of this, I believe that the spinners have no more advantage over their counterpart than they would over any random object, and therefore it's not a true weakness. Hopefully this will precipitate into the Arena forum too. Does anyone have rebuttals?

(footnote) In this case acceleration is the same as spin speed. This is because, it's the difference between the hitter and the target's velocity. The target's speed is zero unless they were spinning in the same circular motion as the disc that hit them.

'''R A 2 ; aka Resetti's Replicas. ( My Talk )''' 19:56, August 29, 2014 (UTC)