Sweet 'chin' music?
(SPOILER WARNING : IF YOU DON'T BELIEVE WRESTLING IS FAKE, STOP READING NOW)
I doubt I'm the first person to figure this out, but...
I was watching the ending of the 22 Jan edition of WWE Raw, when Shawn Michaels plays Sweet Chin Music on Kenny Dykstra, Carlito and Randy Orton in quick succession, and I was amazed by how loud the 'slap' sound of his trademark superkick was.
Now obviously he doesn't really kick them that hard in the chin, so there has to be another way they generate that sound, like the way wrestlers turn a 'chop' to the chest into an open-handed slap at the last moment, to make it sound louder.
So, being the obsessive that I am, I replayed the three superkicks several times, and I figured out how they do it.
See the Heart Break Kid's hand in the middle of the picture? It's clearly visible in white, because it's bandaged. That's Shawn SLAPPING HIS OWN ASS to generate the sound of the superkick. So HBK's finisher should really be called 'Sweet Ass Music'...
Wrestling may be fake, but it takes a helluva lot of skill and timing to do it well. And these guys also have to be darned tough, because despite the clever tricks like the one described here, ultimately a lot of what these guys do to each other and themselves really hurts.
So yeah, in case you didn't know, I'm a big wrestling fan.
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but seriously, one of the matches i mentioned in my blog post - Kobashi vs Joe - was largely composed of the two guys repeatedly chopping each other in the chest. since a wrestling 'chop' is really an open-handed slap on the chest to make it sound louder, halfway through the match both guys already had bruised, reddened chests.
it sounds stupid when described that way, but it was really effective, because you really wince with each 'chop'.