My boys once brought me what they considered the unskipable rock. About the size and shape of a shot put, but rough. I got something like fifteen skips on it. The boys were impressed enough they dove to find it to try it themselves.
Drake and Nelson reputedly bounced their cannon balls to increase range and hitting power. Barnes Wallis adapted the idea for his bouncing bombs. These skipped over the underwater anti torpedo nets. The defenders must have had a wtf (in German, of course) when they saw big bombers flying towards them at 50 Imperial feet altitude, all lit up with spot lights, and dropping big bouncing eggs, heading for dam parapet. Great film - The Dam Busters.
Rubber band hooked on one side, under the bench to the other side ( added tension?). Guy on the left let it fly into his buddies crotch. I had to watch it twice.
Yep, band is added tension and is called accommodating resistance (chains can be used as well). Helps increase strength-speed which means blasting through sticking points as well as strengthening the top part of the movement, in this case the lockout portion of the bench press.
After watching that ten or twelve times and trying to see how his arm moved relative to the tire turning, I'm thinking the bolt that pulls the wedge up and locks the handlebars into the fork tube wasn't tight enough, allowing the tire to turn even though he wasn't wanting it to. And the tire went sideways to the direction of travel. He was gonna crash even if the wheel hadn't folded. Surely everyone scraped a knee because they fell in a turn and when they got up discovered the bars and wheel were no longer lined up and had to stand across the wheel and crank the bar back straight.. That happens when you are laid over hard and turn the bars to run the tire tighter into the corner to stand the bike back up. The curve in the forks is now trying to raise the bike and your soon to be scraped up ass Up..and instead of that, the bars twist.
That happened a few times before it dawned on me that crashing didn't twist the bars,,,the bars twisting crashed me. He should have been up on the pedals, using arms and legs like shocks instead of just cramming the bike into those loads.
@Justin He's pretty hefty to be riding in that bowl, also looks like a cop.
I had a rear tire collapse on my road bike one time. I was crossing a rain slicked rail road track. Instead of taking the track at 90 degrees, I crossed at the road angle of about 30 degrees and continued to turn the crank. Happened so fast I was on the ground before I knew what the hell was going on.
Luckily, a good Samaritan gave me a ride back home as I was about 10 miles out.
#4 is south Alabama babe Hannah Barron
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Yeah, she's a cutie. Has her own YT channel too, noodling's what she does.
DeleteOne of the islands in the Inner Hebrides hosts the annual World Stone Skimming Championships. The record is over 300 meters.
ReplyDeleteMy boys once brought me what they considered the unskipable rock. About the size and shape of a shot put, but rough. I got something like fifteen skips on it.
DeleteThe boys were impressed enough they dove to find it to try it themselves.
Drake and Nelson reputedly bounced their cannon balls to increase range and hitting power.
DeleteBarnes Wallis adapted the idea for his bouncing bombs. These skipped over the underwater anti torpedo nets.
The defenders must have had a wtf (in German, of course) when they saw big bombers flying towards them at 50 Imperial feet altitude, all lit up with spot lights, and dropping big bouncing eggs, heading for dam parapet.
Great film - The Dam Busters.
WTH is number 8?
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Rubber band hooked on one side, under the bench to the other side ( added tension?). Guy on the left let it fly into his buddies crotch. I had to watch it twice.
DeleteYep, band is added tension and is called accommodating resistance (chains can be used as well). Helps increase strength-speed which means blasting through sticking points as well as strengthening the top part of the movement, in this case the lockout portion of the bench press.
DeleteBike cop was doing okay until that front wheel decided to imitate origami. Chinesium bro, chinesium.
ReplyDeleteAfter watching that ten or twelve times and trying to see how his arm moved relative to the tire turning, I'm thinking the bolt that pulls the wedge up and locks the handlebars into the fork tube wasn't tight enough, allowing the tire to turn even though he wasn't wanting it to. And the tire went sideways to the direction of travel. He was gonna crash even if the wheel hadn't folded.
DeleteSurely everyone scraped a knee because they fell in a turn and when they got up discovered the bars and wheel were no longer lined up and had to stand across the wheel and crank the bar back straight.. That happens when you are laid over hard and turn the bars to run the tire tighter into the corner to stand the bike back up. The curve in the forks is now trying to raise the bike and your soon to be scraped up ass Up..and instead of that, the bars twist.
That happened a few times before it dawned on me that crashing didn't twist the bars,,,the bars twisting crashed me.
He should have been up on the pedals, using arms and legs like shocks instead of just cramming the bike into those loads.
I much rather think that it happened because they took the training wheels too soon.
Delete@Justin He's pretty hefty to be riding in that bowl, also looks like a cop.
DeleteI had a rear tire collapse on my road bike one time. I was crossing a rain slicked rail road track. Instead of taking the track at 90 degrees, I crossed at the road angle of about 30 degrees and continued to turn the crank. Happened so fast I was on the ground before I knew what the hell was going on.
Luckily, a good Samaritan gave me a ride back home as I was about 10 miles out.
Nemo
Had a front tire taco at about 30 mph when a rut on the gravelled log-road spit me into a stump.
DeleteHad to hoof it with it on the triangle bag until I got down to the river to wash the rocks out of my skin.
Bike wore a 10-speed tire until I sold it.
#3 - fast reflexes for a toddler!
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Delete#4 - My kinda girl. I'll noodle with her anytime!
ReplyDeleteHoly crap I hoped someone else had already addressed #2. Russian roulette doesn't have anything on this game. This game you deal with the pain.
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