There's a whole grip world out there, with own competitions, books and unlimited challenges.
Here are some I found for myself:
- tear telephone books, catalogues, used paper and stuff like this
- tear apples in half
- breaking walnuts by pressing them against each other
Last week I told my father about that interest and what feats are out there. We never spoke about this in 30 years when he said: "I could break folding rules with bare hands when I was younger". There was no doubt he could I thought. Today we spoke again about it and I showed him some feats on youtube. He even put his glasses on, so he really was interested. After seeing some vids of folding pans he wanted to give it a try and I recorded it with the mobile phone. He's 56 and has never trained grip strength, but he works as a craftsman since he was 14 and does so when he comes home from work and on the weekends.
I can't do it right now. What about you? Can you do it?
Very cool. I'm going to find some of those and try it.
ReplyDeleteJosh
@Josh:
ReplyDeleteHave fun and let me know how your first try went.