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by whiterussian

I sometimes insist on doing this when I've been drinking. It's stupid, because I don't have any muscles to speak of, however I quite often win with the left arm, even if I'm not left handed. My arms are really sore STILL from arm wrestling two days ago.

Any clever tips on how to win would be appreciated. Otherwise, related anecdotes below please.

whiterussian | 26 Jun '08, 12:11 | Send note | Report this | Reply

"My arms are really sore STILL"

is the kind of comment which should really be taken out of context, as often as possible.

also: headbutt.


:D


ooh, really?

yayz


as soon as you get the edge over your opponent

you have to get all your body weight onto your arm.


i've only ever won one in my life

against my kid sister.
I'm a wuss.


i defeated a fully grown up man once!

with my left arm! it was one of the greatest moments of my life


we're you rubbing his crotch

with your foot by any chance? I've heard that's one of the many dirty tactics used by girls in arm wrestles against guys.


no, i wasn't

HONEST GUYS


yeh yeh

we believe you fo sho


Yep

I love a drunken arm wrestle. I've won 4 out of the last 6 matches against women.


I once beat four

of my friends at arm wrestling, I felt quite hardcore, than another friend beat me, then some 15 year old at the next table challenged the guy who beat me and won and we all felt a bit lame


:D


1 2 3 4,

I declare a thumb war.
GO!


yeh but emma you've never actually

contested a thumb war in your life. You just cheat within the first 5 seconds and declare yourself the winner.


Yeah, I do this too.

Always end up losing though, I have next to no muscles. Peanuts is a different kettle of fish altogether though, can easily win that most of the time. Still, nothing tops a thumb war I reckon.


Peanuts

A game played where both players lock fingers in a test of strength to make the other person submit by saying "peanuts"
"you wana play Peanuts?"
"Sure"
"ow ow ow ow PEANUTS!"


holy shit i completely forgot about that game

absolute classic.
I've got great fingers for this game. i can really get some good leverage on your knuckles!


i think it was known as

mercy in my school.
It was always great having someone shouting "mercy mercy mercy!!" at you in the playground.


I like how the winning in peanuts

is based upon your capacity to inflict pain on another person


Me and a friend invented a game called "Sightings"

which is much more manly than arm wrestling.

It involves simultanously punching each other in the knuckles (punching each other in the "punch", if you will) until someone gives up.


It is

an optional extra is to take a run-up from the other side of the room before impact.


kids at my school used to hit their knuckles against the side of tables

i wasnt really sure what the point was or how you tell who is the winner. i guess the person with their knuckles intact?


Are you sure they weren't just messing around?

We used to pretend to smack our knuckles against the side of tables but at the last minute open your hand so that you actually hit it with your fingertips. You do it so quick though that it looks like your knuckles.
We used to do it to impress the girls with our macho knuckles.
Maybe you were one of those unfortunate girls.


well that's what you think

it's taken you 10 years to discover the truth =(


i win these quite a lot

i'm a strong girl


If you're doing particularly badly

just wedge your fingers really hard into their hand - you can pretend you're just gripping really hard. If you're good you can inflict enough pain to put them off.


Arm wrestling

can be suprisingly dangerous. If you're in anyway squeamish, you will not want to watch this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsByeSlcVXI


I like the way

the guy was so nonchalant, eating crisps, then his arm breaks. Ouchhhhh.


Oh,

I forgot about "knuckles" too, now that was a painful game; you and your opponent had to clench your fists then take it in turns to hit each other over the knuckles until one of you finally gave in.

I once ended up in a game going on for about 10 minutes, by the end of it my hand had swelled up so much and I couldn't grip anything with it afterwards, and it was all purple and bruised in the morning. To add insult to injury I lost too :(


dark times


Anyone play the game

where you placed your fist on a table, knuckles facing down whilst player 2 flicked a pound coin, as hard as possible, at them? Think the first player to bleed was the loser.

Must say I never took part- no game which involves my blood has particularly attracted me.


wasn't there some 'game' involving cards

where you took it in turns to smack each other's knuckles with a pack of cards?
Again there was bleeding involved so i stayed out of that.


raps?


Yeah it was called raps,

we played a version of cheat where if you were found to be cheating then you got rapped with the deck of cards, and the number of hits depended on what number the card was (ie a 7 of hearts was worth 7 hits). That game hurt, a lot.


that's the badger

i'll stick to blackjack thanks.





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