Clay Edgin Posted January 7, 2006 Share Posted January 7, 2006 (edited) http://www.nmstrongman.com/advancedphonebooks.html This article shows two alternative techniques that you can use to tear a phonebook in half other than the popping technique. I'd encourage anyone interested in learning how to rip a book to learn all the different methods of ripping and not just use the popping technique. Your hands will be much stronger for it. Linked fixed. Edited January 7, 2006 by ClayEdgin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Walker Posted January 7, 2006 Share Posted January 7, 2006 Link not working.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Walker Posted January 7, 2006 Share Posted January 7, 2006 Added to the favorites! Thanks for that Clay-great information! -Rick Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Florian Kellersmann Posted January 7, 2006 Share Posted January 7, 2006 Thanks, Clay. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tspinillo Posted January 7, 2006 Share Posted January 7, 2006 Great stuff as usual Clay. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gazza Posted January 7, 2006 Share Posted January 7, 2006 Thankyou Clay its always nice to have detailed tips passed on by those at the top of there game mucho apprecio eh gringo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zakath Posted January 7, 2006 Share Posted January 7, 2006 Great article Clay, I immediately started trining on the new techniques Strangely I seem to have more trouble with the sideways method than the Grip n' Rip. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrakeN Posted January 7, 2006 Share Posted January 7, 2006 Do u have to make it look so easy? :F Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steelbiceps Posted January 7, 2006 Share Posted January 7, 2006 After ripping through a few Boston area phonebooks I thought I had it down, but now I've gotta learn the grip 'n' rip and sideways methods. Those are more impressive, anyway, since all the pages start basically at once. Luckily Verizon just delivered a forklift pallet of them to my office!! Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DieselWeasel Posted January 7, 2006 Share Posted January 7, 2006 Thanks, Clay! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StalwartSentinel Posted January 7, 2006 Share Posted January 7, 2006 http://www.nmstrongman.com/advancedphonebooks.htmlThis article shows two alternative techniques that you can use to tear a phonebook in half other than the popping technique. I'd encourage anyone interested in learning how to rip a book to learn all the different methods of ripping and not just use the popping technique. Your hands will be much stronger for it. Linked fixed. That's awesome, thanks Clay! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steelbiceps Posted January 8, 2006 Share Posted January 8, 2006 Question: I'm working on the SW method now. I've gotten like 50 pages on to tear on the front & back of the book and see stretch marks on the middle pages connecting those partial tears. Is it important to have a clean edge, or should I keep working on the slightly mauled part? If I keep moving to crisp areas of the book, I might soon have a book that's a little mangled everywhere but not torn in half. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joehawkins Posted January 8, 2006 Share Posted January 8, 2006 Question 2: Is it a more traditional rip to go top to bottom (binding on one side) or side to side (ripping towards the binding)? I think the grain of the paper runs top to bottom, resulting in a cleaner and potentially easier tear. I've been ripping towards the binding, and I've found that so far I get a good, but ugly looking, rip, and right before the binding the tear usually takes a 90 degree turn, and doesn't rip straight thru. Not sure if this is unavoidable or if I need to grip even harder to force it straight, but I always assumed the classic way to tear was towards the binding. Not sure if that was a question or a statement. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steelbiceps Posted January 8, 2006 Share Posted January 8, 2006 Question 2: Is it a more traditional rip to go top to bottom (binding on one side) or side to side (ripping towards the binding)? I think the grain of the paper runs top to bottom, resulting in a cleaner and potentially easier tear. I've been ripping towards the binding, and I've found that so far I get a good, but ugly looking, rip, and right before the binding the tear usually takes a 90 degree turn, and doesn't rip straight thru. Not sure if this is unavoidable or if I need to grip even harder to force it straight, but I always assumed the classic way to tear was towards the binding. Not sure if that was a question or a statement. You get a neater tear if you tear with the grain of the paper. You can test tear one page of the book vertically and horizontally (in a spot your big tear won't go through, if you're concerned about making it one page easier). Usually, one of those ways, the tear will want to turn 90 degrees. In my experience, most books have the grain running vertically. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
porky Posted January 8, 2006 Share Posted January 8, 2006 i gotta try that grip n rip style. how long did it take you to do a large book with the gripnrip style clay? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jad Posted January 8, 2006 Share Posted January 8, 2006 More smoke and mirrors huh....I'd expect nothing less from a leather wrapping, nail folding, deep-setting cheater like yourself Good stuff Clay. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supermagnamon Posted January 9, 2006 Share Posted January 9, 2006 Great article!!! Thanks, Clay. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bdckr Posted January 9, 2006 Share Posted January 9, 2006 Great article. Clear, to the point, and effective. Great stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Number Ten Ox Posted January 10, 2006 Share Posted January 10, 2006 At work today i the break room they had a bunch of old pamphlets that were about 3/8" thick and built like a phone book so I gave tearin a try. Got up to 5 books thick (about 2") with the POP, 3 books thick with the grip n rip, and only 2 with the akward for me side tear. Super fun and really satisfying to rip. Hearing and feeling the big tear is more fullfilling I think than ripping decks of cards. And I got super pumped after the 2" thick tear. Thanks Clay! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
underdawg Posted January 10, 2006 Share Posted January 10, 2006 Great article, Clay. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toshindo Posted January 10, 2006 Share Posted January 10, 2006 Awesome, thanks for the info. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Cenidoza Posted January 10, 2006 Share Posted January 10, 2006 Nice, thanks Clay! Does anyone know if the 'Grip & Rip' technique is the one Dennis Rogers uses? I was under the impression that he used no technique at all, just kinda tore it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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