Is It Okay To Post A Pr Without Video?

[Brad Manion]

I achieved a big milestone tonight, yet I do not own a digital camera. One of the guys I train with, who does have a digital video camera, is in Mississippi till Wednesday. Just a little bit inconvenient when I live in St. Louis.

Anyways, I took a thick phonebook (St. Louis Yellow Pages, about 2-1/8" to 2-1/4" thick) and tore it, not in 2, but into 3 pieces using the grip-and-rip technique!! The cover split a little bit, so the tear wasn't as pretty as something Dennis Rogers or Pat Povilaitis would do, but I was very proud nonetheless. My brothers were amused, not only by the tear itself, but by my subsequent running around the house doing the 1-handed King Kong chest thumping .

Hopefully, I can get a video up sometime next week when my friend gets back into town.

[ox3782]

Nice Tearing and great job on the grip and rip something that thick!!!

Brendan

[DAN PRAYDIS]

I achieved a big milestone tonight, yet I do not own a digital camera. One of the guys I train with, who does have a digital video camera, is in Mississippi till Wednesday. Just a little bit inconvenient when I live in St. Louis.

Anyways, I took a thick phonebook (St. Louis Yellow Pages, about 2-1/8" to 2-1/4" thick) and tore it, not in 2, but into 3 pieces using the grip-and-rip technique!! The cover split a little bit, so the tear wasn't as pretty as something Dennis Rogers or Pat Povilaitis would do, but I was very proud nonetheless. My brothers were amused, not only by the tear itself, but by my subsequent running around the house doing the 1-handed King Kong chest thumping .

Hopefully, I can get a video up sometime next week when my friend gets back into town.

congrats brad nice going Edited July 31, 2007 by DAN PRAYDIS

[cjsta]

Nice job Brad! That's a thick book to double verticle tear! Congrats!

Chris

[Brad Manion]

Thanks guys. Although this was my first time doing the 3-piece grip-and-rip phonebook tear, and I was very proud, doing this is not as tough as it sounds. I have decent pinch-grip strength, but nothing impressive considering my company on the GripBoard. Consider that these are my PRs for pinch work: right hand = 2 x 35# and 4 x 10#, left hand = 2 x 25# and 4 x 10#.

There are 2 ways to do this 3-piece grip-and-rip, and if you're strong enough for the first, you can tear a phonebook into 4 pieces, just like Pat Povilaitis. I get an initial grip-and-rip tear started very close to the binding. I go through all the pages and then maybe an inch down the vertical axis. Now, to get the second tear started, you can either:

1) Keep your hands on the same side of the book, but just slide them closer to the unbound portion of the pages. This takes a pretty good deal of strength and focus, especially if your initial tear was too deep through the vertical axis.

2) Flip the book over and do the grip-and-rip a little bit closer to the halfway portion of the book. This is how I did my 3-piece grip-and-rip.

Once you've gotten both tears started, work each one down the book a little at a time, and if you don't tear either of them too much relative to the other, your covers should hold together enough to make a good photo once you've completed your tears.

Now, if you've actually tried both ways, you'll probably agree that technique #2 is definitely the way to go when first trying this feat, but if you want to do the 4-piece GNR, you'll have to combine techniques #1 and #2.

Good luck to everybody else who tries this. It feels great to be able to do this.