anything Posted August 27, 2009 Share Posted August 27, 2009 Compared to COC grippers, what will it take to tear a phonebook? Surely they come in different sizes, but I'm not that into details. So what will it take, COC #3 strength? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cemery Posted August 27, 2009 Share Posted August 27, 2009 Trainer strength. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madknight Posted August 27, 2009 Share Posted August 27, 2009 I wouldn't imagine that tearing a phone book and closing a gripper relate very much at all. It would seem to me that tearing a phone book is more wrist and thumb strength and technique. So I don't think a gripper is much of a guideline to go by. But hey, I don't close big grippers nor have I ever tried to rip a phone book so I'm sure other people can give a better answer than me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Natural Posted August 27, 2009 Share Posted August 27, 2009 Bill Nye "the science guy" can do it, if that helps to answer your question. -Rex Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
naturalstrength Posted August 27, 2009 Share Posted August 27, 2009 Compared to COC grippers, what will it take to tear a phonebook? Surely they come in different sizes, but I'm not that into details. So what will it take, COC #3 strength? Phonebook tearing is a totally different animal to grippers. One can close a #4 for reps and not manage to tear a modestly difficult phonebook. Conversely, one can rip the largest of phonebooks and be unable to close a #1. It's paradoxical I know, but don't ask me why. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
naturalstrength Posted August 27, 2009 Share Posted August 27, 2009 Bill Nye "the science guy" can do it, if that helps to answer your question.-Rex Difficult phonebooks, torn legitimately, would be well out of the range of Bill Nye. Look at some of the the best phonebook rippers, particularly those torn by the likes of Adam Glass and such. I don't think you can classify Bill Nye in the same category. Sorry!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
naturalstrength Posted August 27, 2009 Share Posted August 27, 2009 Look, it's Bill Nye "the science guy" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jwils Posted August 27, 2009 Share Posted August 27, 2009 Look, it's Bill Nye "the science guy" Dang, Bill Nye is a lot bigger than I remember Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdamTGlass Posted August 27, 2009 Share Posted August 27, 2009 Bill Nye "the science guy" can do it, if that helps to answer your question.-Rex Difficult phonebooks, torn legitimately, would be well out of the range of Bill Nye. Look at some of the the best phonebook rippers, particularly those torn by the likes of Adam Glass and such. I don't think you can classify Bill Nye in the same category. Sorry!! Thanks Carl I would love to see Bill tear apart a Twin Cities Yellow page which is nearly 3 inches thick wrapped in duct tape wearing oven mitts in 10 seconds like I can. controversially i am sure he would love to see my spelling Bee results or report cards Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnus Posted August 27, 2009 Share Posted August 27, 2009 There's no relation between the two. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Autolupus Posted August 27, 2009 Share Posted August 27, 2009 Bill Nye "the science guy" can do it, if that helps to answer your question.-Rex Difficult phonebooks, torn legitimately, would be well out of the range of Bill Nye. Look at some of the the best phonebook rippers, particularly those torn by the likes of Adam Glass and such. I don't think you can classify Bill Nye in the same category. Sorry!! Thanks Carl I would love to see Bill tear apart a Twin Cities Yellow page which is nearly 3 inches thick wrapped in duct tape wearing oven mitts in 10 seconds like I can. controversially i am sure he would love to see my spelling Bee results or report cards ...and what would they show Adam? The whole brains/brawn argument is pretty tired these days, I know a lot of very talented strength athletes who are also very intelligent to boot, Frank for instance, Zach, Derek...and then there's Rex! You'll always get a trend buck! LOL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twig Posted August 27, 2009 Share Posted August 27, 2009 The whole brains/brawn argument is pretty tired these days, I know a lot of very talented strength athletes who are also very intelligent to boot, Frank for instance, Zach, Derek...and then there's Rex! Yeah! He's weak as shnormal service will be resumed as soon as possible! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wes Posted August 28, 2009 Share Posted August 28, 2009 Compared to COC grippers, what will it take to tear a phonebook? Surely they come in different sizes, but I'm not that into details. So what will it take, COC #3 strength? Not much Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thewicked Posted August 28, 2009 Share Posted August 28, 2009 no relation..phone book tears are more grip "tricks" than techniques. Getting that said technique down will help anyone rip most phonebooks.. however phonebooks i'd say around 1000+pages take a little effort. I recently pulled a 1700 page phone book in half and it was much harder than the traditional throws you get on the front door. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Knight Posted August 28, 2009 Share Posted August 28, 2009 no relation..phone book tears are more grip "tricks" than techniques. Getting that said technique down will help anyone rip most phonebooks.. however phonebooks i'd say around 1000+pages take a little effort. I recently pulled a 1700 page phone book in half and it was much harder than the traditional throws you get on the front door. liar ... thats impossible ... maybe a gorilla could do that but not any human Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thewicked Posted August 28, 2009 Share Posted August 28, 2009 no relation..phone book tears are more grip "tricks" than techniques. Getting that said technique down will help anyone rip most phonebooks.. however phonebooks i'd say around 1000+pages take a little effort. I recently pulled a 1700 page phone book in half and it was much harder than the traditional throws you get on the front door. liar ... thats impossible ... maybe a gorilla could do that but not any human i can see how skinny twerps like you would think that lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
acorn Posted August 28, 2009 Share Posted August 28, 2009 Hell if the power team can do it then anyone can. - Aaron Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tchcalvin Posted August 28, 2009 Share Posted August 28, 2009 I used to rip them all the time and I was just closing the trainer.....as previously said, no relation. Adam from the mythbusters....the skinny redhead did a ton of them one episode.....does that tell you anything????? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pencilneckmike Posted August 28, 2009 Share Posted August 28, 2009 I'm sure someone who can close the #4 COC is more likely to tear a phonebook in half versus someone who can only close the trainer, but thats not always true. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Natural Posted August 28, 2009 Share Posted August 28, 2009 Hell if the power team can do it then anyone can. - Aaron As of late, it seems the power teams have been doing their recruiting at McDonalds. -Rex Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hamil1km Posted August 28, 2009 Share Posted August 28, 2009 Hell if the power team can do it then anyone can. - Aaron As of late, it seems the power teams have been doing their recruiting at McDonalds. -Rex It's all because of the new Angus burgers. They're delish! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim71 Posted August 28, 2009 Share Posted August 28, 2009 I have to agree with most on here. Thickness of book, composition of the paper (some of these new recycled ones are much easier) and technique are all different. I've gripped and ripped a St Louis yellow pages that was I believe 1800 pages and it was quite hard. Keep in mind that a gripper has to be done in one quick motion where as on a phone book or bending, you can take a 2 second breather and start where you left off. If there was a "ratchet" gripper then maybe it might be slightly more comparable. Anybody with reasonable strength can be taught to do decent phone books. BTW, I'm only around 2.2ish on gripper closings. I believe I read an interview with Dennis Rogers once and he said he couldn't close a #3 but he's extremely good at the ol books. Hope this helps and by all means, go for it. Tim Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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