Can Anyone Here.. Or Ever Tried..

[Kurt Lane]

Just read about this in the Grip Master Manual by Brookfeild... Says he dosent know of anyone else that has done this.. I didnt even know it was possible.. Can anyone you know or anyone on here do this or tried to do this?

What about crushing a raw potato to? anyone done this?

[FbaLLPlaya_53]

http://www.gripboard.com/index.php?showtop...&hl=tennis+ball

[Kurt Lane]

o awsom thankyou .. I need to use a search option more often lol

[mossman]

i remember reading that Charles Vanisttart, the man with the iron grip, used to tear tennis balls in half quite easily.

[mmainlands]

I used to work at a place that had an endless supply of potatos (don't ask!) - Anyway, I found it to be an excellent workout crushing them, but it took a long time to build up enough strength to do it. I was able to handle the smaller ones that I could get more of my hand around and use better leverage, but the large ones that forced my hand in a more open position, I was unable. Brookfield wrote of this exercise in a Milo from around 98. I can add one important tip, be sure to cut your fingernails very short if you want to try this. The potato fragments will jam underneath your fingernails if the nails are even slightly grown, and I have no doubt that they would rip off the nails if you applied enough force. Crushing a hard apple feels similar, maybe not quite as hard, to a potato and is a good exercise. The British Pathe archive site has a video clip of a guy called "Young Saxson" that demonstrates crushing an apple.

Edited July 24, 2004 by mmainlands

[supersqueeze]

You know what, there is a picture in the last Milo of John Brookfield tearing one at the Arnold. There were a lot of Board members at the Arnold. Over a month has passed since the Arnold. No comments have been posted about the tear from anyone who was there.

Mike M.

[Wade Gillingham]

I saw John tear a tennis ball at the Arnold. There wasn't a pin hole.

[supersqueeze]

Thanks Wade. Long overdue confirmation.

Mike M.

[CMunger]

Wade, for the sake of the skeptics, how do we know for certain? Just wondering if it was a brand new ball pulled from the can or what. Thanks.

[Wade Gillingham]

He bounced it a few times so if there was a hole it couldn't have been too big. The way that he tore the ball I really doubt he was looking for a pin hole. He just rolled it around in his hand and started tearing it. In my opinion if he had a hole big enough to make it easier but small enough to make the ball feel and bounce normal, he would have taken more time to position his fingers over the hole. I'm sure he could have cheated but having met John I really doubt it. Besides, his audience for this feat of strength was me and Randy Strossen, and a couple other passer's by. Why would he cheat for us? This wasn't some show - just a corner booth at the Arnold with very few people even giving a crap about what he was doing.

[The Mac]

I'm not wishing to comment on the veracity of the feat, but I would think it would be a very big deal to do a grip feat and have it witnessed by you and Strossen.