Nice picture. I can see how the grip would be harder, not having a handle and all. Please excuse my ignorance, but is it a rule that you can’t move your feet, or is moving your feet just too awkward to do you any good?
It’s the rule. “The athlete must throw the hammer from behind the trig (a board) from a stand. In the Scottish hammer, the athlete swings the hammer around faster and faster, and then releases. Many athletes wear boots with long spikes, which help anchor them to the ground so that they can lean back over the trig to get a longer swing without falling over or being lifted from the ground”.
[quote]hel320 wrote:
It’s the rule. “The athlete must throw the hammer from behind the trig (a board) from a stand. In the Scottish hammer, the athlete swings the hammer around faster and faster, and then releases. Many athletes wear boots with long spikes, which help anchor them to the ground so that they can lean back over the trig to get a longer swing without falling over or being lifted from the ground”. [/quote]
That’s just cool as hell!! I never looked at the thrower’s shoes when i went to Banner Elk… Maybe I was concentrating on the beer a little too much!
[quote]j_willy3 wrote:
hel320 wrote:
It’s the rule. “The athlete must throw the hammer from behind the trig (a board) from a stand. In the Scottish hammer, the athlete swings the hammer around faster and faster, and then releases. Many athletes wear boots with long spikes, which help anchor them to the ground so that they can lean back over the trig to get a longer swing without falling over or being lifted from the ground”.
That’s just cool as hell!! I never looked at the thrower’s shoes when i went to Banner Elk… Maybe I was concentrating on the beer a little too much![/quote]
Ah - that scottish ale - it’ll get you everytime
I agree - those shoes are cool - just imagine kicking some SOB with them…
Dresses and Spikes. the scots sure know how to party
Ok, I’m getting dizzy putting my lifting on the Bro of Iron and my other stuff here.
This morning
Weights (see other log)
River swimming as the sun came up. Fog covered everything. Simply beautiful.
Headed out to lunch with the wife. Somewhere with the best “avacado and sprout sandwiches” and the word bistro in the name. Joy. You know you ain’t gonna enjoy it when the wife gives you the look and asks,“is that what you’re wearing out?”.
Hopefully some throwing this afternoon and off to brother’s place for supper.
Nux vomica is what my wife recommends…I have to warn you, it’s made from a poison nut(I knew you’d get a kick out of it)…A homepathic company called Boiron makes them…30c(dosage)…take 5 pellets with nothing to eat or drink 15 minutes before or 15 minutes after…can’t touch pellets, they will drop into the cap of the vial…let them dissolve in your mouth, but don’t chew!
Can take next dose no sooner than 4 hours after the 1st dose(more IS NOT better, 5 pellets only). Use ONLY for meets; if you are throwing in the morning, take dose 6-8 hours beforehand. Wife says not like taking a Rx medicine, but you will notice you are somewhat calmer and easier to handle stress.
With homeopathic therapy, affects different people differently. Since my wife doesn’t know you, she recommends starting with this (nux vomica) and evaluating its effectiveness(or lack of it) before trying something else. No matter what, good luck!
Gonna have to think about those Art, thanks.
Enough is enough.
I’m all alone in the gym this morning, feeling good ,enjoying the weights. Good music coming from the sound system. There are several big, flat screen TVs located around the gym. I’ve got the sound off on them. I look up at one in between bench sets. It’s tuned to VH1. There’s this scrawny little shit looking all sad and forlorn singing. Writing across the screen says he wrote this song during his quarter-life crisis. WTF, quarter-life crisis! If the average lie span is 76, + or - a couple, that means he was 19. Oh hell no! OK, it bothers me a little that 20 year olds write their biographies now. It only slightly perturbs me that 90% of the movies and TV shows are geared towards 13-25 year olds. But the damn crisis is ours, we earned it, and you have to wait til mid-life for it. Younguns can have all the teen angst, “I’m so misunderstood”, soul searching, meaning of life, life changing events, they want. But you’re only entitled to one damn pre-ordained and named life crisis and it’s got to be earned by living long enough. What’s next? “Little Johnny’s going through his 1st-decade-life crisis. He went out and got this little red wagon he doesn’t need. He just pulls it around the neighborhood showing it off and trying to get little girls to ride in it.”
So maybe I’m just cranky today or at the onset of my midlife crisis. At least I’m old enough to have earned it.
Going throwing this afternoon. Yawl have a good day.
NNNAAA It’s being kinda pissed for kids taking everything for granted. You’re all right… and you earned all the respect and admoration, from them and the rest of us old farts…
I’m sure glad my momma didn’t want me called Little Johnny…
crap like that is exactly why I stopped my cable subscription and then tore the antenna off my TV. We watch DVD’s now only. My son will grow up having only my messed up values to proceed from(as much as I can manage), rather than a whole world full of messed up values from which to choose.
We haven’t missed a thing since we did it 4 years ago and my son is one of the politest boys we know of with a good sense of right and wrong and reasonable boundaries. He came packaged that way, I can’t take credit, but at least TV and media isn’t brainwashing him out of his nature.
Cant do that. must have cartoons. spongebob and the badgirl on kimpossible rule my little world
Before work
shoulders
Afterwork
throws
Meet saturday