I need to get the bend to 40-degrees for it to count, but for a first ever try it wasn’t too shabby, I don’t think. My technique was pretty terrible — I went back and watched a pro strongman do it correctly after I tried it on a whim — so I’ve got a lot of room for improvement there that I think will make a big difference. Plus, I didn’t know how to finish it once I got the kink.
End of the month if not sooner, provided I make time to train it.
Great stress relief, by the way. I feel a whole lot better now.
maybe the nail is still straight and you bended the world backwards
Read this and you will likely meet that nail bending goal even sooner…
Or you may punch holes in the drywall.
Remind me to be extra careful should I ever have the opportunity to shake your hand.
How about the ones calling us “terrorists”, John? Are they friends of yours?
Painted fucking whore.
And yeah, knucks only if we ever meet JG.
I don’t know B.Moe….I heard Goldstein’s knuckles are so powerful they can bend space-time.
I noticed that all the text is backwards, so you must have flipped the picture horizontally. Is that to hide the fact that you secretly… bend to the Left?
Hey, I can easily bend a nail with my hands. Of course, my manicurist goes into a tizzy after I wreck a nail. Doesn’t like to see all that work go for naught.
That bastard needs to go.
I noticed that too, being a photog and all. Apple iPhone 4, 3.9mm lens, 1/35 sec, f/2.8, ISO 80, flash fired. 5 MP file; rotated clockwise and flipped.
Hey, how about a frying pan?
Sarah Palin may not have Jeff’s grip, but this is a pretty good jab.
I want to roll a fry pan one day. First, I have to get the nail and a full-sized phone book.
Yeah, it was sideways when I went to post it, so I kept rotating it until it was up and down.
sheesh … I actually fear for any pickle jar you’re asked to open … gerkins everywhere!
Jeff, have you ever seen the movie “61*”? It’s a pretty good baseball movie about the home run race between Maris and Mantle, directed by Billy Crystal and starring Barry Pepper and Thomas Jane. Anyway, in one scene, Pepper (as Maris) cranks out pullups from the top of door jamb (I have no idea if Barry Pepper actually did this or it was staged). I’m nearing the end of a P90X circuit (incidentally, Tony Horton is a monster on the pull-ups), and my pull-up reps have gone up exponentially, but I’m nowhere close to being able to do that. With just bare-edge-of-fingertips to hold you up, it demands a lot of your hands and wrists. Given the grip work you’ve done, and the results you’ve demonstrated, I suspect you’d have a good shot at it.
I remember one of your posters (maybe BMoe) stating a while back that he cranked out a couple pull-ups from a floor joist, which is probably close to the same thing. Pretty impressive. Anyway, nice job with the 60D. Don’t impale your palm.
Jefferson bobblehead or Madison?
that picture needs a reince priebus bobblehead
Sam Adams.
Grip?
I thought ol’ Jeff just used the sheer power of his mind to bend that nail?
That or he held it tightly and talked to it about wrestling a long while and it finally submitted to his will…..