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the shizzle => diet, training and injuries => Topic started by: Houdini on October 11, 2007, 01:03:33 pm
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Found a book called House Gymnastics at a friends'.
Graded 1 to 5 (being hard) I flashed a 5 but house lacked a particular kind of ballustrade and unable to continue I invented a 6 for them on the spot. Recall a time pissed when I now realise must have been at least a 7 on friends' ceiling beams above a full kitchen sink.
If you don't know what I'm on a about there is a site. (http://www.housegymnastics.com/main.htm)
Any other claims? Thoughts?
Jumping into a corner would be a good one.
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We had some seriously hard problems in some of my old student houses, Houdini do you remember that big house i lived in for a while (had a party there for Jez's b'day), that had an amazing bridging problem on the stairs- nodder almost sacrificed a day in the peak to finish it!
There was also a very scary jump above the stairs to a small gloss painted,dusty ledge -pure death. I'd draw a picture but you'd all puke in your mouths. The ultimate was to do it in socks for extra spice.
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In one of my old student flats in Glasgow (which was very old and had good frames) I had a loooong traverse down one side of the stairs, around the landing and back up the other side of the stairs. The crux involved a sprag on the lightswitch and a precarious, dymamic slap for a poor sloper. Grade wise it was between font 7b and 7c depending on shoes (usually done in floppy trainers). It was well pumpy too. Despite living there 18 months I only did it a few times. Probably F8a sport :lol:
The problems on the web site look piss easy. Which are the difficult ones?
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Go through them to find the 5 star ones. Also some people have invented others which look nails. I'm not happy about the grading: they've given a front lever above a door as being 4 stars in difficulty. Surely a five compared to the other fives. The are kinda piss.
Scouse: Yes I remember the house. That was the night Jez Stephenson had paint squeezed into his hair as he slept drunkenly. :lol: The jump must be an 8!
One time I managed to get completely horizonal up against a ceiling, beams @ 90° to my body (wood of beam protruding 2" from ceiling), back against the ceiling, feet on a wall, and started to traverse across the ceiling via a mixture of pulling back against the wall using a beam near my thighs, and pushing out arms foreward palming the beam 'above' my head. It was going well for a while till I fell in the kitchen sink. In fact I'm upgrading this to an 8 too.
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Very good but what have they ever done on grout!?
Sorry.. couldnt resist :spank: