Finnegan's Wake

finnegan said:
Conditioning:

Magic 60 training(April Challenge)

3 db swings (35 lbs)
3 db snatches (35 lbs)
10 burpees (with pushup)
repeated 6 times for time.

Results:
Magic 60 training: 5:54

MB Complex:
Used a 25 lbs Medicine Ball (which did not survive)
16 diagonal slams
20 vertical slams
16 horizontal wall slams

Complex repeated three times w/ 1:30 rest.

Random: Demonstrated clean and jerk at 135 lbs x 3, some rows, etc. Nothing major.

Impressions:
Not happy with my time on the challenge. I rested too long. I expect to get better by the end of the month. Limiting factor was the burpees without a doubt, and only cause I did squat complexes that I'm still dealing w/ the DOMs from a couple days ago.
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RE: Magic 60
Under 1 Min per set? I hate you.
Edit: Just read you're not happy with that time...? Damn yous!

Re:Medicine Ball
If you're destroying 25lb. med. balls I'm officially scared. Unless it was homemade, then I'm just "kinda" scared.

BTW, Flying anything is fucking awesome if you're over 160lbs.
This made me laugh, for real:
Well, for full disclosure, the "flying triangle" was more sf an epileptic convulsion in which I held on to one of his wrists as i 'palsy'ed at him, pulled him down with me, and landed in a triangle. I believe I was airborne for less than a second.
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It was homemade. Its been a good medicine ball, lasted about a year and only cost me about $10 to make (and I've put it through hell).
 
Density Training:

16lb sledgehammer
10 minute time limit;

Results: 352 swings in 10 minutes:

Impressions: Lost some time fucking with the tire (had to move it inside due to rain, so it was sliding all over the place. Should have been around 400 swings. Overall, it took me a minute to get warmed up, as I started cold (about 30 minutes after I woke up). Picked up the pace for the last 100 or so.
 
Blacksmithing

2 hours

Sword Making:
I spent about an hour working on a sword. Got most of it done. Need to clean it up, hilt it, etc.

Feat of Strength: Being its almost a year since I joined St. Wilhelms with a feat of strength (folding steel on the forge) I decided to see how much progress I've made. I did better by a few swings, which isn't suprising.
Video Forthcoming.
 
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Awesome music for an awesome vid.

BTW, did you just forge the soul reaver?

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Good shit Fin. How long you been a smithy?

Also, what do you use to edit vids? I gotta make one soon and need and easy program to put it together.
 
I've smithed for about 10 years now. I use Windows Movie Maker.

And yeah, its a Flamberge style longsword that I made.
 
I like making Flamberge knives and short swords, and decided to give it a go with a larger piece. I'll pawn it off to a hippy at the next festival for some booze.
 
MMA:
1 1/2 hours

Bagwork:
spent a bit of time practicing low kicks. Got some decent power out of them.

Rolling:
Iron Man.
Ugh. Not even sure how many rounds. We went for an hour straight, I know that.
2 minute rounds.

Sparring:
16 oz gloves w/ takedowns and subs if you could, but mostly GnP.
3 man rotation, one guy stays in for 2 rounds, one out, so on. Total time in: 4 rounds.

Gotta go do some firetending stuff tonght, so no impressions. Major highlight: Landed a nice teep. I've been practicing them lately.

Quick recap of the day: Made a sword/ blacksmithed, trained MMA, and now I'm off to be a lumberjack and then get drunk. I'm so manly right now that I just got a girl pregnant by walking passed her.
 
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Cool beans.

I don't know anything about blacksmithing past the screwdriver I made in ****l shop in 7th grade, but I'd imagine one of the toughest things about swordmaking, etc., would be getting it good and straight, no?
 
Nice work.

A friend of mine is into knives and swords. He's a Silat practitioner. Do you take requests? Would be a cool gift.
 
finnegan said:
MMA:
1 1/2 hours

Bagwork:
spent a bit of time practicing low kicks. Got some decent power out of them.

Rolling:
Iron Man.
Ugh. Not even sure how many rounds. We went for an hour straight, I know that.
2 minute rounds.

Sparring:
16 oz gloves w/ takedowns and subs if you could, but mostly GnP.
3 man rotation, one guy stays in for 2 rounds, one out, so on. Total time in: 4 rounds.

Gotta go do some firetending stuff tonght, so no impressions. Major highlight: Landed a nice teep. I've been practicing them lately.

Quick recap of the day: Made a sword/ blacksmithed, trained MMA, and now I'm off to be a lumberjack and then get drunk. I'm so manly right now that I just got a girl pregnant by walking passed her.
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Alpha day...... I think I just got preggers
 
Ghostwipe:
Yeah, keeping an even thickness is the trickiest part of working it, keeping it straight is actually fairly easy as long as it doesn't warp when you quench it Some smiths quench tip first, some edge first. By necessity, I quench edge first.
Bubble Boy: What would you have in mind? I can't devote enough time to make a sword.
 
could we see the finished product? or some examples of your other smith work?

Ever heard of Don Fogg? DO you do damascus?

Sorry for all the questions. Very cool video. I like the part where your swinging the cut off sledge.
 
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