Finnegan's Wake
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Well if the 3x3 rounds didn't break him in, I'm sure the sledges took care of it. Can't wait to see your next fight.
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He's going to kick Wandy's ass is my prediction.
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flying?
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Mounted.
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The event has been offically announced. Last weekend of June.
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The event has been offically announced. Last weekend of June.
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Firetending: 3 days.
Thursday:
Show up a little late. Go on duty for a bit. Not a lot to do. Smallish fire.
Friday:
Rain. Did no woodbusting. Evening fire was a bitch and a half to get ignited. Cabin design w/ chimney log centerpiece.
Build: lots of rolling, carrying, etc. Took about an hour. Had to chop some pieces manually as the saws were going funky.
Tending: As I said, spent a good of time trying to get the damned thing to go. Took a couple gallons of Kerosene and a lot of candlewax. It behaved well. Chimney burned out about midnight, so we flipped a good sized stump on. Really, really heavy.
Went off duty at 1 AM. Drank myself silly. A fellow firetender found my stash of Anhydrous Caffeine and added a bit too much in a Vodka/ Juice concoction. Everyone was like drunken energizer bunnies till 10 AM.
SaturdayWoodbusting:
Not a lot of actual woodbusting this time. Dropped a large branch from a tree in a creek. Spent 20 minutes or so in ankle to mid shin deep water flipping, rolling, and dragging the 6 foot long chunks. Nice little workout, esp on slippery surfaces.
Build: Incredibly easy build, since it consisted of putting a 2000 lbs or so 8 foot tall treebase as the centerpeice, and throwing some 15-18inch x 20-24 inch bracing logs around it and decorating w/ branches.
Didn't tend on Sat.
Also, Tamil got her red suspenders for all of her hard work, and the fact that she and I were the only tenders moving logs in the creek while the rest of the men stayed dry.
Impressions:
Not a bad weekend. Last party weekend for me till after the fight, so I hit the booze hard and in large, large quantities. Nutrition was iffy at best. Oh well. I'm still 8 weeks out from the fight, and have approx 15 lbs to lose to get into easy cut range. Piece o' cake.
Thursday:
Show up a little late. Go on duty for a bit. Not a lot to do. Smallish fire.
Friday:
Rain. Did no woodbusting. Evening fire was a bitch and a half to get ignited. Cabin design w/ chimney log centerpiece.
Build: lots of rolling, carrying, etc. Took about an hour. Had to chop some pieces manually as the saws were going funky.
Tending: As I said, spent a good of time trying to get the damned thing to go. Took a couple gallons of Kerosene and a lot of candlewax. It behaved well. Chimney burned out about midnight, so we flipped a good sized stump on. Really, really heavy.
Went off duty at 1 AM. Drank myself silly. A fellow firetender found my stash of Anhydrous Caffeine and added a bit too much in a Vodka/ Juice concoction. Everyone was like drunken energizer bunnies till 10 AM.
SaturdayWoodbusting:
Not a lot of actual woodbusting this time. Dropped a large branch from a tree in a creek. Spent 20 minutes or so in ankle to mid shin deep water flipping, rolling, and dragging the 6 foot long chunks. Nice little workout, esp on slippery surfaces.
Build: Incredibly easy build, since it consisted of putting a 2000 lbs or so 8 foot tall treebase as the centerpeice, and throwing some 15-18inch x 20-24 inch bracing logs around it and decorating w/ branches.
Didn't tend on Sat.
Also, Tamil got her red suspenders for all of her hard work, and the fact that she and I were the only tenders moving logs in the creek while the rest of the men stayed dry.
Impressions:
Not a bad weekend. Last party weekend for me till after the fight, so I hit the booze hard and in large, large quantities. Nutrition was iffy at best. Oh well. I'm still 8 weeks out from the fight, and have approx 15 lbs to lose to get into easy cut range. Piece o' cake.
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No, its a bit more involved than that.
To get into an event for free, you are expected to at least build a bonfire and watch it for awhile. Some of these events cost upward of (including the most recent one) $100 bucks to get in, and some nearing $1000 for the week-long event.
At the larger venues, you are expected to work a number of three-five hour shifts, usually broken up into:
Bust: Cutting down trees, chopping them into logs, and hauling them to the site.
Build: Constructing the bonfire itself, making sure its stable, will look good while burning, and safe (most bonfires of the size and type I build have people within a few feet of them, so they are designed to cause people to "bounce" if they stumble drunkenly near them.)
Tend: The real meat of it. The pile is now on fire, and the party is in full swing. This is the shortest shift, usually only lasting three hours due to its intensity. You've got a 10-30 foot pile of flaming timber behind you, drums, bellydancers, fire spinners, drunks, druggies, naked, nubile hippy chicks grinding on you, etc that you have to more or less either protect or ignore so they don't get eaten alive by the bonfire. That's first shift. ( dusk till 1 AM)
Second shift, you now have most of the people drunk, off duty firetenders (who are the craziest, most dangerous fucks at any gathering) and usually weather to deal with. Its getting cold, and people start to crowd the fire, forcing the dancers/ partiers closer to the flames, and therefore you, as the firetender, closer to the flames to keep everyone safe.
Thiird shift. Most people are asleep/ passed out. Pretty easy shift, but the most dangerous cause at dawn, the firetenders go off duty and start partying.
I've seen firetenders:
Walk coals
drop 60 foot trees while drunk as hell
swing like Tarzan over the flaming pit from a rope tied to the center of huge geodesic dome
etc.
Basically, we go absolutely crazy when we go off duty. At the most recent festival, we broke in the food vendors kitchen ans started cooking, taking money, setting our own prices, etc. for example.
To get into an event for free, you are expected to at least build a bonfire and watch it for awhile. Some of these events cost upward of (including the most recent one) $100 bucks to get in, and some nearing $1000 for the week-long event.
At the larger venues, you are expected to work a number of three-five hour shifts, usually broken up into:
Bust: Cutting down trees, chopping them into logs, and hauling them to the site.
Build: Constructing the bonfire itself, making sure its stable, will look good while burning, and safe (most bonfires of the size and type I build have people within a few feet of them, so they are designed to cause people to "bounce" if they stumble drunkenly near them.)
Tend: The real meat of it. The pile is now on fire, and the party is in full swing. This is the shortest shift, usually only lasting three hours due to its intensity. You've got a 10-30 foot pile of flaming timber behind you, drums, bellydancers, fire spinners, drunks, druggies, naked, nubile hippy chicks grinding on you, etc that you have to more or less either protect or ignore so they don't get eaten alive by the bonfire. That's first shift. ( dusk till 1 AM)
Second shift, you now have most of the people drunk, off duty firetenders (who are the craziest, most dangerous fucks at any gathering) and usually weather to deal with. Its getting cold, and people start to crowd the fire, forcing the dancers/ partiers closer to the flames, and therefore you, as the firetender, closer to the flames to keep everyone safe.
Thiird shift. Most people are asleep/ passed out. Pretty easy shift, but the most dangerous cause at dawn, the firetenders go off duty and start partying.
I've seen firetenders:
Walk coals
drop 60 foot trees while drunk as hell
swing like Tarzan over the flaming pit from a rope tied to the center of huge geodesic dome
etc.
Basically, we go absolutely crazy when we go off duty. At the most recent festival, we broke in the food vendors kitchen ans started cooking, taking money, setting our own prices, etc. for example.
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May Conditioning Challenge:
Standard's Three Min. of Fun (the Open Snatch Challenge)
Snatch as much weight as fast as possible for volume of weight moved in 3 minutes.
Results:
50 lbs DB snatches x 91 in three minutes.
Impressions: Should have stretched a bit more. I could have cleared 100 in this. Great conditioner. My teeth are hurting.
Standard's Three Min. of Fun (the Open Snatch Challenge)
Snatch as much weight as fast as possible for volume of weight moved in 3 minutes.
Results:
50 lbs DB snatches x 91 in three minutes.
Impressions: Should have stretched a bit more. I could have cleared 100 in this. Great conditioner. My teeth are hurting.
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I'm amped for your next fight bro.
Woodbusting / lumberjacking is some of the toughest work there is. A kick ass workout.
Woodbusting / lumberjacking is some of the toughest work there is. A kick ass workout.
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Fixed.
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The Gods do not want me to have Thai pads. Something got screwed up in shipping and I ended up w/ a thai suitcase leg kick pad by mistake, so it'll probably be two weeks until I get the Thai pads in w/ return shipping and correction. Fuck.
Gear Recieved: Gymboss Interval Timer
Gear Recieved: Gymboss Interval Timer
