Physical Chess

How To Do Everything

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🗓️ 7 November 2014

⏱️ 22 minutes

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We do our best to help out Josiah, who needs to beat a much stronger guy in arm wrestling. Also: nocturnal sneezing.

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0:00.0	We got an email from Josiah. He wants to know how do you beat someone at arm wrestling if they're stronger than you?
0:06.8	On the line with us now is Simon Barryakoa. He's the president of the United States Armed Wrestling Federation.
0:13.1	Simon, before we get to helping out Josiah,
0:16.0	can I just ask, are you one of those guys who has one arm
0:19.7	way bigger than the other arm?
0:21.8	You know, it's funny's funny oddly I am only because I broke my
0:26.8	left arm arm wrestling and it's fine now and functioning but I don't train with
0:32.2	it like I do for my right.
0:34.1	They're not too bad but when I was a much lighter guy it was
0:37.2	noticeably different.
0:38.4	Oh my.
0:39.5	Did you break it in competition?
0:41.6	I didn't. What happened? Well at the time I had just started doing
0:46.8	left-handed arm wrestling I don't really I typically always been right-handed and I
0:50.5	was about on my third tournament I was about 140 pounds and I was I was
0:54.8	I was just in a guy about 220 and I just wasn't I'm not very was not very
0:58.5	experienced with my left hand with my right hand I can feel everything you have a
1:02.1	complete kind of control and understanding what's going on with my right hand I can feel everything you have a complete kind of control and
1:03.4	understanding what's going on with my left I really wasn't even sure how I was
1:06.3	winning and I just started trying to kind of mimic something somebody else was
1:11.8	doing which is kind of my cardinal sin for arm wrestling
1:14.4	and pushed my shoulder past my hand and as as I did that the my opponent there
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