There's a big difference between Schoolboy and a schoolboy. Without capitalisation and an article I wasn't sure what to expect. Personally, I was hoping to see the latter, but I did have to remind myself who the former was.

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Yeah, but how is she at arm wrestling?

Things To Do Before I Die.

* Have a great story to tell the grandkids. CHECK

* Jump from a moving train across a bridge
into a shallow river, naked. To Do

* Arm wrestle a monkey. To Do

Most vehicle side windows are made of tempered glass, compared to the laminated glass of the windscreen. The windshield is designed to "hold" its pieces upon severe impact due to the lamination process (a layer of plastic material sandwiched between two layers of glass) whereas the tempered side windows will shatter into small relatively harmless globules. Tempered glass is used due to it being roughly 4x the strength of non tempered glass, and cheaper to produce than laminated.

Most automotive side glass is typically between 3-6mm thick, depending on the region of origin, eg Europe, Japan, USA etc. That said, calculating the compression, tensile and sheer strength a particular window can sustain is not exactly simple. However as a simple baseline, a 2ftx2ftx5mm sheet of tempered glass, with supports 2ft apart can support roughly 160lbs of sustained weight. In the case of automotive design, window frame support, distance of supports, curvature etc will change the properties and strength of the glass.

Long story short, with the vehicles window fully rolled into the frame, that lion would need hundreds of pounds of force directed at a single point to reach the shatter point. Granted, I've never arm wrestled a lion, so maybe those folks were just a can of Vienna Sausage ready to open anyway. Best not to mess with the king.

That's a *woman*! Rock on, sister!

Crazy about the arm snap. I'd never arm wrestle again after that. You could hear it in the video (though I couldn't spot where it broke).

edit- Also, I'm super tickled that it's matriarchal thing for them. Fucking awesome.

Well according to the clip of Stallone's arm wrestling show, apparently drinking automobile oil before a match does NOT make you stronger or better at it (much like Popeye and a can of spinach). BUT, it does seem to show that it has the ability to induce a superpower allowing a seemingly normal person to become schizophrenic...

BTW, I said superpower rather than mental illness, because from the schizophrenic individual's perspective he is surely battling Hell's most dangerous beasts, demons, and devils. Merely with the power of his arm wrestling techniques backed up by the miniature fission based nuclear reactor in his gut. It also leaves him in a perpetual manic state, where much like the Lego Movie, "Everything Is Awesome"...

I imagine that he may upgrade to a mixture of anti-freeze and power steering fluids; absolutely logical.

/insanity
//off-topic

Devon is a true campion in his sport. Not only is he really good at it, he makes it look FUN. Not an easy thing to do for arm wrestling.

I know there's a lot of technique in arm wrestling, and a lot of very specific training, but I'm still surprised quite how easy the arm wrestler makes this look. The mountain is very big and very strong, even if he's not specifically trained for this event!

He should have tried Rambo's move of lifting each finger one at a time and putting them back down again. That seems to work for him in the secret world of underground truck-driver arm wrestling rings.

Oh man, the uileann pipes are a beautiful instrument but they are ridiculously difficult to play. It's like trying to arm wrestle an octopus. It takes years to get good at them, that kid must have started as a foetus!

Muscle size is pretty much limited by bone strength. Thats why there is a limit and you can only go over it by using steroids. With bigger bones you also of course get stronger tendons.
And if you have a bad muscle to bone ratio, your bone snaps in an arm wrestling match.

I met an ex British arm-wrestling champion when i was on holiday in the south of France (he was sort of a holiday rep, but for a caravan park, and did more or less everything).

He was a big bloke, and said that muscle of course helps but that it was mostly down to technique. He didn't say anything about forearm length, but it stands to reason that the larger the angle between forearm and upper arm, the less 'turning' force you can produce.

Arm wrestling is about technique and leverage. Almost no strength involved.

Guy on the left has no leverage. Place about 2 inches under the right guy's elbow and Barbell Boy would spin him upside down.

The guy with the longer forearm loses.

I'd say he is *skillfull especially since he holds the world record for arm wrestling. He went EIGHT HOURS beating 1024 people in a row!