I have a lowkey but strong desire to see how long I could hang on a bar at one of the @primal booths amid bitcoin conferences lately. It's such a great marketing thing. I'm literally riding my bike around a beautiful neighborhood today like, "I wonder how long I could hang if I really wanted to, though." Back in my martial arts days, we did pull-up contests. I touched 21 (ironically) at my absolute retarded peak where all I did was optimize for that like an absolute psycho, but couldn't do so today. Not even close. Never was I measured to just hang, tho. I feel like I could hang for a while and ignore the pain, which is why I'm like, "I want to go to one of these events, seems fun." I've been so busy at home that I keep turning down events and writing weird stuff, but in the meantime I'm mentally I'm like, "how long could I hang, tho."

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Bogi 3 months ago
Probably longer than npub1rtlqca8r6auyaw5n5h3l5422dm4sry5dzfee4696fqe8s6qgudks7djtfs
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Tom 3 months ago
I will say, it was harder than I expected. Different kind of pain. I can do about 20 pull ups and i made it to just shy of 2 minutes. And that was with the incentive of sats and trying to beat everyone else haha
LOL I was also hoping @primal would be at @BTCHEL 2026 🇫🇮 or the Baltic Honeybadger #BH2025 in Riga with those things! They weren't. But the other day I saw a local sports event poster in my hometown and they had a hanging competition in the program! So I went and got a respectable 2nd place (2 minutes 15 seconds)... Not a world-class time, but hey, I also haven't trained for that specifically + been pretty inconsistent with my pullups so I'm quite pleased. Funny thing is, as I had time to kill, I also went and did a 60m run and, surprisingly, got 1st place (8.96 seconds) 🤠 (Mind you, it's a very small, rural area and the event was not oriented at professional athletes at all) image
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Josh Galt 3 months ago
It’s not just hanging though the bar rotates doesn’t it? That’s the reason it’s so difficult I thought. I have a friend who has one of these he takes with his mobile climbing wall, makes a fortune because of that catch
hah they should put an educational placard on the side for kids that says something like … sadly, poor people can’t play this game, here is a suggestion box for how this can be fixed. #🇺🇸
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Baltoe 3 months ago
Having a currency note with drug residue could create similar jeopardy as running a BTC node that is forced to possess illegal material…Who are the people behind the people behind the non-configurability of upcoming BC 30 release and can they be cancelled? BTW - my dead hang w/o training max is about 100 seconds @ 69 years young!
I hang because the moment your grip starts failing and your mind screams to quit is precisely when you discover whether you actually control your nervous system or it controls you. The dead hang is just applied Stoicism with measurable results.
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Charlie Charles 3 months ago
You sound like me when I’m riding my bike! Just thinking away!
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Hof 2 months ago
2 minutes and my forearms were screaming