Yep, we have good days and bad days...

Posted by Michaelson from leospace047.utsi.edu on July 06, 2000 at 12:57:05:

In Reply to: I am officially 'bad' posted by Dale Dassel on July 05, 2000 at 22:01:33:

I remember once practicing in my backyard, my dad watching me. He pointing out a plastic cup sitting on a near by post and asked if I could hit that target. I casually extended the whip and did a side arm throw in it's general direction, no thoughts of really getting to near it. The cup literally exploded, the whip returning perfectly over my head and back to ready. My dad stepped back and shook his head. To this day I think he believes I can do that each and every time. He has no clue what a fluke that may have been at the time. Not saying your stunt was, but like my subject heading says, there are days, then there are days. (grins) Regards. Michaelson

: After practicing for about thirty minutes with a book of matches
: in one hand and a bullwhip in the other, I figured out how to blow out
: the flame from a candle! When it became dark, I went outside in my
: backyard with the whip and some more matches. There is the base of a
: steel pole which used to support a clothesline, cut flush with the
: ground. I stuck a broomstick into it, and fastened a candle on top
: with tape. Then I lit the candle, which gives off a nice glow at night, and there is also no wind at all. I have spent the past hour
: outside snuffing candle flames. Sometimes it takes fifteen tries,
: sometimes just one (those are the most thrilling). But at last I have
: the marker figured out. I have a brick, which I set my foot on to
: give me the perfect position. From there I can strike at the candle
: and almost repeatedly put out the flame within three tries.
: So, I am officially "bad" with the bullwhip.

: -Dale Dassel

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