If not seizing the moment – at least go for a walk (Perfect Pub Walks with Bill Bailey).
Posted: March 17, 2024 Filed under: Matters that Matter | Tags: ageing, Bill Bailey, comedy, funny, hiking, interviews, Paul Merton, Perfect Pub Walks with Bill Bailey, relationships, Sooty, talking, writing Leave a commentFirst of all, walking and talking was my idea first.
Before The West Wing, before Adam Buxton’s podcast, before that other guy near LA who hikes into the hills with celebrities, there was me. Walking. And talking. Entirely to myself.
But this show – Perfect Pub Walks with Bill Bailey – does it very well indeed. Mental health, accessing nature, exercise, fresh air, sunlight, and perhaps being slightly ‘on camera‘ – this is how interviewing should be.
A discussion. With motion.
But I am worried about Paul Merton’s knees. I don’t often, because I don’t every really see them, since he’s been most regularly sat behind a panelist desk on HIGNFY for the past 3 decades. I saw them even less when he appeared on Just a Minute.
And I’m coming to realise, the comedy old guard that I grew up with; Merton, Bailey, and most importantly – etcetera – who I like to imagine is still youthing it about the place, is actually getting older to the point of being…old.
And nobody seems to be guarding any of them, least of all Merton’s clifftop knees.
I’m sure this has happened before, but my only frame of reference for this was when Matthew Corbet stepped back from the Sooty programmes. I was a child when that happened, and as an adult I saw Matthew return for a spot in a much later series and found he’d not only grown old, but I’d become an older person too – albiet one that still watched the Sooty Show.
Inclined to remedy this feeling, I did as I often do and gave my father a ring to get it off my chest.
Bad idea – as this only uncovered that he’s now in his 70s and at the stage in life, even in 2024, at which old people die purely on the grounds of being old. He’s not dying, but everyone would basically not complain too much if he suddenly did because it’s what’s supposed to happen.
This upsets me.
And this’ll be the same for many people. I’m in my mid-thirties, and as far as I’m concerned I’m going to live as long as I please – which is very much down to how good the customer service of life goes on to be.
If I’m not satisfied with your tone, I’m going to take my business elsewhere, thank you very much. This mortal coil never suited me anyway.
But I don’t expect to age myself, nor my heroes to age ahead of me, be that the comedy greats, or be that my dad.
That phone call, and this programme (about walking and talking, which – remember – was my idea originally) gave me a moment of realisation – I need to go for a walk.
With family. My wife. Dad.
My friends too – though they are fat, lazy, awful and won’t talk to me for some reason – and it’s mutual.
It was a good moment to have and I know I need to seize it.
Basically, these moments accumulate to suddenly becoming yesterday, and a fair few number of them amounted to ‘years ago‘ and the debt we owe for letting them slip-by can’t really be repaid.
So, I’m going to go for a walk with my father, and I’m sure I’ll tell you all about it. My Dad’s not a famous fellow, but he’s my fellow and I know he loves me very much. It’s nice to know that.
We can talk about the years of evenings we sat next to each other watching The West Wing, or laugh about the surreal satire Merton may have delivered on a most recent HIGNFY. Plus the latest developments on the Sooty Show.
I’ll give him the low-down as to my creation of walking and talking – which I really did invent.
I even created a phrase for it: “the walk and talk” but I forget why I called it that now.
Sam

I can’t be alone in thinking this. I’d like to be though.
Posted: March 6, 2024 Filed under: Matters that Matter | Tags: depression, funny, Humour, sad, Weird, writing Leave a commentThere’s always a risk of being honest online.
One must tread (type) carefully with the expectation that one is racist or something equally unpleasant and therefore not deserving of having a blog anymore.
Now, I probably am racist, but I’ll leave that to folk more qualified than myself to diagnose. I can’t think of any specific views or prejudices at this time, but I’m sure they’ll surface on my commute home through traffic.
Less so focused on the likely-racism for today though; I want to talk about feeling sad.
Because I do feel sad.
I’m sad right now.
Oh look, I just got sadder.
And this has happened before with me, and it’ll likely crop up again, but I do keep reverting to this perpetual option I have to wander into a field and die.
Not suicide – I don’t have a violent bone in my body – but definitely not trying any more.
I don’t know if that counts as ‘giving up’, or ‘no longer putting up with the planet’s negative sides any more’ (can a planet, being round, have a side? When I’m in a bad mood – yes it can. A temper-dependent, partially flat Earth).
Either way, I like the idea of having the option to wander into a field, sitting down, and worries ebbing away as one of two things happen.
- I master meditation and Zen the shit out of myself.
- I abandon the premise of hunger, ambition, regret, loss, hope, fear, glory, pride, and especially having a numb bum from sitting in a field for too long.
Hunter S Thompson made clear is his view on suicide, ultimately by shooting himself in the head (really showing his conviction) and in what he left behind – his words.
Beautiful words on the matter.
“I would feel real trapped in this life if I didn’t know I could commit suicide at any time.”
And then the note – ‘Football season is over’.
It was his final note. We probably shouldn’t know about it – I doubt it was ever meant for us.
But still, his point remains now as true as then.
It’s a weariness. I cannot be bothered with the blue bells and bird song.
I’ve had enough of the laughter of children and the company of friends.
Women aren’t what they used to be, nor am I.
Bye….along those lines.
The sort of things that are why you want to leave a dinner party that’s gone on too long, but you don’t mention because everyone thinks you’re suicidal, and that reflects awfully on their hosting skills.
I’ll cheer-up, I’m sure. Maybe not tomorrow, but hopefully before the weekend.
And whilst in this mood, I still like to ponder walking into a field, harmlessly, carelessly, and should I die then I shouldn’t care, because of the careless happiness I’d feel about being in a field.
On a sunny day, obviously.
Not too sunny, either – that won’t work for me.
For this I’d have that kind of particular preference that comes from a mix of memory and imagination and won’t ever actually happen – that’s my kind of weather.
It’s good for the soul.
Sam

Sandwich ingredients – can’t we all just get along?
Posted: January 31, 2024 Filed under: Brief...therefore witty. | Tags: bread, cheese, Etiquette, food, funny, Ham, Humour, Mundane fantasy, Sandwich, Sandwiches, Weird, writing Leave a commentSay you’re a slice of cheese, with all the crucial memories and opinions that a slice of cheese would have.
You want, specifics? Fine you’re brie.
Actually, no – you’re cheddar. Being cheddar is important for this.
It matters to me.
Anyway, you’re a slice of opinionated (cheddar) cheese – and someone places a slice of ham on top of you.
Opinionated ham.
Ham with a mother.
Ham with hopes (not dreams though – it’s just ham).
And that slice of ham is laying on top of you face to cheesy face – how would you feel?
Perhaps you’d nod politely at one another, like businessman bumping into each other on a crowded train, but then again, that doesn’t often happen when they’re both horizontal.
It’d be really neat if you’d both simply get along. No need to shove.
But that’s not all – next is the disappointment that comes from the comfortable slice of bread you yourself had already been placed on.
You’d been enjoying it being as soft and convenient as it was to relax upon, though weirdly, it was particularly buttery. As buttery as anything you can think of as being buttery.
Not many things are buttery. In fact, its likely that most things that are buttery, aside from bread, are not intended to be buttery.
Buttery.
Albeit buttery, it was a pleasant place to find yourself as a slice of cheese, even when a slice of ham is pressed against you.
Then, you see over the slice of ham’s………………. shoulder (?)……a second slice of bread descending its way towards you.
Now I can’t pretend to have ever heard cheese before. But if I were then, like you are now – a piece of cheese about to be imprisoned within the kind of butteriness that you’d honestly begun to trust – I think I’d have a lot to say. And even more to scream.
Meanwhile, the slice of ham is still squished up against you, face-to-face, unable to move because it’s inanimate (AKA “thoroughly well-cooked”) and is desperately asking what you’re freaking out about, but can sense the darkness looming up from behind it.
As I said, I’ve never heard cheese, and I’ve never heard the inside of a sandwich either, but I’ll bet its muffled.
Now I don’t want to be grim here. There’s no pain in the life of this cheese (can’t guarantee same for the ham) so have no fear of me describing the agony of teeth coming together through you – some cheddar cheese.
But, the idea of being chewed cheese basically just occurred to me and I wanted to share consideration for the sensation with you.
My favourite part was the suggestion of the cheese and ham nodding politely at each other. Its nice to get along.
There might be a metaphor in there somewhere, sandwich ingredients getting along and so on.
But I’ll leave that to you to be interested in, I’m just curious about being a piece of cheese.
Sam

Why I don’t remember my weekends.
Posted: January 26, 2024 Filed under: Matters that Matter | Tags: blog, blogging, children, daydreaming, distraction, family, feet, funny, Humour, pigs, reverie, travel, vikings, wife, writing Leave a commentI tend not to remember my weekends, because I tend not to remember most things that aren’t memorable.
I cooked pig’s feet on Sunday night, and I have literally no clue what we took place.
No clue.
I’m thoroughly informed on the flavour of trotters (taste like pig feet, probably like your feet too), but not on the preceeding 48 hours.
It’s because I ‘Walter Mitty’ – but not in the exotic or adventurous sense like the famous movie.
Instead, when my weekend is happening, and especially when my wife is explaining to me what we’re doing for the weekend, I like to get lost in an internal fiction of mundane oddness.
And it’s very frustrating.
I’d love to enjoy the memories of a weekend, or maybe even the weekend itself, but I reverie without mercy to the point that I’ve broadly got no idea what’s going on.
My wife was speaking, as I presume she does regularly, and instantaneously I began daydreaming about how I would explain to an ancient Viking that a cow is female, using only the most choice grunts and hand-gestures.
Why did I do that?
I didn’t do that!
That daydream happened to me and I simply couldn’t look away.
If this bizarre scenario played itself in your head – you’d also miss-out on your wife’s plans for your weekend.
And to be frank, whilst I’d like to enjoy the weekend, sometimes – I also really want to give some serious consideration to how I’d explain to an ancient Viking that a cow is female, and then watching myself in my own head, with an ancient Viking I’ve never even met before, miming a vagina whilst really committing to an effeminate moo.
Sometimes, I’d really like to do that.
But, reality is also lovely at times.
My wife and kids a smashing, really lovely. Can’t fault them at all.
My wife walks towards me with a smile that she can’t help – because she, like me, has a massive face.
Thus, she presents me with a smile, the same way someone might want to show me they’ve a bucket.
And my children – they’re worth being around for, as well as all that parental responsibility, etc.
My son reminds me of me, he’s the best show off and hopefully will do better than having a blog one day.
My daughter makes me laugh, and I expect that’s a phase till she finds easier means of getting chocolates and dollies.
How do they compare with an ancient Viking ignorant of bovine gender?
They’re preferable, but I’m still distracted by the ridiculous.
I’ll just have to concentrate on the preferable, I suppose.
But I hope you appreciate that having an uninvited Nordic fellow, complete with axe and beard and numerous other stereotypic apparel, inserted into your head from nowhere, might be distracting.
Because it is – I’ve written a whole blog about it. That’s how distracting it is – it gives me focus.
If this distracting focus makes me a millionaire thanks to this blog, that’s a negative – I don’t want my son to be inspired by such things.
He’s already distracted enough, with the void look in his eyes that tells me that in his head he’s somewhere nicer than the conversation I’m currently giving him.
He needs a good, solid focus, uninfluenced by fictional Vikings and me.
He needs his grinning mother – the ultimate reality, the sort you can both hang your hat on and rely.
My daughter will be fine, she takes after the ultimate reality with the big face.
I’m reminded of something teachers have said for, I expect, centuries…”must try harder”.
I’ll certainly try.
Sam

The News. Interesting, irrelevant or 80 years old.
Posted: January 1, 2024 Filed under: Brief...therefore witty., Today's paper. | Tags: aliens, Beavers, climate change, Culture, Dangerous, fashion, Gardening, Humour, Magpies, media, News, Newspaper, Pubs, UFOs, Vegetables, World War 2, writing, WW2 Leave a commentI am sitting here, trying to remember what articles I read now. Thankfully it was the Daily Star, so there were lots of pictures.
Pictures are good memory joggers, especially as they make words standout in the first place, and the Daily Star nails this, mainly through images of massive interest and zero relevance. Like this one:

Its a beaver. Doesn’t really need the words actually, though I do like the “Hey“.
“Hey” indeed.
The Daily Star might be what we’d hand to the extraterrestrials to give them an idea of what our focus really is, or we’d roll it up to bop them on the head (nearest equivalent) to shoo them out of our atmosphere.
Either way, we’d still say “Hey”.
If they ever come at all, but in the meanwhile….we’ve clouds.

We’re just not dangerous enough yet. Or cool enough either. I’m doing my bit, but you should all really be a bit more dangerous.
Perhaps like the warrior in the garden, rather than the gardener in a war. But I’m frankly more interested in a dangerous gardner.
With big, purple and suggestive-as-hell vegetables. Mainly purple.

It’s nice to have a goal which accommodates climate change, since the UK is going to have no aims to avoid it.
And, purple vegetables. Very ‘in-vogue’. Very ‘end-times’.
It’s getting hotter. Leave the heating off, especially if you’re in the pub.

I like a cold pub. It’s a chance to wear your coat indoors, as though you’re at ski-resort in South London (great place to drink and ski but not actually the latter).
Or you can wear loads and loads of fashionable outfits, like the music video for ‘Only You’ performed by The Flying Pickets.
THAT’S fashion. THAT’S a chilly pub.
It’s scenic. Looks good. You can’t take it away from chilly pubs, from The Flying Pickets, and from magpies.

Take a magpie. Take two, they’re free.
Now flatten it.
And you’ve got yourself the flag I’ve always thought would suit me, and my inevitable nation-state, very well indeed thank you.
Of course the black, of course the white. But those two; with that blue……if not the heights, then certainly the depths of fashion.
The last thing I noted in this paper was an advert. For a book of a tale from a witness to warcrimes they endured as a child in WW2.

I’ve tried to write about this theme but I’ve struggled to summarise in my irreverent style.
WW2 is still the news. Because we still can’t quite believed it happened.
Probably a book worth reading. Like a newspaper worth enjoying the pictures of.
Sam
I read the paper. Now I’ve opinions.
Posted: December 24, 2023 Filed under: Today's paper. | Tags: Banksy, cats, Christmas, Christmas swim, dogs, Druids, funny, Humour, News, Newspaper, poo, Sewage, Stonehenge, Stop, Street art, Veterinary, Winter soltice, writing Leave a commentYou’d better watch out!
You’d better not cry!
You’d better watch out and I’m telling you why...
Sam just read the paper, today.
And the world is fucked, in a very ‘but buy tomorrow’s edition’ way.
Actually, you can’t buy tomorrow’s edition because it’s Christmas Day, but that’s no reason to not panic about world events.
Such as the pet owner who was charged £40 for a phone call to discuss his cat’s constipation.

If the cat had eaten the phone, causing both constipation and a necessary phone call, I’m on the side of the vet. Holding up a scratching and wailing cat to my ear will result in me as calmly as possible letting you know that I’m going to be charging you for this above my normal rates.
Of course, the cat didn’t eat the phone, which is nice, and it did get some medicine, which is about as nice as not eating a phone.
Then there was the annual Christmas Day plunge into sewage on the nation’s coastal swimming spots.

Concerns are that those who like the bracing experience of seawater in December whilst wearing an amusing hat might get poo in their mouths, eyes, stomachs and bloodstream. And brain, probably.
I don’t know much about poo, but I wonder if it’s good for the skin. Probably not, but also, possibly so.
Maybe we should start finding alternative uses for poo, rather than just sending it down river or hiding it under less-pooey things.
Maybe use it in Law? Like shitting in the sinks of the water company Execs for every illness and death their actions caused. Copro-punishment.
Still, here’s hoping the Execs and the swimmers all have a happy Christmas.
The Druids made the news, at the only time of year they ever seem to these days (scarcely at all this millenia so far) to welcome winter solstice.

They watched the sun come up apparently, at Stonehenge. Quite windy, according to reports.
Surrounded by Druids and flaming torches, with a sun rising between ancient menhirs, that must feel like a good place for the world to end. Wiltshire.
And lastly, someone was arrested for stealing some valuable criminal damage.

Banksy does his stencil and spray-paint thing and people are arrested for stealing it before the council has a fair chance to steal it for themselves.
When I write “bugger” on a wall, I’m just stared at. By my wife. In the living room.
A good message in the sign though. Things do need to stop. I hope they do.
Merry Christmas wishes and hopes to all those who won’t have one.
Sam
“Let’s get current” (an idea I once had)
Posted: November 16, 2023 Filed under: Matters that Matter | Tags: blogging, contemporary, history, Humour, Putin, Ukraine, writing Leave a commentI had an idea once to make this blog a big success – of the acknowledgeable sort – where people would stop and say “Hey – look at that big successful blog…”
Part of the plan was to ‘get current’, which I didn’t.
However, building on that from back then, I’d like to bring things to the here and now, keeping the finger to the pulse and the front page journos paying attention to me for the next scoop.
And, to be inclusive of events I’ve missed since I had then, I’ll be beginning with the current events at the time I had the idea: in February 2022.
So, apparently there’s a massing of Russian troops at the Ukraine border.
I hope everything turns out alright.
Imagine if Russia invaded Ukraine – that’d make a lot of noise.
This isn’t working.
Maybe being current isn’t where it’s at any more.
Perhaps I should turn to historical events, and cover with insights into yesteryear that entice the reader into re-reading and re-reading till at the ultimate heights – generating advertising revenue.
I just need an historical event to with which to begin.
How about this – way back in February 2022? I had an idea to ‘get current’ and make my blog the next fresh thing about to hit the big time, at which people would say “Hey, look at that blog, in a minute”.
This idea coincided with outbreak of war between invading Russia and Ukraine, so I quickly for became distracted.
This isn’t working, again.
Reconsidering this plan, it could be that the war in Europe outweighs a nice little idea for my blog, in terms of being regarded a ‘historical event’.
Still, having a blog not only gives you the chance to stand out unique from the crowd and draw attention to yourself and be admired.
It also gives you the chance to say what millions of others say and think daily, which is due no greater regard than being praised for noticing your legs are in the same room as you.
In that theme, to echo something worth echoing, Fuck Vladmir (I hate him on a first-name basis).
Vladmir has no class.
Vladmir is incompetent at many things.
Vladmir’s handshake is so gross, it feels like someone is wanking your hand and looking you in the eye with a Russian accent.
Vladmir has a smelly face and a fat personality.
Vladmir ain’t welcome round these parts.
Vladmir looks like he should be sitting sadly at a bus stop in the rain, holding a carrier bag with nothing in it.
Vladmir, Vladmir, Vladmir….
Go fuck yourself, Vladmir.
Apologies, this may have descended into cyberbullying the Russian President (“Vladmir…..something”), but judging by what I’ve read happens to his enemies, I’m sure I’ll get my comeuppance – so everything should work out well for everyone.
In which case, to echo again: go fuck yourself Vladmir. You ruined February 2022, you ruined my blog, you wrecked and ended lives forever, and worsened a troubled world in need of what Russia can really do.
Go fuck yourself Vladmir. I checked in with School No. 193 at Baskov Lane, which you attended, and they all thought you were a wanker. They could tell by the handshake.
Sam

ISIS propaganda and the best of smells. Together at last.
Posted: March 31, 2021 Filed under: Brief...therefore witty. | Tags: ISIS, smells, writing Leave a commentI like having something to say. It gives the teeth something of a last hoorah before I forget about them entirely.
We don’t need better dentists, we need better prehistoric DNA and frankly I think the Tories are failing us on that point.
I’ve been limitedly successful over the past few years. I’ve had a succession of jobs that have to some extents supplemented my lifestyle, and to better extents have secured happy lives for my family. Mainly, this has been working in education and PR.
I now no longer like either.
In education, children are done an incredible disservice by some utterly dedicated and dutiful people, and PR is a mix between actual experts being inefficient in communicating, good vs bad luck, and a heavy heap of bollocks that revolves around typical journalism.
The good stuff of journalism is “once was” and “hopefully later”.
I hasten to add that I’m not referring to war zone correspondents. I’m talking about the more minor chit chat that takes up a greater portion of the lives of us that aren’t living in war zones.
I read a VICE article today, and it was really bad. Bad in the sense of making me worried I was missing a hip point due to the confusion I gained from reading it. It focused on a cool new drug and that’s a pretty lame use of brains and fingertips. They looked to insert laid back humour, which was a funny thing to do.
I’ve considered this, and considered other mediums, from the Daily Express to the Independent, and I think that if you’re going to aim poorly for a bad target, you’d better do so well.
Therefore, we’ve a choice here in what we do with this blog and how we live our lives hence. First, I think we should list the best smells that we can make use of. Second, let’s get some propaganda going that benefits me and fucks ISIS and the like. I don’t see how you can come to other conclusions than this.
So, first again, we’ll begin with smells. How about woodwork and American air-conditioning. That’s a nice succinct beginning to a list, from which we can start a separate list.
Now that’s begun, let’s tackle some anti-ISIS, pro-me patriotism.
I’m a golden glorious god of benevolence, I play with my children regularly and am pretty good when it comes to reasonably simply acoustic guitar songs, whereas ISIS is a pile, puddle and column of both wank and whatever wank would be if it came from under the sea. Nautical wank.
Back to smells.
Cookies and the forest. These a crucial in continuing the list of nice smells. Without them, the list would have stopped already with American air-conditioning. In addition, these smells smell nice.
Propaganda.
I slept with ISIS’ mother, both literally plural and metaphorically singular (and anal).
Smells.
Sunny concrete in the city and babies. These, much like the second set of smells, are crucial to the list, but we must remember that they only make it on of they’re true. And if you’re denying that sunny day city pavements smell nice then you’re a monster.
Propaganda.
ISIS can’t read good.
Smells.
Those old books that ISIS can’t read smell terrific, as does that European continent chocolate they don’t get in Northern Syria anymore because ISIS are bastards with small everythings. My everythings are bigger. My everythings can read. My everythings’ get Euro chocolate with the Euro milk of Euro cows that Euro moo, which you might not realise because this is text and not audio, but I’m saying “chocolate” with a French accent. ISIS can’t do a good French accent and have no Euro moos, which is possibly why they’re so angry in the first place.
Propaganda.
Just plain ol’ fuck ’em.
Smells.
Just plain ol’ fuck ’em in the nostrils.
It may be at this point that you’re starting to realise the kind of journalism I had in mind for celebrating. Not the gross nitter natter of the tabloids, nor the informed, investigative and dutiful inkers that reveal crime and call out bullies. My kind of journalism is far more aligned with that focus of sincere adoration for the mundane that matters most, and the propaganda we’ve all been missing since World War 2. I might not have actually been alive during WW2, but nor was Hitler for a part of it.
If we went to war with Germany (unheard of, I know), which would be a tragic shame as I know some lovely Germans, I’d illustrate the worst of them, caricatured in characters, with focus on their worst as their only. I would entwine this with some neat information about my which accents are most suitable for meeting live on Mars and why a Frankfurt accent wouldn’t be suitable at all (I’d find a reason…may it would echo worse than an Italian accent. I don’t know because it’s bollocks).
That’s what I want to write, in between occasional pieces that are important in that they have meaning, but my primary output should be these assaults of viciously uninformed propaganda and the boggiest of blogs.
Accordingly: ISIS need nuking into glass before they get their hands on our nuns. I had some toast for breakfast.
There we go, two sentences, both alike in dignity, summarising the key points of today’s propaganda and the key aspect of blogging (telling of my breakfast).
Were it not for the latter, I don’t think I’d have the confidence to take on ISIS as remotely as I am now. Without the former, it’s almost as though regularly updating the internet about what I had for breakfast don’t matter.
Sam
(P.S. Grandpa’s pipe tobacco and probably Ewan McGregor).
How to Arm Wrestle with your Legs
Posted: September 29, 2019 Filed under: Brief...therefore witty. | Tags: advice, arm wrestling, competition, creative writing, Evolution, Humour, life-advice, sports, writing Leave a commentTo begin, it is crucial to develop a thorough understanding of the rules of arm wrestling, so as to be able to disregard them and apply one’s feet to your opponent.
Of the crucial rules to be appreciated, the fact that it is illegal in arm wrestling to use your feet unto your opponent is paramount. This is because they are essentially not expecting it.
Whilst you, reader, may be expecting me, writer, to get stuck straight into kicking your opponent in the face, you’re mistaken; as prior to that I am going to finish this prolonged sentence any moment now.
Kick your opponent in the face as soon as possible, the results of which will become obvious a moment after impact.
However, be sure to kick their face towards their own arm so as to achieve victory, otherwise you’re just kicking them in the face – and there’s frankly no need for that.
This is not about kicking them in the face, it’s about arm wrestling with your legs.
Having kicked them in the face, plus having aimed their face towards their own arm, be sure to capitalise on this by slamming their hand down towards the matt. Do this with your feet.
It’s quite simple when you remember your ability to jump.
To put it at its most simple, post-kick you must stand upon tip toes, leap as though looking to bounce, become mid-air horizontal over your opponent’s hand, and land with maximum gravity.
It is at this moment, upon regaining your feet (you’ll need those for later rounds) that you must assume that stance of victory whilst maintaining a visage of absolute innocence.
Indeed, you must fuse your victory roar with a hint of “Who me?”
A key factor in this tactic of using your legs to win at arm wrestling is this: when asked if you kicked you opponent in the face and then landed like an ironing board upon his hand, you say “No.”
And that’s the long and the short of it.
Feel free to bring a Legs Coach to the competition, only remember that instead of them shouting “Now’s the time to kick them in the face!” – they’ll need to translate this to “Use your legs!”
If anyone at the competition has a problem with this tactic, state plainly that they’re against evolution and whatever your ethnicity, gender, or religion you happens to be.
I hasten to add here that this isn’t exactly a tested technique of mine, but I wholeheartedly support you in utilising it (feel free to say I said it was ok – I gave you permission).
Remember to use that using methods such as these is only fair for those who want to liven up and evolve what is otherwise a traditional practice; at least it’s not cheating.
Sam
