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Has anyone tore a Phone Book in half?


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I used to love going to big cities where they had big phone books in hotels and tearing them in half and leaving them in the room when I left. Havent torn one in years. But I found a small one at work and I took a trip down memory lane. This was only like 500 pages. http://i35.tinypic.com/2bwrrq.jpg

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When you do the bigger books it does take a certain level of strength because you are tearing a LOT more pages at once. You cant fan it out as much like the small books.. Big hands are important too. But yeah, there is a trick/technique to it.

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Never tried it but saw it in strongman comptetition and it looked kinda hard. But what is fanning I dont think these guys cheated.

Fanning is what you see in this pic. You bend the book so there is an arch. Then when you hold that arch in the book while bending it back and pulling downward in opposite directions. The top pages will be tight and all the ones behind it will be looser and looser. As the top pages tighten and tear the ones behind it get tighter and tear. Its a gradual process so you are tearing a few pages at a time like a domino effect. http://blondesearch.ru/img/81/81d/How_to_rip_a_phonebook_in_half.jpg

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