hands of steel
so back in the day, i used to read some kung-fu magazines. i was a green belt in the country club's taek-won-do club, at 12 we were badass. anyways, in the back of the king-fu magazines, they used to advertise these little gadgets that were supposedly used for improving your finger strength by exercising them in ways traditional methods couldn't match for that supposed 'kung fu grip'. I never got one of those doo-hickey's, instead I had to rely on a plastic&metal combination wrist grip thing that I used religiously from when I was 12 to 15. [Which totally affected my awesome Nintendo skillz, but that is unrelated to the topic.] Fast forward to 1999. There is a bus, and one of my older brothers is leaving to join the Navy after graduating college. This is the start of the clothes ripping when every guy on the double decker bus is shirtless and covered in beer. Fast forward again to 2002. A friend of a friend's 27th birthday, got a bus to Santa Monica from