How underground arm-wrestling mania is slamming NYC streets

19Crib · Aug 23, 2021

https://nypost.com/2021/08/23/underground-arm-wrestling-mania-takes-nyc-by-storm/

Techno music blares from a portable speaker, and the subway rumbles overhead as one of the jacked strangers arm-wrestling in the street turns and challenges me to a fight. No, he informs me in a heavy Slavic accent, just because my bicep is less than half the size of his does not necessarily mean I will lose — despite its appearance, arm-wrestling is not all brute strength but significantly technique.

Arm-wrestling is still considered little more than a formalized bar brawl by many Americans, but a large and growing group of New Yorkers learned during the pandemic that the sport is much more martial art than muscle. And even more importantly, they learned that in an era defined by disease and international isolation, it is a convenient if combative form of socializing.
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I’m glad to see people still know how to compete and have fun without getting into a brawl.

US Conservative · Jan 26, 2022

Kinda cool if you ask me.

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