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Message: <blockquote data-quote="fireinthedust" data-source="post: 6446263" data-attributes="member: 51930">Varlock takes a moment to flex, then wobbles again in his chair before putting his arm back down.  Seeming to collect his focus again, he slurs out I better not flex too much before we do this: I lose too many coats when my muscles burst the sleeves!  Hah!  No, no, no, I wear the coat so I'm not accosted by beautiful women when I just want to crush someone in an arm wrestle.  Now are you going to use your mouth or your arm for this, friend?When the arm wrestle begins, Varlock stops speaking and channels his focus in a way he learned from one of his Jesuit brothers, as a young man:  clench your belly, not your arm, and push when you breath out; then hold when you breathe in, and do it all again.  Sailors and hard-headed folk never think when they wrestle, too besotted with drink.  A skinny thinking-man can out wrestle a dozen soldiers this way, amazing those who have no idea how this can be possible.Varlock had done this many times in the past, but it had been years since he'd had occassion to practice...[ooc]  Acrobatics, rather than brute strength!  [roll0]btw: I learned this technique from a friend's wife, and tried it throughout high school and university.  I haven't tried in years, but back then I never lost (except when those two ladies in Kendo grabbed my arm and got me, but that was good fun)  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />  [/ooc]</blockquote>

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