Hammer throwing
Congratulations to Trude and Marte from my track & field team ( gfil ) with silver and bronze in todays national championship in women’s hammer throwing competition!
Ok: why this interest in hammer throwing? Some people might not know, but I have a history that might have eluded some: I’ve been throwing hammer since I was 15 years old, I have one gold medal in the Norwegian championship for boys 16yo and actually was on the under 23 national team on one competition!
This week was actually sort of a “comeback” when it comes to hammer throwing for me: I had a session on tuesday night then went to a competition in Hyen on wednesday afternoon! Of course: I threw 45.5 meters on tuesday and only just over 43 on wednesday, but I was so sore after the tuesday night session that I was not able to throw any further ( note to self: don’t do that again… ). If my hand behaves ( I’ve had RSI for a long time that have prevented me from throwing ) I will try to get to the national championship next year, shouldn’t be too hard.
This leads to another question: am I the only programmer that also enjoys a good hammer throwing competition? Let me know!
Hello Havard,
excuse me for being ignorant, but I’ve been a programmer for more than 8 years now and I’ve never heard of hammer throwing before
Honestly. I assume it has some symbolism related to Thor so probably it is specific to the Nordic countries? In Montenegro, there is somewhat similar discipline, “Bacanje kamena s’ ramena”, which means throwing stones from the shoulder. It probably has its roots in practicing for battles against Turks in medieval ages, but since they are very traditional, this sport is pretty much alive and popular.
I do find your posts about spl and design patterns very clear and concise, so I hope you won’t get sore with knowledge sharing.
For more info on hammer throwing: http://www.hammerthrow.com/
And make sure to check out this competition: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qAE2PrCVhY
Don’t think it got so much to do with Thor
Glad you like the posts, I won’t get sore with knowledge sharing, that I can assure you!
Oh my, I mixed things up. Not being a native english speaker, I just had a vision of throwing real hammers
this one is on me. In that case, “bacanje kamena s ramena” is actually more like shot put.