Suggestions for Locksport Meetings Wanted

[digital_blue]

I have spent a good deal of time compiling an article which is now posted on the LSI website. I have created and compiled some ideas for fun activites at a locksport meeting. The activites listed in this article are just a few ideas that I came up with and some that have been suggested to me by a few of our chapter presidents or other board members.

If you've got any ideas for a fun activities that are not already included on the list, feel free to make them here.

Keep in mind that activities should be fun for pickers of varying skill levels, and be practical to conduct with reasonably limited resources. In other words, building a maze through which contestants must pick several locks to open doors to the next area might be a really super cool idea, but probably not very practical for a typical locksport meeting.

If you choose to submit an idea here, please understand that we may choose to add it to our list in the article.

Thanks!

db

[Chrispy]

That's great db! Some excellent ideas there.

[treboR]

Blindfolded picking!

OR you could build a maze of locked doors to pick your way through.

[illusion]

picking with your thumbs taped together

[treboR]

picking with your thumbs taped together

That would be hard.

[n2oah]

Strippers?

[devildog]

I have seen people who are EXTREMELY coordinated with their toes.... ....

You get the idea, and I'm not really joking either, as I guarantee you there IS someone out there who can do it.


I'm sure you recall I threw out a bunch of ideas regarding bumping, decoding, and impressioning in another thread that you're welcome to use, but I'm guessing you're just looking for picking-related things now?

-Hands behind back.

-One-handed.

-Picking self out of handcuffs (don't forget there are some VERY tough handcuffs out there--check out Chucklz's thread on this).

-Hanging upside down and picking.

-And the most sadistic yet: lock someone in a coffin with a double-cylinder deadbolt and they pick themselves out , and since you're into magic, DB, this could then be furthered by burying them 6 feet under or submersing them in a water tank

-Oh and that reminds me of the underwater safecracking stuff I've heard about, so you could also have underwater picking: do it with and without goggles, with and without scuba, take points off for the number of times they have to come up for air, etc.

[illusion]

okay.. so if you get a swimming pool, and tie weights onto Db's feet secured by padlocks, and give him say.... 3 mins of air, would DB come out alive?

there is some guy who can repair watches with his feet, he is in the Guiness book of records, and it is amazing. So it is possible - anyone here got super toe controll?

[Chrispy]

Strippers?

Now we're talking.

[digital_blue]

Well, I can see this was productive.

db

[helix]

At the risk of having the m-word mentioned:

Have you ever tried picking a lock after eating fish and chips
without washing your hands?

Well a slippery lock is a bit harder to do, I reckon.


.....And yes, it WAS fish and chips that made my lock slippery.

[devildog]

I was dead-on serious up until the part about the coffin (no pun intended), although I do still think it's an interesting idea .

Handcuffs could be very entertaining since there's such a wide variety and lots of people (particularly locksmiths) collect them. And if all you're doing is locking someone in them and they have to pick their way out in a certain amount of time, there's no harm in that (just make sure someone has a key and it WORKS )

[Chrispy]

Handcuffs could be very entertaining since there's such a wide variety and lots of people (particularly locksmiths) collect them. And if all you're doing is locking someone in them and they have to pick their way out in a certain amount of time, there's no harm in that (just make sure someone has a key and it WORKS )

I can help there. I've got three pairs of handcuffs and a pair of thumbcuffs. One pair of handcuffs is pretty easy because it's a chained pair, the other two are hinged and are almost impossible to get your hands at the right angle. The thumbcuffs would be interesting though.

[digital_blue]

Thumbcuffs are rediculously easy to escape from without picking.

Devildog, yes, I'm sorry. I should have mentioned your post when I was griping about the others. You did provide some neat ideas. Still not exactly what I'd had in mind though. I was more or less looking for various types of "picking games and challenges" that would be practical at a locksport meeting. The handcuff idea is not a bad one though.

db

[Dimmy Locks]

(just make sure someone has a key and it WORKS )

A pick community meeting and you still want a key?? !!

Fills me with confidence, how about the rest of you? lol


Mind you, I can just imagine the call to 911 should something go wrong ..........