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Pickig competitions - HORSE

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Pickig competitions - HORSE

Postby Gordon Airporte » 18 Sep 2005 17:33

I've never been to a lock picking competition so this might already be out there, but I was thinking that a HORSE style event might be fun. It would let people show some style apart from just getting the lock open (fast), for example - I can pick this lock behind my back, or one handed, or with a banana.
There might have to be some limit on the difficulty of the locks, maybe just that both competitors were able to open a given lock under normal conditions. Likewise there would have to be be agreements about tools - perhaps that tools must be shared upon request.

Oh, and Hello :-)
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Postby ThE_MasteR » 18 Sep 2005 17:37

To bad you ain't in Canada, cuz I would of came to visit you.
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Re: Pickig competitions - HORSE

Postby Chrispy » 18 Sep 2005 18:52

Gordon Airporte wrote:for example - I can pick this lock behind my back, or one handed, or with a banana.

Now that's skill! :lol:
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Postby ThE_MasteR » 18 Sep 2005 19:20

I can do my Masterlock 130 wiith my right hand alone, with my right hand alone. And all of that is while I am looking. I can do pick it without looking with my right hand, but my left hand I am having problems.

My mother always assist when I got a new lock, and when I get it open, I till her which pins bind, and wheter it's a little Masterlock 130, or a Masterlock No.5, she can pick them. I am so proud of her.
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Postby ThE_MasteR » 18 Sep 2005 19:25

I also forgot the time I tied myself up to my kitchen table with a big metal chain and my Masterlock No.3 ( not much of a big deal), and managed to pick it without having my picks in my hands ( I had to get them in my pocket.)

Pretty cool heh.. M3y3 13E7 5 |< 1 |_ L Z |* /\ W |\| j00
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Re: Pickig competitions - HORSE

Postby n2oah » 18 Sep 2005 19:28

Chrispy wrote:
Gordon Airporte wrote:for example - I can pick this lock behind my back, or one handed, or with a banana.

Now that's skill! :lol:


*crams banana into keyway and turns plug*

Yup, I got mad skills.
"Lockpicking is what robbing is all about!" says Jim King.
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Postby Chrispy » 18 Sep 2005 19:35

*Incessantly jabs banana into Medeco keyway....*

Pfft.... this ain't working..... :?
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Postby Chucklz » 18 Sep 2005 19:44

Freeze the banana. Instant bump tool.
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Postby Chrispy » 18 Sep 2005 19:45

Chucklz wrote:Freeze the banana. Instant bump tool.

Always the voice of reason, good sir. :wink:
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Postby digital_blue » 19 Sep 2005 13:48

I think it's a fantasitc idea, and will almost certainly adopt something of the type for a locksport meeting in the future. It actually got my creative juices flowing, so over the next couple days I'm sure a ton of ideas will come to me.

I would think that the actual difficulty of the lock is irrelevant. Perhaps a basic Kwikset or Weiser cylinder would be just fine. Something that, under normal conditions, would not be difficult to pick. But, with large fuzzy mitts on (there I go, thinking like a Cannuck again), or with your hands, tools, and lock submerged in a basin of water (I know, hard on the lock, but it is a Kwikset after all... get over it. :P), picking lefthanded, picking while balancing on one foot (and if your foot touches down, you're eliminated), and I'm sure there are a whole lot more ideas that will come to me.

Thanks for the idea Gordon!

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Postby Chucklz » 19 Sep 2005 15:04

For those of age... Pick a nasty 5 pin abus with spools... drink a pint.
Pick a 5 pin Schlage w security pins.... drink a pint.
Pick a 6 pin Schlage no security pins..... pint.
Pick a 4 pin Master padlock....... pint.
Then try the Kwiksets :lol:
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Postby Gordon Airporte » 19 Sep 2005 15:49

Hehe, I thought of this precicely because of a Kwickset which I know very well and was trying to challenge myself with. I can get it with a completely flat pick (upsidedown half diamond), I'm working on one-handed techniques and tensioning with my thumbnail. I can do my Masterlock 140 behind my back, which was harder than I'd thought.
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Postby Chrispy » 19 Sep 2005 19:06

Chucklz wrote:For those of age... Pick a nasty 5 pin abus with spools... drink a pint.
Pick a 5 pin Schlage w security pins.... drink a pint.
Pick a 6 pin Schlage no security pins..... pint.
Pick a 4 pin Master padlock....... pint.
Then try the Kwiksets :lol:

:D :D :D
Now we're talkin'. :wink:
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Postby biggar101 » 19 Sep 2005 19:36

you would be too drunk to think about lockpicking :)
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