Thai taste By Valis, feedback to: valisdick@hotmail.com Bobby and I armwrestle against a mixed couple in Thailand After the British tournee soulful Margo, whose heart size only rivals with the circle of her biceps, gave us a week off. Bobby and I didn't hesitate and booked a double room in Thailand capital for five nights. To finance our vacations I rang the Circle to arrange a couples bout through the active Thai's scholar armwrestling league. A merely nutritious bout, just aimed to raise enough to cover our expenses. I trust Circle guys to pick our rival couple, and when Bobby felt down on the Emperor size bed beaten by jet lag he crushed a portrait format envelop with the program for next night. Mixed matches are highly appreciated in Asia, were many competitions bear no separate male and female classes. Bobby was scheduled against a Thai junior champ. The Sue Li child was a superfly, so Bobby had some weight edge, but her name sounded familiar to me. She was the brat who had married, with special permission because of her age, a Norwegian guy who had coached her into a strong man competition. She finished forelast, but managed to put so much pressure on the big boys that one of them spread his wrist in the farmers walk when she was about to overtake him. Manager- husband declared after her astonishing performance she would be put on specific strength training, and would start gym work to put on more weight. For me they have reserved another surprise, a so-called Bull Nakano, the national recordman of discus throw. I prayed athletics were not too much developed in that country, and was not reassured when eventually I learnt that, though his discus mark was rubbish, the guy in question was a fond lover of finger fighting, a dirty class of single-finger armwrestling which raised large audiences in the suburban taverns of Thai city. Rules were single-pull right arm matches refereed by Thai armwrestling league officers in stand-up sets. If there was a draw losers were paired in a tie break. Sitting on the edge of the huge bed I made clear to Bobby, as I slipped out my shirt and ripped off my tight jeans that the guy was dangerous, and if I got injured Margo won't be happy, that she didn't deserve it after being so kind with us, and that I had never went into serious finger wrestling because 80% of the bouts were solved by medical decision, and the practisers soon lived the sport abated by bone disease. When I finally defeated my jeans, turned back to Bobby, amazed that my concerns didn't make a impression on him. Face buried in the pillow he placidly slept. I turned him gently but he didn't wake up. Put off his footwear and trousers and covered him with the crimson velvet sheet. Trusting the circle was not our only mistake. The match's night we had dinner on a downtown bistro, and unable to understand the menu let the chef pick for us. The chops of what could be any creeping animal bumped my stomach walls all night long. The Thai girl was about Bobby's reach but much skinnier. You could circle her collar bone with two fingers. Yet amazingly round, ring-gymnast style biceps swelled up each time she fought the pin that kept her hair-knot clasped behind her neck. She dressed a seasoned sleeve-less shirt rather intended for underwear, and she had overgrown it so much it did not make contact with her electric blue sport shorts. Hand in hand I led my bare breast strongboy to the stand. His leather wristguards glittered under the spotlights as he waved to the female fans, compact flocks of mature Asian women dreaming at the opportunity to test the youngster's toughness in horizontal war. As the MC switched to the girl champ, her big blonde guy, arms tucked on his broad chest, smiled to her loving and trustfully. Sue Li's supporters were mostly teens sporting merchandise with their idol's face, and also grown man fond of different pictures of her. After dinner I had instructed Bobby a little bit on cobra gripping. I knew already she sported large hands but they seemed even more impressive life. Yet I knew by experience that tight grips didn't put Bobby off. As they squared the girl offered Bobby a palm-to-palm kiss, a sportive sign customable in the Thai scholar league. They joined the hand heels and pressed the palms lightly together. She added a subtle finger tip caress of her own that tickled up his arm and down his torso. With the same delicious grin Lily strangled the first bone in Bobby's thumb and twisted his hand to screw a vicious grip. Bobby looked at the ref, an aged Thai gentleman, who approved the move. Then he looked at me and I nodded as confidently as my stomach ache allowed me to do. Lily's sculptured nails turned white and her fibres jolted as she set the backpressure on. The ref wrapped the locked fists and started the count down. Lily's eyes disappeared under folds of skin and she let go a deaf groan on the jump. Her quick, massive reaction drove Bobby ΒΌ down. Eyes wide open he stared at me. His neck burning with the strain. ... beast, he muttered. Instantly he received her second charge, that brought him a further inch down. He anticipated the next one and bravely offset it with a somewhat badly coordinated but vigorous effort. She relaxed and smiled like a shy baby rabbit. Bobby felt his fist drifting away. As she smiled the rest of her upper body had turned into living marble and swamped the guy into a colossal tide of backpressure. Bobby lost control of his fist as it kept approaching the rough cotton that half hide Lily's immature chest. The flashes stung on the girls full power gun leading the back of his squeezed hand closer and closer to her pointed breast. A fraction before touch Bobby drop back his head. Was he fighting his best? I stopped questioning when with a banshee yell he put Li back to starting point. The silly guy stopped there. Nose frowned, Lily shifted her upperbody weight leftwards and took the toll out of his tired arm, bending him half down. Now, knock him sugar, shouted the loving giant. Seemed to me the sweetie was putting an awful lot of power behind her strain. I figured myself armwrestling her and having trouble to stop all that raw power. After all, she had outclassed half hundred fresh, determined girls all along the country in sheer strength competition, sometimes twice her bulk, sometimes five in a row. I caught Bobby staring at the bulk in his rivals otherwise skinny limb. He found amazing how large it could endlessly grow. To be honest Lily would beat by now either Bobby or me in a bodybuilding contest. Yet my boy bravely retaliated. At that stage in the battle even blonde colossus seemed at unease. That naughty freckled boy was given her iron sweety a hell of a fight. The Asian teenagers started chorusing the anthem that had led Lily to the scholar national title, something that occured only in the really tough bouts. For a couple of minutes a total stalemate reigned on stage. Lily's colossal strength didn't flow that well anymore. The grown women supporting my boy came back to life, standing on their benches, waving their jewelry stuffed fists, and outcrying Lily's army of teens. Bobby improvised a combo of jolting and wrenching moves that punished hard her championship limb. His own biceps had immensely develop reaching a size just slightly smaller than hers, or perhaps it was same size, but her bony frame made her muscles look larger. OK, we should reconsider the bodubuilding contest; her biceps may be larger, but bodybuilding judges also balance and simmetry, and my young Apolo beats her by far on those compartments. Loosing initiative was tough for the ironkitten but much tougher for her giant husband, who started dribbling incomprehensible selfcontradicting instructions. Bobby switched to an inverted grip to the peg and compacted himself for an ultimate all-power charge with everything he had left. The blow cracked Lily's endurance. As her young strongwife collapsed the Nordic giant punched the table. The younggirl, beaten by someone her age by first time in her life, broke in tears and covered her face under her huge panther paws, weeping loudly. The crowd went mad but Bobby didn't celebrate. He rather leaned forth and pinched her chin. She threw her trembling arms around him crying even louder. What a sight, the Thai young champ weepin on Bobby's shoulder, the snake (or whatever) chops tumbling around my stomach and the Thai press trying to arrange dates with the redhair guy from the west. When I recovered from the thrill I had tha square, all jaw mug of Bull Tamako before my eyes. The Nordic giant pulled her suffering tiny wife off Bobby's hug and I elbowed Bobby out of the stand. The MC made the introductions. The crowd booed Tamako so loud they really scared ME. I was received with just a mild applause. He was the star. His fair grip surprised me but at the jump I was dazzlingly put into a nasty cobra driven by his fore and medium finger, so painful I had to yield half way to keep my joints safe. Once he had gained the upper hand he secured it with his bodyweight and waited for me to tire up, releasing just enough strain to keep me down. All I could see was his huge round shoulder with the dragon tattoo before my eyes. Ten seconds later I conceeded. Perhaps I should try discus throw. Then I realized the steel kitten was already stretching to face me and Bobby frozen watching her warming up. I shout at him for a towell and he flushed. I tried to forget Bobby's silly eyes and concentrate in preserving my muscular tone. All I needed was her fist close and anticipate to her tricks. She simply could not bend me in a fair muscular exchange. She trotted to the stand and palm-kissed my hand. I realized her fingers were longer than mine. She letme grab her and lock with steel nerve, but the grim has faded. It was her chance to bend a Western pro. Her gate to glory. And she was determined to take me, to give me her best shot. She sighted and looked down as her limb got harder and harder. I strained and jumped. And nothing happened. I checked her possition, she hadn't moved, hadn't shifted hadn't dived, simply I couldn't bend her. She inspected the floor and let waves of power travel down his arm to squeeze my fist. She was hurting me! Blood blocked in my neck, sight got foggy. She was going for a contest of endurance, she was trying to outlast me. That Eastern mental training of suffering and pain control. Mind master matter. A sweat bead dribbled down her chin and splashed on the floor. At least she was human. At once she raised her face and challenged me. With incredibly stern tone he worded out: you can't take me, I'm gonna beat you. I am the stronger. A single aim invaded me, delete that insultant face out of my sight. I strained tougher and tougher, sapping vigour from sheer hate. However, not only her arm took everything I put on her, much worse, her challenging stare remained the same. I moaned aloud, desperately collecting power from my deepest innards, broking in sweat as well. Cmon, if I could bend Bobby and he had bent her then I should... A synchronous gasp of amazement echoed in the crowd. I looked at my fist and... dam' she had worked a one inch edge on me. I released the peg and leaned on my thick, sweat-glittering thigh. My jaws jolted as my abs squeezed further strength out from my middle riff. She shook her head. No, you can't, you can't. I felt dizzy. My sight went foggier and foggier. How long have we been struggling? I didn't dare to look at Bobby. He might not be watching me. At once I yielded two fists and could only stopped her a fraction above the pad. None of us had tilted or dived, our shoulders were perfectly squared, it was pure muscular war. To her credit, she didn't leap to finish me up. Somewhat short of leverage she released a brutal grunt, unable to make touch the pad. Keeping my solid defence I stretched my fingers and secured a tighter grip on her large, bony fist. Then I glanced at Bobby. He was watching ME. Slowly but steady I rallied up and took the momentum to bend Lily down. Much earlier than I smashed her fist to the pad she raised her flushed soaked face and nodded at me. She simply had no more fuel to go. I turned to Bobby and grabbed his hips tight. He reached my neck and ignoring the ref leg scissored my waist and gave me a long, thorough lip massage. With him hanging on my chest like a koala we shook hands with the rivals and run backdoors for a taxi to the hotel suit. For the remaining four days we locked ourselves in the room, ordering just common, cheap, western food.