WEBVTT - How Horseshoes Work 0:00:01.000 --> 0:00:04.200 Welcome to you stuff you should know from house stuff 0:00:04.200 --> 0:00:12.920 Works dot com. Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm 0:00:13.000 --> 0:00:16.959 Josh Clark. There's step Chucker's Bryant. Did I say that 0:00:17.040 --> 0:00:20.400 last time? My name like that? Yeah? I don't know, 0:00:20.720 --> 0:00:23.239 and you might have just said I don't know. I 0:00:23.360 --> 0:00:26.840 wonder we'll find out. How's it going. It's going great. 0:00:27.040 --> 0:00:30.880 We just learned something neat what guest producer Noel to 0:00:30.960 --> 0:00:36.720 our right your Left um Bar podcast todays on horse shoes. 0:00:37.200 --> 0:00:39.800 He took that as a college course called backyard games 0:00:41.120 --> 0:00:44.600 had a gustus state. Yeah, a real college course. And 0:00:44.640 --> 0:00:50.000 he said, Baci right, Uh, horse shoes and badminton? Was 0:00:50.000 --> 0:00:53.480 it badminton? I thought we couldn't determine? And then possibly 0:00:53.680 --> 0:00:58.200 um long darts? Okay, so hey, college credit, which I 0:00:58.200 --> 0:01:01.520 don't know. I guess you'd have to apply to the 0:01:01.600 --> 0:01:06.160 FTC maybe to get lawn darts as a college kind 0:01:06.160 --> 0:01:07.600 of like how you'd have to apply to the d 0:01:07.800 --> 0:01:10.320 A to get some m d m A to carry 0:01:10.319 --> 0:01:12.959 out some sort of on campus studies, some sort of 0:01:13.160 --> 0:01:17.679 um study. You'd have to Lawn darts are illegal, man, yeah, 0:01:17.880 --> 0:01:19.679 big time. Do you remember those things that were like 0:01:22.319 --> 0:01:26.160 there's a task force, there's a schedule one backyard game. 0:01:26.240 --> 0:01:29.440 I think, I bet you can buy him on eBay 0:01:29.440 --> 0:01:32.520 and stuff. Well, you can probably buy him on still Cross. 0:01:32.680 --> 0:01:34.640 I was just about to say, you got to go 0:01:34.640 --> 0:01:38.640 in the deep web to get I played that when 0:01:38.680 --> 0:01:41.679 I was a kid, though I was smart enough to 0:01:41.720 --> 0:01:44.000 not kill myself for anybody else with them. It's funny 0:01:44.040 --> 0:01:47.319 looking and how dangerous that was. Yeah, And that was 0:01:47.400 --> 0:01:49.520 kind of like the end of that wave because you know, 0:01:49.600 --> 0:01:52.080 at the time, and like for the a decade or 0:01:52.120 --> 0:01:55.040 two before that, probably longer, it was like you could 0:01:55.040 --> 0:01:59.000 get electrocuted by your toaster pretty easily. Like your humidifiers, 0:01:59.520 --> 0:02:01.480 there was an any percent chances going to catch fire 0:02:01.480 --> 0:02:05.080 while you were asleep. Remember the hydrochloric acid slipping slides. Yeah, right, 0:02:05.440 --> 0:02:07.720 we're awful. Yeah, And they designed them like that so 0:02:07.800 --> 0:02:11.320 that they would be obsolete very quickly, so they acid 0:02:11.320 --> 0:02:15.240 would burn them much more quickly, and you too, unfortunately. 0:02:16.800 --> 0:02:19.440 Uh so, do you have a great setup for this 0:02:20.240 --> 0:02:25.600 thrilling podcast to come? I'm hungry, so this will explain 0:02:25.639 --> 0:02:27.400 this this set up. Have you ever heard of a 0:02:27.400 --> 0:02:31.640 horseshoe sandwich? No, I haven't. It is a local dallastic 0:02:31.760 --> 0:02:35.240 delicacy out of Springfield, Illinois, and it dates back to 0:02:35.280 --> 0:02:39.920 the early twentieth century. It's for a full size portion. 0:02:40.040 --> 0:02:44.240 It's two pieces of Texas toast, Texas toast nice hamburger, 0:02:44.280 --> 0:02:47.240 patty or ham. Love both ham and hamburger. Well, then 0:02:47.280 --> 0:02:52.240 you probably like them together on each Texas toast slice, 0:02:52.800 --> 0:02:54.280 cover the whole and put them next to each other. 0:02:54.400 --> 0:02:58.320 It's open face, cover the whole thing with fries, and 0:02:58.360 --> 0:03:01.560 then top it all with cheese aus just like not 0:03:01.680 --> 0:03:04.000 your cheese sauce. I'm sure there's people out there who 0:03:04.080 --> 0:03:06.520 use cheese was but from what from what I understand 0:03:06.800 --> 0:03:09.919 from my research, Uh, it's more like a Welsh rare 0:03:09.960 --> 0:03:14.440 bit sauce, so like cheese with like um other stuff 0:03:14.480 --> 0:03:20.600 that makes it. Wellshare, But that's a horseshoe sandwich and sip. 0:03:20.760 --> 0:03:26.440 In doing research for horseshoes, that was one of the 0:03:26.480 --> 0:03:31.080 most interesting things I could come up. Again, I'm hungry, 0:03:31.520 --> 0:03:33.480 so it really jumped out at me. Yeah, why do 0:03:33.520 --> 0:03:37.280 they call it that? I didn't see because it doesn't 0:03:38.320 --> 0:03:40.520 because it's the size of a horseshoe. I don't know. 0:03:41.360 --> 0:03:44.240 It looked to be the size of a horse. Maybe 0:03:44.360 --> 0:03:47.400 the shoes underneath. Well, maybe calling it the horse sandwich 0:03:47.440 --> 0:03:51.080 was untoward, so they just horseshoe. Yeah, I'll bet that's 0:03:51.080 --> 0:03:54.760 exactly what it was. Well, anyway, shout out to Springfield, Illinois, 0:03:54.840 --> 0:04:00.520 right home of the horseshoe sandwich, um and cardiovascular disease. Okay, 0:04:00.600 --> 0:04:04.040 So I know how you feel about horseshoes. I actually 0:04:04.120 --> 0:04:06.720 love to play horseshoes. Okay, I know how you feel 0:04:06.840 --> 0:04:10.880 about talking about playing horseshoes. Not super exciting. I find it. 0:04:11.120 --> 0:04:15.000 I find it's it's an interesting thing, all right, It's fun. 0:04:15.920 --> 0:04:18.840 It's you actually do get a bit of exercises, especially 0:04:18.880 --> 0:04:22.400 if you play competitively. My friend, you can burn as 0:04:22.480 --> 0:04:24.920 much if you're an average show as a hundred and 0:04:25.000 --> 0:04:28.039 fifty calories an hour playing horseshoes. You can work off 0:04:28.200 --> 0:04:34.240 a hardboiled egg an hour, yeah, or one hundredth of 0:04:34.279 --> 0:04:38.480 a horseshoe sandwich. Hey, and if you're playing in the backyard, 0:04:38.560 --> 0:04:41.040 maybe you've eaten some deviled eggs at a picnic, because 0:04:41.200 --> 0:04:44.600 horseshoes and picnics go together, like ants and picnics. That's 0:04:44.600 --> 0:04:48.080 exactly right. I actually love horseshoes. I gotta set um. 0:04:48.120 --> 0:04:50.560 A few years ago when my buddy Justin who you know, 0:04:51.080 --> 0:04:53.359 had a Fourth of July party and we set it 0:04:53.400 --> 0:04:55.160 up in this backyard and played and now he kept 0:04:55.240 --> 0:05:00.360 them and I haven't played since. What's the deal. Well, 0:05:00.400 --> 0:05:02.479 I mean he just left him at his house, you know, 0:05:02.480 --> 0:05:04.840 because you need to go again, and those are yours. Yeah, 0:05:04.880 --> 0:05:08.839 but I don't have a Actually I do have an area, 0:05:08.920 --> 0:05:11.000 but like no one comes and hangs out in my backyard. 0:05:11.440 --> 0:05:14.640 Basically everybody hangs out of Justine's. Yeah, and then I 0:05:14.640 --> 0:05:17.360 would play horseshoes together, but it's more fun with a group, sir. 0:05:17.760 --> 0:05:20.680 And that's one where you can play individually with two 0:05:20.680 --> 0:05:24.240 people or with pears. Yeah. And it says in the 0:05:24.320 --> 0:05:28.960 article you can play solo. But if you're playing horses spikers, yeah, 0:05:29.120 --> 0:05:31.960 that is a sad day for you. It is, um So, chuck, 0:05:32.040 --> 0:05:35.000 let's talk about the h and the origin of the 0:05:35.080 --> 0:05:39.200 horseshoe itself. Of the shoe, I got a little info 0:05:39.279 --> 0:05:43.760 on it, not the game, the shoe, the shoe. So 0:05:44.480 --> 0:05:48.279 if you see a horse in the wild running, it's 0:05:48.279 --> 0:05:51.640 probably running for its life. Horses naturally don't like to 0:05:51.680 --> 0:05:54.040 run very much, and of course not their feet gets sore. 0:05:54.279 --> 0:05:56.840 That's why they don't run very much. So right when 0:05:56.920 --> 0:06:00.960 humans said, hey, I'm gonna ride that thing, they figured 0:06:01.000 --> 0:06:03.080 out we need to put something on its feet because 0:06:03.200 --> 0:06:06.360 little feket store and I don't want to hurt this horse. 0:06:06.400 --> 0:06:09.560 I'm trying to get it to run. So probably in 0:06:09.600 --> 0:06:14.200 the Asian steps about a thousand years well about two 0:06:14.240 --> 0:06:18.880 thousand years ago, they started putting like booties on their horses. 0:06:19.040 --> 0:06:22.080 That's cute, like herbs and and something to soften the 0:06:22.080 --> 0:06:28.040 blow of the ground. By the turn of that millennium, 0:06:28.279 --> 0:06:32.400 the first or second century a d. People were putting booties, 0:06:32.880 --> 0:06:37.360 leather booties, which the ancient Romans I believe called hippo sandals. 0:06:37.600 --> 0:06:41.240 They basically put sandals on their horses. Finally everybody realized 0:06:41.240 --> 0:06:43.120 all this was idiotic, and you need to put metal 0:06:43.160 --> 0:06:46.480 on a horse. And by a thousand a d uh, 0:06:46.600 --> 0:06:49.640 Like nailing metal horseshoes to the bottom of a horse's 0:06:49.680 --> 0:06:56.200 hoof was very common practice. Well does that not hurt? No, because, um, 0:06:56.240 --> 0:07:02.279 it's kind of like if you have your fingernailst you're quick. Yeah, 0:07:02.400 --> 0:07:06.000 if you nail the nail through that past the quick, 0:07:06.080 --> 0:07:09.520 not below the quick, but anything that grows out past 0:07:09.600 --> 0:07:12.480 the quick, that doesn't have any nerve endings in it, right, 0:07:13.240 --> 0:07:15.880 so you know, it's very similar to that. It's like 0:07:15.920 --> 0:07:18.520 a huge thick finger nail for the horse. That's what 0:07:18.560 --> 0:07:21.400 a hoof is. So it hurts them to walk on these, 0:07:21.480 --> 0:07:24.160 but it doesn't hurt to have people drive nails into them. Yes, 0:07:24.720 --> 0:07:26.840 depending on how long the nail is. Now, you could 0:07:26.920 --> 0:07:29.880 easily use a nail that's too long and drive it 0:07:30.000 --> 0:07:33.880 right into the horses foot, which would be very painful, 0:07:34.240 --> 0:07:36.400 But as long as the nail is short enough, you're 0:07:36.440 --> 0:07:38.720 just driving it into something that has no nerve endings, 0:07:38.800 --> 0:07:41.600 and it prevents that foot that's on the other end, 0:07:41.640 --> 0:07:45.920 the inside of the hoof, from becoming sore from walking. Okay, 0:07:46.120 --> 0:07:49.440 so you want to use nails that aren't too long, 0:07:50.560 --> 0:07:54.320 which is why there's a very specific um trade called 0:07:54.600 --> 0:07:58.360 a farrier who knows what they're doing with trimming horses, hoofs, 0:07:58.600 --> 0:08:01.080 shoeing horses, that kind of thing. And there's actually a 0:08:01.120 --> 0:08:06.120 patron saint of farriers. St. Elegius. He said, yeah, he said, 0:08:06.160 --> 0:08:09.440 to have come across a horse that was ailing, remove 0:08:09.520 --> 0:08:13.240 the horse's leg, shoot it, and then put the horse's 0:08:13.320 --> 0:08:16.000 leg back on, and the horses like falling after that, 0:08:16.240 --> 0:08:20.640 it sounds like hocus pocus magic to me. Somewhere along 0:08:20.720 --> 0:08:24.239 the way, somebody figured out that a horse shoe makes 0:08:24.280 --> 0:08:27.080 for a pretty great stand in for a discus if 0:08:27.120 --> 0:08:30.160 you bend it to close it. Yeah, like the ancient 0:08:30.200 --> 0:08:33.520 Greeks maybe they were into it. Thanks thanks for sitting 0:08:33.520 --> 0:08:35.840 through that intro. I saw a little blood come out 0:08:35.880 --> 0:08:39.480 of your ear. Oh no, uh yeah. The Greeks and 0:08:39.600 --> 0:08:45.000 Romans apparently played horse shoes and uh it like became 0:08:45.040 --> 0:08:47.680 a popular thing in the United States, like after the 0:08:47.679 --> 0:08:51.840 Revolutionary War, and I guess it just caught on. Well, hey, 0:08:51.880 --> 0:08:53.800 let's throw these things. So the ancient Greeks were in 0:08:53.840 --> 0:08:56.600 the discus throwing, but you had to be wealthy or 0:08:56.880 --> 0:08:59.280 part of the military to have a discus. If you 0:08:59.360 --> 0:09:03.240 were poor, you had access to horse shoes, and if 0:09:03.240 --> 0:09:05.880 you bent the horseshoes to close them up and through 0:09:06.040 --> 0:09:08.920 like a discuss, you had something called quiats. And then 0:09:09.040 --> 0:09:11.280 one of them landed accidentally on a metal steak, and 0:09:11.320 --> 0:09:13.679 they went, I bet you can't do that again, right. 0:09:14.240 --> 0:09:17.640 I think they just got lazy and grew tired of 0:09:17.679 --> 0:09:19.560 bending the horse shoes. They're like, well, it's through the 0:09:19.559 --> 0:09:23.520 horseshoes as they are. And the horseshoes is an ancient game. 0:09:23.640 --> 0:09:25.600 It's an ancient game, and it's played all over the world. 0:09:25.600 --> 0:09:30.080 It's not just for suburban American backyards. Uh, South Africa, Israel, 0:09:30.200 --> 0:09:32.280 Italy today, a few Yeah, I bet it's played the 0:09:32.280 --> 0:09:35.640 world wide. Uh. And just here in North America, apparently 0:09:35.679 --> 0:09:39.280 fifteen million people play. Not necessarily competitive, but you know, 0:09:39.440 --> 0:09:44.199 like justin yeah, and steal your horseshoes and play with them. Uh. 0:09:44.200 --> 0:09:47.199 And that is according to the National Horseshoe Pitchers Association 0:09:47.360 --> 0:09:51.400 or in h p A. And like every sport, there 0:09:51.480 --> 0:09:53.679 is an official governing body and they set the rules, 0:09:54.120 --> 0:09:58.920 they host tournaments. Um, I imagine they sell t shirts 0:09:58.920 --> 0:10:03.080 and hats. They There's also a rock star who his 0:10:03.160 --> 0:10:05.760 name is Alan Francis what I thought you meant, a 0:10:05.760 --> 0:10:10.880 real rock star. He's like, They're like, what's his deal? 0:10:10.920 --> 0:10:16.040 He's just super great. Yeah. There's apparently no sports figure 0:10:16.120 --> 0:10:19.600 in any in all of sports who's who dominates more 0:10:19.640 --> 0:10:24.079 than he does. I'm not kidding this guy, this kid, Listen, 0:10:24.360 --> 0:10:28.760 he's the most dominant sportsman in the world. Yes, he 0:10:29.040 --> 0:10:34.720 has won fourteen of the last seventeen men's World Championships 0:10:35.559 --> 0:10:38.800 at the nhp A Championship. So what's his name, Alan 0:10:38.840 --> 0:10:41.880 Francis from Defiance, Ohio. So when people say like he's 0:10:41.920 --> 0:10:44.559 the Michael Jordan's horseshoes, what they should say is Michael 0:10:44.600 --> 0:10:48.199 Jordan is the Alan Francis of basketball, right, they really should. 0:10:48.360 --> 0:10:51.160 This guy has you know, which we'll get into. But 0:10:51.240 --> 0:10:52.760 you throw a horse shoe and what you want to 0:10:52.760 --> 0:10:57.400 do is throw a ringer. Yeah, he's got an average 0:10:58.240 --> 0:11:00.959 nine times out of ten when he throws these things. 0:11:01.120 --> 0:11:05.880 It's a ringer, not cleaner, not in count it's a ringer. 0:11:06.440 --> 0:11:11.200 No one walking the earth has a ringer percentage like that. 0:11:11.200 --> 0:11:14.080 That is amaze. If you want to learn more about 0:11:14.080 --> 0:11:16.400 Alan friends, by the way, read Perfection in the Horseshoe 0:11:16.440 --> 0:11:21.240 Pit from near by. Josh Clark, you wrote a book 0:11:21.240 --> 0:11:24.080 about him. That's sweet. It's a it's cool. I think 0:11:24.080 --> 0:11:26.800 it's cool. If there's a guy out there it's like unbeatable. Yeah, 0:11:26.800 --> 0:11:29.040 I'm pretty good at horseshoes. This guy would wipe the 0:11:29.040 --> 0:11:30.800 floor with you. Well, of course he would. He's the 0:11:30.840 --> 0:11:35.520 best athlete in the history of humanity sport. But all 0:11:35.559 --> 0:11:37.640 I'm saying is I'm pretty good at horseshoes, and I 0:11:37.679 --> 0:11:41.880 assume it's because I was pitched softball. Oh yeah, yeah, 0:11:41.880 --> 0:11:44.240 I think it's probably got something you know, similar motion. Yeah, 0:11:44.240 --> 0:11:46.920 there they are. They are similar, And I'm athletic. I'm 0:11:46.920 --> 0:11:48.360 not one of those people that gets a horseshoe and 0:11:48.360 --> 0:11:51.720 like throws it behind them or over, like on the 0:11:51.760 --> 0:11:55.080 picnic table or anything like that. Yeah, that's good. So 0:11:55.160 --> 0:11:59.559 that means it's your spectator friendly horseshoe thrower. Alright, so 0:11:59.640 --> 0:12:03.320 let's get into this. Um. Pitching is what you call 0:12:03.600 --> 0:12:07.120 throwing the shoes about twice the size of a regular horseshoe. 0:12:07.280 --> 0:12:09.679 First of all, it's not like a little horseshoe you 0:12:09.760 --> 0:12:12.520 pitched to see he goes first, closest to the stake 0:12:12.600 --> 0:12:16.480 goes first. And we need to say right off the 0:12:16.480 --> 0:12:20.440 bat that there are real rules and there are house rules. 0:12:21.280 --> 0:12:24.839 I'm always a house rules guy. Yeah, so you're played 0:12:24.840 --> 0:12:29.079 by by Justin's rules. Well, we we co determined the 0:12:29.160 --> 0:12:32.320 rules since I bought the kid. Okay, but if you 0:12:32.360 --> 0:12:36.360 went to say, um, Jake Jillen Hall's house and he 0:12:37.320 --> 0:12:40.040 was playing horse shoes and you would played by his rules, 0:12:40.040 --> 0:12:43.600 you wouldn't be like, according to my rules. No, I'd say, Jake, 0:12:44.120 --> 0:12:45.880 first of all, what kind of name is Jillen Hall? 0:12:46.000 --> 0:12:48.760 And then I'd say, secondly, what are your house rules? 0:12:48.760 --> 0:12:51.640 Because I will abide, I respect the house room. But 0:12:51.760 --> 0:12:54.720 since we bought the kid together, then we made up 0:12:54.720 --> 0:12:56.440 our own rules. Basically, I just want to make sure 0:12:56.480 --> 0:12:58.040 that's what you're saying. That's what I figured. And that's 0:12:58.040 --> 0:12:59.560 one of the points of a game like horse Shoes 0:12:59.600 --> 0:13:01.320 is you can play and make up your own rules. 0:13:01.400 --> 0:13:03.520 It's no big deal. But we're gonna tell you how 0:13:03.520 --> 0:13:06.560 to play a real game if you're into that as well. Yes, 0:13:07.120 --> 0:13:09.439 according to the NHP A right, So you pitch, you 0:13:09.480 --> 0:13:14.200 see who goes first. Um, the object if you don't 0:13:14.240 --> 0:13:17.240 know this by now, is to throw your horse shoe 0:13:17.920 --> 0:13:20.920 uh and have it ring the metal steak that is 0:13:21.000 --> 0:13:22.640 driven into the ground. That will tell you about in 0:13:22.640 --> 0:13:25.960 a second. If you already raise your hand so we 0:13:25.960 --> 0:13:27.760 can send someone to come lay on top of you 0:13:27.880 --> 0:13:31.839 until you pass out from unconsciousness. Exactly. Games are made 0:13:31.880 --> 0:13:35.400 up of innings. Um, you play in pairs and you 0:13:35.480 --> 0:13:38.960 throw two horse shoes, you throw both your horse shoes, 0:13:39.240 --> 0:13:41.760 and then the next dude or do debt throws their 0:13:41.760 --> 0:13:44.160 horse shoes. You don't alternate one and one unlets. You 0:13:44.200 --> 0:13:46.719 want to per house rules. House rules. And now there 0:13:46.720 --> 0:13:49.120 are like some details to these rules that like I 0:13:49.480 --> 0:13:51.920 wasn't aware of, Like you have to pitch both shoes 0:13:51.960 --> 0:13:57.240 in thirty seconds. It's like chess in the park. Yeah, 0:13:57.280 --> 0:13:58.840 but if you're taking longer than that, like what are 0:13:58.840 --> 0:14:01.160 you doing? Are you measuring that the air? Like you're 0:14:01.200 --> 0:14:03.319 just like drinking beer and like talking to people who 0:14:03.360 --> 0:14:07.600 are watching, Like, get your head in the game, That's 0:14:06.600 --> 0:14:10.040 what That's what i'd say. Al Right, so I guess 0:14:10.040 --> 0:14:12.320 we should go over the court and all that stuff 0:14:12.360 --> 0:14:14.920 of like regulation. So if you get your horse shoes, 0:14:14.920 --> 0:14:16.360 you at least know how to set it up. Well, 0:14:16.400 --> 0:14:19.480 hold on, what's the end of the game. And and 0:14:19.640 --> 0:14:23.280 oh so if we're playing one another, yeah, yeah, we're 0:14:23.320 --> 0:14:26.520 both pitching towards the same steak. Yes, you pitch your 0:14:26.560 --> 0:14:28.480 two and thirty seconds. I pitched my two in thirty 0:14:28.520 --> 0:14:31.320 seconds and that's an inning. Yes, And there's no set 0:14:31.400 --> 0:14:34.720 number of innings. But normally people will play until you 0:14:34.760 --> 0:14:37.480 get to forty points. Yeah, I've seen that the common 0:14:37.520 --> 0:14:41.360 backyard horseshoes you played one, but um, I think a 0:14:41.440 --> 0:14:44.120 regulation tournament you're gonna play the forty And it depends 0:14:44.160 --> 0:14:47.440 also saw like Philly rules and stuff like this, like, yeah, 0:14:47.480 --> 0:14:52.360 people get local, you get a punch and stomach. Yeah, exactly. Um, 0:14:52.400 --> 0:14:55.160 it's called a court where you where you play. And 0:14:55.360 --> 0:14:57.440 if you want to play horse shoes in your backyard, 0:14:57.840 --> 0:15:00.360 you need to have like a level, wide open area. 0:15:00.520 --> 0:15:01.880 You can't like you don't want to play it on 0:15:01.880 --> 0:15:05.000 a hill. And there's actually a lot of schematics online 0:15:05.160 --> 0:15:08.320 if you want to build your own horseshoe court. All right, 0:15:08.360 --> 0:15:10.320 so let's go with the basics of the court though. 0:15:10.960 --> 0:15:13.800 It's forty six ft long by six ft wide. Yes, 0:15:14.200 --> 0:15:16.960 you've got two pitching platforms, which is where you throw 0:15:17.000 --> 0:15:20.440 it from each six ft square, and you've uh, you're 0:15:20.440 --> 0:15:23.360 supposed to have protective backboards. I've never seen that. Yeah, 0:15:23.360 --> 0:15:25.040 I mean, I'm just like, I guess this is so 0:15:25.160 --> 0:15:27.400 it doesn't like, you know, tumble on and hit the 0:15:27.440 --> 0:15:30.400 guy at the beer kag, but I usually just dig 0:15:30.400 --> 0:15:33.120 a pit, you know, and like the Chuck House rules 0:15:33.160 --> 0:15:35.600 once again, so what is it then, Like how do 0:15:35.680 --> 0:15:38.320 you lay out like where the end of the boxes 0:15:38.920 --> 0:15:41.080 there's really not an end of the box for the 0:15:41.160 --> 0:15:43.880 Chuck House rules. You're either ringing it, you're leaning it, 0:15:43.960 --> 0:15:46.800 or you're closest to the pin or closest to the steak. 0:15:46.840 --> 0:15:49.280 I guess all the schematics I've seen are like, man, 0:15:49.320 --> 0:15:52.360 it is a defined yeah, like bochy, like it's a 0:15:52.400 --> 0:15:56.200 real deal. Um, So you've got two steaks. Uh. They 0:15:56.240 --> 0:15:59.800 are iron rods about thirty six inches long one inch wide, 0:16:00.000 --> 0:16:02.800 and they are steaked toward each other at roughly a 0:16:02.840 --> 0:16:07.360 twelve degree angle about halfway in. It says about halfway. 0:16:07.360 --> 0:16:09.800 I would think that would be like really specific, like 0:16:09.840 --> 0:16:12.800 how many inches above ground? Uh? Yeah, I would think 0:16:12.800 --> 0:16:14.960 so too, but I didn't find that. Apparently, you're also 0:16:14.960 --> 0:16:17.240 supposed to stake it four ft from the back of 0:16:17.240 --> 0:16:19.320 the box, but two ft from the front of the box. 0:16:20.560 --> 0:16:23.800 All right, that makes sense. Um, chop up the soil 0:16:24.000 --> 0:16:26.520 or sand if you really want to go the extra mile, Yeah, 0:16:26.680 --> 0:16:29.240 do you should. If you're gonna build yourself a horseshoe pit, 0:16:29.960 --> 0:16:33.880 get some stand. You've got foul lines at twenty seven 0:16:33.880 --> 0:16:36.520 ft and thirty seven ft from each steak, and that 0:16:36.560 --> 0:16:40.760 determines where you're gonna throw from. Um they say adult 0:16:40.760 --> 0:16:43.120 men pitched from thirty seven and ladies and old people 0:16:43.120 --> 0:16:46.280 and kids pitch from twenty seven or shorter. The sexist 0:16:46.320 --> 0:16:50.280 and agists agreed. Um, I say, pitch from wherever you 0:16:50.280 --> 0:16:54.280 feel comfortable. House rules and they they say the backyard 0:16:54.280 --> 0:16:57.200 games are similar, but like it's usually not like it's 0:16:57.200 --> 0:17:00.600 either like sand or asphalt pits or something whatever you 0:17:00.600 --> 0:17:03.640 can whatever you can accommodate. It's what I say. If 0:17:03.640 --> 0:17:05.359 it's if you don't have that many feet, like make 0:17:05.400 --> 0:17:08.280 it shorter, right, you know, but then you have to 0:17:08.359 --> 0:17:13.679 handicap your score. Really yeah, okay, my house rules are 0:17:13.840 --> 0:17:20.800 very unforgiving. That's why I shoes with you anymore. Yeah, 0:17:21.119 --> 0:17:23.760 all right, let's talk about pitching then, Okay, you want 0:17:23.800 --> 0:17:25.560 me to how do you pitch a shoe? What's what's 0:17:25.560 --> 0:17:27.359 what are the two methods? Let's first, let's talk about 0:17:27.359 --> 0:17:29.600 the anatomy of a shoe. Let's not forget that horse 0:17:29.640 --> 0:17:34.120 shoes are derived from actual horse shoes which were put 0:17:34.119 --> 0:17:36.919 on horses hoofs. So if you're holding a horseshoe, so 0:17:37.040 --> 0:17:40.080 the two prongs are at the bottom, what's at the 0:17:40.119 --> 0:17:43.879 top then is called the toe. The open space the 0:17:44.480 --> 0:17:48.520 opposite the toe, that's the heel, and then the two 0:17:48.600 --> 0:17:51.560 um I guess parts at the end that kick in 0:17:51.720 --> 0:17:55.560 inward towards the heel. Those are called cocks, right, yeah, 0:17:55.560 --> 0:17:58.240 And I would have it's backwards in my head. But 0:17:58.280 --> 0:17:59.840 then when you think about how it sits on a 0:18:00.040 --> 0:18:02.240 rss foot, it makes sense exactly. But I would think 0:18:02.240 --> 0:18:04.000 that hell would be hell would be the part you hold, 0:18:04.000 --> 0:18:06.680 but it's not. It's the reverse, because how it sits 0:18:06.680 --> 0:18:09.120 on a horse's foot, yeah, exactly. Now, if you want 0:18:09.119 --> 0:18:12.560 to throw a we're gonna teach you right now how 0:18:12.600 --> 0:18:14.560 to pitch a horse shoe two ways. Yeah, and you 0:18:14.680 --> 0:18:16.360 got shanks too. I don't think we mentioned that those 0:18:16.400 --> 0:18:19.080 are the arms. Yeah, that's right. So you've got the 0:18:19.119 --> 0:18:22.920 toe shanks coming down each side, the heel, the heel, 0:18:23.040 --> 0:18:25.280 and then the things that kick in are called the cocks, 0:18:25.440 --> 0:18:29.000 the hill cocks, heel cocks right, all right. So, if 0:18:29.040 --> 0:18:32.280 you want to carry out what's called a single flip pitch, 0:18:32.400 --> 0:18:35.960 this is probably the easiest that this is the easiest, 0:18:35.960 --> 0:18:40.040 but Alan Francis does this too, And from what I'm finding, 0:18:40.400 --> 0:18:45.200 a lot of pro or really good horse shoe pitchers 0:18:45.640 --> 0:18:49.000 use the single flip pitch. So what you do is 0:18:49.040 --> 0:18:52.560 you grab the thing using your thumb and your index finger, 0:18:52.920 --> 0:18:56.600 or your thumb and your index and middle finger. You 0:18:56.720 --> 0:19:01.480 squeeze the toe between that, so you've got them the 0:19:01.520 --> 0:19:06.119 horseshoe level with the ground, horizontally level with the ground 0:19:06.160 --> 0:19:09.760 above it, and uh, you bring your arm back like 0:19:09.800 --> 0:19:13.480 a pendulum. You raise it up again. You swing it 0:19:13.520 --> 0:19:15.480 back and forth until you can feel it. And you 0:19:15.560 --> 0:19:17.679 got to do it within fifteen seconds because you got 0:19:17.720 --> 0:19:20.640 another one to pitch. But right when that thing feels right, 0:19:21.160 --> 0:19:24.360 you let it go when it hits eye level with you, 0:19:24.920 --> 0:19:28.199 roughly whatever feels comfortable, but eye level is recommended. You 0:19:28.200 --> 0:19:30.520 want to send it in an arc about six to 0:19:30.560 --> 0:19:35.040 eight feet into the air, and you can. In this 0:19:35.240 --> 0:19:38.840 method the thing might turn three and sixty degrees once. 0:19:38.840 --> 0:19:40.600 It's why it's called a single flip method. But more 0:19:40.640 --> 0:19:43.679 often than not, if you're a pro, your shoe does 0:19:43.720 --> 0:19:46.000 not turn at all. It follows the arc, but it 0:19:46.080 --> 0:19:48.879 stays flat the whole way. And then right before it 0:19:48.920 --> 0:19:53.440 gets to the steak, the heel caulks drop and hit 0:19:53.560 --> 0:19:58.280 that steak and ring around it, and everybody goes like 0:19:58.400 --> 0:20:01.520 takes a sip of corn waste, and they carry you 0:20:01.560 --> 0:20:04.359 off on your shoulders, on your shoulders. That is the 0:20:04.520 --> 0:20:10.600 flip pitch single flip pitch, uh, more advanced players, and 0:20:10.640 --> 0:20:12.920 they say that this is an easier way to get 0:20:12.960 --> 0:20:16.159 ringers if you're if you can master this, you know, 0:20:16.240 --> 0:20:21.119 if you spent enough years mastering the quarter turn. I'm sorry, 0:20:21.160 --> 0:20:23.560 the one in one quarter turn, not the quarter turn. 0:20:23.640 --> 0:20:25.600 And there's others just like three quarter turns one and 0:20:25.640 --> 0:20:29.240 three quarter turns. This is the standard other one. Yeah, 0:20:29.240 --> 0:20:31.280 for one. In a quarter turn, you hold the horse 0:20:31.280 --> 0:20:34.760 shoe by the shank, so the opening is to the 0:20:34.840 --> 0:20:37.239 left of your grip if you're right handed, opposite if 0:20:37.240 --> 0:20:40.600 your left the obviously you swing your arm back and 0:20:40.640 --> 0:20:42.320 forth like a pendulum, just like you were going to 0:20:42.400 --> 0:20:46.000 do with the flip pitch. And then, uh, I get that. 0:20:46.040 --> 0:20:48.680 You let it go lower, is that right? Yeah, usually 0:20:48.720 --> 0:20:51.119 when it hits like your thigh area, Okay, which I 0:20:51.119 --> 0:20:54.560 think would give it a higher arc. Is the difference, right, 0:20:55.400 --> 0:20:57.640 sharper arc? Yeah, but you want to keep that shoe 0:20:57.760 --> 0:21:01.879 level to the ground instead of flipping it. Uh, it's turning, 0:21:01.920 --> 0:21:05.199 I guess, turning in a quarter until it meets you know, 0:21:05.800 --> 0:21:09.520 the steak. Obviously, your your goal there with the turn 0:21:09.960 --> 0:21:12.840 is to meet the steak with the I was about 0:21:12.840 --> 0:21:16.000 to call him prongs. After we just went over all 0:21:16.040 --> 0:21:20.920 that the cocks facing the steak, and then you've got 0:21:20.920 --> 0:21:25.280 yourself a ringer. Everyone drinks corn whiskey and raises their 0:21:25.280 --> 0:21:29.439 glass for more corn whiskey to be poured into it. 0:21:29.800 --> 0:21:31.720 So if you get close, you get no points, right 0:21:31.840 --> 0:21:35.399 because close doesn't count in horse shoes. Close only counts 0:21:35.400 --> 0:21:38.960 in horseshoes and hand grenades. Oh is that where that 0:21:39.000 --> 0:21:41.800 comes from? It does? I was being koy. Yes, obviously 0:21:41.800 --> 0:21:43.679 you get points by being close. That's where the axion 0:21:43.720 --> 0:21:46.280 comes from. Yeah, it's it's called an in count. So 0:21:46.400 --> 0:21:49.480 let's let's say you and I are just both thrown. Yep, 0:21:49.560 --> 0:21:53.560 that's one inning. We're gonna go score our inning. Um, 0:21:53.720 --> 0:21:56.199 let's say I threw one wild because I've had a 0:21:56.200 --> 0:21:58.240 lot of corn whiskey from all the ringers I threw 0:21:58.320 --> 0:22:00.760 previous to this round, this ending before I got there 0:22:00.800 --> 0:22:05.800 to witness it. And huh, well, I'm just saying like 0:22:05.840 --> 0:22:07.800 you're lying about how many ringers you through. I get there. 0:22:07.880 --> 0:22:10.920 You look earlier through twelve ringers. Okay, that's why I'm drunking. 0:22:12.160 --> 0:22:15.480 So I throw one and it's out of the out 0:22:15.480 --> 0:22:19.919 of the court. That's dead. That's a dead shoe. It 0:22:19.960 --> 0:22:22.480 doesn't count. Not a dead ringer. No, but there are 0:22:22.480 --> 0:22:26.240 such things. We'll explain that in a second. Um, but 0:22:26.359 --> 0:22:28.959