When the shirt buttons...

[Don the Mod]

...start to show the strain, Christmas is handy for a shirt with an extra X.

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[Pat Harley]

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I always buy my clothes with 'growing room'!

[Dave Burgess]

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Age 74 still growing mesen, ad ta buy a 19 inch collar size shirt ta look respectable for our Son Marks funeral but still wear 30 inch waist size keks. That Charles Atlas az gorra lot ta answer for!

[Don the Mod]

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Age 74 still growing mesen, ad ta buy a 19 inch collar size shirt ta look respectable for our Son Marks funeral but still wear 30 inch waist size keks. That Charles Atlas az gorra lot ta answer for!

I remember when i was a 15" pencil neck, wouldn't get my arms into one now.

[standinthedoor]

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Think I have become a 15" pencil neck, could do wrestlers bridge to clear a 15st bloke when I was about 30, time and tide>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

[billS]

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Personally I prefer vests or T shirts!

[Dave Burgess]

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Wrestlers Bridge Ron, the favourite exercise of "Iron" Mike Tyson which gave him a 20 inch plus neck. Neck strength extremely important for boxers as a powerful uppercut or left hook landing on the button can lead to the Albert Pierrpoint effect, "SNAP!"

[standinthedoor]

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Wrestlers Bridge Ron, the favourite exercise of "Iron" Mike Tyson which gave him a 20 inch plus neck. Neck strength extremely important for boxers as a powerful uppercut or left hook landing on the button can lead to the Albert Pierrpoint effect, "SNAP!"

And Tyson could throw a punch.............!

[stephenfrank]

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Luckily I still have the physique I had 30 years ago. Mind you, having said that I had a shit physique 30 years ago.

[bob9739]

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Remember my father in law, used to have a big wide band of elastic sewn in a V shape in the waist at the back of his trousers, reckoned it saved the hassle of buying new trousers ! Seemed to work well enough.

[Dave Burgess]

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And Tyson could throw a punch.............!

He certainly could Ron, and if you study his technique you will understand why. He reverted back to the style of one of the old time "GREATS" Jack Dempsey, a technique that required the use of all an individuals bodyweight put behind every blow, called, "The Stepping Punch" it is a technique that is comparable to the difference you would get between throwing a 7.62 round at the enemy to firing it from the brill SLR. It,s a technique that allows a much lighter pugilist to knockout a much heavier opponent when mastered. Like the old saying, "The harder I train, the luckier I get!"

[standinthedoor]

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Never got in to boxing proper, mi brother Dennis was a cabbage head and boxed for the Navy, we were roughly the same weight, I used to spar with him but never took to it, looking at all of the fairly young guys going down with early onset dementia from what they think was constant trauma to the head/brain, glad I gave it a miss. What little I did pick up was that if you landed a proper punch it travelled through arms, shoulder, spine and down to your anchor foot (left or right). i did not land many of them but when I did I knew it, the Tyson's landed almost every punch correctly, terrifying smacks given their strength.

[Dave Burgess]

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Known as "The Sweet Science" Ron with warning sign of "Could cause serious brain damage" Bin lookin fer mine most o mi natural ta see if thiz owt ta damage!