The Holler Olympics have started....

[Ol Mike]

Man out-spits father, claims pit-spitting title Sun Jul 6, 9:12 AM ET


Brian "Young Gun" Krause has out-spit his father to claim his seventh championship at the International Cherry Pit Spitting Championship.

Krause's winning spit on Saturday was 56 feet, 7 1/2 inches.

That's 6 1/2 inches better than his father, the second-place finisher and defending champion, 54-year-old Rick "Pellet Gun" Krause of Tuba City, Ariz., who spit 56 feet, 1 inch.

Thirty-year-old Brian Krause, of Dimondale, currently holds the Guinness World Record after spitting a pit 93 feet, 6 1/2 inches in 2003.

Amanda Jennings of Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, the first woman to place in the top three, did not qualify for championship competition but retained her title as women's champion with a spit of 43 feet, 11 inches.

[BigTed]

Only in America.

[BillyB]

So did the guy that spit one 93 feet have the wind at his back or something?

[route66paul]

He cheated, he carved the pit to be more areodynamic. Big scandal in the holler.

I come from a long line of champions.

[BillyB]

Originally Posted by GrayRider

I come from a long line of champions.

Do you know the average air speed velocity of a cherry pit in flight as spat in a championship competition?

Originally Posted by BillyB

Do you know the average air speed velocity of a cherry pit in flight as spat in a championship competition?

We'uns don't know about that sort of thing..although, I do have a velocity picture of Elvis hung in the livin' room.

[BillyB]

Originally Posted by GrayRider

We'uns don't know about that sort of thing..although, I do have a velocity picture of Elvis hung in the livin' room.

That's fancy stuff. We had to go to town for such as that and place an order at the catalog store...then wait 3 weeks for it to be delivered.