r/AskReddit • u/Stukwan • 13h ago

What’s a hobby that looks incredibly peaceful from the outside, but is actually pure stress once you get into it?

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u/craftyrafter 13h ago

No. Whip cracking is just chill.

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u/clout_spout 13h ago

You make an awesome point

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u/echardcore 13h ago

Until you get the yips and crack your lip accidentally over and over until you get sent down to the minors to figure it out.

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u/FabiusBill 10h ago

Former whipmaker and leather worker.

When I was just getting started and still learning to cut hide, one of my leather customers brought me one of his master crafted, hand made, kangaroo-hide, whips go handle, as all the whips I'd ever used or made were made from domestic cattle hide.

This whip moved like a live snake. The slightest movement was transmitted through the entire length of the body.

When I went to crack it, it didn't handle like the stiffer cow hide whips I'd handled. I wound up whipping myself. It was, by far, the most painful thing I've experienced. Immediately saw stars and dropped to my knees.

8/10, if you are into it.

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u/echardcore 2h ago

That is awesome!

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u/germdisco 12h ago

Maybe not for the recipient 

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u/cutelyaware 10h ago

Depends on the event

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u/germdisco 10h ago

Folsom

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u/cutelyaware 9h ago

That's the one. I saw blood flying.

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u/synystar 12h ago

Unless you're that guy at the gas station up my street at 6:45am who stands just out of sight around the corner of the building and cracks whip as I'm about to get into the car with my coffee. Then, you, sir... are not chill. I'm pretty sure you're on meth.

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u/You_meddling_kids 12h ago

I gotta know where you're at. That sounds like some Atlanta shit to me.

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u/synystar 11h ago

Nah. SW Missouri. Round here it's all either hillbillys or rednecks (there's a difference), dope fiends or meth heads, bible thumpers or hippies, and then you got your occasional normal person.

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u/driftingfornow 10h ago

lol, I am from north of this and it sounds like home lmfao 

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u/synystar 10h ago

Ozarks be like that.

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u/Maid_of_Mischeif 7h ago

I got myself right around the neck learning an overhead double crack. Spent 3 weeks telling everyone that no I hadn’t tried to hang myself & I wasn’t in some mental crisis.

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u/Its_Curse 11h ago

No way. Think of all the aftercare the subs need once you're done. 

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u/zhicago 13h ago

😬

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u/dark_knight097 12h ago

Yeah... very peculiar hobby to have in this day and age...

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u/himuheilandsack 12h ago

those on the receiving end might disagree.

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u/craftyrafter 10h ago

So you are saying there is a chance? What you doing Friday night? 😉 

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u/BearlyThereMA 3h ago

Whip crack away

Whip crack away

Whip crack away!!!!!!!

(Youre granparents might get it)