Rome Snowboard Design Syndicate

(aka Hammer Whacking)

So when we go to the board factory in Austria, one of our favorite pastimes is a game called Hammerschlagen.   Many places that you go at night will have a stump and a hammer and basically the objective is to pound your nail in first with the hammer…but there’s a catch.

In the North of Austria you play with the wedge end of a machinist hammer, where our factory is in the south the “hammer” is tougher to describe. First, it has a curved handle and instead of a traditional hammer head, the end is a cylinder and you try to whack the nail with the edge of the cylinder.

Peter from La Resistance mid-Hammerschlagen trick.

As Peter demonstrates above, you can also add spin tricks to your repertoire of how you whack the nail. Peter owns the shop “La Resistance” in Zell am See Austria.  It’s a sweet shop that you should check out if you are ever in the area.

So Rome has been known to celebrate the anniversary of 050601.   I decided that we needed to bring the fun of Hammerschlagen to the party.

I tasked Nate (“Number Two”) with finding a stump; which he did on one of his fishing expeditions.  Nate  found a section of a tree that was already laying about.

So I decided that we could do the Operations Department weekly meeting in Nate’s crew cab as we went to pick up the stump.

Here I am rolling the stump to the truck

Stump loaded and ready to go to it's new home

Here's Number Two delivering the stump...

So we need to just acquire a hammer and game on.  That means you Colvin…

For more on Hammerschlagen, you can check out Wikipedia though there’s some seemingly revisionist history on there… (don’t watch the stuff on Youtube, most of the videos are of people who don’t understand the game)

Stump Acquisition Photo Cred: Warranty Ben