Slow Smoke Trophy

[fordm60]

Very, very impressive crash!! I do love your still puffing while getting the trophy, outstanding!!

 

[briarfriar]

Publicity Lodge 1000 in the Fourth Manhattan.

 

[ssjones]

That's fantastic, I wondered who won this year. The group participating at that event is probably the cream of the mid-Atlantic crop, so to me, the win is even more impressive.

 

[crashthegrey]

Briarfriar, Cobleskill NY #394.

Al, thank you. I am fairly new to the roster and quite proud to have climbed so far. The other guys are amazing.

 

[crashthegrey]

And I never imagined pulling ahead of Doc. I'll call it luck.

 

[woodsroad]

Just one stellar performance. Congratulations!

 

[crashthegrey]

Wow. Thank you Dan!

 

[pipeanddrum]

Bravo! Well done!

 

[trouttimes]

Wow! Congrats Crash, I'm afraid I'm so out of it I never knew there was even such a competition. This sounds like real skill in packing and slowwww smoking. Now I really feel ignorant about pipe smoking.

 

[crashthegrey]

Don't feel ignorant. You are learning more and more. The big National Slow Smoke takes place at the pipe show in (or around) Chicago every year, and it is bigger outside of the US. It definitely is a catalyst in learning how to truly slow down when you smoke. I was fortunate enough to be thrown into a competition early in my pipe smoking career, so I learned some better methods sooner. With the caveat that by better, I mean better for me. Not everyone wants to smoke slowly, and that is fine.

 

[bluegrasspipe]

Hell yeah! Congratulations brotha patience and perseverance overcomes! :clap:

 

[crashthegrey]

Thank you kindly.

 

[transpose]

Super impressive Bro! My cadence is so fast that I can’t even flame out when I try to slow down enough to flame out. One of these days I’ll be able to slow down.

 

[hobie1dog]

Do you give private lessons?

 

[Patrick_Green]

Congratulations sir! Smoking slow is one thing I'm no good at. When I get to Puffin' I just cant stop. How would a slow smoke competition even work? What are the rules?

 

[mso489]

cosmic, Kaywoodie makes only push stems these days, though a few of the old Drinkless screw-on stems may still be for sale new. I have one of each. The Drinkless is my only stinger pipe since the stinger is part of the screw-on stem. Despite being really retro, it smokes nicely and cleans up quickly, so I've kept it. I like the little push bit pipe, but it's hard to find a selection. They've become hard to find at all.