Competition vaping... Really?

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Ryedan

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I have been vaping for close to 2 years now and just recently heard about "competition vaping". Seriously? I mean ..., who can blow the biggest clouds? That is just down right asinine. People started vaping to get off the analogs and now it is being turned into a competition about who can Blow Bigger. If anything it will screw us regular vapers who quit or are trying to quit smoking and stay off the analogs. Big brother is going to come in and think it is just some game and shut everything down vape related. While we are at it let's start a competition for the smokers and see who dies first from cancer. Competition vaping... Such garbage.

Hmm, let's take a look at some non-garbage competitions.

NA Football: An inflated pigskin ball, that isn't round ... just how is this a 'ball'? It's called 'football', but most of the time the players use hands on it. A bunch of men, chasing a pigskin 'football' around a field with yard markers on it and people take this activity so seriously the players are paid millions of dollars a year to do this activity for public entertainment (and big business).

Baseball: Well, at least we have a round 'ball' in this endeavor. We also have some bases, so there are actually bases in baseball :rolleyes:

That though is where the entertainment value of this competition ends. I mean, imagine a bunch of grown men standing around, again being paid millions of dollars a year and engaging in a few seconds of intense activity when the ball is stuck by a wood stick called a 'bat' (not the little furry creatures that fly, so at least no critters get hurt).

Totally assinine. Sorta like football (that isn't really played with balls), but in sloooowwwww motion.

Car racing: Said to be a sporting competition. Suuuure.

A lot of people drive cars (can even be done by drivers who are 80 plus years old) and some of them drive faster than others. Race car drivers, some who are again paid millions of dollars a year to do this 'driving fast' thingy, do not race on city or highway streets like the rest of us peons, prefering to 'race' on 'closed courses' with strict racing rules.

LOLOL. Care to join me on the 401 eastbound at Markham Road at 4:30 on a Friday afternoon and see who gets to the 410 first?

Competition vaping, huh. A few people getting together to blow a friendly cloud. Knock yourself out man :)
 
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Hmm, let's take a look at some non-garbage competitions.

NA Football: An inflated pigskin ball, that isn't round ... just how is this a 'ball'? It's called 'football', but most of the time the players use hands on it. A bunch of men, chasing a pigskin 'football' around a field with yard markers on it and people take this activity so seriously the players are paid millions of dollars a year to do this activity for public entertainment (and big business).

Baseball: Well, at least we have a round 'ball' in this endeavor. We also have some bases, so there are actually bases in baseball :rolleyes:

That though is where the entertainment value of this competition ends. I mean, imagine a bunch of grown men standing around, again being paid millions of dollars a year and engaging in a few seconds of intense activity when the ball is stuck by a wood stick called a 'bat' (not the little furry creatures that fly, so at least no critters get hurt).

Totally assinine. Sorta like football (that isn't really played with balls), but in sloooowwwww motion.

Car racing: Said to be a sporting competition. Suuuure.

A lot of people drive cars (can even be done by drivers who are 80 plus years old) and some of them drive faster than others. Race car drivers, some who are again paid millions of dollars a year to do this 'driving fast' thingy, do not race on city or highway streets like the rest of us peons, prefering to 'race' on 'closed courses' with strict racing rules.

LOLOL. Care to join me on the 401 eastbound at Markham Road at 4:30 on a Friday afternoon and see who gets to the 410 first?

Competition vaping, huh. A few people getting together to blow a friendly cloud. Knock yourself out man :)

Don't forget competitions where grown men get inside of a playpen and beat one another bloody over a belt.
 

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That is a Homo-Erotic Soap Opera competition for southerners who most likely live in trailer parks.

Also yes, I was actually thinking more about MMA and boxing.

The fact of the matter is anything you think is cool, someone else thinks is lame, and vice versa.

I remember a guy I knew who competed in a very specific fishing tournament. Every year when the carp spawn, California's largest natural freshwater lake (wholly within the state), Clear Lake (which incidentally is NOT clear) is overrun by thousands upon thousands of these gross useless fish, so to contain the population an annual tournament was started where "fisherman" go out and see who can nab the most. The catch (heh)? You can only use a crossbow! Some people catch hundreds. Simultaneously one of the dumbest and most awesome competitions I've ever heard of.
 
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Norrin

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I agree taking something and making competitions for people who enjoy it is asinine, let's stop this now along with all motor sport, horse racing, athletics.....aw heck just ban all sports and games!!!!

On a more sensible note, although it doesn't appeal to me and cloud chasing in certain public places is really bad, if that's what people like doing then what's wrong with them doing it?
 

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I actually appreciate the cloud chasers. I just got into rebuildables this week and I'm having hella fun thanks to cloud chasers. Although I wasn't expecting a 40 dollar juice bill this week with it lol. I should have just bought the bigger bottle. I knew it would go quicker, but not this quick. As I didn't think replicating builds would be so easy to get big clouds.There's a bunch of people that pursue the bigger clouds for competition and post their builds on youtube with instructions. So I'm not a pro chaser and don't claim to be I just copy cat em. To be honest outside of the electronic safety such as making sure I'm not pulling to many amps from my batteries or over discharging them. I don't much about the whole loud chasing thing. I'm glad they went through the trial and error so I don't have to. I watch a 10-20 video and even skip the bs parts that don't pertain to the build. When I'm done I get these awesome clouds. So let em keep chasing the clouds. If you talk to most cloud chasers either in real life or online. The first thing they bring up a lot of times is hey make sure you are using the right equipment... check your build with an ohm meter before you actually vape on it. If anything it will be the idiot at home that wants to blow a cloud that will get hurt. He'll go out get a mech throw in whatever 18650 battery and attempt to vape it at .15 ohms on a dual build pulling 28 amps vaping at 117 watts on a 20 amp battery. Seriously if you are worried about something in the vaping community you should be worried about idiot store owners and employees that are selling the equipment to do such. A vape shop by my house sells everything you need to go cloud chasing. Yet when asked what amp the batteries he sells are he can't tell you. He was also sold out them at the time so I have no clue what batteries he is selling. He admitted to me that he had people brand new to mechs building coils and not checking the ohms on them before vaping. Cloud chasing is more risky than normal vaping because the power required is greater. Can it be done safely most certainly. I would trust a newbie more so with a 260 watt regulated box mod more than I would with a mech mod. Every one acts shocked at the power of these box mods, but if you build a .15 coil and it drops to .1. Your mech mod just went from making ~117 watts to ~176 watts. Also while increasing your amp output from 28 which is near the limit for the recommended 30 amp battery to 42 amps which blows it out of the water. Most cloud chasers are using larger guage wire and very stable coils around .2-.35 ohms. Which also leads to another point not all cloud chasers are pulling ridiculous amounts of power to make clouds. There are plenty of coils and wicks designs that will blow clouds at 35 watts and not even drawing 10 amps. The vaping community needs to be realistic about cloud chasers and the safety. Instead of being worried about cloud chasers... People need to worry about idiot shop owners that have no clue what they are doing being in vaping. There are a ton of shop owner's that the only reason they are in it is for the money.
 
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