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in the market. Irrect, Yes they are with all that sudden Man and
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the Arnold. That was what's up that talking about exciting? That was pretty
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pretty amazing to see. Yeah, I mean the utter domination yep of Hooper
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was pretty amazing. It was great to see thor back. It's great to
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see Martin's back and a lot of these guys back. So it's it was
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pretty non cool. I think, yeah, they're gonna have this is gonna
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be a difficult time because unless Hoopers burned out or tired, I don't think
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there's an event he can't do that. He's that you know you're gonna get.
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You might beat him in one event, two events, but then the
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rest of it, he's gonna whoop you and you're gonna have your bad event.
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He's gonna go way ahead of you, and that's the end of that.
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Yeah, he is probably right now, hands down the most well rounded
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of all the strong men, and he's probably the smartest too. But I
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mean his technical ability to take something, look at it, figure it out,
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figure out how to train it, and come in and execute is is
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unmatched right now. It's unparallel. So yeah, because you got to think
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about it. Instance, his third year hitting all these major events, you
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know what I'm saying, he came into the world strongest man and was like
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everyone was like, who the fuck is this guy? And then all of
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a sudden, the following year he comes in, starts starts with dominating the
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circuit, you know, and and wins all the big of big shows.
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And then there's like I said, how many people are two times back to
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back? You know what I'm saying, Arnold Champions and you know, like
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because you got Sa Dronas, you got Derek Pounds, Derek and Brian,
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there we go, and then now you mid Thor and now Hooper, there
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we go. Like I said, that's a very elite, elite like Mount
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Rushmore just right there in the Arnold alone. You know, it's like it's
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it's it's insane. Yeah, and it's going to be interesting to see how
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Worlds pans out here in May, because Thor is definitely back. Yeah,
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it was good. He's definitely back. He's getting there, so a couple
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more months to get ready for the Worlds and it's he's just he's just going
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to keep getting in better strong man shape, in better competition, better all
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the way around. So it's it's it's gonna make Worlds pretty interesting to watch.
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Martin's too, Yeah, big time. And like I said, and
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Thor is gonna be in the Arnold in and yeah, the UK. So
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it's like, you know the strategy of what he and like I said,
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we talked about this beforeward. The strategy is like I'm gonna use these competitions
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as my warm ups to judge where I'm at, what I'm doing, and
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you know, if if he comes in hotter in the UK, you know
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it's gonna set him up to look really good. But at the same time,
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you know, Mitchell Hooper's got age on his side, and he's got
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a lot on his side, so it's like, you know, there's a
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lot going on there. Yeah, so it's gonna it's gonna be interesting season
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to watch. So, uh, let's start with the first event, which
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was the Elephant bark dead left. Hell. Yeah, that was pretty amazing
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to see, just to watch how easily for pull that left. You can
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tell the eleven hundred pound deadlift is still in there somewhere. Yeah, that
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was a thousand and three looked pretty pretty darn effortless or one thousand and six.
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Yeah, didn't get the number right, Nick, look pretty effortless.
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And then of course deadlift machine Bobby Thompson gets second at nine to sixty one
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yep, which is unreal because Bobby's a heck of a puller and Bobby's a
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lot leaner than he used to be. So yeah, it's saying something,
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you know what I'm meaning. You got Mitchell Hooper came in at nine fifty
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one, which was a really solid strong lift that was good. I mean
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it was and that was good points. I put him third overall starting the
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contest, which I don't if if you don't get anything below the top three
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in every single event, you're gonna win. Yeah. Then Evan Singleton had
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a great deadlift. He pulled ninety one and looks strong. I mean he's
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a big, strong kid, so he's not really kid. I'm just old.
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He's not a kid. I'm just old. Yeah, and then Noble
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Kov pulled nine oh one. Well. Tom Steltman pulled nine to sixteen.
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Yep, nine sixteen, which was pretty that's not light. There's only a
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handful of guys that are doing that on the planet, so that's really good.
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In Noble Cough, you know, came up with a nine oh one,
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which was fantastic. I mean it's pretty solid. So that's the top
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six. The top six guys all pulled over nine hundred, and then Evans
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got eight seventy six. Martin's got eight sixty one. I don't think Martin's
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is quite all the way back to like full strength. He's getting there.
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Which Martins is probably the other one that's super smart when it comes to his
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training and getting ready for things. I think by the time world gets here,
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you're probably go see vast improvements on Martin's as well. He's I would
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I would not be shocked if Martins was on the podium Oral and thor and
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yeah, and I can absolutely see Mitchell winning again, So it's it's gonna
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be interesting. Tom Stoltan's probably got a little bit to say about that,
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so we'll see. It'd be fun to watch. And then Evan Singleton,
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just like I said, and Bobby, you cannot make a mistake around these
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guys. The competition is that good. But right now, the one person
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that is leaps and bounds ahead of everybody right now is definitely Hooper. Soh
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Then you had Kletchakowski pulled eight fifty six, which, you know what,
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that's pretty amazing because where I tore my lat, he tores Terry's major and
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they had to reattach that so for him to come back and pull that and
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deadlift has never been his strength, but that's still that's a solid, solid
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number for these points. Yeah, just kind of crazy. And then Oscar
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pulled eight sixteen and Maxine. I don't know what happened with max I hope
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he's Okay, I hope it's nothing serious. But he got a no lift,
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so you know, it's a pretty good start to the deadlift event.
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But watching Thord, the'll pull that two thousand and three, that of s
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yeah, one thousand and six. I'm always thinking the kilo conversion. Say
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guys, yea, the way he pulled that and the effortless way he pulled
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that was really impressive. That that was a beautiful deadlift. It truly was.
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Next event comes to timber carry, so you already got your top three
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going at it pretty good, and then everybody kind of wanted to see what
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Matthaeas was going to do, you know, Klittchakowski, and he did it
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eight point eight or eight point six, nine to five seconds, which is
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pretty darn fast, and then Thor beats him, does it eight point four.
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That's that's moving for a big man like that, it really is.
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And then Hooper comes up and just runs with the thing and does it in
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seven point ten seconds. Seven point one's zero, absolutely fine. And the
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crazy thing is is I think he could have a little faster. If you
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watch his pick, it looked like he didn't quite pick it the way he
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wanted to, and then just bolted. Yeah, which is great. I
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mean, he just absolutely destroyed the event. It was that was fun to
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watch. That was truly fun to watch him just fly up at But I
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mean, so your top three guys are all within a second of each other.
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Yeah, that's pretty cool. And then Martins finished the frame in fourteen
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point eight, so for fourth place in that event. So Martins is still
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right up in there, banging heads with everybody and still going. And then
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that brought Mattias back into the conversation, and then Mitchell gets a point back
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from thor so now four is one point ahead after day one, Yeah,
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which is pretty good position. The thing is is you got the Denny Stone
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carry, which you know, the guy that runs the marathons can suffer the
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most, yeah, you know, and you get to the Denny Stones and
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it's all about suffering. With one, you can't just go as fast as
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you want. You have to go to a decently controlled speed. And then
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two, you just got to deal with the pain in your hands, the
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little rings just it's uncomfortable, it just doesn't feel good. So but to
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watch that and Hooper win by just about two meters, so that's that's pretty
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far he went a lot for too yeah, and then Hotpdor got second in
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that event with ten meters YEP, and then Evan did ten point he Thor
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did ten point seven, Evan did ten point six, and then Klochakowski again
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at fourth at nine point seven three. Stultman got nine point four meters,
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Molokov got four point oh four meters, Bobby Thompson three point five, and
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then Martin's got eight to two point seven to nine, Evan's two point one
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or two point three, and then Oscar got zero point two five meters.
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They're very difficult because one you pull it lopsided because the three hundred and fourteen
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comes right off the ground or three eighteen comes right off the ground, and
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then the four fourteen doesn't want to bud and then you're like Eric and you
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get it up and you're off balance and you're trying to walk and keep your
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balance and everything else, and the stones want to swing around on you,
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especially the heavy one. It's okay if the lighter one does, you can
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control that a little better, but that heavy one, if that thing swings
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around the front of you and you try to take a step, you're done.
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So it's about walking smoothly, and it's almost like doing a wedding march
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where you whichever the light hand is, you step at that foot first,
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yeah, and then you follow with the other one, but go even with
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your foot. You don't take the long steps, you know, like you
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would normally walk, and that keeps it from swinging around the front of you,
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which will allow you to walk, you know, at a decent distance.
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And then it's just suffering and holding under this, yeah, locking it
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in. But that Hooper wins that one and Thor gets second. So now
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they pulled dead even yeah on points, you know, and that's uh,
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that's doing pretty good. Their neck and neck. It's a good it's good.
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They're fighting hard, the two of them. And uh, you know,
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Evan's still up in the conversation. He's still up there pretty high.
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He's doing really well. He's still in third place at this point. He's
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hanging out there. But Klitchkowski's moving up a little bit. So it was
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and Stultman's still like in the top five, he's still right there. Yeah.
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So it was a good fight with all these guys. And then you
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come to the Palem's wheels, yeah, which is on a fixed axle.
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It doesn't rotate, and you know, I it's kind of crazy when you
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clean it up to the top and it tries to rotate in your hands or
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you're just not used to it. It will throw your balance way off and
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out of whack. And especially like when you find a locket out over your
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head, you got to be kind of used to that. And I tell
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you what, Hooper changed his technique and started doing the split turk and he
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absolutely killed it. And not only you kill it, he broke the Gennesis
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world record. Man. He used a four hundred pound axle. Yeah,
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you know, and he did it for five reps. You know, that's
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that's pretty sick. That's saying something, yeah, and jerking them all like
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that, and the last one that looked like he jerked it and then finished
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like his normal pressed with it. But it was extremely impressive to watch him
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learn that new style and then execute it on game day. You know.
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That's that's saying something right there. That's it's pretty cool Hooper wins with five
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reps which watch him at it. Just I I think he probably could have
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did another one if he if he needed to, if he really wanted to.
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Yeah, Tom Staltman got four reps, which is very good and put
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him right back in contention for the whole thing. And then Chakowski also does
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four reps, which moves him like right back into the middle of the game.
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The arnold you can't mess anything up. Yep, you can't. It's
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it's you've got to be up, you know, the top four in every
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event to even to stay in the podium. You can't make critical mistakes.
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And then thor Thwor did two reps which kept him in there pretty good,
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but it knocked him down a smidge and gave gave Hooper one two and a
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half two and a half point lead, three and a half point lead,
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yeah, which is you know that that's pretty beefy with an event to go.
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Oh yeah, so that was but that's okay. I mean he's still
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right up there. Martin's got a rep which was good. That was that
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was good because and then Bobby Thompson gets a rep and Evan noblakov Oscar and
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and Evan's tom all zeroed it. So that's massive points for everybody involved there.
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That brought Bobby up quite a bit, Martin's that put up quite a
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bit, and you know, in Thoor it dropped him a bit, but
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that's okay because I mean he's still right there and you get the stone next
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there has always traditionally been pretty good at stones. So and then Stultman,
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I don't know, the guy's pretty pretty good at stones, pretty good decent,
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you know what I'm saying. I think he's done the heaviest one ever,
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Like yeahs and then Hooper, you know Hooper that that's another one.
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Hooper is going to figure out, so last, but not least, we
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get to the stone Medley and to no shocker to anyway, Mattais destroys this
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event. Yeah, it makes it look so easy, right, but him
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getting second in the axle Typher second in the axle gave him a lot of
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points, especially with all those guys that got zero's. Yeah, it made
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a massive jump in there. And then he gets five stones. He just
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you can just tell it. He just let it all fly. Yeah.
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And then Hooper did two, which is all he needed to do at that
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point. That that was it. He won by I think eleven and a
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half points, so that he needed to he got two. He's done.
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Stultman got two stones, good points, really good points, which brought him
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again way back into the way back up there. Novakov got one, and
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then Bobby Thompson got one. The thing that killed or because he missed it.
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Yeah, he didn't get it, and I dropped him eight. He
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lost eight and a half points on that, which that put Stultman up at
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third by half a point. So that one event messing up one event dropped
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him eight and a half points. And you know, but I means his
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comeback show is still great. I'm really proud of the guy because you know,
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he's been out for four years. Well coming Yeah, got small or
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small for him, still probably way more than I ever did. Got a
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lot, got a lot leaner, picked up a whole news sport. Yeah,
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went through all that and actually learned the sport, which is quite impressive.
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Yeah, and then came back, did some powerlifting torres pekoff yep,
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and all Yeah, got hit fixed ten months ago and then comes back and
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does this and still presses a four hundred pound axle overhead. Yep. It's
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pretty impressive. So you know, it's neat seeing him back. It's gonna
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be fun watching him back in the mix, and it's it's gonna be entertaining
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because you just you can't make any mistakes. At this point. The field
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is so deep and there's only one guy that's right now out there that's separated
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himself out that's that far ahead of everybody, and that's Hoop. Yep.
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I mean he's that good at all the events there, there's no mess ups,
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there's no week events. So it's it's gonna be fun to watch this
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year. But Ken Thord do it, Ken Martinz come back in there.
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Yeah. Can Tom come up there and do it? Absolutely? So it's
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gonna be fun. I mean you got Hoop and then right behind him,
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you got about five or six guys that on any given day can just turn
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it on and if they have the game of their lives be right there.
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So exactly one little mistake, one little slip, and then that's it.
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It's like, that's how quick someone can overtake. You know what I'm saying.
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Yep. It's all about execution execution. That's execution execution. And the
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crazy thing is is I would say, who almost uses everything in training?
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I mean at OSG, he sat there and loaded every single day for the
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spoder loaders. He jumped in there down the field and helped move all the
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equipment and do stuff all three days. He was pushing the frames back,
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he was taking the the ball, the sand bags back. Yep, he's
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doing all that stuff exactly and then still training. Yeah, it's pretty neat.
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I mean it really is. Overall. So overall standings, yeah,
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Hoop at fifty two points, Yeah, Pledjkowski at forty point five. Yeah,
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Tom Stultman at thirty eight point five, Ye, Pop Thor at thirty
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eight, Bobby Thompson at thirty two, Nobile CoV at twenty five, Singleton
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at twenty four, Martine's at twenty three, Tom Evan's at ten, Oscar
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at eight, and you know, I think Max had withdrawn or something like
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that. So it was a good show. It truly was a good show.
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So that's kind of neat. Yeah, it's fun to watch that level
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of execution go out there and the guys just go out there and let it
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all out. Yeah, not in let it all out. It was speaking
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of that. The women's show was pretty incredible. But yeah, uh,
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Speedy recovered to is, Oh my god, her going up there with that
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frame and still yeah, it's finishing it. Yeah, it drops, it
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falls, picks it up again, starts going slips, falls and does a
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face plant right into the wood frame and it comes out the next day and
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still finishes the show. And if her face was like really swollen. Yeah,
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And I mean that that's the heart of a word all the way around.
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I mean that that was quite possibly one of the most unbelievable shows of
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heart that you could and will that I've ever seen. Yeah, And it's
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it'd be really easy to just be like, oh no, sorry, this
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hurts too bad, because nothing you're gonna lift is gonna be light And where
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do you feel it in your face? All the pressure, every bit.
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Yeah, I wish her a speedy recovery with all that. And I'm just
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so impressed with her will and her heart and her desire. That's the love
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with a sport. It shows through. Yeah, It's pretty cool. It
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definitely does. Yeah. And you know, and you know, I'm I'm
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a huge bodybuilding fan. I always have been. That's my thing, and
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so you know, obviously I'm watching both The strong Man and I'm also watching
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The Open. You know, there there are so many categories that the Arnold
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covers, But like I said, open is that's my bread and butter.
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That's what I love. And the Persian Wolf, the mister Olympia. You
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know, Hatti Chooping, he took the victory, and you know he you
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know, he's trying to set himself up for this year's Olympia. And him
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and Samson Dowda, Goddamn Samson Dada looked insane. But the Persian Wolf won
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it. And so I just want to give a quick shout out to the
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hottiechoopin a open invitation if we can ever get you on the show, We
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would love to get you on the show. You know, but I'm gonna
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tell you right now. Like the the expo, the uh you know,
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Arnold Classics, strong Man, the open, everything look so suspendous. Everything
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looked great. Everyone was posting everywhere and it looked like a great time.
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So I'm definitely, you know, like next year, I think me and
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Nick will definitely be there. Yeah, there's there's some things that I have
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been straightened out here. So oh yeah, well, well you will be
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there next year for sure. Yeah, That's what I'm talking about. Yeah,
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and so you know, Nick, with that said and done, well
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we also oh yeah we got for coming up. We got coming up,
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and I cannot wait to go to yeah, I'm definitely going to do the
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Hercules hold, you know, and record breaking. I'm going to go after
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that, so we'll see what happens there. That's it, and then I'm
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doing a little bit of your training, so we'll see how that goes.
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You know, you know that picking up those feet fast feet, I'm not
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gonna worry abo going fast. I'm just gonna worry about going So I'm going
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to start now training my core and training my stability over time with that,
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and as that gets going, they don't worry about foot speed later. Oh
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yeah, yeah, And that definitely helps with your dead because, like I
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said, with your core being slightly compisent, you definitely need to get a
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little stronger because like I said, you've been your squatch work on the dead
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list because you know, Nick still wants to squat over eight hundred pounds.
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He still wants the deadlift, you know, and it's like you know,
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strong man, you know, it leads into everything else that Nick does.
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Yeah, it does. The cool part is is this week I haven't put
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it up yet, but I squatted six ninety for a double, which was
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nice. I box squatted it down. I kind of figured out down to
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the spot where it doesn't hurt. There you go like my hips anymore.
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And it turns out it's I've now fix my technique and change things to where
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I'm getting about an inch and a half to an inch before parallel, So
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i just need to go that much further. And I've gotten to where i
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can comfortably squat down to that point without any pain. Good. And so
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probably over the next month to two months, I'll take a three quarter inch
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matt and I'll put it down and then I'll drop down that extra three quarters
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of an inch. Get used to that over about a month or two,
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and then I'll put another one in there and that'll get me to where I
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need to be good, and then then it should be good. Then I'll
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start ramping numbers back up from there. That'll be kind of fun, you
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know what it's like. And they go after that, so it should be
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pretty cool. Bench has been going pretty good. Deadlifts are now starting to
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move a little bit with the mobility stuff I'm starting to build get in and
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pull in and get sinched in, yeah, a little better, so that
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that that is going to come in time. I just got to keep working
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on that, and I think we're gonna be okay, that's what I get.
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Another two plus two thousand plus total in me, you know what I'm
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saying, and then guin us Little Records. If you're listening, we're coming
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for you. Yeah, absolutely so. But anyway, it's been a great
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show. Thank you. As always, I'd like to dedicate this show to
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Dragon, just want to give him all my love. So anyway, as
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always trained hard, rain smart, and be the best you can be.
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