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And with that said, Nick um Man, there's been some big man,
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big announcements, big announcements for The Shock like a it's like a nice
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steady stream of like who's confirmed to be there? I know it's gonna I'm
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excited about The Shock Classic. I mean, not only is this gonna be
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Brian's last drama and show ever, it's gonna have a heck of the lineup
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as well. And then you know he's gonna have the expo outside, so
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that's gonna be pretty cool. So there's gonna be a big expo with it,
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and then the contest and we're gonna be doing guest lecturing. I know,
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I'm gonna be speaking at the thing and doing a Q and A and
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talking and stuff like that. So it's it's it's gonna be. It's gonna
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be a lot of fun just all the way around. But I just can't
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wait to see the guys look the stuff. Yeah, well, you know,
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it's gonna be. It's gonna be fun because there's gonna be a lot
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of new things happening. A lot of things happen that are new, Like
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I said, they were just I just saw Brian put a post out talking
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about that they're changing all the seats for the show, so like everyone's gonna
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be having new cushion seats at the show and um and then so this is
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the first time to have in an expos. So you know, there's a
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lot of expectations for expos and stuff like that, but I can't wait,
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like the interaction to fan interaction, or if they're gonna actually have some strong
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men that are in the competition walking through or even doing appearances after you know,
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it's there's a lot of little things that I know won't happen, but
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you know, stuff that we would almost think that as a fan, we
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would like to happen where like you know, or at least if there's gonna
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be some people there, you know, just kind of walking around sign which
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you know you're gonna be walking around, So there's gonna be a lot of
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people you know, getting pictures and uh, signing stuff. Oh yeah,
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yeah, there's gonna be there's I mean, the guys are gonna be around,
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they're gonna walk through the stuff, they're they're gonna be out there.
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Most prominent are very approachable unlesson's game day. Yeah, but then soon as
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game days over, like after that aftery're fine as long as they eat.
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So you know, there'll be got there'll be plenty of that. There'll be
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plenty of fan interaction. Oh yeah, that's definitely. And uh we we
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have a total of sixteen competitors actually gonna be at this show that this Uh
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is that about the same number that they have last year? Yeah, Brian
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does sixteen competitors, so uh yeah, it looks like he's got one left
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to announce because there's fifteen that are officially in yeah, so um, yeah,
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I'll read through the list. We have Tom Stoltman, Kevin Ferris,
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Avars, Evan Singleton, Bobby Thompson, Luke Stoltman, h m Alexi Novikoff,
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Trede, Mitchell pavlo Um. I can't remember how to stay it,
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but it starts with an end, Thomas Evans, Pablo and I'm gonna probably
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butcher to hell A this uh club Corvette, I can't remember. I'm just
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not gonna dry, but it's it's Pavloka. He was actually World Strongest Man,
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yeah, something like that. And man, he was very impressive at
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Worlds because like, you know, a completely different type of body type,
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you know, and you know, it was just he was very impressive at
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the World's Strongest Man. And then thirty pounds exactly. And then we have
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two thousand and three World Strongest Man Champion Mitchell Hooper, and then we have
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three two thousand and twenty three, oh, two thousand and three, and
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we have Adam Bishop and then uh, we have the return of Maxine and
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uh, you know he recently broke his leg right before last year, so
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or what it was the beginning of the Year and so um, you know
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this I would have I'm thinking it's his first show back. I'm not one
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hundred percent true. Our understanding is yeah, yeah, it's his first show
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back. And then yeah, because he missed the Arnold and then he missed
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you know, World's Strongest Man. So you know it's it's it sucks,
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but maxims a h from a competitor, and he'll be prepared, He'll be
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ready to go. Oh yeah. And I've been keeping up on him on
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on Instagram, so he's definitely been posting a lot of good lists, a
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lot of good pushes. He does look a little downsize still, but you
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know, he's still got a lot of time to put some more size back
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on. At least that's just for my view, you know what I'm saying.
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I was like, because I know, you know, with that kind
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of accident breaking your leg, you can't really do much, you know what
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I'm saying to like, because you've got to make that choice of like continuing
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to eat and keep size or just kind of just let your body relax,
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let your body recover and then just don't worry about, you know, trying
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to maintain his you know, as much size as you need as a strongman,
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right, I think Maxim's got a pretty good amount of time to go,
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so I think he'll be fine and bringing over the county gets Harry,
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Yeah, and then Brian's looking in shape. Oh yeah, he's definitely looking
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in shape. That that bench press video he just put up looked pretty good.
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And with this, like I don't know how many times the bench press
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in any strong man competitions because I've never really seen it, is that like
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a you know, you're you're in your opinion, Nick, is that something
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that's gonna it is a static strength. You need to be large to put
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the numbers up. But the thing is is like what would be your approaching,
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your thought process of trying to like really doubt because it is not a
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this is not a powerlifting meat. This is a going for reps, right,
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but it's it's increasing way each time, so you're gonna have to go
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for reps. I mean, the best thing you could do is probably get
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to the max way and do that as many reps as you can. So
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you're gonna want to train, you know, somewhere between three fifty you know,
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on one week for as many reps as you can and then go up
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to five hundred and get as many reps as you can and just keep bouncing
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back and forth. So when you finally get to the last way, which
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the rumor is it's five hundred pounds and you go to do that for reps,
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it's you're gonna need to get as many as you can. So by
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the time they get to that, I think it'll be the fifth there's sixth
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barrel, maybe even seventh or eight. I haven't got to talk to Brian
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too much to find out how many barrels are going to drop in. I'm
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sure he's gonna release all that as well, but you're gonna have to You're
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gonna have to be up in the eight to twelve rep range like total by
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the time you get there. So yeah, it's it's cool. I personally
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would love to see this event more because I was always a pretty good bench
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presser when I was younger, and we never had it in a starming contest
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ever. So it's it's kind of neat and I like it as much,
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if not more than the overhead pressing. So at a matter of fact,
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I like it more than the overhead pressing. Well, here's my question,
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Uh, that I'm gonna ask you because, like I said, you're a
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powerlifting champion. As you set records, you've done an awful lot of things.
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And so in the aspect of a powerlifting meat style, and like you
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already told what you should trade it is, what do you think the like?
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Because like even when you when you're powerlifting and you're in a comp,
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there is a pause, There has to be a certain amount of control,
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There has to be a certain amount of lift. Is you do you feel
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like we're just gonna get them come in and just bang it out or is
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there because there's no he's gonna he's gonna make them stop. Yeah, you
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have to stop when they leave the barrel. Yeah, so you're gonna have
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to sit there and wait, and then you're gonna you're gonna get a press
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command each time. And then when you get to the last one, I'm
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fairly sure you're gonna get a press command each time. So I would stop
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for like as the weights are going up. Probably I do almost do between
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the two and three second posts because it's gonna take a second for those barrels
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to drop in. Yeah. Um, and then once you get to the
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last one, it will probably be like a one second pause because there's nothing
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else to drop in. It's just yeah, bring it down, stop at
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press it off, bring it down, stop and press it off. There
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you go. You're gonna you're gonna want to stay tight the whole time.
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You're not gonna want to like relax and take the pressure off the bar.
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So you're gonna it's gonna be a time and retension lift as well. Okay.
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See, And then like I said, you know, watching everyone on
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social media, watching because you know, people are posting there, they're they're
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strong man training for benching, they're and they're doing these things. But it's
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like, um, you know, it's not you gonna be your typical bench
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press. So I was like, I haven't seen anybody really practice or if
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they're not posting it, not practicing what you're talking about, like like that
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style of like give it a pause, hold it, have that tension,
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be ready, you know what I'm saying. So, like, you know,
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like, because there is a difference between bench pressing and then like trying
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to press for this power that's actually gonna be there, there's a massive difference
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between the two. Actually, I mean, guys, can you know you'll
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see guys you know that are able to bounce five or off their chest for
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tons of reps, but they're getting the power with you meet and they might
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get five hundred for one if they're lucky. Because it's a whole different ballgame,
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and you've got to stop it at your chest. You know, there's
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no motion, there's there's nothing us stop and go. So I think that's
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like the guys that aren't doing that are going to pay for it. Yeah.
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Now here's my other question. With all the other events happening, which
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is the most the most what's the event that you're really looking to heat to
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see Besides the bench, I'm looking to see the apparatus for the finger fingers
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because from one I'm to understand it's going to ratch it up so it won't
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drop back down on the guys. So if they're actually a decently heavy set
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of fingers and a guy kind of like gives out, he can stop,
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you know, get reset underneath it and keep pushing it up. I'm sure
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if Brian will come up with a way to where you have to press it
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only with your hands or something. Yeah, that way you just can't pop
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it up completely with your shoulder all the way through, because if guys are
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not the greatest at that shoulder, you know it, walking it with their
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hands, which is me, I would immediately just put it on my shoulder
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and just keep cranking it up with my shoulders. So I'm sure he'll probably
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write something into the rules saying you've got to be at arm you know,
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at arm's length that type of stuff as you're going over. But you can
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still reset and get a leverage point, so yeah, that would be kind
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of cool. And then you go into a power stair, so I mean
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the events of time. It's for speed, so yeah, it might take
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you a long time to get them up, but it's a speed event.
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And then you get to the power stairs and that's going to be interesting as
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well because Brian's Brian's implements are pretty serious. Yeah, oh yeah, yeah,
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he's he's got a heavy equipment there. Well, I've seen them,
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so they're they're they're pretty serious. It'll be a challenging set of powers there.
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So it's gonna be fun to watch all right. Now, I'm not
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asking for a top five, but who is to be on the watch?
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You know what I'm saying, Because like I said, after seeing worlds,
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and then there's a whole bunch of events that just happening on. Who's the
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person to keep an eye that that that like, because we have a good
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idea of who's going to be in the top, But who's somebody that you're
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interested in watching them perform in this in this, in this shot classic someone
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that's like maybe under the radar. Yeah, I mean, Pablo will be
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interesting and fun to watch. I mean, Hooper is always fun to watch.
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Trey Trades won the contest twice. Yeah, so you know that'll there's
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the three times I'm losing twice, so um I'm losing track out man he's
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done. Uh no, uh so that would be good. And of course
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Brian's always I always love watching Brian Brian compete in training and because yeah,
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I mean, in my opinion, he's he's one of the greatest. That's
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not the greatest I've ever seen do it so, which which is a fair
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statement because me, Terry, now Brian, you know, just talking with
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everyone that we've talked to and then interviews that we've done, people you know,
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like a lot of trauma community owes a lot, not owes a lot,
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but like should you know understand that Brian's done a lot to expand this
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sport, to make it like what it is for everyone. Now. Oh
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yeah, well there's Brian, Eddie, Derek Poundstones during this Uh, those
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are all guys that have had a massive impact long term on the sport.
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Yeah, you know, and I mean even you know Robert and Robert and
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myself yea through the TV show kind of an impact on it and then through
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competing and stuff like that. But um yeah, Brian's definitely had a massive
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impact on the sport. I mean you got to understand they took events out
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of certain things because Brian could do it. Yeah, and the guy that
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there he was going ahead the head ahead against couldn't do it and score enough
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points to win anymore. So um yeah, he won, whether they were
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setting it up or not. So that that was fun to watch. Oh
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yeah, no, it's definitely fun to watch it. Like I said,
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I'm looking forward for the shot classes to come up, you know, and
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like I said, there's just so many crazy things that are getting ready to
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happen because we got shot shot classes coming up, and then you have the
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the this is uh the Giants Live UK versus the United States. Yeah,
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that's getting to come up the teams. I don't know if he'd announced a
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lot of the people on the teams yet. I think they did a little
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bit of that, but I haven't paid as much attention as I should have.
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Well, don't worry, we're going We're going to. Yeah, we're
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going to you know what I'm saying, like, and we'll give as much
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of an update as we can for a lot of people that bet are out
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there that you know, we're going to do what we can when when these
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events happen, because I guess what, we want to get out the right
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information because everybody loves to know what's going on and loves to see what's going
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on, and you know, and then you just being an ambassador of the
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sport is just something that everyone always appreciates. So it's like, you know,
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we want to make sure we do what we can for everybody. And
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that's one of the reasons we like talking about this because it's a passion that
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Nick has and loves and definitely drawing me a lot deeper into the sport where
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I'm really paying attention to the points of scores and the and a lot of
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this up and coming new new younger generation because like I said, it's,
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uh, I'm used to power bellies and I'm used to like you know,
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you know that's when I grew up. A lot of the new guys coming
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in, Yeah they don't. They're they're they're coming in shredded and thick.
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So it's like, yeah, the game is definitely evolving, and it's fun
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to watch it because like I said, it's just uh, you you have
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two different types of stroma event. Show does that happened? Yeah? I
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think it's getting away from the utter limit static strength condensed um and going more
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back towards still super heavy, but more athletic as well, you know,
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and that that's always fun to watch. Um, you know, and it's
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gonna go through its cycles. I mean it went through a massive cycle when
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I first came in and Brian came in and sojournaists, and it took a
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whole It moved so far forwards. I mean, back when I first came
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in, an eight hundred pounds yoke was heavy and now it's a light amateur
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yoke. So you know, it's the sports evolved a lot, and so
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now but now you're not you're seeing you know, thousand pound eleven hundred and
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you're not seeing the crazy yokes at thirteen to fifteen hundred pounds anymore, people
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breaking under that stuff. So it's it's I like it. I like kind
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of the direction it's going. So it's gonna be fun to watch. We
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get to see strength athletics, not just static strength. There's already sports static
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strength. It's called you know, you want to strength alete as well,
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so really statically strong, but also able to move and do the things exactly.
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It's a big time. You know. Like one of the events that
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I'm looking for for next year for Worlds is when they do the poll that
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they bring in something decently heavy and just like ridiculous to pull, you know
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what I'm saying. Like I said, I know this year it was a
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lot faster and uh you know we'll see then milliseconds between competitors. But I
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definitely yeah for the bus pool, you know, yeah, the truck pool.
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You know what I'm saying, Like I want like like back and then
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like you guys pulled the plane. You know what I'm saying, Yeah,
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you know that's what I'm talking about. I'm talking about something that's exactly so
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I want to I want to talk about. I want to talk about something
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like that. You guys the munster truck pulled monster trucks, you guys pulled
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planes, pull you know, it pulled up you know. Like, like
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I said, that is something I looked for, like with the way everyone
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is now, because it takes mask to move mask. But then when you
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got pure strength, like some of these guys are coming in now without as
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much mask, it'd be it'd be fun to see that that that difference in
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the well, what it'll be fun to see is since they're talking about doing
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it inside of an arena, now, um, what type of vehicle they
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would use? The bus or attractor trailer somewhere in that neighborhood would be more
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logical because moving it back and forth is yeah, you know better. The
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monster trucks are put together little little kind of awkward. So I think like
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a bus but more air to the tires that type of thing, or just
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a big heavy, you know, a tractor trailer that type of stuff.
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You know, they should definitely sell tickets for the bus pool for people to
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be in the bus while it's being I definitely think because there was a lot
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of rumbling of that, like why don't you ever do that? I'm like,
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guess what people would pay or even too. You got VIP booth,
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you pay for the VIP guess what VIPs? If you like to be in
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the truck or the tray the bus while they pull, guess what. You
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know what I'm mean, throw us some extra waiting there exactly. The funny
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thing is is you can load that thing full of people and at the end
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of the day, it's not even gonna make that big of a difference.
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That's the crazy thing is because you get what thirty seats, you know,
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so you get an extra twenty thirty thousand pounds. Yeah yeah, oh yeah,
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it'll make a little bit of a difference. But it's just just tiny
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bit, you know what I'm saying. For the average person has a lot,
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but for a strong man, it's like I had a drop in the
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bucket. I can handle that A heavy vehicle pull. It won't be that
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bad. Oh yeah, oh well we'll see, we're not. We're not
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in charge of it, Nancy. You know, with everything going on to
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like I said, a lot of stuff going on a strong man, a
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lot of stuff coming up. But uh, Nick, I know you have
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a deadlift seminar. We talked about it a little bit. Um, you
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know, we we we we didn't talk about it as much as we should.
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But the thing is is he's gonna be something that are we're gonna be
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doing more often where people want to improve their deadlifts, people want to change
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your dead lists, and like with going into the dad Last seven for this
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weekend, which is going to be passed because by the time this podcast comes
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up, you know what I'm saying, we'll already be past the date.
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But um, what are the big key points that you want to drive when
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we're talking about this deadlift sevenar? Well, the key points I'm going to
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drive is might takene Brian's technique, Jerry's technique, everybody's technique. You gotta
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find it is different. There is no one perfect technique. The perfect technique
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is the one that fits you where you can lift the most weight without getting
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injured. Period. That is so k was uh one of the one of
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the best deadlifters of all time, and You've got pulled over nine hundred pounds
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with a super narrow technique, even more narrower than nine and I'm running back.
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So it's not the there is no perfect What there is is what's perfect
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for you that you don't get hurt from doing. And so we're going to
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look at going through that, explaining that to people, getting people set up
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on a bar, seeing where they're comfortable at the bottom, what they look
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like at the top, that type of thing, and fix their technique because
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no one technique. There's a basic premises to start from and then you just
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move out from there, and that's kind of how you achieve the perfect technique
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for each individual person, because I mean, people's shins are different lengths,
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people's thighs are different lengths, people's torsos are different lengths, their arms are
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different lengths, their hands are different sizes, so all that comes into effect
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on everything. So we're going to go through that each individual step and then
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go through those with people and then talk about some of my training philosophies on
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those on how to work certain areas of it and improve in those areas,
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and then kind of like do question to answer type of thing. So it's
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gonna be it's gonna be fun. We're gonna start small because this is gonna
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be like my first one where I just kind of do it by myself.
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Yeah, and then branch out from there. Each one's gonna be a learning
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experience and exactly kind of do that. And then I want to go to
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Norway at the end of June that I'll be in there with that Cohen.
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So you're in there with the goat. That's it. That's gonna be a
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lot of fun as well. I'm really looking forward to that. That's good.
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And then actually, because me and Nick are you know, Nick's on
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another podcast, a leg designed ed Cohen's episode is coming out Thursday, so
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it'd be this Thursday, after this podcast comes out, this episode will be
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dropping, So definitely going out for that, you know. But I'm kind
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of I'm gonna start kind of doing more lectures and talking about that and then
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kind of like technique adjustment type of things because I really don't have the time
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to sit down behind a computer and punch our programs that much. Yeah,
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so it's it's it's gonna be it's gonna be kind of cold, So going
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that route with it. And that's something that I've always seen by with you,
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because like it's always weird because like you know, I always want to
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say, like a rain Man experience, but you're not like that. But
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what it is is you can see something yeah and instantly, And I've seen
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you do it where you watch somebody do something, you see a situation,
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or you see what's happening during event, and you're be like, this is
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what they need to fix. This is what you need to fix. This
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is what you need to change. And then as soon as they do that
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change, it's like boom. They they've they've corrected what was wrong, and
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they're like, oh my god, like it's yeah, it's so It's so
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crazy how quickly you can identify the stuff like that. Yeah, it's it's
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not some mean. Colin Rhodes one of my friends. I kind of like
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watching him watching his definitely love technique, and I was like, to me,
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favor, that's what I. Move your hands out on each side,
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keep pulling in like that, but move your hands out of each side about
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an inch and a half. And I just noticed his arms getting bound up
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into his legs and it was messing everything up. And then bump his Deadloe
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comes up. Kristen Rhodes came over here, she's one of the greatest strong
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women of all time. Came over and pulled the sixty five pound pr on
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the tabloque, she put like five to sixty five. So it was it
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was kind of neat that we were able to fix fix her technique that day
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and she just pulls it right up. And it's just a matter of just
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adjusting a couple of little things. And sometimes you can look at somebody you're
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I can see anything, and they're like, well, you know what,
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You're just gonna have to keep working and grinding there out everything looks automically correct
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to the best leverages for your body. Now it's just put working and other
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things are a little adjustments here and there, and it makes it make theirfens.
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Oh yeah, no, And that's one of the biggest things. She
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was like that, you know, like a lot of times a lot of
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us get stuck in a rut where we're like this is how I do this,
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and then you know there and then all of a sudden they don't see
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an ability to change when you can adjust. Because I've had I've had a
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few things. I have aways played with my face, my feet wide,
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I played with my feet, then I played with my feet and you know,
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like shoulder with and then like even to like uh you know, um
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uh, you know uh an over underhook. When I deadlift, it is
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just just a regular overhand grab is best for me because when I do when
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I when I have my hand positioning in there, it's just it's never comfortable
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for me. You know what I'm saying. It's like almost put some my
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stress on my shoulders where I can't fully retract back to to lift. So
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like that's one of those things that you know, like you got to change.
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Like just watching you deadlift and talk and hearing you talk about a lot
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to a lot of people about deadlifting, it's definitely helped me, like try
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to just maike small adjustments to make my list better. Right. And I
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have one of the strangest deadlift techniques that you know. But it was when
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I found because I was a sumer pointer and power of thing, and when
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I went to start strong Man, They're like there's no sumer and I'm like,
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oh, I got to change this. And I put my feet.
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I tried bringing my feet in and moving my feet around, and all of
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a sudden, I put my feet really close together and I was like whoop.
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I'm like okay. And the craziest thing was I was like a low
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seven hundred pound puller. Yeah, sumo, and then I do that.
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I pulled eight hundred at the Stroma contest that it van happles me. I
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broke the I broke the amateur record, which was like some fifty five and
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I pulled eight eight hundred that day against trap Short Munner. Well, you
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know, and that's where the biggest questions you always get, no matter where
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we go, you could Yeah, I think you must have answered that,
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like like at least a thousand times since we've met. Yeah, it's just
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like it's guys, it's the position where I'm just the most comfortable. I
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know it looks awkward, but I feel good pulling from there, and I
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don't get hurt pulling from there. So it works. And at the at
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the end of the day, you know, you have the form Nazis that
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we'll just oh no, you're supposed to look take that, realize they're part
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of the Dunning Kirk Dunning Krueger effect and pushed that aside, and you go
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with the best techniques that's right, that fits your body exactly. Everybody's gonna
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be a little bit different, So that standard form start as a basis and
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then develop your form from there. Yep, and I can't agree with that.
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We just had a coach ken and he completely explained that with Brian because
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he's like Brian, you know, happened to adjust his dead Everything looks perfect,
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but then all of a sudden, you know, just because of the
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sheer size and mechanic that that they had to make just an awkward adjustment,
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but it worked. And so that's why that's why his dead Brian's deadlift looks
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different because you know, it had his deadlifts tattoo had to evolve because of
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it with his hands on the outside of the bar exactly exactly, you know
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what I mean, He's just thing I can He's just why I can explain
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it to people. Yeah, you know, I'm slaying And that's one of
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those things that that that's that's you know, it's just insane. Yeah,
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which the world hurts him on the car that lift. He doesn't hurt him
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the KEG left, but it hurts on the card I left because the card
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I left apparatus is really very narrow, Yeah, very narrow. So it
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brings him in actually a little more narrow that I think he's used to.
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Yeah, but everything else he just actually destroys it on. So that's it,
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you know, And with everything coming up and everything happening and strong Man,
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you know, I know, Nick, you retired, but you know,
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and there's always that call, there's always that like you know. But
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the thing is you've been pretty strict about like, no, I'm retired.
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I do powerlifting, this is what I do. But it's it's you're not
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retired from Strongman, You're just retired from competing. And because yeah, it's
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your heart, this is what you love. It is honestly it is.
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I mean, strange things happen, but you never know. You never know.
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Am I going to take Strongman completely out of my training now? So
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I will still be doing events. I like doing farmer's walks when I'm getting
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ready for par to me. I like doing yolks when I'm getting ready for
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a power of the Both of those actually have direct application to power with your
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walkouts. Your yolk is gonna help a turn with your walkouts, and the
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farmer's walk is going to help with stability on both the squat and the deadlift,
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and it's going to help the grip on the deadlift as well. So
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it makes it where you know you need to training grip, it's just gonna
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be well because no straps and powerlifting, but there's dunblocks, which kind of
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think needs to be fixed. Well, it's brutal. So I think the
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filmlocks should go away. I really it's it's too much for the guys that
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are blessed long enough to have hands that are long enough to get ahold of.
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It's it's an advantage, yeah, it's it's it's an advantage as much
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as us and straps um and then if you're a sumopoyer that you know,
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the bar just gives now anybody, and so the more narrow your hands are
30:06
on a suma pole, the more advantage it gets you. It's just it's
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just it's gone too far. So probably you know, like everyone's listening,
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understand that we're willing to talk about it unless you want to deadlift on the
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squat bar. Yeah, you know what I'm saying. Then then we get
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talking to her story, you know, saying you know, hey, they
30:22
should bring axle deadlifting to powerlifting. Nope, nope, but what they should
30:30
bring back is squatting and deadlifting on the same bar. Hey, I think
30:36
would just fantastic. It does keep it fair. Well, if you're watching
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Eddie Cohen's lifts back in the day when he's pulling sumo and his hands are
30:45
still in there pretty good, Yeah, he get maybe an inch out of
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the bar. These guys getting five and six inches out of the bar or
30:52
maybe okay, four to five inches, Yeah, coming out of a slat,
30:56
coming to that bar before it comes off the ground. It's because that's
31:00
something is intended to be. Yeah, and I've heard quite a bit of
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people saying that they've had to learn to pull out the slack before they can
31:07
pull out the lift, you know what I'm saying. So like they're saying,
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and then there's something to it, right, No, for sure.
31:14
I mean it is one very contributing factor why the guys number has jumped up
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the way it has so, and it really unfairly um benefits the sumo guys
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because no matter what you do, point conventional, you're not going to get
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that type of bamm out of the bar. You're not gonna get the same
31:34
in damas out of it. Yeah. Yeah, pulling a lot of wider
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talking on this today. That's a lot of people angry. Oh yeah,
31:44
but you know what though, like I said, we're always willing to have
31:45
a conversation about it. You know what I'm saying, Well, if you're
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gonna break the guys records, then do it. I'm the same equipment exactly,
31:52
do it the same style. You know what I'm saying. That really
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prove it different otherwise guess what, you you just set your own record,
31:57
right. But I would like to see the fun lock go away, and
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I would like to see deadlifting and squatting on the same bar, right,
32:06
So that's gonna change some of the squat bars because they're getting like super thick
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and super wide. Yeah, and then it's gonna change some of the deadloth
32:14
bars, which I'm actually getting the same, they're getting super thin and super
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long. Yeah, and kind of reel that in a little bit to where
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you know, you gotta get back to the basics exactly. You're not gonna
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get four to five inches out of the bar before it comes off the ground.
32:32
Oh yeah, that you have those? There is that? Yeah?
32:38
Thanks for my kid. Um, so we got the Shaw classic. Um.
32:45
I want to mention Chad's show. I had the information written down,
32:51
and I freaking didn't don't know where I put my damn notebook because his strong
32:55
Man show is coming up soon. Yeah, real soup. I'm trying to
33:00
see if I can find the Yeah it is. It is this month.
33:05
I'm trying to see if I can find it. So you know what I'm
33:09
saying. And so I'm looking at it. I couldn't. Oh so Columbus,
33:16
Columbus, Missouri. It's gonna be July eighth, so you know what
33:22
I'm saying. So just letting you guys know that the show is getting ready
33:24
to happen. Brian Shaw will be there. So if you want to meet
33:28
Brian Shaw, guess what show up. And Brian even said that he was
33:30
gonna donate his money to to a charity that was gonna be for that was
33:37
gonna be there for them for the event. So I thought that was a
33:39
pretty pretty big thing for him. So Chad, if you're listening, you
33:43
know what I'm saying. We want to make sure that we put show up
33:45
there too, because what we want to make sure that we're promoting strong Man
33:47
out there. You know, we're gonna probably get get Chat on here to
33:52
actually maybe on an episode coming up here to we can get him to talk
33:55
about the actual his show coming up. Yeah, actually, yeah, they'll
34:00
they'll definitely have to get it in next week so we can get them out
34:02
because you know, like I said, we want to make sure that we're
34:05
promoting this stuff. We want to make sure that we're promote the community and
34:07
that they understand that. Guess what, go out there and compete, because
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that's what makes it, that's what makes this great. Oh, this just
34:13
makes it fun. I mean, you do all the training, you put,
34:15
all the work, the rewards, going to the contest and just sounding
34:19
fun and it doesn't matter if you beat other people. It matters if you
34:23
beat you, So just go and compete against yourself and if you keep getting
34:29
better, that's all that matters. In the end. It just be the
34:31
best you you can be, you know, and eventually, you know,
34:36
you end up beating everybody else at the same time. You know what I'm
34:38
saying pretty down close. Well, Nick, with that being said, let
34:45
these people hear those words and it'll take us on out. Well, it's
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always likes her and subscribe, and it's always train harder, train smart,
34:53
and be the best you can be. You're listening to the best experience,
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would Nick best