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OSG, The Arnold Strongman Classic, and The Worlds Strongest Man · The Best Experience

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  any capacity of trade, to even have a card that lifts in the back
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  and fingle fingers. Yeah, yeah, I think so that's Oh yeah,
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  so that that seminar is going to be pretty fun tomorrow. So I'm you
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  know, for those who were there, thank you for showing up. For
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  those who can make it always next time. So before we get in today
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  into anything else, really, we have two big announcements. The World Strongest
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  Man. Yeah you're pregnant nine months World Strongest Man has announced its time and
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  location. So we're heading back to Myrtle Beach and that is May first to
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  the fifth. So you know, uh, it was beautiful last year.
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  It was great. It was a little hectic because I got we had the
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  latter fiasco because and it wasn't a fiascos. It's just to show up,
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  especially Myrtle Beach because that that it's vacation town. So guess what you're getting
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  to have a vacation time, beach time, the boardwalk time, and the
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  World Strongest Man happening all in between. Yeah, real nice, so far
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  ahead of time people could take vacation. So yeah, it really made a
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  difference. And they're doing the same thing again. Uh, it's pretty much
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  gonna get the same venue I think is what they said. And they're gonna
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  have bleachers this time. Yeah, fig one platform this time, Yeah,
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  instead of too so that'll be that'll be really cool with the back of it
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  being open. Yeah, so people can still watch. But yeah, I
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  think that's gonna be pretty cool. Yeah, it's gonna be very cool.
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  I just wonder how they're gonna do the vi P this year, because typically
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  the vi P is always in the middle and so you can see from sight.
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  Maybe that open side that they had shown, maybe it was just a
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  rendering that they'll have the vi P and then the sections for seedings for everybody,
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  or maybe it's the VIP sitting section area and the VP off to the
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  side, because that beach area was pretty large last year. You know,
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  there were a lot of room. I'm sure they're probably still if they do
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  a truck poll or anything like that, a bus pole or whatever, I'm
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  sure that will still be on the street. Oh yeah, ain't happening.
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  On saying not that much. And uh, you know, for those gonna
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  be there, please sunscreen Nick, sunscreen me, sunscreen. You know what
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  I'm saying, no burning, No burning because a couple of us don't have
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  that much hair. And uh, you know, you know what I'm saying,
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  very bad, very bad. So we're definitely looking at the world strongest
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  man. If you're listening, make sure you invite us, make sure that
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  we come, make sure that Nick does his magical things that he does in
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  the VIP. Yeah. They I like the fact that they're going back there.
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  That was fantastic. I like the fact that they're putting in seating and
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  stuff like that. That's really gonna be me just can't wait to see this
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  go down. It's gonna be fun. Oh yeah, it's gonna be absolutely
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  fun. Like I said last time, oh my god, it you know.
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  And the thing too about it is that day off because like you're gonna
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  get what three days of qualifiers or four days of qualifiers? No, no,
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  it's a event. Yeah, so but you always get the Remember they
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  gave us that Friday off before the finals. There's two days of qualifying,
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  next day, one day off, three events for the finals, and three
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  events the next day for the finals. Yeah, so five days so you're
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  prepared. It's a lot, it's a lot. We had a lot of
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  fun, but that that day off gave us opportunity to train, hang out,
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  do things, you know what I'm saying, play around and make a
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  lot of contents, you know what I'm saying, lots of squads you know.
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  Uh, we will be at the Pump House because that seemed to be
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  the gym, you know. We also went to the next level last year
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  too, and it was a cool gym, But the Pump House, I
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  like, you know, that's more of my style of gym, heavy equipment,
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  heavy weights, you know, and just the atmosphere alone. Yeah,
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  both were really nice gyms, but pump Houses a little bit more designed for
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  mea squat heavy you know, just just a little bit more design. And
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  what's what's his name again? The guy the bench who owns it. I'll
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  cut it Bello. Remember, like I said, he was a big dude,
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  and god damn it, he lifted hard. I'm getting older, so
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  I don't remember. You know, it goes like that sometimes. But with
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  that being said, with that being announced, also to the announcement of the
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  events at the Arnold, So you're gonna get the Arnold a few months before
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  World Strongest Man. I believe you know what I'm saying. So back to
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  back, yeah, I mean Arnold I believe is in March. Yeah.
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  And then so you got Cooper Matteas, Tom Stalton and Evan Singleton, Maxine
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  Thomas, Seddon's Bobby Thompson, Noble car Or Martins. Yeah Martine is that
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  he's Oscar. I'm not going to try to pronounce her name. My apologies.
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  And so that's gonna be that's gonna be a fun show. There's eleven
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  guys, Yeah, eleven guys. You know that it should be good to
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  see. It's gonna be the elephant bar deadlift. That'll end up being a
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  max deadlift. I know the frame will be eight eighty yeah, because I've
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  already heard that, and that'll be the usual thing, except I think it's
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  going to individually this time, but style could be ramp style. They could
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  be going in pairs, but I think it's individually, which would be cool.
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  The Denny stone carry, I don't know. I'd rather see the bell
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  tote in there. It's it's supposed to be a heavy contest and you just
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  different. I don't make those decisions. So that's what they're going with.
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  A Pam's wheel. That's a good overhead. Whether it's for Reps or Max
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  will see that. I haven't heard either way. That'll that'll be a good
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  one because it's gonna get pretty heavy. Uh like it'll be a it should
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  be well over four hundred pounds probably for fifty and then uh stone medley,
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  yeah, which that should be pretty That's always good. The stones are always
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  good, especially seeing what the weights are going to be for the stones well,
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  and what their medley is going to be, you know, whether it's
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  gonna be you know, smaller stones or what and carrying them and then clean
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  the tombstone or what they're gonna do with it. That's that should be interesting
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  me personally, I would like to see the classic stone of a bar come
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  back. Yeah. Hey, I was just thinking I was like, why
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  are they going to bring the stone over bar because goddamn that that's a hell
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  of an event. Never came out. Yeah, because I mean it's a
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  breaker, Yeah, it's it's it's brutal, and it's a great event that
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  offers also separates the men from the boys, and you've got to put a
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  lot of effort in to get that thing off the round. Oh yeah too.
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  Oh yeah, and me tear right now. The last year World's Strongest
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  Man, Brian's last man. They did simmer Bar and god damn it,
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  he had to go against somebody who was just beast Yeah, and he just
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  won the Masters. So it's like, you know, like how many to
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  go, like like look, almost counts. So it was Brian's better at
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  the stones and probably everybody you know, even Tom. I mean Tom's like
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  unbelievably good at the stones too. So those two are probably the best two
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  guys in the world at stones, especially heavy ones. Yeah, I think
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  they got up to like eleven reps. Yeah, I was thinking twelve.
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  I was like, because it was just ungodly that they had to do that
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  much, because you know, it's world wrongs man, so it's full throttle
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  dump the clip, everything goes so they can't perform exactly, you know what
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  I'm saying. But it was just like man two beasts of a man to
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  go back to back like that, and I said, Brian still won,
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  but how many reps it took to get there was in the scene. Yeah,
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  So I I think that should be back in the Arnold Man. I
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  would think the six hundred pound record that's there would fall if they did that,
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  either to a max stone or just have the heavy stone like they used
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  to set it at like six' ten or something. Yeah, so you
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  break a record and don't slaughter it, and then set the next one at
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  like five forty or something. Yeah, because almost all the guys at that
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  level should be able to get something pretty close to that, maybe even like
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  go drop down to like five thirty or something like that, because it's forty
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  eight inches or forty nine inches, so it's not super high that you gotta
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  lean back. So even with that, nick like, what's the biggest mistake
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  on stone over bar? People make? You know, because like you know,
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  it's a lot of technique to grab, it's a lot of technique to
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  lift, but you know, there's a lot of factors that come into into
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  play for stone over bar, what's like the biggest thing that you always see
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  people falling short on. The biggest mistake on stone everybody you're gonna make it
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  is probably the guy's not being close enough to the bar. Yeah, and
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  have to go forwards with the stone, And when it's a super heavy stone
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  like that, it makes it nearly impossible unless you're like six or five or
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  over and can lean forwards. In that lean, you'll still clean the bar,
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  clear the bar. But other than that, I mean, the biggest
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  mistake I see you guys not being close enough to the bar or picking them
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  wrong tacky, which that's hard to do in Columbus because it's actually really cool
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  in there. So whatever tack you're gonna use, it's gonna stick pretty good.
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  You don't have to worry about it get hot and slippery or anything like
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  that. Everything sticks to the stone everything, so uh, you know,
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  and any of the any of the tacky that's super strong won't won't break up
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  enough to spread because it's so cold, so I you know, all this
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  everything else will pretty much stick to it like glose. Yes, that part's
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  great, you know, Yeah, you're not gonna slide very much. So
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  it's that part's awesome. That's good. You know with the Apollo Wheel,
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  you don't get to see it very often in many of the events. Have
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  you ever had an opportunity to actually use it? Yep, yeah, I
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  did clean it. Couldn't press it. Is that so I think the heavy
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  one that year was like four or fourteen or something and the light one was
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  like either three eighty something or three ninety. Yeah, and I was able
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  to clean it and get points because you still if they aren't, if you
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  clean it, you get you get a point. Yeah, but it's it's
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  you know, I just could impress them. It wasn't the greatest presser.
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  Yeah, well you know that don't need to do. I got to use
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  them. It's a beautiful implement. Yeah, it's neat. Yeah, it's
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  like that wasn't at all polish last the last time. The last time I
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  seen it was like all polished steel. Well yeah, it's almost like staining
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  steel. Yeah, yeah, pretty nice. It's really Yeah. That's what
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  I love too, is like a lot of times like we were not we
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  were talking about this not on the work, and I think we were actually
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  talking to this about with Phil Fister when we're down and you know, OSG
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  that just happened. Right. He was talking about like it needs to the
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  implement or the lists need to be unimaginable, you know what I'm saying,
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  Like they have to have that bravado, that style that like this is insane
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  because like a lot of times people you know, do you see weights but
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  there's no comprehension on like you know that's nine hundred pounds. Well that's what
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  was cool about the Hummer tire deadlift. Yeah, did it because there's Hummer
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  tires on that. Yeah, So them tuckers look heavy sack and the Hummer
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  tires like one hundred and thirty five pounds a piece. So yeah, it's
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  it's heavy and it looks heavy. So it's different when you put plates on
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  the bar. Yeah. The cool thing about the Arnold is though, is
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  they have to really thick plates. Yeah, the wayside and it still looks
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  like a spectacle. Yeah, and it's an elephant that that we're talking about
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  right there, because that's gonna it looked that that thing whips. Yeah,
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  that thing with oh yeah, is it gonna be like a messing up on
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  the approach of like they need to keep it static or are they gonna or
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  is it gonna help them to roll it in and lift Because a lot of
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  people, that's a lot of that won't make a difference, won't make a
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  difference. That part won't make a difference. The difference will be is exploding
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  into the bar. You're gonna have some guys that are exploding in the bar,
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  and you're gonna have some guys that post blow. Most of the time.
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  When the guys post blow and know it's going to be a seven eight
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  second poll when it gets up to their max, we're gonna be successful with
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  it. Yeah, the guys that pull fast might get their openers and stuff
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  like that, but when it gets really heavy, the whip is gonna throw
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  them off and they'll put them out a position and out there you go.
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  There. You also pay attention to that when you guys are watching the live
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  stream or if you're there live you know, and you know with those events
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  talking about let's actually cover a little bit of og. Well, well,
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  let's you got four who just came back and said you might hit it.
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  He hitted it, setting a new record with that thing. Yeah, so
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  that'll be kind of interesting, especially kind of how fast he's coming back.
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  He's coming back to it. But then again, you already trained and got
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  ready for a power with the YEP, so he should be pretty well ready
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  by the time he comes back. But setting in your record with that because
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  he pulled on forty seven or something, Yeah, yeah, exactly. That's
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  that's staying something right there, That is saying something. And he's actually doing
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  both the US and the UK right so week after weeks, Yeah, does
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  he use one for like a training week the week before and going yeah,
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  because you usually don't want to be beat on yourself that bad going into something
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  like this because the prize money is vastly different between Yeah, the two exactly
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  exactly. You want a place as high as you can at the Big RL
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  because yeah, it's exactly exactly. And you know, and here's the thought
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  process on this, with him already being a World Strongest Man winner, him
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  doing these two shows, you know, is there a possibility that there might
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  be a special invite? You know what I'm saying, Because if you're a
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  past winner sometimes yeah, he's a former champion if he's in shape. But
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  that's what I'm saying, special he's a formal champion. If you're in shape
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  and you're a formal champion, So there we go. Colin said that last
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  year. Yeah, there isn't you know what I'm saying that. You know,
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  I'm just doing two shows like this back to back, and like you
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  said, one to tune up one one, what's go? But what if
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  he's doing to tune up? And then you know, because the world is
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  not that far away from it? Right, Yeah? Because May first is
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  not a not that much for a break. But if you're in shape and
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  you don't get hurt, yeah, then you're just you take a week rest
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  and then start mapping out what you're gonna do for worlds. Right, And
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  we still have having an event talk yet about World yet, so that hasn't
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  even even come close to even crossing anything yet. So he's still going to
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  have twelve events. Yeah, so you know, basically you got six events
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  a day off and six more events exactly to make the finals, you know
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  what I'm saying. And with Brian retiring, how much does it really open
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  for everyone looking towards towards World, you know what I'm saying, Because like
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  Brian's always that in factor when World is coming, because like you know,
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  like it's any given day that anybody can win and have a great day and
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  a bad day. But you know, like Brian looming over everybody, that's
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  a big shadow to step, you know, to have to work within.
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  Yeah, I think running being out of it now it's going to provide more
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  opportunity because somebody else will make it into the finals that didn't make it in
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  I mean, he made more finals in a row than anyone exactly ever.
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  Yeah, so that's pretty impressive. So somebody knew that didn't make it last
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  year, or it's just going to make it that much easier for another different
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  person to get into the finals. Yeah, that's good, that's good.
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  All right, Well let's step into OSG. Man. What a week end
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  man, Like, you know, I have never even chilli. I meant
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  out jail, you know what I'm saying. He was released on his own
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  good behavior after about thirty seconds, but it was still funny. Oh yeah,
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  you know, I've never eaten that much chilies in my entire life.
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  I was just having a about that. I think I've eaten chilies more times
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  than I ever want to eat again. So, like it was easy just
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  to walk through the mall and there was a Chilis in there that had pretty
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  solid food, so we ate a lot of meals there. Yeah, but
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  it was good. Yeah, fun. Yeah, it was a lot of
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  fun, a lot of events. Three with the final count was three hundred
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  and seventy five competitors. Good God like first day, Yeah, twelve classes
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  exactly and as men and women, and like I said, the first day
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  was a little rough. And and what I mean rough it is just long.
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  It was just long. Yeah, is that everything went smoothly, it
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  was going to go, but it was just long, you know what I'm
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  saying. With that many competitors hitting, and you know there's gonna be injuries,
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  there's gonna be things like that where it's gonna, you know, bring
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  down the pack. But at the same time, it was a hell of
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  event. The third the stand and submit the melody, Oh man, it
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  really put people through the ringer. Well, that yoke really showed you why
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  straw Man, you have to be you have to be able to do everything.
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  So you like, the people that do a lot of Olympic liftings stuff
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  like that could do their thing on the first two because you can still jerk
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  a dumbbell. And then the first the first one, the wheel wheels with
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  the regular bar on it. But when he got to the axle, especially
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  the anchor, because people were used to like putting weight into it and then
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  coming up underneath it where the regular yoke, it's not gonna rock forwards all
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  the back. Yeah, And all that kinetic energy was stored yep into the
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  anchor whatever forwards and they picked it up and it would swing out and I
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  mean and you saw it consistently. Yeah. And the guys that would hold
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  and like wait for it to stop swinging before they pressed it held it so
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  long you lose your tightness or they just held it too long time under tension.
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  Yeah. And the other part too is like, you know, the
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  people who figured out it needs to be a strict press, those are the
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  people that nailed it. Yeah. But most of these coaches are coaching people
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  with strict pressing. Yeah. They're Olympic they you know a lot of them
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  have crossed press lifting backgrounds and they don't really have their people do a lot
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  of strict pressing. But the moment you need there was a block in there
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  they should have strict press. Yeah. And that block was brutal too,
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  because not very many people nailed it. Well not that you've got to yeah
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  exactly. Yeah that that that anchor, that anchor yo, definitely messed everybody
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  up. So that was hell. It was still fun to watch, fun
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  to watch, you know, the guys who got too fast or the guys
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  that there were still guys that jerk that. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah,
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  there there was people like which this year strength it takes to do that.
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  But the people that did it that were super fast, that like,
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  I don't know, seemed they're great overhead pressers anyway. Yeah, as far
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  as the jerk go, there's a handful of them, probably five or six
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  that just smashed right on through it. But you can see them struggling and
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  catch their balance and yeah, put their legs back together and stand her up
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  with it. Yeah, because that's Blake couldn't be there. You had to
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  beat shoulder with apart straight together terribly when you finish. So and then you
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  know, people bring the block up they said on their chest. They reached
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  down and they press it off and that's going to be all strict pressing and
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  people still try to use their legs a little bit. But it was kind
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  of awkward. Yeah, because it's the bend. It's that bend that people
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  are using. There's only like two or three people they saw do the flip
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  trick that you were talking about, where you're like hand like here and then
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  who and then there was no need to bend. It was just a straight
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  strip press. I mean you hold it in away where one's in the corner
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  and the other one's kind of like on the side, and you can catch
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  it on your belt and you throw it up in the air, and as
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  it rotates, you just move one hand down and catch it in the middle.
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  And then this one is already in the middle, so you move it
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  up and catch it here, and then this one comes down and catch it
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  here, and you end up catching it about chin level and then it's not
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  so bad to press it from there so exactly, but it's a lot of
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  practice, and if you're not used to it, I would be in the
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  back. I probably would have warmed up specifically and only with that implement to
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  figure out how to clean it where it'll lighter way, because the waits in
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  the back a little bit lighter exactly. Learn how to do it, like
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  adapt to the best there. I mean, remember you want to keep things
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  as close to training as possible, but if you can't adapt to small changes
• 22:48
  or big changes, just changes that are going to be in the contest,
• 22:51
  you're in the wrong sport. Yeah, because a lot of times you're gonna
• 22:55
  run this. Nobody expected that. I think you're yoke. Yeah, that
• 23:00
  was the key. That was the factor there. The people that can adapt
• 23:03
  to that while there were the most successful. That's it. And then man,
• 23:07
  that frame was brutal sticks and stones well you know, let me tearing
• 23:17
  people were and and that's the thing too, is like the frame was heavy
• 23:19
  enough to where the women's frame and the men's frame it was. It was
• 23:25
  just enough to really decide who's the leaders in these packs? Yeah, yeah,
• 23:30
  big time. You know, the guys who did grip strength lived through
• 23:34
  it. And then those who got to the Dennis Stones you could figure out
• 23:37
  how to walk, or the Denny Stones with the Michlstones, the Nickelstone when
• 23:44
  he got to him, if you could figure out how to walk with those,
• 23:47
  they didn't going well well, And you know, we had the world's
• 23:49
  strongest helper Mitchell Hooper, pushing, pushing he was he jumped in and you
• 23:56
  know, like everyone really did take notice, you know what I'm saying,
• 24:00
  And you know that that was a hell of a first day, you know
• 24:02
  what I'm saying. Yeah, it was. It was unbelievable first day.
• 24:06
  It was fun to watch. It was fun to watch, and then uh
• 24:07
  we had uh what was the second date? Was the Carrying Drag? Yeah,
• 24:14
  deadl Melody that and you know what metally Metally Metally medley. So the
• 24:22
  Deadly Metally went really good. Uh, you know, people did extremely well.
• 24:26
  You know, there was a lot less people hitting the max. Then
• 24:30
  I thought there was going to be well I mean yeah, eight fifty five
• 24:34
  yeah yeah, so yeah, yeah, it's gonna be pretty serious. Even
• 24:37
  fifteen was pretty heavy. Yeah, so it was good. A couple of
• 24:41
  guys pulled it, yeah, so more power to them, and it was
• 24:47
  it was pretty impressive to watch. But the strategy and stuff that that really
• 24:52
  came into play. I mean, if you got a decent grip, you
• 24:56
  know, you go through three or four fast, that's could be good points.
• 24:59
  Yeah, real good. And a lot of guys do that, especially
• 25:00
  for if you can get to four fast, it's gonna be good points.
• 25:06
  Like in all the classes for four fast was good points. That's it.
• 25:11
  So now those who you know mess around and use the figure eights or use
• 25:15
  straps, it would take a little bit longer he gets set up with those.
• 25:18
  Yeah, definitely did. And it was like it was a great event.
• 25:21
  It's always a good vent to watch. But man, the the go
• 25:23
  rock Survival. Yeah, then and that's when the world's strongest helper, the
• 25:30
  best helper, the best helper came in because Nick worked his ass off the
• 25:37
  seven day because that worked pretty good. I mean, it was good.
• 25:41
  It was fun to do. You know, it's fun helping everybody. And
• 25:45
  I mean it was three hundred seventy five three and seventy five you know rock
• 25:49
  backs. Yeah, but it's okay, you know, try to carry them
• 25:52
  in two at a time. So it wasn't too bad. And we had
• 25:55
  help and there's about five or six of us back there that put them on
• 25:59
  all the competitors. But it was it was an interesting event because normally when
• 26:03
  you do a medley like that, carry a drag. The carry is the
• 26:07
  easy part, and the drag, especially in the latter way classes, your
• 26:12
  feet can't get hooked up to the floor and drag it back. This was
• 26:17
  quite the opposite. If you got to the drag, it wasn't that bad
• 26:22
  because all that extra weight in your back and you could just lean back and
• 26:25
  it was back further. So it really made the lean back a whole heck
• 26:29
  of a lot easier. It made the drags, the people that got to
• 26:32
  the drags most of the time finished. Yeah, that was kind of cool,
• 26:36
  the hard parts get to the drags. Oh yeah, and and too,
• 26:38
  you gotta remember the carry part was it was I can't remember the name
• 26:45
  of the company or was it go that made them. So they were so
• 26:48
  sandstones, so with a bag full around like an Atlas stone bag sphere and
• 26:57
  then and then well that's it. And man, people put some more serious
• 27:03
  work into getting those things over there, because it really it really defined the
• 27:07
  pack on that one to the last. And it also changed some things because
• 27:12
  like normally I would meet me, I don't see making events harder than they
• 27:18
  have to be. I would have wore like a lever belt, left it
• 27:22
  loose and then catch part of the the both both the bags on the belt
• 27:27
  and make it where I could breathe and move faster and put the weight on
• 27:30
  my hips instead of on my admomen as I'm running with it, and then
• 27:33
  drop them into the throw them into the back the back of the sled because
• 27:40
  if you put them in the front, the front digs in it makes it
• 27:41
  harder to pull. You throw them in the back, the front comes up
• 27:45
  a little easier, it's easier to pull. But yeah, I don't know
• 27:51
  if you could wear the belt on those because get getting them buckled was not
• 27:56
  that easy. Yeah, yeah, no, definitely definite. Yeah, like
• 28:00
  and you could see a lot of people were just having a hard time with
• 28:03
  that go ruck because definitely added it added to the carry, not the drag
• 28:07
  the dragon assisted carry. A couple of people kind of went over Oh yeah,
• 28:14
  yeah, which but it was a great event. It tested what it
• 28:17
  needed. Oh yes, yeah, it was. Yeah, I definitely enjoyed
• 28:21
  it. It was It was a spectacle to watch. And so it's just
• 28:22
  one of those things, Lynn, I think if you do that again,
• 28:26
  which I definitely recommend, maybe we hang cables from the from the up part
• 28:33
  and just hut the bags onto him and the guys can walk into him that
• 28:37
  way. The idea of the of the side with the with them coming up
• 28:42
  to the sitting in the chairs was good. Yeah, but the other part
• 28:47
  it was just a little too high. We could adjust the well, I'll
• 28:49
  tell you right now, Like even like a co wrack system where it's just
• 28:52
  like a little little triangle eve with like you said, a cable and you
• 28:55
  can hook it on there and then they just slip on and you just the
• 28:59
  concrete. Yeah, just just like that's it. That's it. And then
• 29:06
  uh finals, Man, finals was fun as hell. Like we had sandbag
• 29:11
  that's it, and them stones and sand bag. You know, I was
• 29:15
  you know sometimes when you watch events and you're watching like clips and stuff like
• 29:18
  that, the sand bags just go over so easily. But man, when
• 29:22
  you got to do five bags, was it not? It was six bags?
• 29:25
  Yeah, six bags, and man, that six bag for everybody was
• 29:29
  a struggle, you know what I'm saying. And then you know, for
• 29:32
  for each division it compressive, you know, like, oh, nailed it
• 29:37
  that like launched them into the atmosphere, things down, your hit the ceiling.
• 29:41
  But for those who didn't really practice it or train it or just didn't
• 29:44
  have yeahs, that's that's what I'm saying. But some people fo that last
• 29:52
  one. And you know that's the thing about Strona too, is like you
• 29:55
  know, you've got to be ready for those kind of events, have that
• 29:59
  kind of strategy. And like I said, some of them are going through
• 30:00
  fast. And then when you have that last one's like nah I or Kiki,
• 30:04
  Yeah, Kiki did something different when everybody else did. She picked up
• 30:07
  two at the time, dropped one, threw it, picked up the other
• 30:11
  one and threw it. Yep, she had a great time. Yeah,
• 30:15
  so it was pretty neat. The strategies that people come up with are really
• 30:19
  interesting, exactly exactly, you know when it comes to stones, and you
• 30:23
  know it's always had, you know, you got to be prepared because we
• 30:26
  were just talking about stones stone Manley stone over the bar, having the right
• 30:30
  tack, he having anything. But the thing too is just being prepared to
• 30:33
  actually just place the stones on the top because like we had an unfortunate event
• 30:38
  where someone nailed all the stones but didn't take their hands off. He was
• 30:47
  so exhausted his hands. Yeah, you know he did it though, don't
• 30:53
  get me wrong, but unfortunately, you know there's a time limit. Well,
• 30:57
  they'll give him five stones and fifty nine point Yeah, he finished him.
• 31:03
  The clock didn't stop. All Yeah, that's it, that's it.
• 31:07
  But you know, like I said, and then with with and then even
• 31:10
  after that, like after after he was done and we were getting ready to
• 31:14
  go home. Phil Fischer ended up coming to get us and well we went
• 31:19
  to have lunch and then went straight to the y m C a gym.
• 31:25
  Yeah, it was a lot of fun. You know, Phil is definitely
• 31:26
  a character. Phil is definitely you know, uh, you know, still
• 31:30
  a strong man champion at art. Well he's man, yeah, nothing,
• 31:36
  nothing, and he's still great, dude. So that was a lot of
• 31:38
  fun. I mean, we had a good time, got to coach some
• 31:41
  of the other guys and then even chow fill a different way how to do
• 31:47
  turns and the farmer's walk. So yeah, it was it was a lot
• 31:51
  of fun. It was neat because that was the gym he trained in for
• 31:52
  World Strongest Man. Yeah, so it was kind of neat and special being
• 31:57
  in it. So really exactly kind of me doing a piece of history then,
• 32:02
  yeah, exactly. We got to hang out with some of the greatest
• 32:06
  people in the industry, so you know that's something that's just nice. And
• 32:09
  Lynn, thank you for inviting us, Thank you. Yeah. And Trey,
• 32:12
  yeah exactly. Trey, you know, he's getting better, you know,
• 32:15
  and you know he was if you go back and watch the actual YouTube
• 32:20
  video that we did we put up for Trey was shoulder pressing a circus bell
• 32:25
  honestly with a bad leg, with one leg. I'm like, Trey,
• 32:30
  why he's I'm trying to show you guys. You know, well Trey is
• 32:36
  God. Anything that was going to puss a string. That there's the reason
• 32:43
  why he's the big ticket. That's it. That's it. Well we had
• 32:49
  it was. It was a great weekend plane ride. You know, we
• 32:52
  got home like it's just how it goes sometimes. You know, that's traveling,
• 32:55
  you know, you know when you're a huge man, like uh,
• 32:59
  the because we left Charleston to Chicago. Uh, there was so much mass
• 33:05
  on that plane. A lot of people were, you know that didn't know
• 33:07
  what was going on. We're a little worried. They were like, what
• 33:12
  is going on? Human? Exactly. Everyone's just like like, what what
• 33:17
  is going on? We're in this tiny, tiny plane and uh everyone was
• 33:22
  like at least tens oh yeah, easily east easily at the minimum that many
• 33:31
  because everyone was leaving, you know what I mean, a lot of strong
• 33:35
  macabinters, a lot of big boys and everybody, all the equipment. It
• 33:39
  was a little rough, but we made it. It's fun. Can't wait
• 33:45
  for next year. You know big surprises. Well, we can't spoil the
• 33:52
  surprise if you're wondering something too bad, you know what I'm saying. But
• 33:57
  just understand it'll be a big surprise and I can't wait. We can talk
• 34:00
  about it, but it's Mum's the words. Lips are sealed. But Liz,
• 34:05
  if you see this, then you're the only one that's gonna know what
• 34:08
  this is exactly exactly, Well, you know, Nick, it's a great
• 34:14
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