Latest / The Best Experience / Epic Breakdown of the 2025 World's Strongest Man Heats | Exclusive Predictions & Insights

Transcript

Epic Breakdown of the 2025 World's Strongest Man Heats | Exclusive Predictions & Insights · The Best Experience

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: Of getting all the points that you can. It's the
• 0:02
  Speaker 1: end of the day, it's the points that matter.
• 0:23
  Speaker 2: You're listening to the best experience, what they can best.
• 0:46
  Speaker 3: All right, this is the best experience. And Nick is
• 0:50
  Speaker 3: live in studio.
• 0:52
  Speaker 1: Yes, all right, we are Benz.
• 0:55
  Speaker 4: That's it. California, that's it.
• 0:57
  Speaker 3: Where the world from this for we got four days,
• 1:01
  Speaker 3: four days, We got four days the World's Strongest Man Thursday, Friday, Saturday,
• 1:06
  Speaker 3: and Sunday. All right, Nick, that was the fan, yes.
• 1:14
  Speaker 4: Because we're doing audio.
• 1:16
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, audio, Okay, well we'll suffer, so cool. So yeah,
• 1:22
  Speaker 1: the World Strongest Man is Thursday, Friday, May fifteenth, and
• 1:26
  Speaker 1: then Friday May sixteenth the qualifying heats, and then May
• 1:29
  Speaker 1: seventeenth and eighteenth of the finals. Because they get no rest,
• 1:34
  Speaker 1: the top the top ten rewarded with dix more events,
• 1:37
  Speaker 1: which is pretty cool. But yeah, it's gonna be interesting.
• 1:41
  Speaker 1: In the qualifying heats, ten am is gonna be loading Medley.
• 1:46
  Speaker 1: So if you're anywhere near here, come watch this.
• 1:50
  Speaker 3: There will be a free section with a jumbo tron
• 1:53
  Speaker 3: for those that want to watch. You know what I'm saying,
• 1:55
  Speaker 3: because if you weren't able to get tickets, but there are.
• 1:57
  Speaker 3: There's gonna be also what a not an expo, but
• 2:00
  Speaker 3: it's like a little fan gathering.
• 2:03
  Speaker 1: There's a fan zone and there's also gonna be a
• 2:05
  Speaker 1: bunch of vendors and boosts and stuff like that, so
• 2:07
  Speaker 1: it will be exactly like an XPO, just right there
• 2:11
  Speaker 1: in front of it. So that'd be kind of cool.
• 2:14
  Speaker 1: So Thursday May fifteenth, they're gonna start with the loading medley,
• 2:18
  Speaker 1: and they're gonna go to the deadlift and then the
• 2:20
  Speaker 1: overhead medley, and then Friday May sixteenth, they're gonna start
• 2:24
  Speaker 1: at ten am with the Titan Toss Titans Toss, so
• 2:27
  Speaker 1: that should be pretty cool. And then we'll have the
• 2:29
  Speaker 1: stone Medley, which they'll be overprint, pressing, carrying, and then
• 2:33
  Speaker 1: loading stone. So that's gonna be pretty neat to watch too.
• 2:36
  Speaker 4: Oh yeah, so we're gonna get a far toss, a
• 2:38
  Speaker 4: Titan toss.
• 2:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so we're gonna go over kind of qualifying heats
• 2:43
  Speaker 1: with that. So in Heat one, we're gonna have Austin
• 2:46
  Speaker 1: Andrade from Mexico which he's also from Texas, h Thomas Evans,
• 2:53
  Speaker 1: Jack from the USA, Jacob schoon Winkle which is pretty
• 2:58
  Speaker 1: strong kid.
• 2:59
  Speaker 4: Very strong. Can we saw him. Yeah, yeah, yeah, so.
• 3:04
  Speaker 1: Tom Stoltman, which is he's the reigning world strongest man,
• 3:08
  Speaker 1: and Eddie Williams. Yeah, he sings, and he's also like
• 3:13
  Speaker 1: a you don't realize how big he is to get
• 3:15
  Speaker 1: up on him. He's like over four hundred pounds. He's gigantic.
• 3:17
  Speaker 4: He's a big guy, and.
• 3:18
  Speaker 1: He's pretty darn strong. So it's gonna be kind of
• 3:21
  Speaker 1: interesting to watch this heat. But loading Medley, I think,
• 3:26
  Speaker 1: I mean, Austin and Thomas are faster than you'd think.
• 3:30
  Speaker 1: Eddie's pretty quick too. I give this one to Tom.
• 3:34
  Speaker 1: If he's fast, he's long, he's got long levers. But
• 3:39
  Speaker 1: if if if anything goes wrong and Austin and Thomas
• 3:42
  Speaker 1: Evans get ahead of him, that's gonna be that's gonna
• 3:47
  Speaker 1: be rough.
• 3:48
  Speaker 4: That's it.
• 3:48
  Speaker 1: But that could cause that. So look for that. Look
• 3:52
  Speaker 1: look out for that. I mean, if he doesn't win that,
• 3:56
  Speaker 1: it's gonna be a problem.
• 3:57
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah.
• 3:57
  Speaker 1: So, and Austin and Thomas will push him. Jocko and
• 4:02
  Speaker 1: Eddie will also do the same. Everybody in that heat
• 4:04
  Speaker 1: is gonna be out for everything. They're gonna have to
• 4:08
  Speaker 1: get every point out of every event. So the next
• 4:11
  Speaker 1: event is gonna be the deadlift. Austin in that group
• 4:15
  Speaker 1: is the heaviest deadlifter out of all of them. That
• 4:19
  Speaker 1: being said, Thomas Evans is a pretty darn good deadlifter.
• 4:23
  Speaker 1: Spoon Winkle is also a pretty good deadlifter. Tom of
• 4:27
  Speaker 1: course is a good deadlifter, and then Eddie Williams and
• 4:30
  Speaker 1: also pull over four hundred kilos pretty confidently. I think
• 4:32
  Speaker 1: he's pulled like four to twenty five, so yeah, he is.
• 4:37
  Speaker 3: There's gonna be some serious competition.
• 4:38
  Speaker 1: Now, this is for reps, so strategy is gonna come
• 4:41
  Speaker 1: into play. Being able to do reps instead of just
• 4:44
  Speaker 1: max way it's going to come into play. But I
• 4:46
  Speaker 1: could actually easily see Austin winning this event, which that
• 4:50
  Speaker 1: could be big. That could be really big. That's good
• 4:52
  Speaker 1: points and Tom, I could see Tom, you know, I
• 4:55
  Speaker 1: can see Evans sneak it up in there in the
• 4:58
  Speaker 1: top three on that one.
• 4:59
  Speaker 4: Yeah, pushing it, pushing it.
• 5:00
  Speaker 3: So and he's hungry.
• 5:02
  Speaker 1: Stolman can't take any room to breathe on this event
• 5:05
  Speaker 1: unless some of the guys are hurt and they just
• 5:07
  Speaker 1: haven't said anything. But you know, that's the only way
• 5:11
  Speaker 1: this isn't gonna be like a deadlift heat from Hell. Yeah, yeah,
• 5:15
  Speaker 1: all right. So that being said, we get back to
• 5:20
  Speaker 1: the overhead medley. Austin's really good at the overhead so's
• 5:25
  Speaker 1: Tom Stoltman. But I think Austin's even better at overhead
• 5:28
  Speaker 1: pressing than he is, so we'll see how that happens.
• 5:31
  Speaker 1: Thomas Evans is also very very good at overhead pressing.
• 5:36
  Speaker 1: I mean, this is gonna be the reason why they're
• 5:39
  Speaker 1: doing this heat is too You're going after it to
• 5:42
  Speaker 1: see what's what. You can't just go, well, here's the
• 5:44
  Speaker 1: reigning world strongest man. He's gonna win this one. Yeah,
• 5:47
  Speaker 1: not in this heat, because everybody can take points from
• 5:49
  Speaker 1: everyone in this heat in all three of these first
• 5:52
  Speaker 1: events so far. Now we get today two Titan sauce.
• 5:56
  Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Tom's got this one hands down. But if
• 6:01
  Speaker 1: Austin and Evans can be in the top three in
• 6:03
  Speaker 1: those that could do some things at the points, as
• 6:06
  Speaker 1: well as Jocko and Eddie. I mean, if if whoever,
• 6:11
  Speaker 1: I think Austin's gonna be right there, either right with
• 6:14
  Speaker 1: Tom or just right right there with him the whole
• 6:17
  Speaker 1: way through. But if one of these other guys jumps
• 6:19
  Speaker 1: in and gets up in there, it's gonna be some
• 6:22
  Speaker 1: serious points, serious serious points and serious trouble. Yeah, and
• 6:27
  Speaker 1: then he got the stone medley and again I gotta give,
• 6:31
  Speaker 1: I gotta give the nod.
• 6:33
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you have to. He's not on that.
• 6:36
  Speaker 1: He's a monster on stones. But it's also overhead pressing
• 6:38
  Speaker 1: and doing some carrying some other stuff, so you just
• 6:42
  Speaker 1: don't know. But Tom's really good at carrying events too.
• 6:45
  Speaker 1: I mean, Mitchell kind of got him on that, but yeah,
• 6:48
  Speaker 1: he's not in this. He beat everybody else carrying, so
• 6:52
  Speaker 1: Tom's gonna do that. Should the last two events should
• 6:55
  Speaker 1: be very very very good events for Tom. He's just
• 6:58
  Speaker 1: got to hold his own and stay ahead and those
• 7:00
  Speaker 1: other events and might not even need to do that
• 7:02
  Speaker 1: good in one or two. Just need to keep the
• 7:04
  Speaker 1: point total up, yeah, keep it tight. All right. That
• 7:08
  Speaker 1: was group. So my predictions of making it over to
• 7:11
  Speaker 1: the finals is probably Tom, Saltman and Austin. That's who
• 7:17
  Speaker 1: I think we'll make it in. I could see Thomas
• 7:19
  Speaker 1: Evans popping in there and Jocko if Jocko is healthy.
• 7:23
  Speaker 4: Last time he was looking strong.
• 7:25
  Speaker 1: He was super strong, but he got hurt pretty bad.
• 7:28
  Speaker 1: So if he's healthy, he can be a threat to
• 7:31
  Speaker 1: even win the heat. And then Eddie Williams is just strong.
• 7:35
  Speaker 1: If he has a good day, any of these guys,
• 7:37
  Speaker 1: if they have a good day, this heat's gonna be tough,
• 7:41
  Speaker 1: all right. Group two Wesley Dorinsky, strong Canadian competitor, fast guy,
• 7:47
  Speaker 1: Petty Haynes say from Great Britain.
• 7:50
  Speaker 4: Mitchell Hooper, Yeah, you got to give him a nod
• 7:53
  Speaker 4: World Strongest.
• 7:54
  Speaker 1: Man, and he's won all four of the major shows.
• 7:57
  Speaker 1: He's gonna be hard to beat. We'll see what's going
• 8:00
  Speaker 1: on with his head right now. He's going to do
• 8:02
  Speaker 1: some things, so if he can keep that together, he
• 8:05
  Speaker 1: should be okay. The thing I we'll say is anybody
• 8:07
  Speaker 1: runs a marathon, they're pretty mentally tough and can get
• 8:10
  Speaker 1: through anything. I think he'll be all right. Bryce Johnson, big,
• 8:16
  Speaker 1: massively huge, strong guy. I see him winning the Titan
• 8:19
  Speaker 1: Toss for sure. Yeah, but I think he'll surprise some people.
• 8:23
  Speaker 1: This will be really good for him. And then Matthew
• 8:26
  Speaker 1: Ragg who's on Godly Strong from New Zealand. I mean,
• 8:29
  Speaker 1: that guy's you gotta watch out for him too. Now,
• 8:33
  Speaker 1: Loading Medley, I'm gonna have to give the nod to
• 8:36
  Speaker 1: Mitchell on that one because he's really fast, but I
• 8:39
  Speaker 1: can see Patty or Wesley, He's those two guys being
• 8:41
  Speaker 1: in the top three on that event. On the deadlift,
• 8:47
  Speaker 1: I don't think anybody's gonna be Hooper in the deadlift,
• 8:49
  Speaker 1: but Rags is gonna be right on him in a
• 8:52
  Speaker 1: really good deadlifter, and Drawinsky's not too bad either. Neither's
• 8:57
  Speaker 1: Patty or Bryce. So Bryce has been training because that
• 9:01
  Speaker 1: looks pretty hard, so that should be interesting. But I
• 9:05
  Speaker 1: do see Hooper kind of out and getting ahead of
• 9:07
  Speaker 1: that one. Yeah, Okay. Then we go to the overhead medley,
• 9:10
  Speaker 1: and again I see the same thing. I mean, Hooper's
• 9:15
  Speaker 1: a great overhead presser, very well rounded, very Yeah, I
• 9:19
  Speaker 1: don't see anybody getting passed him on those.
• 9:22
  Speaker 3: He's been literally sharpening his tools this entire time, improving
• 9:27
  Speaker 3: everywhere he's been lacking. That's the one thing that we've
• 9:29
  Speaker 3: seen consistently with Mitchell.
• 9:30
  Speaker 1: I don't think he's had a place, but.
• 9:32
  Speaker 3: That's what I'm saying. That's what I'm saying. He's picked
• 9:34
  Speaker 3: up the slack on places that were like maybe this
• 9:37
  Speaker 3: or you know, like he's had trouble at events where
• 9:40
  Speaker 3: he's like, oh, I didn't place where I should have.
• 9:42
  Speaker 3: But you know, he somehow his head around those things.
• 9:46
  Speaker 1: He holds himself pretty accountable. He is high self expectations
• 9:50
  Speaker 1: for that. So he's probably his hardest critic, to be
• 9:53
  Speaker 1: quite honest with you. That's it. So the next comes
• 9:57
  Speaker 1: over Overhead made the Titans toss. Wesley is a great,
• 10:03
  Speaker 1: great tosser he is with the sandbag toss, keg toss,
• 10:07
  Speaker 1: he's really great at so super and then Bryce is
• 10:10
  Speaker 1: like nearly seven foot tall, so I think he's gonna
• 10:13
  Speaker 1: be pretty good at the toss, so that that should
• 10:15
  Speaker 1: be pretty interesting. And then the Stone Medley. Everybody in
• 10:20
  Speaker 1: this heat is gonna actually probably do very well with
• 10:22
  Speaker 1: the Stone med Ley. Yeah, and at that point, I
• 10:25
  Speaker 1: think when you get to that, Hooper will just need
• 10:27
  Speaker 1: the points to finish it off and he should be fine.
• 10:30
  Speaker 1: Then it'll be who's battling out first the second second position.
• 10:35
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna have to give Dowinsky the my my guess
• 10:39
  Speaker 1: for being in the second if he's healthy, he can
• 10:42
  Speaker 1: do that. But Matt ragg is gonna be not to
• 10:44
  Speaker 1: be overlooked to you. It should be pretty interesting. In
• 10:47
  Speaker 1: Patty's Patty's pretty solid. He's kind of a freak, so
• 10:51
  Speaker 1: you never know what he's gonna do when he gets
• 10:54
  Speaker 1: into a position like this. A lot of guys get
• 10:56
  Speaker 1: into the big show. They struggle, a lot of guys
• 11:00
  Speaker 1: getting the big show in the Excel. So we'll see
• 11:03
  Speaker 1: what happens. Okay, Group three, Shane Flowers, Lucas Hatton, Matteas Kletzakowski,
• 11:10
  Speaker 1: Evan's Nana and uh Raino and now from South Africa.
• 11:14
  Speaker 1: No Reino is supposed to be kind of a freak,
• 11:16
  Speaker 1: a freak athlete, so it's gonna be fun for me
• 11:19
  Speaker 1: to watch him this year. We'll see what he does.
• 11:22
  Speaker 1: Matteos has been there, done that, very experienced, uh these events.
• 11:28
  Speaker 1: Loading medleys is gonna be fast. Deadlift is gonna hurt Matias.
• 11:34
  Speaker 1: That's always been his soft spot. So loading medley, I'd
• 11:38
  Speaker 1: have to say, Matteas Lucas Hatton is going to surprise
• 11:41
  Speaker 1: a lot of people with his speed because not only that,
• 11:44
  Speaker 1: he's pretty quick. So I can see them going one
• 11:47
  Speaker 1: and two in that the deadlift. I don't think anyone
• 11:52
  Speaker 1: in this heat will necessarily out deadlift Hatton. Yeah, so
• 11:58
  Speaker 1: I think he can put the points, pull the points
• 12:01
  Speaker 1: in the deadlift. Dame Flyers has done allowed improving, so
• 12:04
  Speaker 1: we'll see what happens and Evans. Evans is a strong kid,
• 12:07
  Speaker 1: he just like Reno, so we'll see what goes on.
• 12:10
  Speaker 1: My guess is Lucas and probably honestly, Rena will probably
• 12:16
  Speaker 1: go one and two in the deadlift overhead medley, Lucas
• 12:20
  Speaker 1: Hatton and Matyas Matteas will probably go one and two
• 12:25
  Speaker 1: in that event. They're both really good at these things. Yeah,
• 12:30
  Speaker 1: Matyas had the I don't know if he's still got
• 12:31
  Speaker 1: the world record or had the world record in the dumbbell,
• 12:34
  Speaker 1: so he's very good at overhead pressing and Lucas Hatton
• 12:38
  Speaker 1: just preuss six hundred pounds behind his head. Yeah yeah,
• 12:42
  Speaker 1: So right there, they're gonna be doing pretty good the Titan.
• 12:45
  Speaker 1: Then he come into the Titans toss. I'm just gonna say, Klitzakowski. Now,
• 12:49
  Speaker 1: I watch him do the toss for god knows how long.
• 12:53
  Speaker 1: He's very good and very proficient at it. Lucas is
• 12:57
  Speaker 1: also pretty solid at it, so that'll be one where
• 13:02
  Speaker 1: they could actually go one and two in that event,
• 13:04
  Speaker 1: but other guys can get in. Shane's pretty explosive. Evans,
• 13:08
  Speaker 1: you know not not, He's a good kid. He he
• 13:10
  Speaker 1: could just go off and surprise everybody. And then Reno
• 13:14
  Speaker 1: I haven't really seen too much of, but I think
• 13:17
  Speaker 1: he's there for a reason, and there's also a chance
• 13:19
  Speaker 1: for him. But I'm just going to say in the
• 13:22
  Speaker 1: toss it's probably gonna be Lucas and Mattas.
• 13:25
  Speaker 4: Hey, I agree with that too, that those are solid people.
• 13:27
  Speaker 1: Hopefully they surprise me and don't get offended. Guys, but
• 13:31
  Speaker 1: you know I'm old, so it'll it'll be. That'll be
• 13:36
  Speaker 1: really interesting. It's gonna make it work. Look, these guys
• 13:38
  Speaker 1: being so close at things, it's gonna be really interesting
• 13:41
  Speaker 1: to watch. Yeah, and one guy messes up under the pressure,
• 13:44
  Speaker 1: don't worry, guys, there's only like four hundred million people
• 13:47
  Speaker 1: watching worldwide. No pressure, no pressure, nothing could go wrong.
• 13:53
  Speaker 1: All right? Group four, Oh, we've got the Stone Medley
• 13:56
  Speaker 1: Sorry still Medley? Uh that one, I'm gonna say. Mattias, yeah,
• 14:00
  Speaker 1: all day. I agree with it. He's pretty good at that.
• 14:04
  Speaker 1: Then it's gonna come down to Lucas and maybe Reno
• 14:07
  Speaker 1: on that as far as that goes, but you never
• 14:10
  Speaker 1: know what happens. But it's getting through though. I think
• 14:13
  Speaker 1: it'll be miteyas and Lucasas for sure, but Reno might surprise.
• 14:19
  Speaker 4: We'll find out, all right.
• 14:21
  Speaker 1: Next group four, Maxim Woudreaux and I probably just messed
• 14:26
  Speaker 1: that up. Sorry, sorry, bro. Tristan Hoath, Trey Mitchell, and
• 14:32
  Speaker 1: Luke Richardson are gonna be in this group. That's it now.
• 14:35
  Speaker 1: The cool part is there's no grip event in this
• 14:38
  Speaker 1: one yep, so that's gonna be good for Trey, and
• 14:42
  Speaker 1: then Trey's been working on his grip anyway. Yeah. Loading Medley,
• 14:45
  Speaker 1: Max is actually pretty fast. Yeah, so Max is gonna
• 14:49
  Speaker 1: do well, Trey's doing pretty good, and Lucas back to
• 14:54
  Speaker 1: back to what I would say full strength. He did
• 14:56
  Speaker 1: really great, really good in his last show. Yeah, he's
• 15:00
  Speaker 1: covered well from that torn lat Yeah. I remember talking
• 15:04
  Speaker 1: to him about that when that happened to him, having
• 15:06
  Speaker 1: been through that myself, and it's good to see him
• 15:09
  Speaker 1: doing so well.
• 15:10
  Speaker 2: That's good.
• 15:12
  Speaker 1: Yeah. So for the Medley, you know, Max is really quick,
• 15:16
  Speaker 1: Tristan's not slow, Tray Tredy knows it's on the line.
• 15:19
  Speaker 1: Tray will be fast and Luke will be fast. So
• 15:22
  Speaker 1: that's gonna be a rough one. I see Max doing
• 15:25
  Speaker 1: really well and probably Luke getting in there with Trey
• 15:30
  Speaker 1: probably yeah, getting third for points on that, which should
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: be pretty good. Oh yeah, deadlift. There's nobody in this
• 15:37
  Speaker 1: heat that's got out deadlift tray.
• 15:39
  Speaker 4: Yeah, this one in the bank.
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: He's pulled one thousand and thirty six. He's a beast,
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: so and then he's been.
• 15:48
  Speaker 3: Pulling no no.
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: Now, this this event will hurt Max because it's normally
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: his one of his bad lifts, so that's gonna put
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: him down towards the bottom and make it hard for
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: him to get into the final. Luke Richinson's a pretty
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: solid deadlifter, so it's it's it's gonna be kind of interesting.
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: This would be good points for Trey, that's for sure.
• 16:09
  Speaker 1: And Tristan's not a bad deadlifter either, so this would
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: be good points for Trey and Luke that's that's for sure.
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: So that'll be kind of interesting to see how that
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: works out. All right. Overhead medley, I'm just gonna say
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: Trey and Max will kill this event. They're they're both
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: unbelievable overhead pressers. I think they'll go one and two
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: in that, and then maybe Luke and some of the
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: other guys sneak in there and get some good points,
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: But Trey's a phenomenal overhead presser. If he's got his
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: head screwed on straight, Trey is gonna be rough to
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: deal with in this event. He really is. And Max
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: has got the experience and he's just a great overhead presser,
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: so that'll be kind of good for points, all right,
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: Titans toss. Both Max and Trey are very good at
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: the toss. Yeah, they can switch places in first and
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: second that I think pretty easily. Tray surprise a lot
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: of people will being able to toss the way Tray
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: can toss, and Max, if he's on, he'll throw everything
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: like super fast. So it just you know, is he
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: are they healthy? What's going on? Based on past experiences
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: and things I've seen, I think that's what we'll see
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: one and two in the toss, and then probably Luke's
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: Luke or even Andre sneaking in there and getting some
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: points out of that. Yeah, okay, next Stone Medley, Axe
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: and Tray. They're probably going to destroy the Stone Medley. Yeah,
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: they're both good at pressing. Yep, they're both good at loading.
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: I don't see either one of them having a problem.
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: Karen Stones acts might go a little faster and trade
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: with the carry. But I think Trey will load faster.
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: Tray doesn't need techy, you know, Tray can just grab
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: the stone and throw unload it. So which getting through
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna say that'll probably be Traying, Trey, and that
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: one's gonna be close because Tristan, Luke. It might be
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: Luke and Trey, it might be Trey and Max. It
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: depends on how bad the deadlift hurts Max. If the
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: deadlift doesn't hurt Max, that bad. Max has got a
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: massive All the rest of the events are going to
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: be good for Max. There we go, So it's just
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: gonna how many points can he where can he make it? Like?
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: You know, fourth, fourth would make a different, a massive
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: difference for him in the deadlift if he can make fourth. Yeah, okay,
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: So next group Group five, the last group Andrew Flynn,
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: Nick Gerdion. Yeah, love that guy, Love that guy.
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: Sorry, he don't make it right.
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: So Pablo kodiaka Evan Singleton and Luke Stultman. This is
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: all gonna be another death heat.
• 19:01
  Speaker 4: Yeah, this is a stack.
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: You know Nick's coming in. This is his first one.
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: He's done some big shows already, so he just needs
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: to come in, relax, and just go lay it out
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: on the line. Every single event he does, you know
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: tomorrow he just needs to go lay it down and
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: just go go all out. And he's good enough to
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: make the finals this year. If he doesn't, he will
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: make it. Yeah, and I think he's even got what
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: he needs to win the whole thing. It's just gonna
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: take him a few more years to develop. If he
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: does it slow, methodical, he'll get there and he'll stay
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: there for a while. He's that good. Pablo cordiaca good overhead,
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: real fast, real fast. I don't see anybody beating him
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: in the loading.
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: Megley, I agree with that statement.
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: That being said, Luke's in there and so is Evan,
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: and both of those guys can go pretty fast.
• 19:56
  Speaker 4: Too if they're dialed in.
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: If I think comes in with the right head, I mean,
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: can win World Strongest Man.
• 20:03
  Speaker 4: Yes, Yes, he's on the cusp.
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: He's he's just got to come in mentally focused and ready,
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: not worry about. All he needs to do is worry
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: about the event and getting off the field. Don't celebrate,
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: don't do anything, just focus on what you have to
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: do to win. Then celebrate like a maniac. After you
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: win the title on the trophy, everything else, all that
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: energy stays bottled up, all the focus stays right on.
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: You just go out there and execute each event as
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: you face it. If anything goes wrong, you have a
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: short term memory and go get all the points on
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: the next event. If he does that, oh my gosh,
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: he's gonna be She's going to be deadly. And my
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: phone just got rid of that. Okay, So and Luke,
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: Luke's just Luke's been around us. I think this is
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: his tenth World Strongest Man. That makes eight of us
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: now that have done World Strongest Man ten times. He
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: is the eighth one. Congratulations. It's pretty cool. So with
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: the loading medley, I'm gonna say Cordiaca and I mean
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: that's gonna because he's so fast. Singleton can get in there. Luke,
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: I've seen when he's in shape, he can move. Nick.
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: Nick can move. This is gonna be kind of like
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: a really fun one to watch.
• 21:18
  Speaker 4: Like I said, this is a loaded heat here.
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: I want to see Evan do it. Yeah. I love
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: the kid, and I want to see Nick do it too.
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: I got too many people I'm rooting for you, see,
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: so reality hits I mean Pablo and maybe Evan because
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: he's got the experience, but he's got to have his
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: head screwed on straight. If not, you know, I could
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: see Singleton or Nick getting getting the second place in Okay, deadlift,
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: let's get to the deadlift kind of a kind of
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: a heel for Cordiaca a little bit. He will be
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: a good deadlifter in time.
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: He's not. He's not one of the biggest guys four or.
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: Five years from now when he feels all the way
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: look out, look out. But he's improving on that lift.
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: But in all honesty, the best deadlifter in this event
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: is Evan. He doesn't If he doesn't win that event,
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: he's got to be injured. Yeah.
• 22:13
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I'd like said he that boy can pool and
• 22:17
  Speaker 4: I've seen it many a times.
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and Nick's Nick's not bad at it. He's not
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: great at it. Oh, he's great at it. But I mean,
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: top ten guys in the.
• 22:26
  Speaker 4: World, that's it bake experience many we're at the one.
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: But he's getting better at it. He keeps improving. He
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: also trains to Austin. He's a great deadlifter, so he
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: could come in here and surprise a lot of people,
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: and I really hope he does. Luke's Luke's a solid deadlifter,
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: not solid so deadlifting. I see Evan winning and either
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: Nick or Luke in the second second positions and that
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: which would be good for both of them for point wise. Yeah,
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: all right, Now we go to the overhead medley. That's
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: gonna be really interesting because Pablo's really good at overhead
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: and he's fast. Evan's really good at overhead and he's
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: pretty fast if he stays under control, and Luke, well, Luke,
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: Luke's extremely good at overhead. Yeah, so that's gonna be
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: one to watch between those three guys, it really is.
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: Do I think Nick can sneak in or Andrew? Sure,
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: I do think they can sneak in, but I think
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: Evan's probably either Evan or Pablo is probably gonna walk
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: away with that. But Luke might have something to say about.
• 23:30
  Speaker 4: That and.
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: Get them both. So yeah, yeah, so Luke's Yeah, Luke
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: might be able to get that one, but I I
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: see Pablo or Evan pushing if they go fast. I
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: see them being a little bit quicker with it than Luke.
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: But Luke's in great shape this year. He's shredded. So yeah,
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: wanting to win could be be a pretty special year
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: for Luke. So but point where I think this puts
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: Evan in a really good spot because he can do
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: well in the loading medley, he can win the deadlift,
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: he can do well in the overhead. Then it comes
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: to the toss. Now, these guys can toss. Yeah, so
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: flip a coin on those Yep, you know, Luke can
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: toss pretty good. Evan's great at it, Pablo's great at it,
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: and so's Nick and I think even Flynn's pretty good
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: at it.
• 24:19
  Speaker 4: So they're all big guys. They're all big guys.
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: They're all closer than that top.
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah. So I mean I see Kodiaka being able to
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: go pretty fast with them. But whoever goes quickest, the
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: smoothest and doesn't lose focus and stays concentrating and moving
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: efficiently and quickly, not not to the point where they're
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: coming off the rails, but efficiently, they're gonna win this one.
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: I think Evan can win this one, but I also
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: think Kodiaka can too. But either way, you know, those
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: those would be good points for for those two guys.
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: Then we got the stone meed. Yeah, after that. Now
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: that's gonna be really interesting cause you're gonna have to
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: press carry and uh load. In all honesty, I see
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: Evan doing very well with this. I see Krdiaka doing
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: very well at this. Nick. Nick will probably do pretty
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: good at it too. It's just could be not making mistakes. Yeah,
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: and then Luke will be Luke will be solid at this.
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah he's so, but speed wise everything else, I mean,
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: Luke's in shape. Luke could actually I think Luke and
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: Evan could probably both walk away with this one. Yeah,
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: in the finals. In all honesty, I see it being
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: Luke and Evan, but Nick could sneak in there. I
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: think the Dead Life's gonna throw Kardiaca back a little
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: too far for him to make up. Andrew's probably gonna
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: step in and make good points on a few things
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: and shake some things up. Nick has the ability to
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: make it in there, but he's got to come in
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: on point and not make any mistakes. If he does that,
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: you know, it'll be a good learning experience for him
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: his first Can he make it in Yes, so it'll
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: be fun to watch. So that's kind of how we
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: go with that. In the finals, we're gonna have the
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: neck Carrian hoist, so that's gonna be pretty interesting. That
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: hoist looks really cool, so that one's gonna be pretty interesting.
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: That'll be, you know, a little bit of a grip event,
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: so that'll be kind of rough. On Trey. I think
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: Tom will kill that events. It should be pretty interesting.
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: Evan will kill, absolutely kill that event. He is good
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: at that stuff. Let's see here, Austin. If he gets
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: to that, I think it'll be pretty interesting, but I
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: think he'll do well at it. I think Hooper will
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: kill that event. He's very good at those things without
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: a doubt.
• 26:54
  Speaker 4: Good at figuring it out.
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and he's probably the best one at figuring things out.
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: But if he doesn't know, he asks somebody he trusts
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: and he'll he'll get really good advice. Mittaus will do
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: good at that and Lucas. Lucas will actually surprise people
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: on that a little bit.
• 27:12
  Speaker 4: I think.
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: Trey that that'll be one depending on the grit portion
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: of that where Trey could that could hurt Tray a
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: little bit. And Evan, well, yeah, ive already talked about Evan.
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: Evan will probably do really well on that. Now max
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: eighteen inch deadlift, we could be seeing a new world
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: record on that, And honestly, I think Austin will pull
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: very good on that. I think Mitchell mitchellill pull whatever
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: he needs to on that. I think, Yeah, I mean
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: we could see twelve hundred go down. I think I
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: wouldn't be surprised if six hundred kilos goes down on that.
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: Lucas Haden will pull really really well on that as well,
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: because all the guys that are about stix foot two
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: or a little bit less are gonna do pretty good
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: on that. I think Trey will pull very well on it.
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: And Evan, if he puts his head out there, he
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: could actually do pretty well with that. But his height
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: is gonna maybe hurt him a little bit on that. Yeah,
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: but I that one, I just gotta say, Hoop's probably
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: gonna run.
• 28:14
  Speaker 3: Off with that, you know, I can see that happening.
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: Hercules hold Tom's gonna do pretty good that. He's pretty
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: solid at the hercules hold well.
• 28:24
  Speaker 3: He get a lot of practice with it out there
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: in uh in England, cause he do it quite a bit.
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think Hooper will do okay in that one.
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: Kochakowski will do pretty good at that one. Hatton not
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: too bad. Trey will actually surprise people on that one
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: because those handles aren't real thick. Yeah, so that that
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: one will actually be pretty good for Trey. Max will
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: hold it forever if he gets in the final. Uh
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: and Evan Evan. If Evan sets up right, Evan can
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: hold that a long time. So that would be a
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: fun one to watch. Yeah. Next will be the Flintstone Barrel.
• 29:00
  Speaker 4: And this is on Sunday, first event.
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so this is the first event on Sunday, will
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: be that behind the Neck press and we all saw
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: what Lucas did. Yeah, I think Lucas might take that event,
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: but I think Trey and Mitchell will surprise some people
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: on that. I think Mitchell, if he can't win that event,
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: he'll be in the top three in that event pretty easily.
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: And then Tom Stultman did pretty solid on it last
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: time as well. And then of course Atlas Stones Tray
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: and Tom will just absolutely kill that. And then Mitchell's
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: actually improved so much of that he'll be right up
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: in there as well. Yeah, and then Evan Singleton, He's
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: got a pretty good shot at doing pretty well with
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: the stones as well. Let's not forget Austin and a
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: couple of those other guys can sneak in.
• 29:49
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah. Like I said, we're talking about the top
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: percent here. Yeah, these guys are all finely tuned.
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: But with the speculation and stuff, there's a reason why
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: we do it because if the end of the day,
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: it's about going on getting it done exactly. Not you
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: don't just win because that's what people think, exactly. You
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: gotta go out and see what's what. Yeah, So I mean,
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: in all in all honesty, I think if Hooper's got
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: his head screwed on straight and steps in, this could
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: be a very good contest for him. I think he
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: can win a second title. Yeah. I also think Trey
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: can win this. I also think Evan can win this,
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: and even Austin for that matter, Lucas I think can
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: actually win this. Lucas might surprise well.
• 30:33
  Speaker 3: He's been getting more more rounder with everything he's been doing.
• 30:37
  Speaker 3: And like I said, he got invited to last year's
• 30:40
  Speaker 3: World Strongest Man but declined because he just wasn't He
• 30:44
  Speaker 3: didn't feel he was prepared.
• 30:45
  Speaker 4: But guess what, he's prepared prepared this year.
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: So and I know how is gonna let him unprepared.
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: So it's gonna be good. I can't wait to see this.
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: I'm really super excited on seeing what actually ends up
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: happening and just all the competitors. Love you guys. I
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: just kind of giving people kind of what I see
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: and what I think we're supposed to do. Hey, if
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: you guys sneak in there and you surprise me or
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: you just destroy my predictions, God bless I'm I'm rooting
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: for you. I want to see everybody win, and since
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: that can happen, I just want to see everybody go
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: out and do the absolute best they can to leave
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: it all on the playing field.
• 31:25
  Speaker 5: So exactly, and before we get out of here, Nick,
• 31:29
  Speaker 5: if everyone's watching this video all the way and give
• 31:32
  Speaker 5: me two tips for one for each day of what's
• 31:35
  Speaker 5: so much should be prepared for.
• 31:36
  Speaker 3: Remember, we're gonna be in Sacramento. It's gonna be about
• 31:38
  Speaker 3: eighty degrees. You know, it's not super hot, but we
• 31:42
  Speaker 3: will be directly in the sun. So that's that's that
• 31:45
  Speaker 3: one of those things.
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: They'll be able to go back, Yeah, they will, but
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: they'll have them. Like really, in all honesty, eat your food,
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: relax and enjoy the ride. Focus on what you have
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: in front of you. What the next event is. If
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: you do good in the event, that's great. Go out
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: to the next event like you place last and you
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: need all the points you can get in it. If
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: you didn't do good, have a short if you mess
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: up an event, have a short memory forget about it
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: and show up and just go after the next event
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: with everything that you have, getting all the points that
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: you can because the end of the day, it's the
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: points that matter. If you beat a guy by twenty seconds,
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: it doesn't matter you. All you have to do is
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: beat the guy by zero point one seconds or point
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: zero zero one. There you go. So keep your head
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: screwed on straight, go out and enjoy the experience, have fun,
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: and you know, take it one event at a time.
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: Do not count your eggs, and do not cry over
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: spilt melt. Just get out there, go have fun and
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: do what you get to do. Because there's so many
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: people that would be out there, you know, doing this
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: if they could and they can't. So go out there
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: and have fun and just enjoy yourself and lay it
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: on the line. Leave everything on the game field. That's it.
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: Just be smart. If you if you pick up something,
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: you see a different way of picking up something. Here's
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: a step here, or a movement there. Save the movements.
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: Everything counts. That's it.
• 33:05
  Speaker 4: So I'll take us out of here, all right.
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: Well, if you enjoyed this like sharing, subscribe and as always,
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: train hard, train smart, and be the best you can be.
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: And thanks Ben for having me at your place.
• 33:17
  Speaker 3: We'll see you guys in Sacramento. And if you see
• 33:19
  Speaker 3: us walk around yes tomorrow, don't be shy, Come take
• 33:23
  Speaker 3: a picture, come say hi.
• 33:24
  Speaker 4: All that good stuff.
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: Love me and people. It's good to see you guys.
• 33:27
  Speaker 4: That's it. Thank you guys.
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: Next time, your best experience, what best
• 34:01
  Speaker 5: Sme