Tuesday, 29 June 2010

World of Grip - World's Strongest Hands Series 2010

David Horne recently announced, following the success of the W.O.G./Super Series, his intention to hold a series of world wide grip events in a similar format. Info for this is as follows.

Dates:
Leg 1 - Saturday 14 August, 2010

Leg 2 - Saturday 11 September, 2010
Leg 3 - Saturday 16 October, 2010
Leg 4 - Saturday 13 November, 2010

Events:
1. Two Hands Pinch Lift
2. Wrist Developer
3. One Hand Vulcan Gripper - 20mm block close

Venues: All around the world

Overall promoter:
David Horne and World of Grip
Contest promoters:
David Horne – Stafford, England
Steve Gardener – Gloucester, England
Juha Harju – Helsinki, Finland
Chris Rice – Crooksville, Ohio, USA
Dave Thornton – Three Rivers, Michigan, USA
Eric Milfeld – Fort Worth, Texas, USA
Jedd Johnson – Wyalusing, Pennsylvania, USA
Adam T. Glass – Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Aaron Concorran + Tim Struse - Tucson, Arizona, USA

Competitors:
You can compete at any venue. The same events and apparatus will be used at all venues.

Trophies:
There will be ‘World of Grip handshake logo’ trophies (as seen at the Britain's) for the 1st, 2nd and 3rd of the overall placings. For the individual 4 legs there will be medals for 1st, 2nd and 3rd.

Entrance fees:
£10 GBP ($15, 12 euro) per leg, or £25 GBP ($37, 30 euro) for more than 1 leg, ie. All 4 legs.
All payments are made to the individual promoters by cash or paypal, then after each leg they will send the relevant payment to me through paypal.
To compete at Stafford please send the payment through paypal to world_of_grip@ntlworld.com

Rules:

To follow

Results:
The results should be sent to me on the day of the contest and no later. So that I can type up the overall results as soon as possible, and get this up on the forum the next morning.
At the end of the 4 legs, the overall scores will be compiled to find the overall rankings and winner. The trophies and medals will then be sent out to them.

Video:
I will do a video, which I will put on youtube showing how to referee the events, etc.


Standardized equipment for each event has been sent out today (June 25th) to all agreed promoters.

Another FB pic you may have missed


Local IFBB pro (super helpful too) Lee Powell from a shoot by Fivos Averkiou:

Wednesday, 16 June 2010

Thursday, 10 June 2010

Another facebook image you may not have seen


Strongman Champions League Limerick image of Terry Holland and what looks to be a large US truck.

Tuesday, 8 June 2010

Editing blog posts.... not today!

The Vydex/STC thing continues. Apparently, according to at least two bods, I should edit one of my posts. The one in which I reported the posting of a rumored (note that word) raid by Trading Standards of Vydex premises.

It seems to have passed some by that I also posted the WHOLE letter of Vydex's response a mere day or so later. Balance and counter balance I think. One comment, open to interpretation, of mine was that products sold by the Whey Consortium (I co-own said company) were good to go as it were and were not made by Vydex. Just about as factual as you can get yet some did not like this...

Well 'me no care'. I don't think that there's a single thing wrong with either post and I've yet to have a cease and desist letter from a solicitor. So.... rssppp!

Monday, 7 June 2010

Check the guy in the background... LOL


I have a few of the Ronnie Coleman vids. In one Ronnie is using a pair of 200lb dumbbells to bench with and in the background (bare in mind it's Metroflex - a hard core gym), is a guy barely bending his knees. Squatting one plate a side... just embarrassing. So when I saw this pic, from Flex magazine, posted by IB of some amazing leg separation in Dennis Wolf's legs I initially missed the weight the guy in the left was using. OMG!!! Then I also noticed the huge set of teeny weeny dumbbells. FFS LOL!!

Wednesday, 2 June 2010

Big Loz qualifies for WSM




In a Giants Live event, held in the Ukraine, Laurence Shahlaei pushed Derek Poundstone to the wire (in fact Ironmind reports Loz was in 1st place until the last event). Placing 2nd when the dust settled Loz has now qualified for this years WSM. Photo from Ironmind. There report HERE