Shameless self promotion

Yep, shameless indeed.

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GMV sell 11000 DVD's

Arriving in the email inbox this morning was my copy of the GMV newsletter. I noticed, between DVD and video promos, a little paragraph in which they mentioned selling - to date - 11,000 DVD's.

At a guess I'd say that's almost certainly better than any other seller of muscle related DVD's anywhere. Some of the pros, I am sure, will have sold many 1000's of copies of their own particular DVD's (Ronnie must have done very well) and maybe, before he dropped out Mitsu of MOCVIDEO, has done in the 1000's as well but all in all... I bet Wayne and the rest of the Gallasch clan have them beat.

If you know better... send me info!!

Check them out: GMV

World's best wrist wrap??

APT recently introduced what they call 'The Wrap'. In our Whey Consortium gym we have many brands and I've tried many of them. From Metal's 'Black' via Inzer's brand through Titan Support Systems and more. If, as APT claim, these are 25% harder than their Convict branded wraps then they are monsters. Give them a try for me and let me know how they are.

Check them here: APT

WSM: Loz yes or no??

From SDF / Terry Hollands.
I also spoke to Laurence's brother Harry Shahlaei this morning and he confirmed Laurence DOES have an invite after all.The knee tweak picked up in Poland is not the same as before and apparently will be ok in a week or so. Cool. Harry also mentioned most of the events likely to be in the qualifying rounds and from what he said and what we both know none of them will be too much of a problem.

Go LOZZA

Who's your pick for the Olympia '09??

Yep, it's that time of year again. In a few short weeks (3 or 4 methinks) the Mr O will be upon us. As usual there's lot of noise on the BB forums as to who is the fans pick. Let's take a quick look at the potential top 6:

• Dexter Jackson


• Phil Heath
  
• Denis Wolf


• Jay Cutler
  
• Victor Martinez


• Kai Green
  

DJ, as the current Mr O, gets a better than usual chance. It's rare that the current Mr O gets a knock back next time around. That he is usually dry and in shape, indeed his 'out of shape' still being better than most, means his chances must be good.

Phil Heath, as the youngest of the group, seems to have the greatest potential. At Dexter’s recent competition he guest posed along side Ronnie, Dexter and Jay and seemed, at 5 weeks out to be ready to go. Huge arms and weaknesses well hidden he is, as they say: a contender.

Denis Wolf. Called by many writers in 08 and 09 ‘the fans favourite’ (BB.com had a poll and he walked it) Dennis is a broad shouldered, slim waisted German giant. With pretty much only poor calves holding him back he has a fair chance.

Jay C. Already a multi Mr O winner but still, compared to Ronnie, young enough to do well does he have what it takes to get it back together again and reclaim the title?? Changes to training and diet have been mentioned and so perhaps we will see a return to top form??

Victor Martinez has had some issues to overcome these past 18 months or so. The death of a sister only too recently may have hurt his chances and a major knee injury sometime ago was not completely over come last time he competed (Arnold Classic this year). Ronnie has been reported as saying he has it in him to win the Mr O.

Kai Greene. Winner of this years Arnold, beating Victor, and like Phil seeming to improve all the time. Certainly a different kind of poser and someone who can and does get into shape. Is it his time?

From the land of Tulips... 100 tonne truck pull

While looking, as above, for more EU sourced info I came across this gem. Posted on the RDP site on the 27th of July was this 12 metre pull of a 100 tonne (truck and trailer combined total of 100,000 kilos or 100 metric tonnes). The atheltes were; Wout Zijlstra and Jan Wagenaar

Me likee :) Although it appears (baring in mind they have the driver on the left) that a child is driving ha ha

Check out the rig... just looks damned heavy (me wanna go now!!).

Yes today Europe IS the focus

Typical surfing style, clicking on one thing leading to another, lead me to this site which might, just possibly, be doing a version of what I'm looking to do:

Power on TV

My very limited German means I'm not sure if they have a magazine or not but they do seem happy to broaden their focus outside the bodybuilding only remit which is the norm.

Real Dutch Power is THE Netherlands site for strongman info and I'm adding some dates of theirs to the calendar.

The best German strength site

These boys seem to have it well in hand. From the records, current rankings through to a breakdown of every (yes every) strongman event you can think of.

Check out: http://www.gfsa-strongman.de/index.php

I also emailed one of their better organized (sends info to Ironmind) ex-pros asking him to consider contributing info to this here blog (yee haa). Fingers crossed.

Germany’s Strongest Man results

From Ironmind:

1. Florian Trimpl
2. Tobias Ide
3. Steffen Hayn
4. Daniel Wildt
5. Patrik Baboumian
6. Patrick Gentsch
7. Oliver Eichele
8. Tilo Kretzschmar
9. Anton Schimke
10. Enrico Schütze

MD sept issue

Trey Brewer 'the future'?? And then Dorian too.

Giants Live Poland strongman results

Thanks to SDF / pjaxz

1. Jarek Dymek 64.5
2. Mark Felix 55
3. Stefan Solvi 46.5
4. Kevin Nee 45
5. Darren Sadler 43.5
6. Laurence Shahlei 28
7. Sławomir Łukawski 18
8. Konstantyn Ilin 16.5
9. Damian Antoniok 15
10. Rob Frampton 13
11. Roland Gulbis 6
12. Tarmo Mitt 6

Jarek Dymek, Stefan Solvi and Mark Felix qualified on WSM 2009

I was hoping my bud Laurence would make it through but he thinks he injured himself on the first event and then was persuaded to stay in, made the cut (beating well-known Tarmo Mitt) and finally pulled out on the last event. As this is, we think, the last WSM qualifier that's it for this year.

Dexter Jackson Classic

Some forum members are looking at the guest posers and saying Phil Heath is it for the upcoming Mr O.

Maybe... what do you think??

This is focus

So I watched 'Man on a wire' about Phillip Petit walking between the twin towers some time ago. He used a high wire. Slacklining uses a strap.

This man is slacklining 3000 feet up.

Video

Now if you could focus like that... how strong would you be?

GBPF Roses cup

Held yesterday, I asked on Sugden today (cheers JT)... and here are the FULL (nice touch for a start) results:

Click me :)

Team strongman 09 top three

From SDF (more if I can get some)

1. Enzo and Jay
2. Jay 'Hollywood' Hughes and Chris Gearing
3. Lee Bowers and Liam O'Sullivan

Jacksonville 2009 results in

From RX Muscle and MD Online we have the top three in both classes (visit the sites for the rest of the results):


Mens 202 and under

1. Stan McQuay
   
2. Daryl Gee
   
3. Tricky Jackson

Womens Figure

1. Jessica Putnam


2. Erin Stern


3. Jenny Lynn

WSM - Malta it is

From Ironmind:

''The curtain has been lifted and now it’s official: the 2009 World’s Strongest Man contest will be held in Malta.Qualifiers are September 26 - 29 and the finals are October 1 - 3.''

Kai Green working chest

Up to 5 plates a side and with some pumped up posing at the end...

Video

Jacksonville pro prejudging photos in

Peter Putnam

From RX Muscle:

Also Ronnie, Jay et al are guest posting. Should be good.

Gallery here

Nice tribute to Wag Bennett.

Although I never had the pleasure of visiting Wag's gym in Romford Road I did meet Wag on a few occasions (2-3 times at OHF dinners and once at Nobby Norris's house near Mile End). Wag also brought one of the 7 full size Millennium Dumbbells from Alan Radley and myself

The following site (click me) gives you some indication of his and Diane's involvement in bodybuilding and physical culture here in the UK.