August 22, 2024 • 32 mins
In this episode, we comprehensively recap the Shaw Classic 2024, featuring commentary from some of the World's Strongest Men, including Brian Shaw, Thor Bjornsson, and Mitchell Hooper. We dive into this prestigious strongman event's performances, highlights, and behind-the-scenes glimpses. Critical discussions include the importance of rule adherence, event strategies, and the evolution of the sport. Additionally, we touch upon the significance of proper preparation and tackling critical errors during competitions. Join us as we celebrate these incredible athletes' achievements and relentless drive.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:19):
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were tuning in. Fresh back from the Shah Strongest.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Yeah, I've been back about a day and a half.
I'm just trying to.
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long week?
Speaker 1 (02:19):
No, yeah, but it was great. I mean, what more
could you want? And to go, you know, hang out,
do commentary, do a little bit of judging and just
see an amazing event like the Shot Classic and the
Strongest Man on Earth. I mean, it's always great when
you get to hang out with all the guys and
you get to see him four came back, Mitchell was
(02:40):
on a terror. I mean, it's just it's just a
great week. I was a little spent when I got
back because between commentating, yelling and screaming for everybody and
everything else, I was a little exhausted. But it was good.
I mean I can only imagine how Brian's feeling right
now because that oh yeah stop for probably the last
(03:02):
five months and.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
That he was yeah, oh yeah, and to think like,
you know, like he was competing and doing the same thing.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Yeah, he was, And I think the competing probably took
just enough off when he was doing that to where
he didn't completely like exhaust himself and stuff like that
because he had training. Now this was his sole focus
(03:32):
and then he literally put everything that he is and
into this contest. He wants it to be perfect. He
wants he wants to move the sport forward in such
a way where he wants to make it better for
every single athlete, male and female in the sport, and
it's extremely important to him and the drive he has
(03:53):
and the perfection that he wants and expects and helps
with is it's it's pretty noticeable because it's heads above
everything else going out there right now, and just from
the way he treats the athletes when they come in,
to the way the show goes off, to everything, the
(04:15):
way you have what you need available to warm up with,
there's ice pass back there, there's there's any kind of
medical that you would need back there. So it's it's
pretty it's pretty impressive just all the way around how
he runs the thing. And I mean you get there
and you start seeing the performances. It's just like, oh
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my god, you know, from from the deadlift on. I
mean it was it was on for the strongest men
on Earth. It was a great contest. It was good
to see Thor back. It was good to see him
pull like nine to ninety one on his second attempt
and then just sit and watch. And there were a
couple of guys that were capable of going over one
thousand that day, but just they didn't have it and
(05:00):
or had it and didn't need it. So he went
out and was like, hey, you know, he missed over
a thousand, so I'm good. I don't I don't need
to have won the event. My goal is to win this,
not just win the event. So that's Boor's looking good
and he's looking really strong. I mean, his overhead comes
back and he's going to be He's he's going to
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be a handful for anyone out there. And Hooper's probably
the most cerebral of all the strong men. He will
look at every single event and figure out a way
to do it to the best of his possible ability.
And he'll read through the rules. I'm going to tell
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you this right now. If you don't read through the
rules as a competitor yourself, you're making a critical mistake
in a critical error and read through and understand him.
If you're not spending at least an hour going through
the rules and going through intricately and asking questions at
the rules meeting. Because these guys got the rules I
think four weeks out. Yeah, so you know it's it
(06:09):
should be. You should know what's going on. There were
guys who made mistakes that were in the rules that
they didn't need to make. So it's a big deal
all the way around. And if your coach, if you
have a coach with you and your coach hasn't intricately
gone through the rules as well, that's a problem. I mean,
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you see guys out there doing stuff and it's like, nope,
those are the rules, and they're trying to argue like
it's right here, it's written down. You know, I can't
do that, so you know, And there were a couple
of big things like on the deadlift, you know, guys
were warn hey, your hands are opening up the deadlift.
They got rid of the figure eights, yeah, I remember,
(06:53):
which is awesome because a lot of the guys were
putting the bar down on their fingertips. Some of the
guys were putting the bar down on their finger tips
and they were kind of learning how to kind of
like abuse it. And he didn't want that with the
wrist straps either, so he limited the link so that
you couldn't wrap around the back side of your hand. Yeah,
(07:14):
and wrap it around, creating the same thing, and then
you need to pull the straps in.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
You got straps.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
If you can't keep your hand all the way on
the bar with straps on, that's you trying to get
a little extra Yeah, yeah, save it half an inch,
which in most cases is fine. But it was strictly
against the rules and the shot classics, so you couldn't
do it. So if your hand opened up and you
could see you know air, you know, light in there,
or the thumb wasn't all the way around the bar,
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you didn't get the lift, even if you stood up
with it. And that happened a couple of times, and
it was tragic, But it's the rules, so obey the rules.
That was pretty neat. The squad apparatus was absolutely amazing.
I can't believe guys didn't ask more questions of the
people that tested it, because you can't set up on
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that thing. Your hips need to be underneath you at
the bottom because if they're not underneath it, Yeah, and
so if your butt is back like a regular squad,
when you get to the bottom and you try to
drive that forwards, the weight is going to go at
an angle. It's going to go this way instead of
this way. And that's what was happening to a lot
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of guys when they got down to the bottom. And uh,
you know, you got to practice for that. So anybody
who didn't go find a vertical smith machine to at
least train that on kind of also made some critical
mistakes in it. I they're round, you can find them
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in gyms. I mean, even it's a standard and you're
competing for over one hundred grand, So go find the thing.
Go find the implements for real, even if you got
to drive an hour, you practice on it twice or
three times during your training cycle. At least know it's
going to feel like you're going to know, put your
feet way more forward. Yeah, you know, and it turns
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it almost into a hat squat for all intensive.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
Purposes, which I agree, that's the truth, you know.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
And guys that asked me, I told them I leaned
back with my shoulders back into it. Once I got
it up, I pushed back and then have my feet
forwards and when I hit the bottom, my my hips
were directly underneath me. I just popped straight back up.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
So you know, for for depth wise, they really didn't
try to bury the guys. You know, they just try
to make sure they were real close to parallel. They
wanted to see reps with eight hundred pounds. Well they
ended up being eight hundred and eleven. So it was good,
but guys made critical errors on where to set their
feet on that and it costs a lot of people.
(09:47):
I mean this it's just part of what you do.
I like the event. I think it's a great event.
I think next year they're probably not only going to
have the knee and they'll probably start with the hip
this time instead of the knee angle. And I think
that'll take take care of some of the other issues
that people had with the event. And then yeah, it's
(10:09):
that's a great event. Though. I mean it looked good
when it was going up and down those barrels up there.
It looks badass. I love that event. So yeah, and
the thing is is you're trying to evolve, you're trying
to bring back the spectacle of the sport. So it
looks cool, you know, and the car, the leg press
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for the car looks absolutely amazing. First year, the rough
second year was freaking flawless. That's it, And I think
you can see an improvement on the guys if he
decides to put that in there next year. I think
you'll see a big difference in what happens with that
event next year, as far as guys getting reps and
doing what they're supposed to do with it. So they
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learned it now they'll come back. The guys that listen
to move their feet forwards and actually ask me questions
about it all hit reps. So that was that was
pretty cool.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
I think that's it. That's it. On the expo side,
how much larger, because I know they said they had
opened up two wings of it.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
Yeah, yeah, so there's a front hall on a back hall.
They opened both halls. I would like to say I
made it to the back hall, but I didn't. I
got to the evolution booth and the Shield six one
six booth, and then I ran over and said hi
to Juju and then got out of there. It was neat.
(11:30):
I kind of wanted to walk around more, but I
just didn't get the opportunity. And then when I did
get in there, I just couldn't get very far, which
is great. I love it. I wouldn't trade that for
the world. I'll sit there and you know, meet people
and sign my graphs and take pictures with people and
talk to people all day long. I love it. I
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absolutely love it. And so, but only made to two
boosts and then I had to go back in and
head over to the head over the Strongest Man on
Earth to see the start of that show and help
where it needed.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
Yeah. Well, you know, we all saw you on that
on that on your story, we all saw you driving
to the sweeping scooter around.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
Yeah, thats amazing. That was a lot of fun. It's
kind of neat. It's like driving a little go cart,
but you're cleaning at the same time, so it was
actually pretty fun. That was a good time. And then
the best part though the story got up there with
the sun and he got and drove it around right
after that, driving him around, So it's pretty cool. Yeah
(12:35):
it's neat.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
Oh yeah, no, that that's one of those things too.
That's always great because it's like I said, these shows,
you know, unfortunately I wasn't I couldn't be there, But
like I said, everything looked great from the side. I
definitely had a lot of fun just watching reels, shorts.
The pay per view, the you know, like just go
and the access to it. You know what I'm saying
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is just a lot better and a lot easier than
than previous years too.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Right, Well, here's the other thing. Even to support the
guys and keep supporting the guys, you can go buy it.
If you didn't buy the pay per view, you can
still go buy it and then you can watch it
free for the whole next year. So if you want
to see what they're doing, learn techniques and watch and
stuff like that. It's it's something you can go get
and still watch free the whole rest of the year
(13:21):
for free once you buy it. So it's it's worth
and it just shows more support and almost all that
money goes back to the athletes. That really does. Yeah,
so Brian will never put a cap on the prize money,
and that's.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
A big deal.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
So if you support the sport and you want to
support these guys, Brian's not going to put a cap
on the prize money. Brian will just the more they buy,
the more he raises. The prize money gets him more
money to do a better job for the.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
Sport exactly, and then the next year, you know what
I'm saying, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
So it's a beautiful thing. And I can't think Brian
and Carey enough for having be and my friends and
then still having me be a part of this thing.
I absolutely just cherish it.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
So doing strong Man is that's your life, That's that's
what you are, that's who you are. And it's like,
you know, you've you've given so much to the sport,
but you also give back to the sport. And then
that's the best part because like I said, your time
is well spent when you're when when you're with the
fans and people like saying, you know, there's a lot
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of times I'm dragging you away where I'm like, no,
we gotta go, you know what I'm saying. So like
I know, I know, but I just want the fans
to know, Hey, that's my job, that's what I do.
And you know, like Nick, he's got stuff to do,
but man, he's sure. He's very, very very generous, which
you're with his time, So just understand that I'm not
trying to be mean.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
It's okay, yeah there, but there are so many other
things that that show. Look, if you're a professional strong
man and there's stones in your event, even if you
don't need the other blends of tack he try to bring.
Like for me personally, I use Cerberuss because they have
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like four different grades I think five, but four different grades. Yeah,
so I get one through four on those, and then
I also get the elite tacking from Dave Ouslin. And
Dave will actually make stuff. He'll make a blend and
he'll make a cooler one and a hotter one for
you to take with you to kind of match the
weather in the humidity humidity of the area that you're
(15:29):
going to. Yeah, so I always bring a combination. I
used to bring like six or seven. Brian would bring
six or seven of them.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
Well one year a heatical. Grab the bag and it's
like a gallon zip bag filled to the brim.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
Yeah, of a whole bunch of different taxis. That way,
as you're warming up, if you try something it doesn't
feel very good, you know, grab something else and then
you go put your hands on the stones, especially when
they're new, before you go do them. Yeah, and then
while they're setting them up out on the floor. I
would always go out and mess with them and check
it out and see, you know, and you know, get
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a little fresh tacky on them. Yeah, you know that way,
and then where you put your hands. And if you
walk up and some guy before you just went and
he was coated in it when he walked out there,
you know, all that tack he's going to be on
the stones, So go up, rotate the thing, put your
hands where they're going to go, roll it up again,
and put your hands ready to go over the top
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and then push it back into place. That way you
get your thin layer of fresh TACKI that's on it.
And you might not necessarily need to tack your hands.
Or if you're in a race and you're not going
to have time to tack him, it's already there. You know.
You can tack him a little bit more if you
need to and you got time, but or your backs
you need to take a second for your back. You
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can retacky. But you see a lot of critical errors
I mean by some very elite people at this when
it came to tacky and walking out and preparing the
stones before you go and stuff like that, and it
was it was it was interesting.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
I will say, if your coach doesn't.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
Yeah, and I would say, if your coach doesn't doesn't
make sure you do this, get another coach. You know,
I would say, if your coach doesn't have you donating
blood about six weeks before the contest, get another coach.
They don't know what they're doing. You know that that
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helps with Sometimes some of the guys get nosebleeds, or
the air will be real thin and it'll prevent all that,
which is great. Yeah, you're you're up at elevation, and
depending on the time, because it can be dry in Colorado,
it could be very humity Colorados. It goes back and forth.
So but it helps prepare you to go when you're
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ready to go. I mean, there's a lot of little
things that I see some coaches that are making a
lot of money that they're not. They might know how
some of it works, but they have no idea how
to compete, and then they try to argue with you,
which I thought was quite funny. I've done the Arnold,
so I've done these stones out there ye when it
was in contests, you know, so I got a pretty
(18:14):
good idea of what I'm doing is that I've also
done it World Strongest Man like ten times, and I
competed in the Arnold twice and it was an alternate once, so.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
Yeah, little experience behind you.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
Yeah, but it's it's it's it's good to see people
working hard. It's better to see them prepared and ready
to go and the experience will pay off.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
Yeah, which that's you know, it's all comes with time,
you know, Like I say, the Shaw Strongest Man on
Earth and it like you even got a for the
amateurs and for the open they had a YouTube stream too,
you know what.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
I'm saying, which was free on the Strongest Man on
Earth's YouTube page. Yeah, so I know, the first day
got like ninety four thousand the last time I checked views,
and then it was like over each day they got
over fifty thousand views, which is phenomenal for them, which
is which is awesome. It was neat that he did
that because last year he charged for it. This year
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was free.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
So and then The Strongest Man on Earth you know,
had the pay per views, So yeah, he's really doing
everything he can to push this forwards and get it
out to as many people as they can. So it's
it's going to be good for the sport long term.
It really is. And thank you Brian for the sacrifice
and the hard work that you and carry put into this.
It's it really, it really is helping the sport just overall.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
Oh yeah, and hopefully next year I can definitely come
because like this is, you know, and something for me
always seems to pop up and I can't show up
to anybody, you know, and just get the people into
an expense. I had a heart attack, but I'm ok,
you know what I'm saying. So you know, we've got
but I'm standing back.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
Yeh yeh, that's it you Yeah, the blood clots and
stuff that you get, it's just bullshit.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
So yeah, yeah, you know, we don't want to go
too far into that weeds because that's the stuff that
gets just taken down.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
We're just going to thank the laboratory in China for that.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
Yeah, exactly. So let's let's switch gears to Mitchell Hooper. Man,
what a video drop yesterday.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
Yeah, yeah, that was pretty awesome. It's neat seeing how
motivated he is and how much. He does love the
sport and then love the influence and the way he
can reach people through the sport.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
Yes, I mean he's.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
Generally Yeah, he's generally a good guy and he really is.
What you get is what you get. Now. He's hyper intelligent,
so you have to understand that. But I mean, it's
it's so he he comes from He's not coming from
a place to trying to be cocky. He's coming from
a place where he's pretty smart. And he he says
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things you know that a lot of times like get misunderstood.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
Yeah, which he hung out dinner, you know, talking with them.
It's just so like there's mentioned Yeah, I mentioned things
to him and he's like really, and I'm like that
makes a lot more sense than what I was thinking
right now.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
He's mentally probably the strongest in the game, right hands down.
What he can push himself through, how he can attack things,
how he analyzes every event and finds any way possible.
Because like Brian and Magnus ver were probably two of
the best that would pick up part events I mean
watching you know, I know Magnus was you know, known
(21:56):
for that, but I didn't get to be there while
he was pulling it apart in person. Yeah, but getting
to sit there and be there in person when Brian's
pulling it apart and asking every question under the sun,
Which is why it's so good at setting up events
because usually there's not a whole lot of holes you
can slip through when Brian comes up rules for a contest.
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But he's probably the best right now at pulling events
apart and figuring out how to get every single ounce
out of it and get every point out of every
single event. Very rarely does he do bad in an event,
and he almost never does bad at an event two years.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
In a row, ever, Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
So he learns, comes back, fixes, adjusts, and conquers and
that's why he's winning. How he's winning, I mean one
of the many reasons, you know, between talent, desire, intelligence,
just all the way through. He's and i mean, yeah,
he's probably one of the most physical gifted athletes I've
(22:56):
ever seen.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
Yeah, it's crazy, you know, And like said, he's won
all four titles, he set a world record, you know
what I'm saying, He's accomplishing the things that he set
out to be because you know, he's went from sport
to sport sport, and like, how good can I be?
Can I eat the best at what I am doing here?
And like he in that video, you know, chronologically lead
(23:19):
it out like this is what I did. And then
all of a sudden I was there and you know
that that First Worlds he did. We were sitting right
next to him as he was eating dinner and he like,
and I just remember too listening to him talking about
his training numbers, and I was like, who the fuck
is this guy? You know what I'm saying, you know,
And it was just like like and he was just
(23:41):
casually saying these things, and I'm like, man, and like
I said, just eating his dinner, having a good time,
joking around, playing, and I just was like, this kid's
got something, you know what I'm saying. That first year,
I could feel it off of them.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
Yeah, and there's gonna be some other guys. There's some
guys coming up now, Like Lucas Houghton got third. Oh yeah,
he had amazing, Yeah, and he had an amazing performance,
absolutely amazing and pulled it out the end. There was
like nearly a three way tie for third place. Yeah,
going into that last event, that's it, you know, And
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he gutted it out going up those power stairs. I'm
sitting there yelling at him. I'm like, go one more stair,
go get it all the way on, you know, and
he comes up. He gets it up there. He thought
he was really close on time, and it's like, no,
you had a good time.
Speaker 3 (24:30):
I think he finished in like one on two or
something nice. So he joke.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
Yeah, well six hundred pounds kind of power stairs, it's
pretty heavy.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
So but he gutted it out, he got it up there.
He did those things, which super impressive, and he secured
third place, you know, and that's no joke. When you
got Metchell Hooper and popped their abdorance and.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
Yeah, you know, yeah, you following two of the greats
right there, former strongest man, you know he and he
just got his strongest America's strongest man. And like I
said that, and I think Lucas he was. He had
mentioned on Instagram that like he could have done worlds
or he was like in line to it, but he
was like, I'm not ready yet. I'm not going into
(25:15):
a competition that I'm not prepared for. And he's a
young man. So guess what, you know that that's a
thought process too, because like even talking with Lucas, that's
just another one of those guys that like cerebral smart
talking about it, you know, very very thorough on what
his plans are to do. So I definitely tip my
hat to Lucas on that third because that was tremendous
(25:36):
to be standing up there with the greats like that.
You know.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
It's Yea and Austin had a good contest, yep. I
think Tom had a couple critical errors. One on the
squad and the Stones. I mean, you could have laid
money probably in Vegas at ninety to one hundred to one,
maybe even a thousand to one that he wouldn't zero
the stones, and he zeroed the stone. But some of
(26:01):
that tacky, trying too long, not going out with tacky
all over your arms. Yeah, but that's okay, I mean
it's he'll learn from that. That will never happen again.
So uh but nobody would expect that, you know. And
the squad, his butt was way back when he hit
the bottom, and if you can't get that leverage underneath it,
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yeah it's not gonna matter. His feet were too far back.
So those things will get fixed, and you know, he'll
be fine, but it was. It was. It was a
tough contest. So Evan had a good show. Trey did unbelievable.
Trey got fourth. He's one of the and that's what
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that's what nobody seemed to got. He tore his achilles
less than a year ago. Less than a year ago.
Speaker 3 (26:54):
Yeah, and he's looking leaner and meaner every time I
see him.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
Mm hmm. And so again with Trey, it's a grip
thing that that arm over arm and Wilburrow cost him
some points, you know, and if he can ever get
that grip figured out, it's on because they'll be him.
He won't there's nothing he's gonna lose points in. Yeah,
so that'll be significant. That'll cut make it harder for
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him to to win the whole thing.
Speaker 3 (27:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
When there's sometimes when there's contests that are this rough,
in this well rounded, they will have one bad event.
The problem is is there's about three or four guys
now that don't have bad events. They might not win
the event, but they'll be in the top five in
that event, and that's kind of hard to come back from.
When you get one where you're like fifteenth or sixteenth,
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then so uh, Trey ever gets his grip figured out.
It's it's he's already a time to deal with.
Speaker 3 (27:54):
I mean overhead pressing.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
Yeah, the big thicket and I love it.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
We got to get a whole evolution. We need to
make some more of his shirts or barbar yeah, Barbell
we need we need some more shirts who he sold out?
Speaker 1 (28:12):
So uh yeah, all in all amazing context and it's
always fun. I got to spend a lot of time
with that Cohen again, So that's that's always.
Speaker 3 (28:20):
That's always.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
It's always fun.
Speaker 3 (28:22):
My friend's so fun. Yeah, yeah, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
It's hilarious because she's probably the only person I've seen
hard time. Yeah, like, and Hega is just like an
amazing shape too, I mean climbing up the mountains and
stuff and with her stuff like that. It's just there's
so much fun to be with. Just good people, that's it.
Love them to death.
Speaker 3 (28:47):
Well that's the one thing about strong Man. It's a
very it's a very tight knit community and they're very
accepting of everyone who joins in because, like I said,
if you're there to have a good time, you're there
to have fun and you're not there to bullshit, you
know what. I'm saying everybody accepts you and that's the
best part.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
Yeah, and then it's it's really neat to see like
the judges that were there, like Mark Phillippi. Mark Phillippy
put on the first strung Man contest I went to that.
Dylan was like, Dad, you're strong. You should do this.
It's really cool, you know. Back in two thousand and
four he put that on and I was like, yeah,
this is a good idea. That kind of sparked me
(29:24):
getting into it. And then Chad Coy that was the
third contest I went to in Indiana.
Speaker 3 (29:30):
I love you.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
Yeah, yeah, two days older.
Speaker 3 (29:36):
Than me, that's it. But he gives you the hardest time.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
Oh he does, which is great, and I give it
right back though, Oh yeah, that you do. But you know,
I went to Chad's contest and I got second place
by a point, and he's just like, you need to
go do vance contest in a month and just go
get more experiences because you're gonna be good at this.
And a month later, I to Van's contest and I
(30:03):
win and get my pro card. So and then so
Van's a judge, Chad's judge, Mark's a judge. So all
the guys that were there at the start of my
career and helped me through things. I got equipment from then.
I still got the Williams Strength log and the Red
Atlas stone that Van gave me because I didn't have
a log or stone to train with it first. So
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it's a it's a and a frame and a pretty
neat community and it's it's great when you develop lifelong
friends like this.
Speaker 3 (30:33):
Helly, it really is. Hell yeah yeah, Well, you know,
it was a great weekend. It was a great time.
Still recovering, you know, it's a lot of standing, a
lot of walking. But before we get out of here, Nick,
let the people know what you always say.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
Okay, I'll get into that in one second. Okay, I'm
fired up. I totally fired up. I cannot wait till
December sixth through the eighth because I'm gonna go do
Official Starman Games and I it just just feel reinvigorated.
I cannot wait to get back out there. So I
(31:11):
can't wait to see you guys in December, you know,
at the Official Strawman Games. But with that being said,
as always, train hard, train smart, and be the best
you can be. And thank you for watching a.
Speaker 2 (31:23):
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Speaker 1 (00:53):
Yeah, I've been back about a day and a half.
I'm just trying to.
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long week?
Speaker 1 (02:19):
No, yeah, but it was great. I mean, what more
could you want? And to go, you know, hang out,
do commentary, do a little bit of judging and just
see an amazing event like the Shot Classic and the
Strongest Man on Earth. I mean, it's always great when
you get to hang out with all the guys and
you get to see him four came back, Mitchell was
(02:40):
on a terror. I mean, it's just it's just a
great week. I was a little spent when I got
back because between commentating, yelling and screaming for everybody and
everything else, I was a little exhausted. But it was good.
I mean I can only imagine how Brian's feeling right
now because that oh yeah stop for probably the last
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five months and.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
That he was yeah, oh yeah, and to think like,
you know, like he was competing and doing the same thing.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Yeah, he was, And I think the competing probably took
just enough off when he was doing that to where
he didn't completely like exhaust himself and stuff like that
because he had training. Now this was his sole focus
(03:32):
and then he literally put everything that he is and
into this contest. He wants it to be perfect. He
wants he wants to move the sport forward in such
a way where he wants to make it better for
every single athlete, male and female in the sport, and
it's extremely important to him and the drive he has
(03:53):
and the perfection that he wants and expects and helps
with is it's it's pretty noticeable because it's heads above
everything else going out there right now, and just from
the way he treats the athletes when they come in,
to the way the show goes off, to everything, the
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way you have what you need available to warm up with,
there's ice pass back there, there's there's any kind of
medical that you would need back there. So it's it's
pretty it's pretty impressive just all the way around how
he runs the thing. And I mean you get there
and you start seeing the performances. It's just like, oh
(04:37):
my god, you know, from from the deadlift on. I
mean it was it was on for the strongest men
on Earth. It was a great contest. It was good
to see Thor back. It was good to see him
pull like nine to ninety one on his second attempt
and then just sit and watch. And there were a
couple of guys that were capable of going over one
thousand that day, but just they didn't have it and
(05:00):
or had it and didn't need it. So he went
out and was like, hey, you know, he missed over
a thousand, so I'm good. I don't I don't need
to have won the event. My goal is to win this,
not just win the event. So that's Boor's looking good
and he's looking really strong. I mean, his overhead comes
back and he's going to be He's he's going to
(05:25):
be a handful for anyone out there. And Hooper's probably
the most cerebral of all the strong men. He will
look at every single event and figure out a way
to do it to the best of his possible ability.
And he'll read through the rules. I'm going to tell
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you this right now. If you don't read through the
rules as a competitor yourself, you're making a critical mistake
in a critical error and read through and understand him.
If you're not spending at least an hour going through
the rules and going through intricately and asking questions at
the rules meeting. Because these guys got the rules I
think four weeks out. Yeah, so you know it's it
(06:09):
should be. You should know what's going on. There were
guys who made mistakes that were in the rules that
they didn't need to make. So it's a big deal
all the way around. And if your coach, if you
have a coach with you and your coach hasn't intricately
gone through the rules as well, that's a problem. I mean,
(06:32):
you see guys out there doing stuff and it's like, nope,
those are the rules, and they're trying to argue like
it's right here, it's written down. You know, I can't
do that, so you know, And there were a couple
of big things like on the deadlift, you know, guys
were warn hey, your hands are opening up the deadlift.
They got rid of the figure eights, yeah, I remember,
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which is awesome because a lot of the guys were
putting the bar down on their fingertips. Some of the
guys were putting the bar down on their finger tips
and they were kind of learning how to kind of
like abuse it. And he didn't want that with the
wrist straps either, so he limited the link so that
you couldn't wrap around the back side of your hand. Yeah,
(07:14):
and wrap it around, creating the same thing, and then
you need to pull the straps in.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
You got straps.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
If you can't keep your hand all the way on
the bar with straps on, that's you trying to get
a little extra Yeah, yeah, save it half an inch,
which in most cases is fine. But it was strictly
against the rules and the shot classics, so you couldn't
do it. So if your hand opened up and you
could see you know air, you know, light in there,
or the thumb wasn't all the way around the bar,
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you didn't get the lift, even if you stood up
with it. And that happened a couple of times, and
it was tragic, But it's the rules, so obey the rules.
That was pretty neat. The squad apparatus was absolutely amazing.
I can't believe guys didn't ask more questions of the
people that tested it, because you can't set up on
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that thing. Your hips need to be underneath you at
the bottom because if they're not underneath it, Yeah, and
so if your butt is back like a regular squad,
when you get to the bottom and you try to
drive that forwards, the weight is going to go at
an angle. It's going to go this way instead of
this way. And that's what was happening to a lot
(08:24):
of guys when they got down to the bottom. And uh,
you know, you got to practice for that. So anybody
who didn't go find a vertical smith machine to at
least train that on kind of also made some critical
mistakes in it. I they're round, you can find them
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in gyms. I mean, even it's a standard and you're
competing for over one hundred grand, So go find the thing.
Go find the implements for real, even if you got
to drive an hour, you practice on it twice or
three times during your training cycle. At least know it's
going to feel like you're going to know, put your
feet way more forward. Yeah, you know, and it turns
(09:07):
it almost into a hat squat for all intensive.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
Purposes, which I agree, that's the truth, you know.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
And guys that asked me, I told them I leaned
back with my shoulders back into it. Once I got
it up, I pushed back and then have my feet
forwards and when I hit the bottom, my my hips
were directly underneath me. I just popped straight back up.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
So you know, for for depth wise, they really didn't
try to bury the guys. You know, they just try
to make sure they were real close to parallel. They
wanted to see reps with eight hundred pounds. Well they
ended up being eight hundred and eleven. So it was good,
but guys made critical errors on where to set their
feet on that and it costs a lot of people.
(09:47):
I mean this it's just part of what you do.
I like the event. I think it's a great event.
I think next year they're probably not only going to
have the knee and they'll probably start with the hip
this time instead of the knee angle. And I think
that'll take take care of some of the other issues
that people had with the event. And then yeah, it's
(10:09):
that's a great event. Though. I mean it looked good
when it was going up and down those barrels up there.
It looks badass. I love that event. So yeah, and
the thing is is you're trying to evolve, you're trying
to bring back the spectacle of the sport. So it
looks cool, you know, and the car, the leg press
(10:31):
for the car looks absolutely amazing. First year, the rough
second year was freaking flawless. That's it, And I think
you can see an improvement on the guys if he
decides to put that in there next year. I think
you'll see a big difference in what happens with that
event next year, as far as guys getting reps and
doing what they're supposed to do with it. So they
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learned it now they'll come back. The guys that listen
to move their feet forwards and actually ask me questions
about it all hit reps. So that was that was
pretty cool.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
I think that's it. That's it. On the expo side,
how much larger, because I know they said they had
opened up two wings of it.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
Yeah, yeah, so there's a front hall on a back hall.
They opened both halls. I would like to say I
made it to the back hall, but I didn't. I
got to the evolution booth and the Shield six one
six booth, and then I ran over and said hi
to Juju and then got out of there. It was neat.
(11:30):
I kind of wanted to walk around more, but I
just didn't get the opportunity. And then when I did
get in there, I just couldn't get very far, which
is great. I love it. I wouldn't trade that for
the world. I'll sit there and you know, meet people
and sign my graphs and take pictures with people and
talk to people all day long. I love it. I
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absolutely love it. And so, but only made to two
boosts and then I had to go back in and
head over to the head over the Strongest Man on
Earth to see the start of that show and help
where it needed.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
Yeah. Well, you know, we all saw you on that
on that on your story, we all saw you driving
to the sweeping scooter around.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
Yeah, thats amazing. That was a lot of fun. It's
kind of neat. It's like driving a little go cart,
but you're cleaning at the same time, so it was
actually pretty fun. That was a good time. And then
the best part though the story got up there with
the sun and he got and drove it around right
after that, driving him around, So it's pretty cool. Yeah
(12:35):
it's neat.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
Oh yeah, no, that that's one of those things too.
That's always great because it's like I said, these shows,
you know, unfortunately I wasn't I couldn't be there, But
like I said, everything looked great from the side. I
definitely had a lot of fun just watching reels, shorts.
The pay per view, the you know, like just go
and the access to it. You know what I'm saying
(12:56):
is just a lot better and a lot easier than
than previous years too.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Right, Well, here's the other thing. Even to support the
guys and keep supporting the guys, you can go buy it.
If you didn't buy the pay per view, you can
still go buy it and then you can watch it
free for the whole next year. So if you want
to see what they're doing, learn techniques and watch and
stuff like that. It's it's something you can go get
and still watch free the whole rest of the year
(13:21):
for free once you buy it. So it's it's worth
and it just shows more support and almost all that
money goes back to the athletes. That really does. Yeah,
so Brian will never put a cap on the prize money,
and that's.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
A big deal.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
So if you support the sport and you want to
support these guys, Brian's not going to put a cap
on the prize money. Brian will just the more they buy,
the more he raises. The prize money gets him more
money to do a better job for the.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
Sport exactly, and then the next year, you know what
I'm saying, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
So it's a beautiful thing. And I can't think Brian
and Carey enough for having be and my friends and
then still having me be a part of this thing.
I absolutely just cherish it.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
So doing strong Man is that's your life, That's that's
what you are, that's who you are. And it's like,
you know, you've you've given so much to the sport,
but you also give back to the sport. And then
that's the best part because like I said, your time
is well spent when you're when when you're with the
fans and people like saying, you know, there's a lot
(14:25):
of times I'm dragging you away where I'm like, no,
we gotta go, you know what I'm saying. So like
I know, I know, but I just want the fans
to know, Hey, that's my job, that's what I do.
And you know, like Nick, he's got stuff to do,
but man, he's sure. He's very, very very generous, which
you're with his time, So just understand that I'm not
trying to be mean.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
It's okay, yeah there, but there are so many other
things that that show. Look, if you're a professional strong
man and there's stones in your event, even if you
don't need the other blends of tack he try to bring.
Like for me personally, I use Cerberuss because they have
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like four different grades I think five, but four different grades. Yeah,
so I get one through four on those, and then
I also get the elite tacking from Dave Ouslin. And
Dave will actually make stuff. He'll make a blend and
he'll make a cooler one and a hotter one for
you to take with you to kind of match the
weather in the humidity humidity of the area that you're
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going to. Yeah, so I always bring a combination. I
used to bring like six or seven. Brian would bring
six or seven of them.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
Well one year a heatical. Grab the bag and it's
like a gallon zip bag filled to the brim.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
Yeah, of a whole bunch of different taxis. That way,
as you're warming up, if you try something it doesn't
feel very good, you know, grab something else and then
you go put your hands on the stones, especially when
they're new, before you go do them. Yeah, and then
while they're setting them up out on the floor. I
would always go out and mess with them and check
it out and see, you know, and you know, get
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a little fresh tacky on them. Yeah, you know that way,
and then where you put your hands. And if you
walk up and some guy before you just went and
he was coated in it when he walked out there,
you know, all that tack he's going to be on
the stones, So go up, rotate the thing, put your
hands where they're going to go, roll it up again,
and put your hands ready to go over the top
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and then push it back into place. That way you
get your thin layer of fresh TACKI that's on it.
And you might not necessarily need to tack your hands.
Or if you're in a race and you're not going
to have time to tack him, it's already there. You know.
You can tack him a little bit more if you
need to and you got time, but or your backs
you need to take a second for your back. You
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can retacky. But you see a lot of critical errors
I mean by some very elite people at this when
it came to tacky and walking out and preparing the
stones before you go and stuff like that, and it
was it was it was interesting.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
I will say, if your coach doesn't.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
Yeah, and I would say, if your coach doesn't doesn't
make sure you do this, get another coach. You know,
I would say, if your coach doesn't have you donating
blood about six weeks before the contest, get another coach.
They don't know what they're doing. You know that that
(17:29):
helps with Sometimes some of the guys get nosebleeds, or
the air will be real thin and it'll prevent all that,
which is great. Yeah, you're you're up at elevation, and
depending on the time, because it can be dry in Colorado,
it could be very humity Colorados. It goes back and forth.
So but it helps prepare you to go when you're
(17:52):
ready to go. I mean, there's a lot of little
things that I see some coaches that are making a
lot of money that they're not. They might know how
some of it works, but they have no idea how
to compete, and then they try to argue with you,
which I thought was quite funny. I've done the Arnold,
so I've done these stones out there ye when it
was in contests, you know, so I got a pretty
(18:14):
good idea of what I'm doing is that I've also
done it World Strongest Man like ten times, and I
competed in the Arnold twice and it was an alternate once, so.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
Yeah, little experience behind you.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
Yeah, but it's it's it's it's good to see people
working hard. It's better to see them prepared and ready
to go and the experience will pay off.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
Yeah, which that's you know, it's all comes with time,
you know, Like I say, the Shaw Strongest Man on
Earth and it like you even got a for the
amateurs and for the open they had a YouTube stream too,
you know what.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
I'm saying, which was free on the Strongest Man on
Earth's YouTube page. Yeah, so I know, the first day
got like ninety four thousand the last time I checked views,
and then it was like over each day they got
over fifty thousand views, which is phenomenal for them, which
is which is awesome. It was neat that he did
that because last year he charged for it. This year
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was free.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
So and then The Strongest Man on Earth you know,
had the pay per views, So yeah, he's really doing
everything he can to push this forwards and get it
out to as many people as they can. So it's
it's going to be good for the sport long term.
It really is. And thank you Brian for the sacrifice
and the hard work that you and carry put into this.
It's it really, it really is helping the sport just overall.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
Oh yeah, and hopefully next year I can definitely come
because like this is, you know, and something for me
always seems to pop up and I can't show up
to anybody, you know, and just get the people into
an expense. I had a heart attack, but I'm ok,
you know what I'm saying. So you know, we've got
but I'm standing back.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
Yeh yeh, that's it you Yeah, the blood clots and
stuff that you get, it's just bullshit.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
So yeah, yeah, you know, we don't want to go
too far into that weeds because that's the stuff that
gets just taken down.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
We're just going to thank the laboratory in China for that.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
Yeah, exactly. So let's let's switch gears to Mitchell Hooper. Man,
what a video drop yesterday.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
Yeah, yeah, that was pretty awesome. It's neat seeing how
motivated he is and how much. He does love the
sport and then love the influence and the way he
can reach people through the sport.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
Yes, I mean he's.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
Generally Yeah, he's generally a good guy and he really is.
What you get is what you get. Now. He's hyper intelligent,
so you have to understand that. But I mean, it's
it's so he he comes from He's not coming from
a place to trying to be cocky. He's coming from
a place where he's pretty smart. And he he says
(21:12):
things you know that a lot of times like get misunderstood.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
Yeah, which he hung out dinner, you know, talking with them.
It's just so like there's mentioned Yeah, I mentioned things
to him and he's like really, and I'm like that
makes a lot more sense than what I was thinking
right now.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
He's mentally probably the strongest in the game, right hands down.
What he can push himself through, how he can attack things,
how he analyzes every event and finds any way possible.
Because like Brian and Magnus ver were probably two of
the best that would pick up part events I mean
watching you know, I know Magnus was you know, known
(21:56):
for that, but I didn't get to be there while
he was pulling it apart in person. Yeah, but getting
to sit there and be there in person when Brian's
pulling it apart and asking every question under the sun,
Which is why it's so good at setting up events
because usually there's not a whole lot of holes you
can slip through when Brian comes up rules for a contest.
(22:17):
But he's probably the best right now at pulling events
apart and figuring out how to get every single ounce
out of it and get every point out of every
single event. Very rarely does he do bad in an event,
and he almost never does bad at an event two years.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
In a row, ever, Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
So he learns, comes back, fixes, adjusts, and conquers and
that's why he's winning. How he's winning, I mean one
of the many reasons, you know, between talent, desire, intelligence,
just all the way through. He's and i mean, yeah,
he's probably one of the most physical gifted athletes I've
(22:56):
ever seen.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
Yeah, it's crazy, you know, And like said, he's won
all four titles, he set a world record, you know
what I'm saying, He's accomplishing the things that he set
out to be because you know, he's went from sport
to sport sport, and like, how good can I be?
Can I eat the best at what I am doing here?
And like he in that video, you know, chronologically lead
(23:19):
it out like this is what I did. And then
all of a sudden I was there and you know
that that First Worlds he did. We were sitting right
next to him as he was eating dinner and he like,
and I just remember too listening to him talking about
his training numbers, and I was like, who the fuck
is this guy? You know what I'm saying, you know,
And it was just like like and he was just
(23:41):
casually saying these things, and I'm like, man, and like
I said, just eating his dinner, having a good time,
joking around, playing, and I just was like, this kid's
got something, you know what I'm saying. That first year,
I could feel it off of them.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
Yeah, and there's gonna be some other guys. There's some
guys coming up now, Like Lucas Houghton got third. Oh yeah,
he had amazing, Yeah, and he had an amazing performance,
absolutely amazing and pulled it out the end. There was
like nearly a three way tie for third place. Yeah,
going into that last event, that's it, you know, And
(24:17):
he gutted it out going up those power stairs. I'm
sitting there yelling at him. I'm like, go one more stair,
go get it all the way on, you know, and
he comes up. He gets it up there. He thought
he was really close on time, and it's like, no,
you had a good time.
Speaker 3 (24:30):
I think he finished in like one on two or
something nice. So he joke.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
Yeah, well six hundred pounds kind of power stairs, it's
pretty heavy.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
So but he gutted it out, he got it up there.
He did those things, which super impressive, and he secured
third place, you know, and that's no joke. When you
got Metchell Hooper and popped their abdorance and.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
Yeah, you know, yeah, you following two of the greats
right there, former strongest man, you know he and he
just got his strongest America's strongest man. And like I
said that, and I think Lucas he was. He had
mentioned on Instagram that like he could have done worlds
or he was like in line to it, but he
was like, I'm not ready yet. I'm not going into
(25:15):
a competition that I'm not prepared for. And he's a
young man. So guess what, you know that that's a
thought process too, because like even talking with Lucas, that's
just another one of those guys that like cerebral smart
talking about it, you know, very very thorough on what
his plans are to do. So I definitely tip my
hat to Lucas on that third because that was tremendous
(25:36):
to be standing up there with the greats like that.
You know.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
It's Yea and Austin had a good contest, yep. I
think Tom had a couple critical errors. One on the
squad and the Stones. I mean, you could have laid
money probably in Vegas at ninety to one hundred to one,
maybe even a thousand to one that he wouldn't zero
the stones, and he zeroed the stone. But some of
(26:01):
that tacky, trying too long, not going out with tacky
all over your arms. Yeah, but that's okay, I mean
it's he'll learn from that. That will never happen again.
So uh but nobody would expect that, you know. And
the squad, his butt was way back when he hit
the bottom, and if you can't get that leverage underneath it,
(26:26):
yeah it's not gonna matter. His feet were too far back.
So those things will get fixed, and you know, he'll
be fine, but it was. It was. It was a
tough contest. So Evan had a good show. Trey did unbelievable.
Trey got fourth. He's one of the and that's what
(26:48):
that's what nobody seemed to got. He tore his achilles
less than a year ago. Less than a year ago.
Speaker 3 (26:54):
Yeah, and he's looking leaner and meaner every time I
see him.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
Mm hmm. And so again with Trey, it's a grip
thing that that arm over arm and Wilburrow cost him
some points, you know, and if he can ever get
that grip figured out, it's on because they'll be him.
He won't there's nothing he's gonna lose points in. Yeah,
so that'll be significant. That'll cut make it harder for
(27:20):
him to to win the whole thing.
Speaker 3 (27:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
When there's sometimes when there's contests that are this rough,
in this well rounded, they will have one bad event.
The problem is is there's about three or four guys
now that don't have bad events. They might not win
the event, but they'll be in the top five in
that event, and that's kind of hard to come back from.
When you get one where you're like fifteenth or sixteenth,
(27:46):
then so uh, Trey ever gets his grip figured out.
It's it's he's already a time to deal with.
Speaker 3 (27:54):
I mean overhead pressing.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
Yeah, the big thicket and I love it.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
We got to get a whole evolution. We need to
make some more of his shirts or barbar yeah, Barbell
we need we need some more shirts who he sold out?
Speaker 1 (28:12):
So uh yeah, all in all amazing context and it's
always fun. I got to spend a lot of time
with that Cohen again, So that's that's always.
Speaker 3 (28:20):
That's always.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
It's always fun.
Speaker 3 (28:22):
My friend's so fun. Yeah, yeah, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
It's hilarious because she's probably the only person I've seen
hard time. Yeah, like, and Hega is just like an
amazing shape too, I mean climbing up the mountains and
stuff and with her stuff like that. It's just there's
so much fun to be with. Just good people, that's it.
Love them to death.
Speaker 3 (28:47):
Well that's the one thing about strong Man. It's a
very it's a very tight knit community and they're very
accepting of everyone who joins in because, like I said,
if you're there to have a good time, you're there
to have fun and you're not there to bullshit, you
know what. I'm saying everybody accepts you and that's the
best part.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
Yeah, and then it's it's really neat to see like
the judges that were there, like Mark Phillippi. Mark Phillippy
put on the first strung Man contest I went to that.
Dylan was like, Dad, you're strong. You should do this.
It's really cool, you know. Back in two thousand and
four he put that on and I was like, yeah,
this is a good idea. That kind of sparked me
(29:24):
getting into it. And then Chad Coy that was the
third contest I went to in Indiana.
Speaker 3 (29:30):
I love you.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
Yeah, yeah, two days older.
Speaker 3 (29:36):
Than me, that's it. But he gives you the hardest time.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
Oh he does, which is great, and I give it
right back though, Oh yeah, that you do. But you know,
I went to Chad's contest and I got second place
by a point, and he's just like, you need to
go do vance contest in a month and just go
get more experiences because you're gonna be good at this.
And a month later, I to Van's contest and I
(30:03):
win and get my pro card. So and then so
Van's a judge, Chad's judge, Mark's a judge. So all
the guys that were there at the start of my
career and helped me through things. I got equipment from then.
I still got the Williams Strength log and the Red
Atlas stone that Van gave me because I didn't have
a log or stone to train with it first. So
(30:25):
it's a it's a and a frame and a pretty
neat community and it's it's great when you develop lifelong
friends like this.
Speaker 3 (30:33):
Helly, it really is. Hell yeah yeah, Well, you know,
it was a great weekend. It was a great time.
Still recovering, you know, it's a lot of standing, a
lot of walking. But before we get out of here, Nick,
let the people know what you always say.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
Okay, I'll get into that in one second. Okay, I'm
fired up. I totally fired up. I cannot wait till
December sixth through the eighth because I'm gonna go do
Official Starman Games and I it just just feel reinvigorated.
I cannot wait to get back out there. So I
(31:11):
can't wait to see you guys in December, you know,
at the Official Strawman Games. But with that being said,
as always, train hard, train smart, and be the best
you can be. And thank you for watching a.
Speaker 2 (31:23):
Preciate you're the best experience. What you make the best
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