2019 Arnold Strongman Classic | Rogue Elephant Bar Deadlift - Full Live Stream Event 1

These rebellious implements certainly have an artistic quality, but if you've ever used a bar like this, it's very different from a bar you'd find in an everyday gym. Yes, this bar is made specifically for the

deadlift

. It is longer, measuring around nine. feet long and this allows this length also means that there is more flex in the bar and that proposes that the strong man can actually lift more weight, but they have actually also controlled that flex in the bar and overcome that weight and in the end with his brute. strength after appearance and I did it last year when he lifted 1041 how to set the record on this

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bar there are five men who have lifted over a thousand pounds and four of them are here in this field Brian Shaw Gerry Pritchett jean-francois corona and media Thor bjornsen deadlift is the inaugural

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the first of five

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s that will be contested here at the Arnold

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each athlete will have three attempts and there is a small game of chess that goes into this, yes there is a test for the match chess, but you still have to lift the weight, you just select it to be patience off the floor to control the flexion, that's the first thing you should do because if you lift the bar quickly off the floor and you can't. control that pushup, then it can move away from you and the second, once you get it, we get the bar to your knees is to get over that weight, but it's just about brute strength, it's still about lifting that bar, the deadlift certainly It seems like a simple move as you just heard dr.

Crawford talked about it being a very complex move, there are a lot of things you have to keep in mind to be successful. Let's take a look at past champions here and Brian Shaw's name comes up a lot. He has won three Arnold Strongman Championships. the most recent was in 2017 Hathor Bernsen who is also here, she won last year and is the defending champion and there is a lot of money at stake here in this competition, the first place competitor will win 72 thousand dollars, the second place takes house 22,000 and then we Work until we reach tenth place.

Every man here will take home some type of prize money and there is a lot of money at stake here at this event as well. We'll talk more about that in a moment, but we mentioned half yards of robe. and Brian Shaw at the top of the show, are definitely favorites not only in this competition but also in this event, but there are also two other men in the field here who could do very well in this event, which is a bit of a mystery. the other, although it is for sure, the first is Gerry Pritchett, this guy knows how to deadlift, yes, Gerry is a prodigious deadlift, he has a world record in powerlifting and

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d in 950 at the Armstrong men's

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in Santa Monica, which showed a lot of potential for a much heavier deadlift.

Jerry is an athlete who always comes prepared, but the deadlift is his specialty. Gerry Pritchett really knows this implement. Now we are watching a man not because he is competent at this but because he has had difficulties. and that is young Mateos Kalish Koski from Poland. Mateos is a very dynamic athlete. He does a lot of amazing things. Stone lifting last year was something that shocked the

strongman

world, but also athletes who discover static events later in their career, those who become more successful in Mateo Skill is Koski, who makes his fifth appearance here at the Arnold Strongman Classic.

He never finished better than third last year. He was fourth, the stone on his shoulder with a world record performance with the To start, two men who will receive the most attention here talked about themselves at the top of the program. You are the defending champion Hathor of Bjornsen and Brian Shaw. They have been here a total of 18 times and won the Arnold Strongman Classic. total of four Jordan s'en, much younger than Shaw, shot 37 and 1/2 Thor at age 30 and half Thor bjornsen, as you talked about at the top of the Hill, has really rounded out his game in recent years Yes, he has.

I found that the static events were the deadlift and the shoulder press, he was always great with the resistance events and also great with the power events like throwing weight over a bar or anything that had some kind of dynamic component. Now he is a complete strongman and it shows because he is at the top of the strongman world, the two will face each other in the inaugural event, it is the first of five events that will be contested over the next two days and there is a

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house here at the Greater Columbus Convention Center like these people have done.

We came together to see a big weight rise and possibly a record weight rise. Bill, you've competed, what's it like lifting in front of a crowd like this? Well, these are the faithful, these are the people who know this sport and I came here to see it, they know what they are seeing, so these are the people who want to see the strongman's red meat, which will be the heaviest lifts and the most incredible performances, and we have the top ten athletes to show. Those and we're starting with kind of the home run derby of this competition and that's the deadlift and I've heard you talk about that before the deadlift actually lifts if you want to know how strong someone is.

They all do it, yes the deadlift is not just an event, which is someone's power, we talk about power all the time, which is strength multiplied by distance and how fast you can do it, but really, what is it? How does it hold up? walk away being able to completely overcome a weight and no matter how long it takes and that is what defines the deadlift, it is usually the strongest man who can really do the biggest deadlift, but there are some components that must be mastered and honestly, I always thought of the deadlift as an event that I had to practice because you have to get these fine points of balance in Santa Monica, so I was able to talk to Brian Shaw during the event and we both agreed that you have to have that right. place to pull the bar and if you don't get that place, you can have the bar in front of you or you can move back a little too far, so let's talk about how this event will play out.

They have three. Last night they had to choose their starting lift and we're going to go from lightest to heaviest and this is where the chess match comes in because not only do you have to know what you're capable of, but you also have to make sure. that you have your opponents in mind while you choose what you are going to lift, yes there are several ways this could happen, this could become a place where athletes just want to decide which competition they are going to choose. weights that they feel confident with and can reach a weight close to the record weight of 1041 pounds and then go for the big 1,100 pound bake or the 500 kilogram lift later, but within that there could be strategies that are develop on their own where athletes want to save points or they really want to look at the competition itself and not look for the biggest lift that would be at the end of this or could be at the end of this top three. men at the bottom of that chart, the top three men in this event will qualify for the Rebel Record Breakers who are not part of the competition as far as points are concerned, but the top three men will have a chance to break the record world deadlift 1100. pounds, if they do it, they will win $50,000 if they beat Thor Bernsen's record last year that was set at the Elephant Bar 1041 pounds, they will win $5,000, so right off the bat we're giving away quite a bit of prize money big and the points are excellent. this event, but there are some men that are really going to fight for that 50 thousand dollars here absolutely and I love them.

Howell Nations, this is because we are not just looking for an improvement on the world record, we are actually looking to move up. for over 50 pounds, let's meet the 10 men who will compete in

2019

. We will fight over the next two days to crown a champion. Two events will happen in this scenario right now. Let's start with this one. The rebellious

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barks up a promontory and marks that this will be a test of wills. I think there has to be success and winning, and what is special is that thanks to one of our main witnesses of growth as hosts, there is money at stake in this event.

You now break the third record in this event a help of 1041 pounds. I have our first person, you get $5,000 on the spot, but if you can

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500 1 kilo thousand dollars, our next event Musa Phelps told Gary and this is an essential strongman for the gas. walk around so cheap and meet guys and drive as many as a grid so we can see who absolutely holds out against the competition and then tomorrow we have two incredible events, both inspired by the namesake of this event, Arnold Schwarzenegger himself, if you haven't already you've done. I saw him tomorrow.

Your money will be spent on our third event. The Wheel of Pain is 40 feet tall and weighs 20,000 pounds. After that, they will be tested by the Austrian log press, which you know is a challenge beast and then we will be. I'm going to finish it on the main stage tomorrow night and we'll crown a champion with the final event. We baked his shoulder and last year you were there at that event. It was amazing to see him at the beginning of the competition. I thought they were closing the event. with the stone on my shoulder well right now I think it's time to meet the 10 athletes who are going to compete tomorrow blood, sweat and tears of your entertainment are you ready to meet them? mark, you said that sport is nourished by energy, are you ready to meet them? your athletes, so ladies and gentlemen, let's present the events of the team that will compete for the title of the Arnold sports classic

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The strongest man in the world first out of Slovenia 26 years old, six feet tall 330 pounds twice lavinia The man stronger Mattias last year, let's see If he can win another one, this one is here and it follows a man from Canada who of course was in this particular event, he was 35 years old, 6 feet 2 inches tall, 353 pounds, seven times the strongest man in Canada and reaches this stage from Estonia. Rollo, hello, Nina, this. The man is one of the best guys we've seen in years past, let's hope he can perform like I did last year. I have to say, looking at these athletes, we have some guys that have some experience in this competition, some guys have a really sweet foot. threat and this guy last year exploded to be with the revelation 25 years old 6 feet 5 inches tall 330 pounds the polish was, you know, I'm letting you have seen him before, but now I need you to see him again, maybe together . one of the first aid of the United States of America and now he comes to the stage, the interests remember him in Mesa, but everyone else knows him as a Siberian forcedme kya silica, there is a young lady who hopes that the strong man of the regular deadly bar 500 pink ladies, please, first.

I'm going to say everything you-you-you open market long party at the open bar but when you lifted 500 kilos back in 2016 I would appeal for something that honestly the worst thing is the right thing I brought a new one to beat subscribe 2500 Caleb from the apartment was the hardest to go through in America in my life and as you saw, you know I can, I basically passed out, I blacked out, I lost my sight, my memory, you know, it's very, very dangerous. I can appreciate what it takes to move this. I'm going to dig myself out of the hole, so if anyone does today, I'll bow down.

I will show all God for himself with a man like you. Have you ever thought about making the transition? I have all the TV shows on. Something is happening in the machinery, well, you know you have. a lot of fanfare in documentaries in recent years and in my opinion this is the strongest right track for later without it. I mean, I did this on this bar a couple of years ago, when I found it, it just propelled me forward. I find it more difficult than another bar. but I feel like they had some trained fools and I think it would have been very similar at the end of the day it's deadly it's an incredible bar shakes it forward it will be very exciting to see what someone does today well I know if someone can match a mark in yourself when you turn on the traditional bar, you will get $15,000, but we were talking about this, this is the first event, there are five events, tell us.

Whatever it was in 2016, we got that record, how did the rest of the competition go? When I call the five, it indicates the strongest and warmest man I had for the competition because he is so big that surrounding him completely destroys your center, obviously, a big party today. Do you think that even if it is really difficult, I mean to eat fish? In my opinion you want to do this and have as few lips as possible so the lips are three eighteen or twenty four six five and I think that's all the minimum in my opinion so here's the thing and Mark you made this and anyone.

I want you to tell every person who is here when you were doing that lift what three lifts we athletes have also persuaded us to do. what I'm going to do when they get out here I love you, yes, Magnus is four times the strongest man in the world and the Highland Games actually work to pull you forward using the straps. The strap is avery different lift in some ways than the finished strap you see the athlete doing. with your hips down, no problem, well let me have time, you just want to have an event to make sure you've had a chance to fill the bar coming out of the bottom.

You see how the bar flexes. The end of those plates comes off. last and that's what gives that flex and that pushes you forward. He's been dealing with a hip issue and also said it seems like it's better not for us. Keller's Koski from Poland, another man who seems to be the future of the strongman trying to improve. After his fourth place finish in last year's Arnold Strongman classic, also that openness and 706 pounds different types of 796 of our two climbers the 796 class looks great for Kalish Koski, his first lift is successful sometimes that can stop you a little while the bar clears your knees, Earling can really catch it, but he did a Very good job, Lexie Novikov competes with these athletes and sees that she is talking to Brian, who she has been a fan of and is now competing against Novikov.

She was here last year, but she wasn't on this main stage to see how she handles the crowd. Now he is talking to one of the officials, yes, let DN Wessels realize how many of the athletes come out with feet like socks, they are very, very low shoes, what does that do, it decreases the length of how far you have to hold The bar has a higher height. I don't like a running shoe, which is another problem, half the post and this guy 802 weights for Alexei Novikov, as he was confirming his weight with the athletes who had to declare their weight last night, they had a chance to change it afterwards of warming. oops today yes, it seems like he is making a fashion statement, he is preparing the cuts for him, you know, two for the lucky number 820 is good for the young man.

Yes, we've gone three for three so far. Yes, Novikov looked. Novikov looks a little relieved to have gotten that weight up, I'm lifting a little Shake, that means his hamstrings are actually there. He also has a very narrow standing stance and that narrow standing stance he did and he said he was going to have to pull that bar more many times for the deadlift. He is seen in penalty competitions, but in recent years there have been many strongman athletes who now have a wider standing stance and the straps allow the strongman to sit further back. You will see that you started rolling the bar with so much flexion that it doesn't really help you much with a stiffer bar like in powerlifting or a shorter bar, rolling the bar back actually keeps the end of your hips active, It actually makes it kind of a dynamic lift a little bit more from the bottom and I can tell you that if you do it right, the weight feels a little bit lighter starting from the first six inches off the floor.

How does John Francis Walker own Canada? He's the 2018 Arnold Classic Africa champion that's how we ranked this year and he's moving up to nine hundred and four pounds I'm making a big jump from Alexi Nova cops 820 he's in the Thousand Pound Club he also wears socks and crown drops 904 yo grabs her right hamstring there walking cautiously back to the korone bench speaking for Brian Shawn, it looks like she grabbed her right hamstring herself after this attempt, as she drops her hip she starts to pull and it stops immediately as soon as the weight clears the floor, so the end of those plates as soon as they come off looks like it was going to start just fine, something happened to his hamstring, we'll have to see if that It's something that will affect him the rest of the way, but jf2 is rolling right now, looking to finish 10th in this event, unfortunately, if he doesn't, if not. able to get off the hill, you're going to get last place points for this, the other part of this, if you actually declare another weight and it has to be pretty close to that because you just want to try, we call it blitzing if you don't make it if you don't do a Valid attempt and he can't go lighter because again the weight can't come off the bar, he has to try harder than his last lift.

Yes, that is a very traditional way to do any strength competition once. You put on weight, you can't take it off. The Australian champion makes the second appearance of him here in the next very good deadlift. I really like the style of him when he positions himself placing the straps on what you'll see as he positions his hips very firmly. He takes the slack off the bar and pushes his feet into the ground with great force. I think it's a very gentle start, the first attempt at running at a high level and that will help you put the weight on the bar, but most importantly for the no-nonsense. and your first attempt is good, which is very fast, very dynamic lifting, yeah, here's the barbell curl a little bit different and then you push your feet down, like we talked about, it goes too far to the knees pretty quickly, It's not like I threw it away.

Go ahead, I bet he's been practicing with the complexity of the bars. I was very impressed with his deadlift. Take a second to mention Bill. That knurling. You see that rough spot versus that smooth middle. Do a good job scraping your legs. Yes he does. Dead weight. Bars are known for that, any car with flex and what happens is the bar lifts off the floor and goes straight to your shin. You realize he actually had the bar about an inch above his shin when he started. so when he folds, he does well, he hits you right in the shin, Ezra, so really one of the things you want to focus on is being patient deep down, let's live with these types of situations and try to get just a a little more just a little more time to push from the bottom here is where we are so far, we have overcome five athletes at the heaviest level, they are only in the first round and we still have five more athletes to lift, that's not surprising , Brown, oh he's a very good deadlifter, as we talked, he took third place at the world deadlift championships in 2016.

Here's Martines DC with his first attempt. He won the Arnold Classic Europe competition and he also won the Arnold Classic USA competition that was held a couple of months ago in Santa Monica right there on the dock 420 kilos for leases that's no problem yeah he was very patient so head judge Magnus see Magnusson gave the signal to go down by sitting back to pull the bar back and that is exactly what the straps allow you. do and a slightly wider standing stance, you could really focus on pulling back, what does it do, it allows you to have more upright shins, it allows you to then use your levers to pull back from the bar, one of the main mistakes that people make when they deadlift if they can't find that spot, they end up forgetting to put their shoulders in front of the bar and their knees in front of the bar when that happens, it's very hard to back off, it's not like a clean where you need your shoulders in front to the bar and then you can get worse - where you need your shoulders in front of the bar posterior chain Work on accelerating the car or the deadlift you want to sit back down again this is not just power, this is strength makalah schibler cough from the siberian forest dumbbell 950 pounds on his first attempt 431 kilos this is a great start for him, we have seen him in the past he has heart no problem for Shimla cough 950 on the books for him and his opening He looks up one more time so watch him lower his hips and that gives it some dynamics, it gives it some dynamic strength instead of pulling and it allows the bar to roll towards it with as much flexion as you can actually.

I don't do that, so he puts in a dynamic opening move by flexing his hips down to the middle of the door. He does the same. I can tell you personally when you do that when you sit as far back as you can feel your posterior chain, particularly your hamstrings, tighten up. just a little bit gives you a little spring now we can't forget that we are in opening attempts, so what happens? It's very common for these guys to come in trying to make sure they can have a good try and then move on. We'll talk a little bit more about what happens when there's more weight on the bar and what the crowd does for you and one of the mental aspects of an athlete, Brian Shaw, finished his first or second year at Arnold. classic strongman seven of the last eight years since the second last year after Norton and the left opening of him will also be 950 pounds.

This is a man we hope to see in the top three and maybe reach those 500 kilos. Very wide foot placement, he tells me he likes to use it. Some of us should see a very flat shoe since the other athletes like to wear socks, but he said he really likes being able to push 350 pounds with his feet for Brian's show. and that goes up easily, it's done very easily, so he uses two, he's applying two of those principles, he's actually rolling the bar back once we roll the bar back, he flexes his hips down and lifts up very , very easily, that was a very imposing lift that he has been practicing on.

For longer, like I said, he always comes to prepare Brian Shaw with an impressive lift of 950 pounds for his first attempt and now you are the defending champion, Ather Abusin and the record holder in this event with 1041 pounds, his first attempt has Five pounds more on Brian Shaw. go for 955 so Stephan then I Peterson his trainer Stephan so he is a world class strongman in his own place they are IES after establishing himself, he has had excellent vitamin training follow that on the internet he also has a very wide foot stance like the from Charlie towards the similar setups tolerated after work göransson's attempt number one 955 pounds gravity is not a problem for that 955 pound man who climbs just like Brian Shaw is opening lift lists, so now the battle between Shaw begins and fjords and One more look at Jordan's opening to the left, they both do the same thing, they roll the bar backwards, they ordered the pushup has been practicing who flanked with that bar, the other thing too is that they do that little movement hip and that activates our posterior chain, it seems dr.

Lorenson, another man we hope to see in that record-breaking event immediately after this event, the first of five events these men will compete in over the next two days, more weight will be added for Gerry Bridget, who will go after nine hundred and seventy and four pounds, okay? So we're starting to see some of the cunning that Gerry is really playing within having confessed that placement is possible and it looks like he's going to take a big leap at the end to hit, he was going to get it to pop, really hitting those 500 kilos. As it is, he is a great deadlift, we saw him at 950 in Santa Monica and he looked easier than the 700 pound point.

I think he might agree that he looked great in Santa Monica. We had Brian Shawn's stand while he was lifting and if you look at Jerry Pritchett, what makes him so good is that he looks the same regardless of the weight on the bar and he's the same 174 when you put on the straps, you choose a wide foot placement, pulls a bit like Andy Bolton's Andy Bolton style, where he does it, uses the leverage of his hips from his back Pritchett right to work on 974 rises Chief Richard is looking to be the third man to possibly put on that robe the record breakers They say: can you look at this?

This happens, yes. A little hip movement doesn't roll the bar back, but notice how he looks down when he starts to pull, what it allows him to do is just roll back, really use levers, not necessarily that dynamic hip roll. Once done, we had ten athletes, nine of them had successful lifts and Jerry Frigid had the heaviest lifts at 974 pounds, followed by half wolf urine Brian Shaw 6. Now the athletes will enter their second weights and again we will pass from lightest to heaviest and there's a good bet that Jerry Pritchard will be one of the men making it happy, so Shawn, just to put this in perspective, the strap deadlift in 2011 was established with slimy severity around of 970 and here comes Jerry Bridget on an opening attempt. he made it look like fourteen and that would have been the world record just a few years ago and strongman Jerry actually broke the world record in powerlifting a couple of years ago and it was on a second attempt because he had to run away. and catch a plane because the beam was running late, he didn't even make it on his third attempt and achieved a parallel deadlift world record, meaning without a strap through the hand pull he was one of ten men who went out in the first round, if Perón was the The only man who did not have a successful lift entered this attempt with 904 pounds.

We don't know if he will remain in the competition or not. A hamstring injury. A hip injury. It's like having a knee injury. runner or a shoulder injury for baseball, that's really difficult because hip flexion depends on those hamstrings and, as the dairy prison demands right now, the good song ofeveryone, yes, everyone has been talking about half-door and Brian's preparation for the deadlift, but I really don't. I don't want to be too emphatic here Jerry is right in that search Gerry Pritchett didn't have the best overall finish last year but he is a big dead weight or these are your two best men from last year after yours and to the left of Brian Shaw a right Pritchett finished sixth in 2018, but we're starting with an event that's definitely their strong point now they're starting to get a little more serious, you can see their faces are a little more focused.

So when you do a heavy deadlift, when you get to the higher weights, there's the way the deadlift looks and the way it feels. This is Pritchett's fly, he lifted 974 pounds and that look looked easy and probably felt pretty good. for them too, so if you could get your first lift and that creates a lot of things, you can't affect yourself by the tips, he looks at the first 974 pounds lifted from him. I don't think people understand how difficult that is. Gerry Pritchett does that look. Yes, notice that he uses his hips, but he used them in a different way.

He actually uses his hips to keep his lower back in that position and leans against the bar up to his knee and then his back is in a position. great position, you just maintain a very flat back position even if you look down at the starting particle, that's non-negotiable, some of the more experienced editors also let it go a little bit and that's something that requires a lot of cracks that we get into. we put in heavier weights that we found in the 1980s that were actually at the Greater Columbus Convention Center this was the first come first serve for many of the seats and these people arrived early so they could see these ten this is the second round big boost for Calais Cosby seems to be limping a little more look we can see where you got into trouble you really had the double punches that just a little bit that could have been what got him so notice how his feet are more together, you also have a narrower hand stance on the bars I think with this. height, he would be better off with a wider standing stance that will reduce the distance and also help him use the levers of his, who are excellent leaders, Mateos assassins.

Cosby's weakness is dead weight if he wants to see it alive then he is the rookie. 840 pounds for Novikov. It takes some time to develop male muscles, so these younger athletes are that first-hand lesson, it certainly has the most colorful Sokcho, so among the athletes who help with their first attempt today, 20, now we will get the momentum so two for two the young man from Ukraine also has a very narrow foot stance and if you do that you will notice the zero foot stance inflection just look at where his thumb is. Actually, both thumbs are facing the bar, so he is using the strap entirely for support. that bar - for Alexei Novikov 840 pounds good bojong Bell shock will be the next six its opening you have to admire this apparatus I am on this implement these plates are simply beautiful this is amazing I have the white will white will plate just like the old New plates York, made by Rebecca in the '40s and '50s, when they made bumper plates, that made a little less impact on the place, but each and every one of them is handmade, the Austrian oak itself, right inside the plate, They are beautiful, it's like Martine. species that reached 900 here is bad Josh Bell leaves Slovenia careful 260 pounds a restaurant in Slovenia where he sometimes works as an apprentice chef there are probably many large objects around that restaurant that weighs 860 that goes up easily a little fashionable The bending is It was done very gently, so any kind of hip problems you had before seem to have been resolved.

I think he's going to make a big jump because he had two very good attempts and solved the problem a little bit with the bar flex. He'll probably make a pretty big jump, meaning he'll probably try to make it closer to 900 pounds. Man, yes, Estonia, the home of George Hackenschmidt, a beautiful documentary that was made again by a rebellious addict. It is quite surprising that men from countries that have traditions and strength find themselves at the high altar of strength, armor, oh man, the classical state, just like J above his. He is also from Quebec, like Louis Cyr, so this tradition is very much lived in these strong countries that have traditions.

Some of the athletes choose thinner straps, something like thicker serrano shrimp, just for that there is a tattoo that says: "You want it then." I fought for it six years ago, we tore his right Achilles tendon, the doctors told him he would just have to recover, we had a few surgeries. Oh, like a SIL injury he feels from time to time, but here he is competing in the 2019 Armstrong classic and trying to defend the 950-pound second three attempts of his. I love the way he solidly locks his hips in like before the scars. Hilah reaches 950 pounds.

He is very happy. I don't know if it's a personal best for him, but he's very happy with it so far. that sets him up to achieve a bigger lift, he's placing his hands using this he uses a pretty close hand and hip placement, foot placement, he puts his feet together, I love the form again, he's now walking with his hips in this lift , it really does. that lift that style of lift pushing your feet down looking down when you start living a great life so look down until the bar reaches your knees and then just look up and that's a style that many powerlifters The Island 954 athletes use here in the second of three rounds it is so imposing that the push-up allows you to lift more weight because I think he scored only nine with only nine hundred pounds, but at the Santa Monica show, without this longer bar, he fought with the bar again, making sure everyone is safe and these guys have seen each other's blood, the time they trained together, there are parties here, thesis of their second attempt, 970 pounds, four pounds, last and cold lifted around the water and nine trash out of 70 for the dragon, which is a personal best for him, every point counts and he himself is going up, there are four more.

Events after this, a lot of hip flexion notice how he bounces the bar hard on his shins, but he has those knee pads covering them to compensate for that, that really violent kickback, says Lisa, without a doubt one of the liveliest athletes in the world. field. he doesn't stop after that lift and now mikhail sholokhov second attempt for him looking to tie Gerry Pritchett frontally fat Bridget still has to lift in the second round her first lift looks really good so this should be a solid lifting world but again there's the way elevators look and the way elevators feel, so it's hard to know what goes through mathematicians' heads when they get past the second third.

Try Russian, maybe as a barista, so where's that 3rd place overall from last year that 20th? I think one of the things that always stands out to me with this athlete is that he really commits, he's committed to doing this lift, let's lift the tie, Jerry Bridget and let's keep it simple with the blood coming out of his nose, which is common In him, he has that problem. 974 solid pounds from below the flexing controls put you on your knees and you have to shake it a little to get it back and then the blood comes out of your nose, you did it last year, like I said, you really commit, no No, that doesn't matter to you bothers.

Constable Shelagh makes sure the maintenance team is kept busy. They're cleaning the bar. Us for you. We have the Bandar brothers. He completes with me today and these guys are very close. You can see them on the side. talking to each other saying they know how to do a good lift or maybe they do this or that Brian Shaw is next and we're moving into the thousand pound fluff now 1021 pounds in the packs 40 pounds less than half his top dark mark who last year put on 1041 pounds and now things are getting serious for Brian Shawn in the second round setting up the great wide foot placement Shaw locked in and ready to throw 1021 pounds with the ball and Brian Shaw stands up 1,000 21,000 at his best personal best for him on the

elephant

bar and here we go, Bill, yeah, that was just a second attempt, so he's going to make another great attempt on his third attempt in the competition.

I don't think he's even thinking about the 500 kilos right now, he's thinking about the competition. points pushes from the floor puts him on his knees efficiently pulls back without wasting movements Jerry Bridget takes the follow up van and Jerry frigid is adding weight to the bar 1030 pounds where is Jerry Pritchard Brian Shaw now has one turn left exit now Brian Shaw, I think This would also be a personal best for him in the old, so now we are getting into the big dam locking ourselves in these big dead days, ten and a half, actually it is his first, the best, not so personal best, but this It's still just a second. try here comes the frigate approaching 1030 pounds look at all the cameras coming out of the crowd this is a great moment here at the beginning of this competition a very long leash goes to work and Bridget limps out so 1030 doesn't go up for Jerry Bridget looking over 1030 lbs there was a lot of movement on the bar at first.

I think he just has the points that are forward and I think that's what's happening to the police, then they pulled the bar a little further. faster than and that is the best investment, the problem with this car is that it has a control that shakes, the other thing is that you have to overcome what your body tells you, what to stop chasing our puritan to the maximum, he has the record. on this implement with 1041 pounds, he's looking to change that with just his second live one thousand forty-five pounds on the mountain bar, this would be a new world record, generate the Elephant bar, this is just like a second, his second attempt , this shows. who is ready to get an Icelandic berserker Viking to drop all inhibitions 1045 pounds and a new elephant bar world record up for grabs right now for the man they call half Thor Bjornsen and only in the second round does he have one lift left after this, give me a break how easy it is that in a new world record of 1045 pounds for the mountains I mean come on bill that's ridiculous that was very very impressive that was very very impressive In fact I'm almost speechless because of those people they pulled that bar from down and there was almost no doubt as soon as he started the poem, this is a new world record, he surpassed his mark from last year and look how easy, this is absolutely, it has that pull back, lowers the posterior chains of the hips activated, look down, he does it. his knees are buckling he has all those components down he is your new leader his new world record holder and we have one round left as Georgeson will have a well deserved rest as we prepare for round three here are their positions after aborting Brian Shaw second Jerry Bridget couldn't get 1030 pounds and is still in third place overall mikhail sholokhov of martine species rounding out the top five sixth place right Brian's 1021 looked good, but it's not like that looked as easy anyway as we expected The battle between the two favorites starts early.

Brian Shaw will try to chase the fjords in round three. Everyone else is basically looking for positioning and points in this event as we prepare for round three. Brian Shawn look, let's take a look more. in this world record on the left it takes a long pull back on the bar perfect timing he just got all the right components he just got all the right components that was perfect after bjornsen just turned on after that the record is the big record 500 kilos 1,100 pounds given what you've seen so far today bill and do you think that record is in danger yes, the English Lauren told me last year 500 kilograms, that's great, but it seems that she has prepared quite well for at least He made a really good strong run and got ahead of the competition, so it was going to be interesting to see what Ryan does on his next attempt.

Do you get a little more than this and understand that half the work and try to take too big a leap? It's the halfway point right after the next big attempt, the 500 kilograms are not played for points now we're waiting for weight selections, we've made it through two of three rounds, the opening event of the 2019 Arnold Strongman Classic, the first of five events . Taking place over the next two days, this is the most prestigious and heaviest strongman event of the entire year and that man, Brian Shaw, is looking to regain his title from last year, second overall halfway through his appearance at Brian's favorite saying to people is "don't do it." You don't always have to be the strongest, but you do have to be the smartest and he always shows that this is what these two athleteshave done throughout their careers. 18 appearances in total here at the Arnold Strongman Classic between the two started a little before bjornsen they have won four times between the two Shaw is older than yours and is 37 years old, but Thor's half last year really established himself as the man to beat and Brian Shaw really wants to get his title back as we are ready for the third round. in the matches, Kayla teases, key is first, interestingly, he put his feet a little 871 pounds on the bar for Kayla Koski, this would be the best life for him and Kalish Koski will get it now, although he is not in the competition for victory in this event is going to be a huge confidence builder for this kid, absolutely it's another step forward, it's another step forward, so you got your personal best, he put his feet out, look, his feet are a little bit more far from what they were. earlier he had a good push off the floor and had to throw it back, but it's a good lift and gets some applause on the left of the screen for Brian Shaw.

He said he would love to have Kayla Koski at his gym and help him train. him in the deadlift yes and again, that shows that there is a Brotherhood, this is a rarefied air, that these men are trying to be as strong as possible and redefine how strong people can really be and in that quest they have only I understand that they are totally strong, that's what it's all about. A surprised Josh Bell prepares for his third and final if Alexi Novikov will max out at 884 pounds, another very talented young man making his first appearance here in the Arnold Strongman class.

He was the Ammeter Champion last year, that's how he earned his way to this. Competition over 400 kilograms is a must for any strong man. They used to be a real high water mark, but now it's a kind of life that takes you to the upper edge. It's a high water mark especially for a 23-year-old that lowers your inhibitions. Reduce your inhibitions. Allow your nervous system to release any kind of control that says stop doing this, move forward. Another old trick was to have a shot of whiskey before a big day. That way, continue with this. I've seen in this competition, whatever you need.

I've seen it before Novica 884lbs just can't get on his knees and then get over the weight and he'll fold but a good opening/breakthrough for rookie Alexey Novikov his best lift 840lbs one more has a very narrow foot placing him with the narrow stance of the foot, you have your feet pointing to Warburg, so if you even point your toes out, a lot of big power-ups and powerlifters can have that close foot placement, but point their toes out, which allows you to activate the water of your quads, it's actually a pretty good quad exercise with your feet straight and your knees pointing forward like this, it just becomes all hands, bringing back Novikov goes to 4-3, no judge, Bell is then surprised by jumping from 862 890 1012, these are very nice laughs and I would love to see him get closer to 900 pounds.

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y because he is looking for the location of the points and unlike many of the other athletes, there is a 91 production and that will not count Josh Bell shotgun a perfect Slovenia three by three in the elephant bar Beautiful Desmond we talk about anything it takes hitting yourself in the forehead to shoot yourself there we go, they think it's his concentration that lowers his inhibitions and he commits, he really gets over Aziz quickly. I think I had more on the tank question. Heinlein will be next while Belle shock takes a break.

He weighs 979,279 pounds, the man from Estonia. I mean, again, it's kind of ridiculous. we are a little laissez-faire about the fact that he is weighing close to a thousand pounds this is a fantastic dinner and as you mentioned this was a marked man not long ago he was seen as possibly unattainable yes the world record the strong man climbed well Note that He's got those penis wraps against us on his shins, so he's going to pull that bar against his shins. Sometimes he finds that that actually causes a little more friction when the neural like me raps.

Some of these things are tradeoffs, we'll get it so solid. hip placement and get this, I'm not going to get it to go and you're going to go 4/3 of the way through this fly that big effort, you had your knees right in front of the bar when you started the lift even though you corrected that hole and put those knees more solidly we have the policeman anyway 974 that means species because silikov has changed his shape they have the option to do that on this floor around they can make a change I really like the sequence of events because the deadlift is excellent complementary exercises, these guys are doing big deadlifts and they have all been training carrying slabs and shoulders, we are going to limp, it is said that they are their debt to these deserts, I know they train heavier with deadlifts and concentrate on them, but I think they are very complimentary.

Arty's theses. next and this is a big boost for him 1,001 pounds becomes that exclusive 1,000 pound room Amanda, he is as a result of that tutelage 1,001 pounds can become a six man to lift four digit stools won't get him to go in The club stays low hips well I guess the bar started just broke about another day for deadlift training I'm still a very young athlete in terms of high level competition, he weighed over 900 pounds a couple ago of years with the army now McHale, if the policeman goes up next, one thousand and five pounds of silikov, we look to finish within the top in these opening events that are going very well for the rest of the competition, total commitment, will continue shooting, silikov You can't give 1005 to go to the end.

Siberian for hooking the crowd, let's show how that mythical number has to get back there once you put in four digits. Did you know that as a competitor who has to instantly get inside the brain, he had a good start on that? a little faster than it has been, I wasn't his patient, I was trying to put a little more gas into it, yes, fans are aware of the 1000 big events happening now in the US, this I would be rich, this would be. a record for Brian Shaw with the 1049lb elephant after our yards and he has just set the Newmarket 1045 which was in the second round and has yet to lift it to be able to trade records here.

Brian Shaw looks to set the new world record on the elephant bar but remembers Hathor Bjornsen still has to go he's visualizing his lifts he's thinking just looking up he says okay I got it he has a checklist in his head I'm sure he has a checklist in his head in other words he says he is going to get to speak in a certain place his hands in a certain place can feel a leverage point he will push it with his feet to concentrate on getting the board to wait for the top is nodding what needs to happen here Brian Shaw looks to jump now throw your Chi for first place in this event sets a new world record on the elephant bar in the process yes he really wants this we will see another record of 1040 five pounds for Bryan Shaw getting angry as he prepares, he's had all year to think about the last year when he had a chance to take the lead on the third deadlift and Shah fell forward onto the bar on that attempt, he's not going to do it and that means that half-gate Bjornsen is the winner of this event with one lift remaining, so every One more look at Brian Shaw and as the crowd greets him, everyone has their phones up trying to record the story.

A little flex on the bar. Those leverage points are so hard to find that the bar pushed you forward. Notice he backed away as he started to pull back the bar got caught in his shin the bar got caught in your shin I can get your hips forward a little so half Thorbjorn C is your next man and he'll go for that magic number one thousand one hundred pounds five hundred kilos is what the Marquis needs to be this is a fifty thousand dollar lift he is getting ready to do he already has the Elephant Bar world record which he set that in his last lift at 1045 pounds he can set another with his third and last lift and take home 50 thousand dollars in the process, this is absolutely a story, absolutely fine, they are going to perform their ritual to prepare you mentally to start with this bull, all this training, all this thinking in this goal of lifting more of 500 kilograms, establishing the world of all time.

We not only recorded the elephant bar deadlift record, but the all-time world record for floor deadlifts, so we've equipped the thousand pound mark now that we're at 1100 after Bjornsen looked at the story and the 1105 pounds will draw the crowd. behind him as he lies down for his third and final attempt $50,000 to Hathor Bjornsen for all the marbles here it is on Bjornsen's knees he can't get blood to come out of his forehead that's how intense that effort was sets the deadlift record for Elephant Bar developers win the event, but the mountain cannot surpass the Beast and the record remains in any hall's possession for the time being.

Yes, he does, but what he did well, but what he got was an important points victory. Here's one more look at what that would be like. It would have been history, his hips rose a little faster than on the other lips, patient of the floor, his hips rose a little faster after Lorenson seems to have hit himself in the forehead to psych himself up and then, when he started to live, I started to believe Jordan wins the 1045-pound event in a new world record on elephant bar Brian Shaw will finish second Gerry Pritchett even though he didn't do a third lift will tie for third with Mia Kyle Shimla cough stool marks a top 5 record was set and it was haftorah bjornsen and this was the lift that made it 1045 lbs i must say my hip place was a little lower with that Hathor Bernsen in just her second left best the mark she sent the year passed by four pounds and gains ten points in the process Brian Shaw will get 9 Pritchett and Shiva cough up seven and a half each, that's third and fourth place added and then divided, so seven point five from our team The base ends in fifth place, one event less and a record has already fallen here in the Arnold Strongman classic and it belongs to that man after the abuse and Jerry stamped himself with a strong performance like he was the guy.

Oh look, he did it right or the events remain and the mountain. has the lead, stay with us here, the Husa stone carrying event fell and will be next at the 2019 Arnold Strongman Classic.