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[Kortoso]

Thanks, guys, for adapting to civilized sensibilities.

[PainBrush]

eeeaaaghh , why the hell did I click on that link !!! Yep that's the picture , the bogus news article might be phony - but I don't think that photo is , whatever the hell caused it . Squatting a half-ton is as likely as anything else I would think .

[Masterfulks]

Damn I had no idea that another UFC was coming. They seem to pop up all the time now.

I'm going to have to find a vid of that fight.

[PainBrush]

DOHH !! - after reading your last post I did a quick search & found out that fight was over a month ago ! I hadn't even heard anything about it , the reason I thought it was just last night live is that it was on a pay-per-view channel on my local cable t.v. . I get a couple p.p.v. channels that come in a little fuzzy - but heck it's for free ! I don't know why they were airing month-old reruns tho . Definitely a fight worth getting a tape of anyhow .

[PainBrush]

DOHH !! - after reading your last post I did a quick search & found out that fight was over a month ago ! I don't follow all the cage fights religiously or anything there's so many different ones nowadays , so I had no clue . I hadn't even heard anything about that match , the reason I thought it was just last night live is that it was on a pay-per-view channel on my local cable t.v. . I get a couple p.p.v. channels that come in a little fuzzy - but heck it's for free ! I don't know why they were airing month-old reruns tho . Definitely a fight worth getting a tape of anyhow .

[Primeval]

DOHH !! - after reading your last post I did a quick search & found out that fight was over a month ago ! I don't follow all the cage fights religiously or anything there's so many different ones nowadays , so I had no clue . I hadn't even heard anything about that match , the reason I thought it was just last night live is that it was on a pay-per-view channel on my local cable t.v. . I get a couple p.p.v. channels that come in a little fuzzy - but heck it's for free ! I don't know why they were airing month-old reruns tho . Definitely a fight worth getting a tape of anyhow .

Actually, the fight was last night - it was held in conjunction with the Arnold Classic weekend (bodybuilding, powerlifting, strongman and some martial arts events are all part of it). Unless last night was a rematch? The one last night was UFC 68.

[PainBrush]

Yeah that's right then , I do recall they said it was in Columbus & I know that's where they always have the A.C. , maybe the couple webpages I read earlier about January 11 were for an earlier scheduled match that got cancelled or something ? Watching that fight I can guarantee they didn't just fight in January because Sylvia had no idea whatsoever of the beating he was about to get from his old friend !

[Sloth-Amon]

Oh yeah, I remember seeing the pictures of the lifter who had that little "blow-out" back a couple years ago. Though I just don't have the stomach to click that link and relive the experience.

[Primeval]

I had to add another example from powerlifting here, this one on a more personal level. All of this makes me think of King Conan showing up the young guys...

My stepfather competes in bench press meets (bad back and knees, so no squats or deadlifts) and is currently 65 competing as a 198 pounder. He has been doing so for only a few years, but he has an amazing work ethic as well as great genes (the guy was a state champion sprinter in high school). He has won a national championship and came in third in the world championship. Anyway, a few examples:

Christmas 2005, the family met in San Francisco where my brother lives. My stepfather and I go to workout together, he is getting ready for a meet. 3 reps, perfect form, no bench press shirt, with 305 pounds. Most guys at 20 would be happy with that, let alone over 60!

One meet before he became more well-known, I went to the announcing table to give his lifts, and they looked at the weights and said to me, "You know this is supposed to be in kilograms, not pounds?" I said, "It is in kilograms". The looks on their faces when he lifted his opener was priceless! That story actually happened twice.

Edited by Primeval, 12 March 2007 - 06:05 AM.

[PainBrush]

That's some ponderous poundages for 65 years old , I hope I'm still in that ballpark at 45 or 55 !

[PainBrush]

Today I logged on & got this in todays news :...............

Cruise Ship Passenger Rescued After Jump
AP
MIAMI (March 16) - A man who reportedly jumped from a cruise ship off Florida's coast early Friday was rescued eight hours later by the Coast Guard.

The 24-year-old man ran through a Carnival Cruise Lines ship cabin window and fell into the water off Fort Lauderdale, a witness told Coast Guard Petty Officer Dana Warr. It was unclear whether the window was open at the time.

The witness said the man was intoxicated .

The man waved his arms at crews when he was spotted at about 8:45 a.m., Coast Guard Petty Officer Jennifer Johnson said. She said he was airlifted to a hospital, but she didn't know his condition.

The man was aboard the Carnival Glory, which operates out of Port Canaveral east of Orlando, according to the cruise company's Web site. The cruise ship alerted authorities at 12:45 a.m. The ship and another cruise nearby stayed to assist with the search but have since left the area, Warr said.

Carnival spokesman Tim Gallagher confirmed the Coast Guard report but said no additional details were immediately available.

TREAD WATER FOOL

Treading water for 8 hours ! & Drunk as a skunk at that ! Kind of a Beowulfish feat , or remember when Conan said " It'll take a bigger sea than that one to drown me ! "

Edited by PAINBRUSH, 16 March 2007 - 08:38 PM.

[Ironhand]

They pulled him out of the water not a moment too soon! He must have been sober and hung over by then.

Edited by Ironhand, 19 March 2007 - 07:19 AM.

[Warduke]

He was one tough guy . Nosebleed &/or bar-burn is pretty bad - but a friend of mine a few years back gave me a pic. of a powerlifter who had a blow-out doing squats , don't know the poundage involved . By Blow-out I don't mean the usual - skidmarked his shorts , I mean....( warning - gross description - not for the squeamish , highlight the lettering if you want to read...)

Spoiler

The lifter was in traditional old-fashioned powerlifting gear , nothing fancy but a weight-belt to press his guts against , & he strained so hard he shot his butt & bowels out into his shorts !! I'm not kidding in the least - I have the photo copied on my comp. somewhere because it was so unbelievable & I emailed it to some lifter friends to gross them out . The medical term they used was a collapsed , or pro-lapsed rectum or something , now THAT'S determination to lift some weightage !!

I remember that, but I think it was revealed to be a hoax, although theoretically it could happen. That was one of the grossest pictures I have ever seen though! If you are at all squeamish don't look at the picture in this link, even if its faked it is nauseating.

prolapsed rectum hoax

AHH! Ijust had to click on that link! Man now I'm gonna have that image burned in my mind forever.


Anyway back on the topic Impressive move he pulled there. The other guy wasn't necessarily a small fry himself at 250 but against a 400 pounder, most anybody would look small. Kinda reminds me of a early day UFC fight where this guy was fighting this huge Sumo wrestler. In fact here's the video here.

http://www.youtube.c...h?v=aIPWWqvpKb4

[Swift]

The thread on Rulon Gardner made me remember a video I saw not too long ago of a truly amazing feat of strength. It was done in the 1972 Olympics wrestling. Wilfried Dietrich at around 250 pounds and considered to be an immensely strong man, was an underdog to his opponent Chris Taylor who weighed around 400 pounds. Watch the video and see what Dietrich does to him - I don't think Taylor even imagined someone would try this with him. The sheer nerve of it, as well as the brute force of it (yes, leverage and momentum play into it, but to get someone that big-who was not moving when he lifted him- off the ground...) , just screams Conan to me:

Conanesque strength

Though most of you may already know this, that move was a suplay. There was a photo of this match with taylor mid-air on the wall in my high school wrestling coaches office. Seriously the best kind of take down.

haha, On a different note, i don't think Conan would like all the rules in Greco-Roman.

[Konorg]

Great story, Paul! BTW, what are "Celtic toes"?

During WWII, the UK doctors treating the wounded noticed that a lot of fellow from Scotland and Ireland had a second toe noticeably longer than their big toe. They even wrote up the curiosity, and then forgot about it.

Just a few years back, someone saw the old reports, and finally did a survey on the subject. It turns out that that longer second toe is a classic Celt thang, and based on generic testing and genealogical research, a "Celtic" toe is considered a 98% accurate marker that someone has ancestors who were Celts. Got published in JAMA or Lancet, one of the major medical rags.

I always thought everyone's feet were like that. I didn't go around staring at people's toes or nothing. But after I read that, I DID do a little looking around, not nearly as common as I would have thought.

Oh yeah, any of the rest of you got antennae?? I'm not sure what part of the family THOSE came from, but I gotta weird feeling about old Uncle Nozbot . . .

I don't:((

[Masterfulks]

On one of the nearby coasts an 8 year old got his arm bitten off by a 7ft bullshark a few years ago.

The uncle grabbed the shark and wrestled it to shore to retrieve the kids arm.

That's pretty much classic Conan.

[Primeval]

Well, despite my initial posting about not including powerlifting due to the nature of most current lifts, I come across some amazing feats, and this is one.

I have seen Dennis Cieri compete at several national meets in the USAPL (which does allow basic bench press shirts but is also drug-tested), and pound for pound he is one of the most impressive lifters I have ever seen. He also is a proponent of raw lifting, and there is now at least one large federation that is drug tested and does not allow any bench shirts, squat suits, etc.

This video is Dennis at 198, benching 525, with perfect form the way the lift is supposed to be performed (none of this arching with your butt off the bench and/or touching the bar to your fat gut so you only move the bar 1 inch). I am not completely sure on this, but I don't think I have heard of a better bench, pound for pound, done raw and drug tested.


raw 525 bench

Edited by Primeval, 15 April 2007 - 07:36 AM.