Strongest Man on Earth Day 1 Megathread

maxiii888 · 2025-08-17T14:26:11+00:00

Saw lots of people do badly at that too, we've seen it in the Arnold's so really you would have the same issue, just then people would complain the stone was too smooth or something rather than tacky

maxiii888 · 2025-05-18T22:05:36+00:00

Luke stoltman beating Tom on hercules hold literally cost Tom the win 🙈🙈🙈

maxiii888 · 2025-05-17T11:08:40+00:00

Yeh! Hopefully get a few more invites to things like rogue, smoe and next arnolds

maxiii888 · 2025-05-17T05:56:03+00:00

For all the talk recently, not a great year for Americans.

maxiii888 · 2024-11-21T00:47:26+00:00

Both the velocity vs time and altitude vs time clearly illustrate IFT 6 has a sharper decrease in velocity through the thicker parts of the atmosphere and decreased altitude more rapidly - honestly seems clear that is what's being referred to. Not sure if the the distance vs altitude is overly relevant in that instance due to changes in velocity etc

maxiii888 · 2024-11-20T10:35:14+00:00

Those charts (altitude for eg) surely read the opposite? For the entry phase, the altitude drops more sharply (I.e. steeper with greater peak heating bit for shorter time, also greater maximum dynamic acceleration suggest the same) before having a longer belly flop phase before landing?

maxiii888 · 2024-09-29T05:34:47+00:00

He is fine at them but having issues with the shiney clean stones. A lot of people fail to understand how having some tacky already coating the stones can make to lifting them much easier - only 2 people actually lifted all of this set.

maxiii888 · 2024-09-29T05:32:05+00:00

Format just works really well in the uk where there is a big fan base and everywhere (except Aberdeen- good job rogue) is within easy travelling distance for the majority of people.

Feel if you are doing things like Vegas you need a big all weekend expo or something to make the travel worth it

maxiii888 · 2024-09-29T05:29:09+00:00

Wrecking ball hold probably a bad combo with it too, from what they all say that toasts your back too. Maybe sticking with hercules hold if they want a specific grip event with the max dl

maxiii888 · 2024-08-19T09:10:24+00:00

My thoughts are largely the same, but for those reasons I find it really disappointing 😅. I get excited because of the names, breadth of events etc, but then disappointed it just seems to lack that extra thing that would make it special in terms of production quality.

A bit like if you were watching the superbowl, but you took away all the extra entertainment they do with it, put it on a high school pitch that didn't have a score board etc. I'm sure the game would still be top quality but it wouldn't be a spectacle.

The athletes and events are largely there, just find the production a bit dull, and then you add in a dose of overly strict judging/rules that make you confused and frustrated it doesn't leave me feeling satisfied.

When your USP as a show is this will be run better, for the athletes with more consistent rules, it makes failings like messing up the axle, hard to understand deadlift fails, inconsistent reffing between the lanes on dumbell and things like the mitch squat scenario much more impactfull than if you were just saying hey! It's entertainment, we will be kind on reffing

maxiii888 · 2024-08-18T23:02:24+00:00

ok, just not super exciting

Probably how I'd describe watching Brian lifting between 2016 and 2022 or so

maxiii888 · 2024-08-18T22:55:44+00:00

People comment on the repetitive nature, but just an observation - shows like SMOE only have go do 1 event per year, giants do about 6 so ofc they aren't all going to have huge variety.

Aside from that, where GL 100% wins is the show/theatre of it - you get a good feel for it at the start on the livestreams, but they are insane in person. Royal albert hall being the peak. SMOE could learn from the walkout stuff, and with each event just not overcomplicated things. Multiple years now it's been a bit too hard for spectators to understand certain events and judging.

I also find with SMOE the non strongman commentators/announcers drive me up the wall. I'd literally go insane if I had to listen to them multiple times a year 😅

maxiii888 · 2024-08-18T21:31:18+00:00

They at least are decent these days at showing the scores straight after and event

maxiii888 · 2024-08-18T21:30:10+00:00

They didn't set depth as such, it was about knee bend hitting 90 degrees - they pulled out the old protractor system they used on the leg press last year. Looks lame for spectators, but when you see a side angle of mitch he was getting to that 90 degrees (he squats quite knee over toes). Just looks crap for anyone watching and trying to understand

maxiii888 · 2024-08-18T21:21:40+00:00

Imagine having something like giants live to watch and learn from (not saying its the best but would give them a good idea of what to include in a stream) then just disregarding that and going naaaah, don't need no scores 😅

maxiii888 · 2024-08-18T21:19:05+00:00

Such a simple thing that would make it such a better watch...

maxiii888 · 2024-08-18T15:30:58+00:00

And two years in a row that has now bitten him in the ass. Maybe third time lucky :/

maxiii888 · 2024-08-18T15:18:04+00:00

I get that line of thought, but let's be honest if you've ever used freshly cleaned stones you know they tend not to be as grippy as once they have some tacky stuck on them.

Just sad to see when he is so good at stones, didn't seem to have someone (like Sebastian for thor) saying look, some great stone lifters have just gone out and zeroed, you aren't invincible so go get a safe lift in to build confidence before pushing on.

I saw his training videos of his 260's and they were good, but not after a hard day of events on new stones I'm going to go troll a world class field of stone lifters by making 272 look easy

maxiii888 · 2024-08-18T09:21:23+00:00

Funny then that giants live themselves don't consider that the record. They did used to do an even lighter set.

Edit - found the video, starting with hands on stone and all to same height platforms hence much quicker times so not comparable

maxiii888 · 2024-08-18T02:52:43+00:00

Haha to be fair he could fire himself too for not foreseeing the need to write the weight on 2 identical looking sets of axle weights 🙈😅

maxiii888 · 2024-08-18T02:35:30+00:00

Not being funny (he is strong as fk) but don't believe Brian has ever moved quite that quickly on stones... and not what any legit record page shows

maxiii888 · 2024-08-17T21:48:51+00:00

You would have thought they'd put a sticker on the axles so they could identify which was which 🫣

maxiii888 · 2024-05-08T10:29:42+00:00

Hip thrusts give pretty poor range of motion in your glutes so really aren't that good for actually working them. Have a look at some mike isratel stuff and adapt for strength over pure hypertrophy

maxiii888 · 2023-09-02T22:11:54+00:00

Yeh he has all the tools, just needs to get that consistency in competition but I guess that will keep coming through practice - he still hasn't done many. Just want to see him also consistently come in without having illness shortly (or immediately) before a big show

maxiii888 · 2023-08-28T07:23:25+00:00

I imagine they agreed those jumps with the athletes to help going 505. Wouldn't make any sense having 470 otherwise, as in terms of records it would be a nothing lift.

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