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Horrido 6.5” 10.9 Cert attempt day The big day hath come!!! I’ve tried before and the furthest I’ve gotten it was to a little over 4”, but today was going to be the day!!! Until my old nemesis, off center bends reared its ugly head at a very inopportun time. Through four hits the bend was going well, but then I think I started my crush a little early and wasn’t able to have a good controlled grip on it so instead just blasted away at it, which produced movement but left me so off center that the final crush was near impossible. Bend ended at 2-5/8” after 5 mins and was already there in well under 2 mins. I think I can get this without it being an absolutely perfect bend, but I also will need to avoid big mistakes or multiple small ones. The rematch will be mine!!! With such a high profile bend going first I didn’t really pre-plan the next two bends. If id succeeded there would’ve probably been a big emotional let-off and I’d be pretty useless for another hard bend and if I got totally bricked I’d be distraught and searching for a victory. Instead I got a fail but also a movement PR, so I went with the bend that would make me psyched if it worked but wouldn’t kill my buzz if it failed - aka a 6.5” FBBC Big Monster Square!!! Squares bend weird enough that I can usually write off a failed bend easily enough but that’s also a big enough bend I would’ve immediately forgotten my previous shortcoming. And I actually threw down a really freaking great bend. On the point, centered, consistent progress and then pow ran out of gas right when I needed a little extra gas and stopped with just under a half an inch to glory😭 I do think if it was my first big bend of the day I would’ve gotten it, next time I’ll slot it properly - Even if FBBC has stopped the certs for a long time, I still get psyched when I get a big one under cert conditions and get certified by the homies!!!   At this point, a little over one lousy inch was the combined distance between two fails and an epic session, plus I was pretty drained so wrapped up the big bends with a 7.5” 9mm CRS from McMaster which would normally be a undershoot for that slot but it served the trick of ending on success.    Then i skipped cordura bend and isos (had plenty of iso crush already🤣) and worked on breaking in a different wrap setup - double leathers of thin leather. Can’t tell if I’ll like it or not yet, we shall see!!!

I just sent an email so with any luck I will get a little stronger and be able to compete. The Manassas one is super close hopefully I will be able to get into that one!!!

Brian Shaw has an elite grip and if he trained for the axle I believe he would break the world record. the best on this lift most have gigantic power strength and brian has all the qualities required to beat this record but that is not his goal

Nice work man. Looks good.

I have a blobtop and it’s great. Highly recommend it