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  2. John Knowlton

    FoA’s Bending, Feat’ing & More

    SUPER COOL WORKOUT those DAN LURE plates are cool way cool gym too
  3. maidenfan

    Morgan's Grip Log

    BikeErg (DF120) & seated DB snatches (up to 80x5). Good workout. DB snatches have been a staple for many years. Getting them (all versions) back into the rotation. Very powerful all around fitness and strength exercise.
  4. John Knowlton

    Mobster's Wrist Roller Work

    UGLY REP OR NOT GREAT WORKOUT HAPPY FRIDAY
  5. mobsterone

    Mobster's Wrist Roller Work

    Friday Good solid session @ Powerhouse. Trained solo except having someone just in case for the top weight on bench Close Grip Bench Press to 140kg x 1 ugly rep (don't know why) then 170kg/352lbs x 2, 3 and 3 reps (two sets of 3 might be a PB). 180kg x 1 rep just cos (easy) One Arm Dumbbell Row to 90kg/198lbs x 10 reps 60-mm MiraFit R/Handle to set up + LH: 83.75kg x 3 x 3 reps (last 2 sets on point) RH: 86.25kg x 3 x 3 reps (all solid) Bwt: 317lbs
  6. You're doing it right, it should absolutely kill your core until you get used to it. Especially pushups.
  7. degradated

    Ghp Level 7 & 8 Closers

    Very thorough explanation... Thanks! It's sad some of the great lengths some demented people will go to "prove themselves" in the world. I'm glad his name was removed from the IM 3.5 list at least.
  8. C8Myotome

    Ghp Level 7 & 8 Closers

    Yes, he took Tough Ape chinese springs that look bright silver in color, and put those into ghp/coc handles. Because these are narrow 50 lb springs, to get the GHP spread measurement, he could have easily just bent the spring outwards just enough to be in the same specificiation range as he would have seen in other approved cert videos. He strategically only measured the spread before the close, and not after, which would have revealed how narrow the Tough Ape spring really was after it relapsed a bit from being bent outward I would figure. As far as spring coil diameter measurement, I'm not sure how thick those springs are but it wouldn't be the craziest thing in the world to figure out how to fudge either, or maybe they're similarly thick. He also usually used 2 hands to open the gripper and then get it away/hidden from camera as soon as possible to probably hide how much narrower the spring was after being closed (because he probably bent all these outward too to try to make them look like wide ghp/coc). Faking the GHP8, GHP9 and probably also GHP7 certs was basically just practice for faking the coc 3.5 cert, he did the same spring swap and duped people multiple times which probably gave him the confidence to fake a 3.5 cert as well, the only things he did additionally were to repackage the fake gripper into CoC packaging which dubya showed is not impossible to make look convincing, then what he got caught with was the amazon barcode UPC sticker on the pack of the package, which Ironmind used as evidence to show it was not the same gripper they sent him, and also the packing tape was crinkled showing the package had been opened and resealed with the same tape. I know for a fact it was tough ape springs as there is an instagram account (still active) which he and his friend were running, I know this for 100% fact because someone sent me voice clips coming from this account that were one million percent pasta man himself, before anyone knew who he was he was reaching out to elite gripsters to ask for advice about what kind of adjustable gripper they would want to buy as he claimed to have springs and handles and was planning to make grippers to sell, i believe he made an rgc machine too, but anyways this same instagram account has (and still has) pictures of coc grippers and tough ape grippers shown side by side in the same picture, the same account pasta man was sending voice messages from without revealing his name specifically on it. When he later started posting training videos, it was from a different account that was associated with his name. So there is cold hard evidence before he even tried to make a name for himself in training, he was taking apart, building grippers and modifying them which he purposely never mentioned anything of either publicly, or for example with me either, during the probably hundreds of DMs he sent me during the time I talked to him and then started giving him the slow fade once he started trying to fake being superhuman with his godly vegetarian strength from his magical programming I assume everything he has done is fake. I'd guess the springs he used for 3.5 and GHP9 type certs were probably like 200, 250 or 300 lb spring difficulty level which is not exactly godly to be able to close or even ccs, but with 3.5 or ghp8/ghp9 handles glued onto them he tricked people into thinking it was something impressive. Similarly in his fake coc 3.5 cert video he likely bent the spring to have a wider spread to fit in the coc packaging, or to make it look like a 3.5, then after his repeated closes you can tell the spring got significantly narrower after each close, i forget the figure but it was probably at least 1 cm+ narrower, to the point where the spring was barely opening up wide enough to be able to fit the credit card though it; you could see how relaxed his hands were as well. If he did 1 3.5 CCS and took the fake cert he probably would have had more trouble getting caught, but he got REALLY as greedy as possible and did a triple, then a double, to the point where the card could barely fit through the handles which is pretty typical for trying to do ccs with a 50 lb gripper And then there's all the fake blob and loading pin stuff, but I really only paid attention to the gripper stuff. 100% fake
  9. degradated

    Ghp Level 7 & 8 Closers

    Totally bummed... Has it been established exactly how Tiz altered the GHP cert submission vids?
  10. Blacksmith513

    matek's training log

    When you first started using the weighted vest did it kill your core? I am getting used to mine but man my core aches after and I haven't even really pushed hard with it yet.
  11. C8Myotome

    Ghp Level 7 & 8 Closers

    I'd be bummed about missing out too, it was a great entry level cert with an easy format where you got unlimited attempts, however it could have benefited from more strict rules as shown via pasta man conning it
  12. Blacksmith513

    Blacksmith513 training log

    30 minutes on the rower 5500m sorta rough morning treated my friend out for dinner and beer last night for their bday and celebrated a little too much
  13. degradated

    Ghp Level 7 & 8 Closers

    Dang, you make a good point. It's all up to Wade, I suppose, if certs will continue to take place and be recognized.
  14. 20kg/44lb weighted pushups with pushup stands - 8x18 (8th set was 17 + 1) - 4x14 (4th set was 12 + 2) - 3x12 (3rd set was 11 + 1) - 3x10 (3rd set was 9 + 1, and I hit the floor like 3 times til I got that last rep) Triceps pushdown, black band - 8x18
  15. C8Myotome

    Ghp Level 7 & 8 Closers

    The only real reason to have an active cert process is for promotion of products to buy to use for it, & it's basically free advertising. With nothing for GHP to sell, any more cert judging/posting videos etc would all be volunteer work. They were already having trouble with keeping GHP profitable, so I don't see why they would want to do free work now, after the business closed due to not making enough money. There were people waiting upto 6 months to hear back about their cert attempts previously, that I'm aware of. I don't think with the company closed, the old cert system is going to be any more active than it was while the company was actually running and selling things.
  16. C8Myotome

    Ghp Level 7 & 8 Closers

    I think the fact pasta man is still on the GHP list shows this challenge will never be active again
  17. C8Myotome

    Questionable Claims

    That's wild your first 3 and 3.5 were 8 rgc apart for 2 outliers. Mine were 147 and 173
  18. featsofalex

    FoA’s Bending, Feat’ing & More

    Hm, makes sense! I think strength might be an issue since I was having a tough time opening them, especially the bolt, but presumably I’ll get better at it so it’s definitely worth taking a shot at some 1/4” crs next time!!!
  19. Nice work! If strength and pain is not an issue, HRS and soft bolts like the G2 are actually harder to snap (or at least, they take longer). Those are ductile and "just made to be bent"; they absorb more energy before fracture.
  20. featsofalex

    FoA’s Bending, Feat’ing & More

    Started the day with some assorted upper body dumbbell lifts, then the voices in my head started saying that what I really wanted to do was try a barehand unbraced snap. Game Voices! So I tried it with a 1/4”x7” g2 bolt and after 17 minutes my left ring finger skin snapped with the bolt still firmly in one piece. Alas, I talked myself into thinking an hrs piece would be easier to snap, so I tried a Gods of Grip Gobannus Bar (1/4”x7” hrs), and it was easier and did get hot for a bit at least but after 7 minutes my right ring finger skin snapped and again the bar had not - both were kinked underhand opened face pull style and closed with normal chest crush. I’d take a pic of the bar and bolt but I threw them across the garage in disgust and don’t know where they are now The only lesson I think I learned was do the hrs before the bolt, as I fully plan on revisiting the barehand unbraced snap one of these days!!! After some hand TLC I did some assorted upper body FatBell lifts and then vanilla bench press. 315 felt slow af so I un-vanilla’d it and threw on a bench blockz to a four board and wrapped it up with 315 for 5 reps!
  21. Yesterday
  22. Eric Roussin

    2024 North American Grip Sport Championships - June 1-2

    A heads up that with the way sign-ups are coming along, I'll likely need to shut down registration ahead of schedule. We're currently up to 34 participants, and while the venue is great and we'll have the run of the place, it has just a single toilet. So I'll only be allowing a few more athletes. If you're qualified and have been sitting on the fence until now, the coming days would be a good time to make the call if participating in this elite contest is important to you.
  23. Douglas Carney

    Doug Dude's Training Highlights

    Quick Gripper Test Run - Right Hand Recovery 03-28-2024 Left hand needed a rest day after thumb work yesterday. So, I decided to do a quick gripper test rn with my right hand. Grippers attempted (in order): • IronMind Captains of Crush Guide (RGC 27) • Ironmind Captains of Crush Sport (RGC 37) • Cannon Powerworks Standard Gripper Tin [Sn] (RGC 51) • Tetting Thor Beginner (RGC 55) • Cannon Powerworks Standard Gripper Zinc [Zn] (RGC 60) • Gillingham High Performance Level 2 (RGC 61) • GNC 100 [FILED] (RGC 69) • IronMind Captains of Crush #0.5 (RGC 70) • Gillingham High Performance Level 3 (RGC 70) • Gillingham High Performance Level 3 [FILED] (RGC 76) • Powerball 200 (RGC 80) • IronMind Captains of Crush #1 [FILED] (RGC 80) • Cannon Powerworks Standard Gripper Silver [Ag] (RGC 85) • Gillingham High Performance Level 4 (RGC 87) Musical Inspiration: "The Call of Ktulu" by Metallica from the album "Ride the Lightning" released in July 1984.
  24. Jared P

    My partial Ironmind collection, rated by Cannon

    Yeah, I think this is right. The v1 and v2 both appear to be longer blocks, and the v3 that comes with the black caps is a shorter block. Based on GHP cert videos, it appears that the v3 black caps block materialized sometime in late 2020/early 2021 - around the same time that 2nd Gen GHP grippers appeared also, I believe. Which lines up with the overall move to cut costs from GHP.
  25. degradated

    My partial Ironmind collection, rated by Cannon

    Gotcha, good detective work Jared!
  26. C8Myotome

    My partial Ironmind collection, rated by Cannon

    The string block also just looks longer by eyeballing it. Maybe the original blocks used more length of material and part of the attempt to cut costs was to make shorter blocks. I know my block very well and it's definitely much shorter and stockier looking
  27. Jared P

    My partial Ironmind collection, rated by Cannon

    Just watched a bunch of GHP certification videos from GHP's YouTube channel. It appears there are 3 versions: - Original, no caps or holes (1st) - Hole in left side for blue string (2nd) - Black caps on both ends (3rd)
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