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TNS'd a 165 RGC 3.5 in my 2nd gripper session tonight. The handle mount is horrible.

@tkovach724 spent what little free time he had to put together a tribute to the Mashmonster ladder and the grippers creator Warren Tetting. All editing was done by Todd, I just supplied a few clips that I happened to have saved to my phone (Dave Morton and Shane Larson) Also some clips from @ZRMMAThe Grip Show and @pancho_grip_lift Grip Sport Latino podcast. Hopefully you guys enjoy this and I'm looking forward to the new Mashmonster ladder! Ps. I'm sure this might belong in the Mashmonster forum but I just want it to get the attention it deserves. If it gets moved, I understand.

It's not that I can't buy one but it's always more fun to make.

CCS PR!!

ACE of O-1 Recap We had 21 participants from 6 countries including multiple all-time greats competing in an all 7” O-1 drill rod contest taking place from 1/7/24 to 4/13/24. The difficulties were P Q R 11/32 23/64 with 2 attempts per bar, one point scored for each difficulty bent, and overall time used to break ties! Without further ado… Congratulations to THE ACE of O-1 DEREK GRAYBILL!!! Derek bent all five bars in one session and further strengthens his grasp on GOAT status by dominating the strongest field ever assembled! Alex D and Sergey also bent all 5 bars, coming second and third based on time and each had brilliant competitions as well. Alex D bent all 3 letter bars in cordura singles in a majestic display of power and skill and Sergey dramatically conquered the Final Boss on his second and last try after running out of time with one hit to go on his first attempt. They were the only 3 to successfully bend all 5 bars and deserve to be distinguished with podium finishes! Alex G and Andrey rounded out the Top 5 with four points each after successful 11/32 bends! Thank you to everyone who participated, there was amazing performances throughout the competition! Some that jump to mind are Austin scoring the first point of the contest with a 9 second bend of P and that going wire to wire as the fastest bend of the contest! Robert Miller defeating all 3 letter bends and getting faster as he went while being 36 years older than our youngest competitor Andrey who scored a Top 5 finish at only 21 years old!!! Dmitriy Anisimov reducing his wraps from his first two second P bend and then bending it twice as fast! Juha and Carl-August, one of the all-time greatest Double Overhand and Braced Benders respectively, smashing bends and giving the newer benders a chance to compete against greatness!!! HUGE THANKS to Jan who had an excellent competition as well and without whose help this contest wouldn’t have been anywhere near as awesome! Also Huge Thanks to Todd for judging all my bends, love you dawg! Personal Recap: I almost can’t believe it’s over! All it took was buying the drill rod then cutting, grinding, cleaning, labeling, recruiting, packaging, shipping, judging, updating oh yeah AND BENDING!!!!! Including the most important single bend I’ve ever attempted. This was likely the most competitive lineup ever assembled for a single contest and I was in 8th place with 3 points and out of 23/64 (blue) and only had one 11/32 (green) chance remaining … fortunately Derek spent the week teaching me how to bend and I came through in my last chance to move me all the way from 8th to 4th Place Overall! What a contest if I may say so myself

I keep forgetting to open mine...

Thank you @Cannon will be a long while before I open these. But future goals

Great session today! coc 2.5 RGC 123 (ccs) - closed! Standard iron RGC 141 (parallel) - RH closed! Felt like I had the strength to close the 141 with the left hand but had a awkward feeling set up.

Took 3rd in amateur heavyweight. Got blown out in master 50-59 as there were pros (Steve Walker was my first match lol). Freaking awesome experience. Looking forward to the next match in Maryland (May)

Week 3 of volume block going well, 1x8 with 174 3.5. Next week 2x8 then upping the rgc to 180 and repeating process to end the block.

Btw this was the band setup

Such a cool movie.. still trying to get my dads brother to restore his COE. He doesn’t wanna go crazy, no body work. just sandblast and paint it all black. Been haunting him a lot, I’ll come up on weekends and do all the grunt work.

My experience is similar. I have run many "grip gauntlet" booths at USAPL meets and had grippers at my desk in corporate America for about 15 years. The average guy, untrained in grip, can close a #1 after they've been shown anything about how to hold the gripper. There was more upside at the powerlifting meets. Sometimes a guy would walk up and no set a #2 and ask "what are these?" That never happened at my desk job. A lot of the powerlifting folks could give the #2 a real scare after being shown how to hold a gripper. There was more downside at the corporate crowd. There would be guys who just couldn't quite get the Trainer even after receiving tips. You could always see the skew was really affecting them from a coordination standpoint and they would predictably exclaim, "it's trying to twist out of my hand!" But, on average, any given untrained guy that tried could usually close the #1.

Well my obsessive nature kicked in & I went down a rabbit hole the other night . I ended up ordering a couple variants of chalk. Should get me through for a while

I don't deep set. It's MMS, CCS, or TNS for me. My best MMS is 197.

Fantastic video Todd, you outdid yourself!!! There’s the epilogue, and a close-up shot of the MM7 Paul Knight closed to kick off the video!

Tomorrow the next mesocycle starts, but it’s not looking good for my right palm. It’s right where the end of the gripper handle sits, and it’s still bruised and painful. I was hoping some time would help (it’s been two weeks since I last did grippers), but it looks like it will take either more time or a more active type of recovery. We’ll see how it goes tomorrow. If I can’t use grippers on the right, I’ll do them on the left and find something else for my right hand to do. Maybe pinch.

Random cool moment today... My daughter (10) invited a new friend to hang out at our house after the school science fair. Despite the tv, video games, toys, etc downstairs...her friend went straight to the GHP Junior grippers I have on a stand by my recliner.

Quick one today RH - Blobs Warmup with the KWN40 - 6x1 KWN50 band-assisted lift LH - Inch trainer Warmup with 128.8lb/58.4kg - 4x2, 2x1 140.4lb/63.7kg level lift, except 2 reps slight tilt

30kg/66lb weighted pushups with pushup stands - 6x16 (last set was 13+2+1) I macgyvered a 10kg plate to the back of my weight vest with paracord and carabiners. Works well, obviously much harder than 20kg. 15kg/33lb lateral neck flexion (both sides) - 4x12 - 2x10 I figured I shouldn't just do the back neck curls. These side/lateral curls are difficult to do with a regular neck harness, but possible to do them. 52.5kg/116lb dumbbell one arm rows (both arms) - 6x12 25kg/55lb judo belt pronation full curls (both arms) - 4x8 - 2x7

If you handed someone a gripper who has never trained it and told them to close it they would always attempt to do a TNS with the back handle way down their thumb pad. Most people cant close a #1 first try because they dont know about setting it. Teach people to set a gripper and they smash it. I took my grippers to a weightlifting gym a few years ago and had everyone attempt it. They all failed a coc#1. Then I showed them how to set the gripper, almost all of them closed it immediately afterwards. They all failed on the coc#2 with the closest being a few mm off. Granted the coc#2 they used rates in the 110's (ballpark estimate from how easy my 98 coc#2 feels). If I had handed them an average #2 a few would have closed it. A #2 in my opinion is what I consider average. (100 rgc)

4/17 MID DAY GRIP WORK GRIPPERS COC # T, 2 SETS OF 10 COC # 1, 1 SET OF 5 COC # 1.5 1 SET OF 5 COC # 2 RGC 96 1 SET OF 2 COC #2 RGC 105 1 SET OF 1 GHP # 5 RGC 110 1 SET OF 1. Left hand easy, right hand barely got it(hard) GRIP MACHINE 100 X 10 120 X 7 140 X 5 160 X 3 GRIP THING # 1 125LBS FOR 4 SETS OF 20 PINCH GRIP MACHINE TWO HANDED PINCH, (SIMILAR TO THE FLASK) 45 X 5 55 X 5 65 X 5

Wed 17/4/24 High Box Squat/ band face pulls Bar x 5, bar x 5, 60k x 3, 100k x 3,129k x 2, 140k x 1, 160k x 1,170k x 2 . Face pulls 10 x 5 Bulg Split Squat/ Band Pull Aparts 5x 10 body weight. Pull aparts 5 x 10 Db Shoulder Press/Cuff block raises 12.2k 5 x 15 . Cuff raise 2k 5 x 5 Inc DB Bench / Reverse Hypers strict 22k 5x5 . Hypers 3 x 10 Hub ( plate weight only) 7.5k x 2 R/L, 10k x 2 R/L, 12k x 1R/L, 14k x 1 R /L broke floor, 15k x 1R, 16k x 1R, 17k x 1R, 18k x broke floor High Box Squat . Chucked these in as I had a massage last night & didn’t want to squat too low but wanted to chuck a bit of weight around. Depth above parallel but not the end of the world. Bulg Squat had me sweating. Knee flexibility is not great but improved as the sets went on. Will add weight as the wks go on. DB Shoulder Press. But light but got shoulders moving. Will add a band in next session. Should give it a bit if extra tension. Inc Bench comfy enough . Felt them tho. Hypers strict really did me. They hit the spot & I really felt them. Good to get them back in rotation. Hub. Well I couldn’t remember where I was with this so hence the loads of sets. Seems to be moving ok. Going to study a few vids tonight on tech. 5 am sess in The Zoo. Got some good graft in & have a few more base numbers to work with. Todays squat set up in The Zoo. You might notice how small English garages are lol.

Thanks John. Looking forward to it. @matek its a #3.5 This came up on my Facebook memories today 4 years ago.. Want to talk about hard work... Excavated this for a small addition. We bought a mini excavator for this job, couldn't fit anything bigger in the back yard. I wheelbarrowed out 3 dump truck loads full of dirt and and filled a 20 yard dumpster full of dirt to save for backfill, and had to wheelbarrow back in. Lots of jackhammering and drilling to key new foundation into old one. House was built on a spring so I was in constant mucky water which made it 1000x harder.. We ended up doing the concrete footing but the form guy did the foundation. beer tasted awful good afterwork.

This is wild to read. "Pro and World Class dropped to $21.95"

Heavy Bending Day, and a wild rollercoaster at that!!! Warmup bends ended with an OM shiny that was properly centered, a sure fire omen of awesomeness! Then off to the big bends!!! First up was an OM 13/32”x7.5” 360 Brass better known as an Odd Golden Emperor Of All Bastards Equivalent I’ve never tried to bend anything 13/32 before, but we were off to the races with a nice smooth 50 second bend! Next up was an official FBBC KOAB from January ‘24 and damn those are tough ones (KOABs from late last year were way way easier )I got some movement on it but nothing serious and then blasted away at it a while longer to count it as my iso training for the day. These will have to be taken very seriously and be prepped for and the feature bend, not just as a second of three hard bends bend. Since I cleverly reslotted this as my iso bar for the day, I replaced it with a 3/8”x7” bar from Delmar. I’ve bent this before, but never so smoothly and confidently!!! The last of the big bends was Rx6.5” O-1 drill rod. Two weeks ago I did this bend in a brutal 4:30 fight to the death, and today it was a dominant 49 second bend. I think it’s a good sign too that all three bends had basically the same bending cadence to them rather than my typical pure chaos. Also, no crush pads on any of them! Next up was an IMPs bend which I overshot going with a 3/8”x7” G2 and got bricked was running out of time so instead of fussing with it too much I switched to a classic red nail in imps and called it a day!

Thanks John. There are two reasons I don't train grippers right now, recovery/time and... I test my strength on them every few months... I went from hardly doing my #1 unrated and a few times unrated#1.5... To now they are easy. With no real gripper training or proper technique last time I tried I was less than 1/4" on my #2. I'm curious to see how/if gripper strength progresses while I train for the inch without actually training grippers.

KGOZ - The 40/40 Club My name is Madkow and this is the hard-hitting documentary depicting the story of my quest to join to 40/40 club.

RH - grippers Warmup - Level 1 - Level 5 MMS reps on the GD90 Main - 5x5 Standard Adjustable Ti, RGC 107, 20mm block set, 2-sec hold on each rep No problem, but the hold on each rep makes it much harder than the RGC suggests. Extra - 2x2 Stainless Adjustable, RGC 156, 10mm choked It's obvious that the place where the gripper is choked has a huge influence on the difficulty, but the difference is bigger than probably most people would guess. I would say using a hose clamp on the top of the handles feels like +10~15 RGC, and washer on the spring feels like +15~20 RGC compared to the Corcoran/CPW choking method (if the spread is kept constant). Of course, the RGC on close doesn't change, but the total work that needs to be done is much more. BH - dumbbell small wrist curls in one-handed dl position Plate rotation stopped, original blue fat gripz - 5x5 42.5kg/93.7lb RH - 5x4 42.5kg/93.7lb LH Plate rotation stopped, orange fat gripz extreme - 5x9 32.5kg/72lb RH - 5x7 32.5kg/72lb RH

Busy morning. Rushed out early this morning to get guys going at work, ran home worked out and then had to run back out to check on guys. Here's a set with 100.5lbs thumbless. I actually performed this one again with my right because my 2nd rep wasn't complete. Strangely enough all of my other lifts have been going up. It was much better this week but for whatever reason, whether it's the sore right thumb or achy left wrist my crusher performance has been down. Like I said, the weights a little lower than usual but everything felt good today. still long way to go but little week by week I'm getting there.

SAT 13/4/24 Decifed to clean the garage & have a general potter around. Had to get my comp training in tho. FARMERS HOLDS (per hand) 15k x 10 secs 55k x 10 secs 90k x 30 secs 90k x 30 secs 90k x 35 secs 90k is comp weight . Felt hard today & first time my grip has slipped. Been trying for 5 secs extra every wk but feel I’m nearing my max . Next wk I’m going to try for 32 secs x 2 & max time last set. Felt a bit beat up today after a long wk. Done a few rounds sparring in the last couple of days as well. Time to rest until Monday .

Pull, Squat & Grip Day Since I missed Mondays workout and didn’t wanna mess with bending days here we are with a long name for the day and not a long time to do it Started with a superset of stiff leg t-bar deadlifts (since it was secretly upper back day) and 45kg Holle Inch lifts. 3 rounds of 230 lbs in plates (prolly 240 total) T-Bar for 5 reps and then 10 reps alternating hands on 45kg inch. Next up I was taking a victory lap before actually lifting since I figured out the perfect exercise for Pull Squat Grip Day! 45kg Holle Inch Clean & Squat for the win! Did 3 sets of 3 reps per side and it felt like a full workout in one go! Finished up with a single yolo smash of my AK-150 dyno and got 106.6kg for a small PR but a PR nonetheless!

Last beer in Mexico, on our way home back to reality

List updated. - Decimals removed (explained in another thread - ratings aren't accurate enough to warrant using decimals) - List expanded to 50 entries per set category. This will be needed as the sport continues to see newer athletes with high-level closes (Ben Helms, TrenGrip, Jussi Mutikainen, and Daniel Brechmann are some recently appearing examples), and 30 wasn't enough. I keep 100 entries in my personal files, just in case - but 50 seems like a great number for this list, that both captures what has been done and also allows room for new entrants going forward - of which I expect there will be many.

The issue is that springs are not symmetrical. Torsion springs can be either left-wound or right-wound. To muddy things up, the branding of "Left-Turn" is confusing because they actually have a right-wound spring. "Normal" grippers have a left-wound spring. That's where I prefer to call common grippers normal and the others reverse-wound. It is a little more clear. When you use a left-wound (normal) spring in your right hand, the handles close more linear directly toward each other. When you put that same gripper in your left hand, you have to work against the improper skew to bring the handles together. It could cause a normal gripper to feel slightly harder, or at least more awkward, in your left hand. As with everything else, it seems some people are more sensitive to this than others. I have never really felt too much of a difference.

Well if she’s already pi$$ed off.. just sayin

[b]Friday[/b] Early to gym, (and my buddy was still already there ha ha). Possibly heaviest by volume with the working weight bench session ever. Slightly off at the end possibly as a result of chatting with a competing bodybuilder. [u]Close Grip Bench Press[/u] to 175kg/385lbs x 3 x 3 reps (slightly out of the groove on rep 3 set 3). My backside was just about still touching the bench on sets 2 and 3. s/s [u]Iso Lever Mid Rows[/u] to 140kg/308lbs x 5 reps [u]MiraFit 60mm Handle[/u] to set up plus LH: 82.5kg x 3, 2 and F reps (see too much chatting here as I was also up against the clock at this point) RH: 87.5kg x 3 x 3 reps

Volume Bending Day (yesterday!) After warmups I did my final ACE of O-1 bend, the P rematch. I did my first one in 15 seconds but seeing as the fastest so far was 9 seconds by @Austin Seitter there seemed to be a few seconds to be saved! It was a real nice bend and got it done in 13 seconds, every two seconds counts Now I’ve attempted all ten of my ACE bars and get to spend the last two days of the contest as a judge and fan and of course figuring out how to spin it so there’s actually four people on a podium (if I’m still even in fourth when the dust settles) Then it was off to the actual volume of volume day. Did 4 online metals bastard equivalents and then was planning to do 4 online metals shiny equivalents but the first one was accidentally Q drill rod lol. During the bend I was like damn this shiny has a lot of fight to it, but soon enough figured out why after accidental Q I switched it to finishing with 3 FBBC bastards to ensure the bends remained snappy throughout the whole session.

While I agree in holding people and certifications to high standards and that this should not have passed in the first place, making an apples to apples comparison between this and Tiziano knowingly cheating by tampering with equipment and faking feats is at least a bit disingenuous.

Last night of vacation going home tomorrow. More time on vacation makes me think about retirement a little bit more. Monday morning will come way too soon,,back to the grindstone.

For what it's worth, if you ever do any Silver Bullet training/competing, you may be opening some of those heavier grippers sooner than you think. That's how I rationalized buying some of mine anyway...hahaha

Monday He came, he saw, he kicked b**t! I did all I needed to to prep for the Hatfield Squat. That included a double Ristretto before and another gratis gym coffee on arrival. My go to music playing as I walked to the gym and a little (2x) stretching Sunday. Hatfield Squat Bar x 8 reps, 140kg x 8 reps, 230kg x 6 reps (*support belt only), 350kg/770lbs x 1 (PB), 360kg/792lbs x 1 (PB) and 370-kg/814lbs x 1 (PB) rep. All heavy sets with the super duper new belt and Inzer red/black knee wraps (had a harder set of Cerberus Extreme wraps but didn't use them with me). To ensure no issues I was using a set of thin collars and hammered them tight. The only issues was worrying about the bar bending and it was harder to unrack than squat. I nearly went to 380kg/836lbs but called it a day. Little bit dizzy after. Leg Press Decided to forgo this Lying Leg Curls to 16p x 5 reps Leg Extensions to stack x 12 reps Bwt: 320lbs

GRIPPERS T x 10 BH 1 x 5 BH 1.5 x 1 RH LH 1.5 8, 7, 6, 6 RH Au 6, 6, 5, 4 Practice set and 5-sec hold LH hard Pt, rgc 118 RH GHP 6, rgc 125 2 sets per hand I feel this route is the one to bear fruit. I’m thinking grippers and possibly grip in general can and should be approached more like a powerlifting cycle. Not a controversial concept but one I’m gonna enjoy playing with. Have a good evening.

13 April ========================== Training session in gym 1. Back squats (kg): 110/2, 120/2 x2 Grippers 1. SG Fe - MMS 1x1 2. ХВАТ#8 - MMS 1 rep x 10 sets =========================== Dynamometry - 94 kg

173 CoC 3.5 ccs

NN 2” deadlift 253x1 258x1 263x1 Blobtop left 19x1 19.5x1 19.75x1 20x1 20.25x1 right 16.5x1 16.75x1 17x1 17.25 miss twice 17x1 17x1 17.25 negative 17.5 negative 17.25x1 17.5x1 those negatives helped to get my cns going crusher thumbless Left 98.5x2 99.5x2 100.5x2 100lbs max reps 30 secs 4 Right 98.5x2 99.5x2 100.5x2 100lbs max rep 30 seconds 1 loadable inch rows Left 70x4 70x5 70x5 right 67.5x5 67.5x6 67.5x5 goosenecks holds left 75x10 76x10 76.5x10 right 75x10 76x10 76.5x10 pull ups, chest expander push ups, ring rows and squats with weighted vest done in circuit.

This week I went to a climbing gym a couple hours away from where I live which has a Rogue Anvil and some other grip stuff I don't have at home. I didn't climb because of my broken toe but tested out all their toe-friendly training equipment. Friday my Dinnie Rings from Cerberus Strength arrived and I maxed out at about 123kg/95kg. That's only about 65% of actual stone weight so I have a lot of work to do there but I'll need to spend some time working out best stance and getting used to the rings etc. I'm going to have to make some changes to my heavy grip days because by the 3rd implement I'm pretty fatigued so I'll probably drop 1 or 2 sets from each.

I have tried every variation (not kidding) of chalk there is over 30+ years. In dry conditions, humid, ‘climber’s chalk’ ‘gym chalk’. Spider chalk is the best. With that being said, @Cannon I would carry both Spider chalk as well as good old magnesium carbonate. Offer people a premium product, as well as a ‘budget’ product that works perfectly well for most people. Folks will buy both. Hope this helps.

Glad to see Youichi Okazaki back to training. One of the strongest dudes ever, and one of the few to have closed a CoC 4 and GHP 9. I believe he's had a few injuries over the years, mostly from heavy negative / secret weapon / grip machine training. Gabriel Sum and many others come to mind, who were never able to recover. Which is why I will never touch heavy negatives or a secret weapon.

I know @C8Myotome worked his butt off, and he can lift this weight. He just needs to figure out the technical piece to keep it completely off his leg. Perhaps he brought the dunking and drama on himself, but this thread reeks of pettiness. That said, I'm glad both he and @Londonjoseph are here in the community. I wouldn't want to be in Ironmind's position. It seems certs are riding on the wind, whichever way it blows.