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Hand gripper review: Captains of Crush


Terry Conjugate Iron

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Here's a video review I did on the Captains of crush gripper line, hope you'll enjoy it!  

 

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1 hour ago, John Knowlton said:

Hey Terry

great review 

Appreciate it John! Grippers are definitely my favorite grip tools. 

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6 hours ago, DevilErik said:

GRIPPERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRSSSSSSSSSSSSS

Haha...

I need more 👀👀👀👀👀😐😐😐😐😐

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13 hours ago, Terry Conjugate Iron said:

Appreciate it John! Grippers are definitely my favorite grip tools

ME TOO

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I've got some on the way already, I have a severe problem with buying grippers

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We all have OCGBD Obsessive Compulsive Gripper Buying Disorder.

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I have got 5 on the way

I found a Dutch website with some awesome grip tools their premium gripper set was on a huge discount with free shipping as well so I immediately jumped on it.

These will be my very first torsion spring grippers.

Life time warranty as well

65 euros for 5 grippers and 3 finger extensor elastic bands.

 

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5 hours ago, DevilErik said:

We all have OCGBD Obsessive Compulsive Gripper Buying Disorder.

Haha it's true.... I'm always thinking of which brand to buy next 🤔🤔🤔

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5 hours ago, Jermiah Merciconah said:

I've got some on the way already, I have a severe problem with buying grippers

Nice man! What brand did you get? 

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Just now, Terry Conjugate Iron said:

Nice man! What brand did you get? 

I've got 6 coming in total, 4 Barabans and 2 Silarukovs, Looking forward to getting them as they're both really nice looking gripper brands

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5 hours ago, DevilErik said:

I have got 5 on the way

I found a Dutch website with some awesome grip tools their premium gripper set was on a huge discount with free shipping as well so I immediately jumped on it.

These will be my very first torsion spring grippers.

Life time warranty as well

65 euros for 5 grippers and 3 finger extensor elastic bands.

 

What's the brand you bought?? There are so many... It's endless. Especially the Chinese stuff. 

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Just now, Jermiah Merciconah said:

I've got 6 coming in total, 4 Barabans and 2 Silarukovs, Looking forward to getting them as they're both really nice looking gripper brands

2 brands I drool over daily lol

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Terry I will have to post some pics have a few interesting grippers you will love. First I need to brush up on my photo skills I made the one post on insta and felt disappointed by the pic. 

Your UTube posts make it look so easy you are a natural. Keep up the good work spreading the word.

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10 hours ago, Terry Conjugate Iron said:

What's the brand you bought?? There are so many... It's endless. Especially the Chinese stuff. 

They are called Golden Grippers.

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11 hours ago, Terry Conjugate Iron said:

Haha it's true.... I'm always thinking of which brand to buy next 🤔🤔🤔

I want to get CoC 3,3.5,4 and probably ghp 8,9 and 10 after this but then I will probably be done with buying grippers.

I don't do MMS or DS so I won't ever have to buy another gripper after getting them because no one has ever closed a GHP 10 with anything wider than the GHP block lol.

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Most people swear by MMS but setting hurts my finger joints even when I am doing it right.

Also it just feels like I am handicapping myself I know that the last part of the range of motion is the most difficult but no matter what I do I just can't get used to setting and the close feels awkward as well.

Also my fingerjoints were hurting for 2 days straight after setting my vulcan and for some dumb reason it also zaps my  closing strength. 

Setting grippers actually hurts my closes despite setting with the opposite hand.

I am just a special little snowflake it seems lol.

 

 

 

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1 hour ago, DevilErik said:

Most people swear by MMS but setting hurts my finger joints even when I am doing it right.

Also it just feels like I am handicapping myself I know that the last part of the range of motion is the most difficult but no matter what I do I just can't get used to setting and the close feels awkward as well.

Also my fingerjoints were hurting for 2 days straight after setting my vulcan and for some dumb reason it also zaps my  closing strength. 

Setting grippers actually hurts my closes despite setting with the opposite hand.

I am just a special little snowflake it seems lol.

 

 

 

I will not and cannot say that there is anything wrong with deciding to train only no-set or credit-card-set closes.  Of course we all decide what we want to train.  But is it really possible that your close with a set is weaker than without one?  I feel like that would be comparable to saying "My rack pull is less than my deadlift."  I just ask this out of curiosity and not to suggest I think you should do anything differently.  We ARE all built a little differently, over the core similarities, and I'm no physiatrist.  It just sounds really counterintuitive to hear someone say wider is easier.

For me, I DID used to hate setting, and resisted doing it for a couple of years, until I was stuck closing RGC 149 and not 150.  I trained one day with Chez, and watched him set and accepted his advice on setting, and got a close on an RGC 153 that very day.  A year or so later I have closed RGC 165, and recently also certed the IM 3, which of course is with a credit card set, which I also could not do back when I resisted learning how to set for MMS.

I just wonder whether you are going through the anti-set phase I went through, and might actually benefit from learning to set better, but again, we ARE all different, and I say this just for your information, not to insist that you are wrong about yourself.  You'll be the judge of that.

I am going to keep MMS, CCS, and TNS all in my wheelhouse, because the combination has done more for me than just the wide set I used when I started.

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1 hour ago, DevilErik said:

setting hurts my finger joints even when I am doing it right

It is true that setting harder grippers can be rough on some of the fingers.  Can't argue with that.

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15 minutes ago, Vinnie said:

I will not and cannot say that there is anything wrong with deciding to train only no-set or credit-card-set closes.  Of course we all decide what we want to train.  But is it really possible that your close with a set is weaker than without one?  I feel like that would be comparable to saying "My rack pull is less than my deadlift."  I just ask this out of curiosity and not to suggest I think you should do anything different.  We ARE all built a little differently, over the core similarities, and I'm no physiatrist.  It just sounds really weird to hear someone say wider is easier.

For me, I DID used to hate setting, and resisted doing it for a couple of years, until I was stuck closing RGC 149 and not 150.  I trained one day with Chez, and watched him set and accepted his advise on setting, and got a close on an RGC 153 that very day.  A year or so later I have closed RGC 165, and recently also certed the IM 3, with a credit card set, which I also could not do back when I resisted learning how to set for MMS.

I just wonder whether you are going through the anti-set phase I went through, and might actually benefit from learning to set better, but again, we ARE all different, and I say this just for your information, not to insist that you are wrong about yourself.  You'll be the judge of that.

I am going to keep MMS, CCS, and TNS all in my wheelhouse, because the combination has done more for me than just the wide set I used when I started.

I am definitely not against setting.

I used to think setting was cheating but that changed once I watched a video about setting.

I used to think that it was all about reducing the range of motion so you could pretend that you could close the gripper.

But after watching the video I realised that it had to do with setting yourself up to have the best leverages like someone would do on a bench press.

I also never knew that the final part of the close was the hardest part so that's why I thought setting was cheating.

I have tried learning how to set both CCS and MMS.

I thought I was being delusional about the whole setting but I have actually tested it several times.

I got to level 15 on my Vulcan with the chrome spring a while ago.

I was training CCS and I could not even get the handles to move which was frustrating the hell out of me.

I tried setting the vulcan a tiny bit so I could get my pinky on it.

This is a set but it would be considered a no set on any other gripper because my hands are very large and very wide. (8.66) inches long.

I missed level 15 by a few mm.

My wider sets are actually stronger.

It could have something to do with the Ivanko Super Gripper being my first gripper.

I got to a very high level on that before I even got my Vulcan and you can't set it.

 

 

 

 

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12 minutes ago, Vinnie said:

It is true that setting harder grippers can be rough on some of the fingers.  Can't argue with that.

I have tried learning how to set level 6 with the CROM spring but it still hurts like hell and that it the easiest level.

 

 

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42 minutes ago, Vinnie said:

I will not and cannot say that there is anything wrong with deciding to train only no-set or credit-card-set closes.  Of course we all decide what we want to train.  But is it really possible that your close with a set is weaker than without one?  I feel like that would be comparable to saying "My rack pull is less than my deadlift."  I just ask this out of curiosity and not to suggest I think you should do anything differently.  We ARE all built a little differently, over the core similarities, and I'm no physiatrist.  It just sounds really counterintuitive to hear someone say wider is easier.

For me, I DID used to hate setting, and resisted doing it for a couple of years, until I was stuck closing RGC 149 and not 150.  I trained one day with Chez, and watched him set and accepted his advice on setting, and got a close on an RGC 153 that very day.  A year or so later I have closed RGC 165, and recently also certed the IM 3, which of course is with a credit card set, which I also could not do back when I resisted learning how to set for MMS.

I just wonder whether you are going through the anti-set phase I went through, and might actually benefit from learning to set better, but again, we ARE all different, and I say this just for your information, not to insist that you are wrong about yourself.  You'll be the judge of that.

I am going to keep MMS, CCS, and TNS all in my wheelhouse, because the combination has done more for me than just the wide set I used when I started.

Great job on the certification by the way it's insane that you were able to close the no.3 at your age!

You definitely showed that age is just a number when it comes to grip.

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I forgot to add that I am actually one of the people that does not like the credit card set requirement for certifications nowadays. 

They have made it impossible for smaller handed individuals to certify.

I am probably just going to certify with a no set.

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49 minutes ago, DevilErik said:

I forgot to add that I am actually one of the people that does not like the credit card set requirement for certifications nowadays. 

They have made it impossible for smaller handed individuals to certify.

I am probably just going to certify with a no set.

My hands are only 7.5 inches.

If you certify no set, even though you think that is easier, it will impress everyone who sees it as being harder!  Good luck.  I would like to do no-set closes with my easiest COC 3s, but I am not there yet.  I can TNS close my hardest 2.5 any time (RGC 132), but I haven't hit over 140 yet.

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