AP Posted February 12, 2002 Share Posted February 12, 2002 i just watched the dennis rogers tape (episode 19 see previous posts). is it me or does there seem to be a lot of upper body involved in the frying pan bend? it is impressive non-the-less but i was under the impression that this was almost all grip. woody, how do you bend your pans? also, kaz lifting that thick handled dumbell- i don't think any non gripper could fully apreciate the difficulty of that lift.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest woody36 Posted February 12, 2002 Share Posted February 12, 2002 AP, There is a lot of upper body involved,especially in the first bend! but i would hasten to add that once the first roll as started,your body tends to be in a bent over position and the forearm comes into play more. I don't have strong hands,as i've said before,rolling pans is a stunt not really a feat of strength. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest woody36 Posted February 12, 2002 Share Posted February 12, 2002 AP, an afterthought,i weigh 22 stones,Kazmaier probably slightly more than me,but i suspect neither of us will roll a frying pan in quite the same way as Mr Dennis Rogers! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AP Posted February 12, 2002 Author Share Posted February 12, 2002 woody, have you ever tried to bend a frying pan and not succeeded? obviously there are pans out there that may be unbendable with human hands, but are most of them "do-able" then? on a side note, how do you guys feel about performing these "stunts of strength?" as far as a motivational speaker, or an "extreem minister" type of thing? do you think they should be honest with the audience and tell them that they are stunts, or are stunts just so much more entertaining than much harder feats? (and yes, switching bells is definitely a stunt) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest woody36 Posted February 12, 2002 Share Posted February 12, 2002 AP, I'm no authority on bending pans,so far i've bent 6, three of the same type.I just tried it after "Strongman" posted a link, The first pan i bent folded in with my thumbs pushing against it,the last 3 although cheap were made of sterner stuff. Looking at the more expensive pans,the base tends to be a lot thicker than the sides so probably wouldn't roll at all well. I did manage to perform the bending of a pan with one hand, but it took a couple of minutes. As regards "The stunt" aspect,maybe thats not the right word,it makes it sound less of a feat,it isn't. To roll a pan the way Dennis does with that amount of ease, requires a great deal of strength. AP, have you tried rolling one yet! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AP Posted February 13, 2002 Author Share Posted February 13, 2002 not yet. i did not mean that bending pans (or tearing phone books or the like) would be easy. i simply ment that the visual aspect of the event might make it seem much more difficult than it really is. for example, if tom black were to bend the ironmind red, and i were to bend a cheap frying pan in front of the same audience, they may mistake the two events for being equally difficult. or worse, they may view my bend as more signifigant- i mean who ever heard of a man bending a frying pan with his bare hands? this is what i ment also when i said that the lift by kaz could only be appreciated by a grip fan. of course the things done by both kaz and dennis are amazing - much more than i could acomplish (but maybe not more than i could hope to acomplish). and i bet that the frying pan dennis crushed was of high quality - and one i could probly not bend in the least. there has always been a lot of showmanship in these type of strongman shows and any sort of funny business bothers me... however, with dennis and kaz, this isn't a problem as one is always assured of authentic strength... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nathan Say Posted February 13, 2002 Share Posted February 13, 2002 I noticed that mooshing an apple was laughably easy when I first did it on the weekend. I'm sure anyone on this board could do it no problem especially if they knew the trick was to use the fingers, but the guy at work who saw me do it crapped his pants & others can't believe it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest woody36 Posted February 13, 2002 Share Posted February 13, 2002 AP, You've hit the nail on the head,if you're playing to an audience it's much better to do "Stunts" with the "oooohhh" element.Too an audience Tom Black bending a tiny little Ironmind Red would mean nothing,even if he explained the difficulty,but if he bent a 3/8s bolt that as the "oooohh" factor,because everyone uses bolts in every- day life and expects them not to be bent. You're not cheating an audience if you roll a frying pan and it's easier to do than bend a "Red",it's just that to the public bending a pan is a more tangible way of demonstrating that you are strong. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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