Following appollon

[Guest 103-1023791186]

Now that Mark Henry has,gone where no man has gone before

with the inch d/bell,although other people have put it overhead,personally i dont think Mr Inch did,does anybody

think that Louis Uni(Appollons)feat of4x56lb ringweights,lifted

overhead,from ground,single handed,i am not shure of the,press part of the lift,will be duplicated soon,i personally

think this,a truer test of strength,than the inch overhead.

[Nathan Say]

I thought it was 4 45lb blocks. Whatever it was, Roark thought that if someone could do that, the Inch dumbell could be cleaned. Not sure if he was just being funny or if he was being serious because it would work either way. Hermann Goerner did something a tiny bit like that for the 2 hands anyhow lift. He'd keep swinging a block to his shoulder 1 handed & press it out, pass it to the free hand (which was overhead the whole time), pick up another one & do it again & again until he was holding >200lbs in each hand overhead.

[Roark]

Apollon (one 'p') could one hand snatch 220 pounds the

hard way- by tying together five 44 pound weights. Three

such weights lifted in this manner placed a lifter in  the

elite category.

He could also snatch four 44 pound weights without bending

his legs. Weights tied together.

And keep in mind the most remarkable characteristic about

Apollon explained by historian Leo Gaudreau in VIM magazine

Feb 1941:

"Nothing was more difficult than to coax him to lift, and

neither supplications nor promises of his best friends could

persuade him to attempt certain orthodox feats which would  have immortalized his name."

In other words, he almost always lifted well below his

ultimate levels.

For my money he was the greatest strength man ever.

[Guest 103-1023791186]

Thanks Roark,for the spelling clarification,and further insight

into the marvellous Mr Uni,i too think he was the greatest,i

also think that if he had specialized,he could have beaten

Mr Goernas records,but we can only speculate,i also think

that he as well as Arthur Saxon would have toyed with the

inch d/bell,i also  think that  m r Inch kept it out of the way

of the above 2 greats.

When Apollon,lifted the ringweights overhead,did he just put his fingers through the rings,like holding abunch of grapes,and then just powerthem overhead,i can imagine that the hands

and wrists would take quite a beating.

I also believe that his pinching prowess,were also superb.

[Roark]

There was one occasion where Apollon did not tie

four 44 lb weights together, he simply used his fingers,

which I consider to be 'beyond-description-strong'.

Usually he would grasp the cloth which he had used

to secure the various weights.

Not using the cloth placed the fingers in extreme danger

because the forces against them were scattered and changing

during the lift.

[David Horne]

Incredible strength Uni had.

David

[OldGuy]

There is an amazing photo showing Uni's arm in a book on grip training written by Davids Webster and Gentle. I wish I had a scanner so I could maybe have it posted here. I know that several here have that same book, so maybe one of them has a scanner.