Dunksters 10mms Stainless

[gazza]

Heres a pice of DUNKSTERS 10mms stainless which was 7inches i cut and grinded it to 6.5inches this was a big PR at the time before i hurt my wrist.

Link to video on youtube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mx89BbAvosw

[maximus1]

[wscorpion]

That's just plain sick!!!! Any idea what that rates at? I think it's close to 1000lbs, isn't it?

Hope you wrist heals soon!!!!

[egg_uk]

congrats, another quality bend

[boland magyar]

well done gazza

wait to you heal because that looked easy for you......what next ?

another inspirational video

boland

[Alawadhi]

Well well done!

[gazza]

well done gazza

wait to you heal because that looked easy for you......what next ?

another inspirational video

boland

was undecided as wether to cut it to 6.5 or 6 as it was the last piece i only had 3 pieces so i aired on the side of caution i new if i got it to 90degrees i would finish it as a few days prior to this i bend 6 x 9mms stainless pieces all cut to 6inches and done back to back in a 1hour period so i new my endurance and crush were on.

This bend was done in a period were i hit 6 big PRs in a 2 1/2 week period and a couple of little mini ones and who says you cannot get stronger as you age

[dimmers]

amazing

nice work Gazza! great to see another vid up on youtube (i like the account name! ) it's been too long matey.

look forward to seeing more vids in the future!

so do you think a 6" piece of this 10mm is possible? or even shorter?

[liam.mccaffrey]

i think we are seeing something really special here,

we can all say "great bend Gaz!"

but i think this is past great bend, with gazzas achievments its hard to imagine anyone surpassing them

of course i hope im wrong, and even if people do blow gazzas PR's away he will always be ones of the greatest at this

Great bend Gaz you are an inspiration

[gazza]

i think we are seeing something really special here,

we can all say "great bend Gaz!"

but i think this is past great bend, with gazzas achievments its hard to imagine anyone surpassing them

of course i hope im wrong, and even if people do blow gazzas PR's away he will always be ones of the greatest at this

Great bend Gaz you are an inspiration

thankyou guys for the comments/support i sometimes let other peoples words get the better of me but i use this to good effect getting real angry and carrying it around with me helps me fuel the mind and makes me want to really punish/hurt the steel so thats a good thing bad thing is its took me to injury which i hope i can come back from dont know wether i can rise to the DO heights i have achieved again and reverse and DU style will test the wrist even more so i might have to switch over to braced bending for a good while and see what i can do there docs wanted to put a plate in the wrist and i said no as i would have lost alot of flexibility in the wrist not good for a bender so i just hope i can mend as well in time without the plate i am a bit pissed at the moment but with continuesly pushing it a prise has to be paid funny thing is i can still bend easy shiny bastards it hurts but not to much thats in plaster so maybe thats helping cannot lift a kettle or large cup of tea or pint as it pulls the wrist down this hurts abit so i know i have to not listen to the mind saying it does not hurt as it wont help the injury but i would like to try and break the plaster with a bigish bend plasters comeing off tomorrow for an evaluation and x-ray as it the plaster has become loose anyway i wonder why

I hope i have shown people that if you want it bad enough you can set your own "LIMITS" and keep setting them i you want to i hope that what i have achieved will be but the start for some of you and that people here continue to surge into new bending territory like Tim,Chris and Mats etc are doing with the braced stuff i would love nothing more than for my DO achievements to be blown away by Aaron,Ben,Eric,Mike etc so that i can maybe oneday have something to chase again until then i can only DREAM

[gazza]

amazing

nice work Gazza! great to see another vid up on youtube (i like the account name! ) it's been too long matey.

Thanks mate i prefare that name also i thing gazzas ran its cause.

look forward to seeing more vids in the future!I have a few more vids i might put up to help you guys see whats possible if you really want it but i will be keeping some that wont be "PUBLIC INFORMATION"

so do you think a 6" piece of this 10mm is possible? or even shorter? The way i was taking down PR after PR in that month prior to my injury i definately could [i feel] took a 6incher down as that is the perfect length for my technique i am miles stronger on 6inch stuff over 7inch so altho its a bigger poundage i feel its easier for me i should have really cut it to 6inch instead of 6.5inch but it was the last piece and i wanted to make shore for the video.

[pdfk20]

Well done gazza!

[ox3782]

Gazza Great bend I missed your vids being veiwable I love your selection of music too they fit together great!You definatley have set the bar and give us something to look towards achieving and possibly surpassing.No limits all the way thanks for your help so far new possibilitys are opening up all the time.I have got some shinys on the way and cant wait to get a taste of the stainless looking forward to a good battle. I remember your battles just before I go at something tough and it helps

set the pace for the destruction of steel or brass for that matter.Thanks Gazza heal up and look forward to seeing and hearing more from you!!!!!!

Brendan

[Tim71]

I feel like I used my best comments about 20 bends ago for you. I really don't know what more to say. You've reached phenomenom status buddy. Your PRs are are not 1,2 or even 3 steps above everybody else.

I assume nobody else could even touch a 9mm stainless at 7 inches and you do them for volume? That's just crazy strong bending. You are an inspiration as to what can be done but you've got some good genes in there somewhere for this stuff. Maybe if one of these top strongman competitors or freaky strong guys would just devote all their time to catching you then maybe but aside from that I think your records are safe for a long time. Not that I won't shoot for them mind you, one step at a time.

Man it's ashamed you weren't some kind of professional athelete. You've got to have awesome physical potential. And I'm not one to say you can't get stronger with age. Look at you, Pat, and most of the people on this board. I watched the last WSM competition and there was a CEO competing that was I think 56 years old and he did pretty good. And that's the kind of stuff where youth would have an advantage.

Hope the wrist heals soon and follow the doctors orders. Did you tell him how it happened?

Tim

[EricMilfeld]

I, too, tend to think your bends will never be surpassed by another human being. For some this could be quite discouraging. For me and many others the barriers you've busted have given us inspiration to topple our own best achievements. I posted several years ago that once some really strong guys learn proper technique and really apply themselves to some serious bending new seemingly impossible standards will be set. This is now happening, and I'm very pleased to see it. I train bending for the same reason I train deadlifts or any other strength discipline, and that is to improve my own bests and discover my limits. If this means training a year to take 1/4" off my best bend then I've succeeded and I'm elated. I think I'm given too much credit around here at times. I just got the bug earlier than most guys, and sort of stumbled upon the most efficient technique for double overhand bending. Sharing it with others to create a level playing field was a honor and a thrill for me. I always knew my genetic makeup would limit me and that others would soon pass me by with ease. But I love it and am thrilled to see bending's popularity skyrocket! Thanks for all you've done, Gazza! And continue giving the rest of us the courage to believe that that next 1/4" can come off our personal best.

[pdfk20]

Is this bend rated harder than a KOASB?

[Tim71]

Is this bend rated harder than a KOASB?

Definately. According to past discussions with Gazza this steel is thicker and efidently a comparble composition therfore he implies that it's noticably stronger. I think he'd gotten a 6.5 inch Big KOASB before he'd gotten a 7 inch piece of this stuff but Gary can correct me if I'm wrong. I think that's how it went though since I sent him the FBBC bars and he didn't get this stuff until later.

It's a beyond awesome bend and I agree with Eric. I mean I won't give up trying and I set my goals unbraced one at a time but I wouldn't bet the farm that 3/8 stainless will ever fall unbraced in my hands. Just seems like there's not enough spare time to train all the feats simultaniously. Seems like I'm primarily concentrating on one or the other for a while.

I've done a 3/8 inch piece braced and that crush is just silly. To think that he chest crushes it just boggles the mind.

Great work!

Tim

Oh yeah, have you said what steel you were bending that broke your wrist? I havn't heard. Must've been a tough one is all I can say and did your hand slip or anything?

Tim

[gazza]

I feel like I used my best comments about 20 bends ago for you. I really don't know what more to say. You've reached phenomenom status buddy. Your PRs are are not 1,2 or even 3 steps above everybody else. Thanks Tim but i can say the same about your braced bends.

I assume nobody else could even touch a 9mm stainless at 7 inches and you do them for volume? That's just crazy strong bending. You are an inspiration as to what can be done but you've got some good genes in there somewhere for this stuff. Maybe if one of these top strongman competitors or freaky strong guys would just devote all their time to catching you then maybe but aside from that I think your records are safe for a long time. Not that I won't shoot for them mind you, one step at a time.I am shure Pat could hes done a 6inch 3/8inch bar at least so i would assume so.

As far as good genes go Looking back never really new my real dad ,my grandfather was the chief foreman in camel lairds a big shipbuilders yard at the time he was a very big and strong man,my mother was a counties champion in girls/womens athletics so i suppose i was passed some good genes there i was always when i was younger i was school champion at running 100 and 200 meters later i did karate and boxing and was always faster than other kids/teens my age i do seem to have fast twitch fibres so this would help.

i think this coupled with a will to always want to be the best/never give up attitude has helped me in bending,being born under 4lbs and 6 weeks premature i think the will to live and be stronger was installed in me from there and since then i always wanted to be good or the best at something in school it was sprinting and fighting i became the fastest runner and not proud of it now but was none as a real toughnut/scrapper at school a bit like a wolverine i was always fighting the bigger lads and seeing who was toughest,then i found karate and boxing again i looked to fight the bigger and older lads i liked the challenge i joined a gym and wanted to be the best deadlifter and squatter there i was for my weight and even beat alot of real bigger dudes then it was mountain biking i raced for a shop and did not stop till i was the best in the shop,now its bending so you see its the internal passion of wanting to be the best at something driven by my mind a mind that does not like to be beaten so i continuelly push myself its who i am.

Man it's ashamed you weren't some kind of professional athelete. You've got to have awesome physical potential. And I'm not one to say you can't get stronger with age. Look at you, Pat, and most of the people on this board. I watched the last WSM competition and there was a CEO competing that was I think 56 years old and he did pretty good. And that's the kind of stuff where youth would have an advantage.I wasted alot of my youth being in trouble with the police and spending some good years in and out of rehabilitation/correction centres and jails mostly for fighting this stopped me doing alot of things as i had a criminal record so i could not join the armed forces etc so i now try to channel what i lost in my youth now into my bending and help prove that at 40 or older you are not middle aged and over the hill as alot of brits seam to think Odd Haugen was the 56 year olds name one of a few to lift the Millenium DB

Hope the wrist heals soon and follow the doctors orders. Did you tell him how it happened?Yes and showed him

Tim

[gazza]

I, too, tend to think your bends will never be surpassed by another human being. For some this could be quite discouraging. For me and many others the barriers you've busted have given us inspiration to topple our own best achievements. I posted several years ago that once some really strong guys learn proper technique and really apply themselves to some serious bending new seemingly impossible standards will be set. This is now happening, and I'm very pleased to see it. I train bending for the same reason I train deadlifts or any other strength discipline, and that is to improve my own bests and discover my limits. If this means training a year to take 1/4" off my best bend then I've succeeded and I'm elated. I think I'm given too much credit around here at times. I just got the bug earlier than most guys, and sort of stumbled upon the most efficient technique for double overhand bending. Sharing it with others to create a level playing field was a honor and a thrill for me. I always knew my genetic makeup would limit me and that others would soon pass me by with ease. But I love it and am thrilled to see bending's popularity skyrocket! Thanks for all you've done, Gazza! And continue giving the rest of us the courage to believe that that next 1/4" can come off our personal best.

Eric like yourself i try to motivate and inspire those around us and also those that follow us the SILENT ASSASSIN helped pave the way for me and others

I to am constantly pushing my "LIMITS" to see how far i can take this hobby called BENDING.

In my eyes and many others you will always be a pioneer in bending you helped put DO STYLE bending on the map.

PR chaseing and setting are what its all about for each and everyone of us no matter what are level and i too look forward to getting in the thick of it again when injury free and i also look forward to shaveing off that next 1/4inch.

THANKYOU Eric and everyone for the kind words they mean alot.

[boland magyar]

gazza

it was a long road getting a shodan (i still have the scars)

thats why i like bending steel at 40 plus

boland

[gazza]

Is this bend rated harder than a KOASB?

I would say its just slightly harder than a HUGE KOASB at least the fbbc one i bent but i was altogether stronger on the Dunkster 6.5inch bend seeing as i hit 6 PRs in 2 1/2 weeks.

[gazza]

Is this bend rated harder than a KOASB?

Definately. According to past discussions with Gazza this steel is thicker and efidently a comparble composition therfore he implies that it's noticably stronger. I think he'd gotten a 6.5 inch Big KOASB before he'd gotten a 7 inch piece of this stuff but Gary can correct me if I'm wrong. I think that's how it went though since I sent him the FBBC bars and he didn't get this stuff until later.Tim is correct on both counts.

It's a beyond awesome bend and I agree with Eric. I mean I won't give up trying and I set my goals unbraced one at a time but I wouldn't bet the farm that 3/8 stainless will ever fall unbraced in my hands. Just seems like there's not enough spare time to train all the feats simultaniously. Seems like I'm primarily concentrating on one or the other for a while. Thats why i gave up the other grip stuff that coupled with my age i felt that i really liked and wanted to be good at bending more than the other grip stuff and i was spending to much time recouperating from the other stuff i thought what do i enjoy the most and what challenges me the most bending so i thought i would give it my all for 12mths and see what i could do and i never looked back

You are and will as well as others continue to rewrite the braced bending records and i am shure alot of that strength will carry over to unbraced bending for you as well the same for me i hope to make a full or as near as perfect as can be recovery from this injury i will then explore the other avenues of bending braced and unbraced.

I've done a 3/8 inch piece braced and that crush is just silly. To think that he chest crushes it just boggles the mind.

Great work!Yes but you crush 12inch wrenches and horshoes

Tim

Oh yeah, have you said what steel you were bending that broke your wrist? I havn't heard. Must've been a tough one is all I can say and did your hand slip or anything?Looking back i think it was an accomulation of alot of the harder bends in that last 2-3 weeks but the big 3/8" grade 5 bolt finished it off.And yes the hand slipped on the big hex and the g5 bolt.

Tim

[Cunny]

Awesome stuff as usual.

Hope you heal up soon

[Booyah!!!]

That Video is friggin Awesome Gazza You are Truely a Gifted Athelete

[Tim71]

Thanks for the info Gaz!

I hope you make a quick recovery and go back into it kinda easy and slow to avoid further injury and setbacks. I'm sure you will though.

Later,

Tim