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Jim Wylie - Two Big Lifts from the British Champs


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http://www.grippage.com

If someone posts in this thread and asks if he used stickum or hook grip or ad nauseum I am gonna scream!   :p

Thanks to Arnie Persson for the photos.

 

 

 

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Two great pics of a very strong guy, performing two mighty impressive feats of grip strength.

David

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Two great pics of a very strong guy, performing two mighty impressive feats of grip strength.

David

Yes!

Good post David.

 

 

 

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Who's that handsome stranger in the background making brillient (if I might be so bold) suggestions to enable young Jimmy to make the lift - why its Mobsterone!!

he he

Congrats Jim - you the blob daddy (today and maybe tomorrow - how fickle etc...)

ps: Stickum or hookum? :p

Steve Gardener, British 2006/2008/2009/2010 champ, 117.5kg 2HP, Euro 2008 & 2010 champ

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How wide across is a blob gripped that way ?

Not afraid to ruffle feathers!

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It felt like 5 inches - give or take

Steve Gardener, British 2006/2008/2009/2010 champ, 117.5kg 2HP, Euro 2008 & 2010 champ

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It is 4 1/16" wide at the top, sloping out to 5 1/2" in the middle. The diameter is 7 3/8", and the circumference is 23 1/4".

There are not many (5 now?) who can pinch lift this monster, and probably not too many who can lift it the first time they set eyes upon it, the day after a six event grip contest! Even John Brookfield couldn't lift it the first time he was presented with it. If Jim improves at the same speed he has in the last 12 months, then I will be waving goodbye to first place. Whether this is to him, Nick Mckinless, one of the welsh boys or an oversea raider who knows.

I shall keep training him up, David

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Amazing V-bar Jim - not to be beaten for a long time I should imagine. Same with David's Table Top Wrist Curl all be it a partial range of motion  :angry:

Nick

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Nice work Jim!

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Yes, very nice work Jim.  I'm very happy that I can say I witnessed both lifts!

Wanna, you know better than to think that Jim used a hook grip on the Blob! :hehe

BC.

The cure for boredom is curiousity. There is no cure for curiousity.

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Eh Jim..... did u use super glue mate?   :D

Fantastic "out of the bag lift" and considering what youd done the previous day too!!!!

Well done mate.  That puts you up there in the all time feats of strength (as Dave said, not even John Brookfield could do it first time) and I recon the old man has some serious competition next year   ;)

Guest Harlan Jacobs
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Amazing lifts Jim !  I just started doing v-bar a few months ago. Very impressive !

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Thanks Guys.  It was a good weekend  :D

To those merry souls of other days- who again will make drinking a pleasure- who acheive contentment long before capacity- and who- whatever they may drink- prove able to carry it- and enjoy it- and remain gentlemen.

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Nice lifts, Jim!

In the vbar record pic you look like a lean Steve Justa. Must be the shades...

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Jim

I'll get you a cigar and we'll start calling you steve from now on :D

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