Brutal Hand Strength Competition

[tdbas1]

I am hosting a small grip competiton on Sunday the 17th of May at 10am. It only has 2 events and a medley so hopefully the short notice is ok. This is my first grip competition which I am hosting so any suggestions welcome.

PM for address if interested. I am located in Melbourne Australia.

The schedule is as follows

10am start

- record breaking 1-2 hours

- 2HP (4 Attempts each rising bar)

- 1 Hand barbell deadlift (3 attempts each hand rising bar)

- Medley

- record breaking

finish at 3pm all depending on how many records are attempted, if no one wants to attempt any records then the comp should be finished in 3-4 hours depending on how many competitors.

Medals awarded to 1st, 2nd and 3rd place.

RECORD BREAKING: If anyone is interested in attempting any records please inform me and I can post what people are attempting to gather some interest

Rules for competition.

Only chalk is allowed, no tacky, glue ect.

2HP (60mm width):

Weight must be pulled to height of a 16.5” crossbar and lowered under control, Only a double overhand grip can be used. Hands cannot be more than 3'' apart.

One Hand Deadlift using an Olympic Bar (with no hook grip). David Horne Rules

The bar may either be raised in front of the lifter, or the lifter may straddle the bar. Hook gripping is not permitted. The free hand may be used to brace against the opposing leg. Foot spacing is optional, but may not change once the lift begins. Heels and toes may rise. The bar must be raised to a point where both ends of the bar are pulled to a height of mid knees or above and the legs must be straightened. The shoulders do not have to be pulled erect, nor the body straight as long as the legs are straight and the bar motionless with both ends above the knee joint. The lift ends with the referee's signal, and then you must lower the weight under control.

Medley:

One run through only per competitor with a time limit of 4 minutes.

Objects will need to be pulled to a full deadlift and lowered undercontrol, apart from those that dont require a full deadlift or are going to be loading to a platform.

Items: (list may change depending on access to equipment and choice of weight)

- 20kg Blob

- 25kg Blob

- Front Lever 2.5kg sledge to platform

- 4kg Supination (using homemade lever bar)

- 4kg Pronation (using homemade lever bar)

- 35kg 1 hand pinch block (50mm)

- 25kg key pinch

- 75kg 2'' Dumbell

- 3.5kg Rear Weaver

- 3x5kg plate pinch

- 4x5kg plate pinch

- 5x5kg plate pinch

- 2'' V-bar 90kg

- 1'' V-bar 12-kg

- RT - 70kg

- CoC No 2. 5kg Strap Hold

- 120kg Axle

- 20kg Hub

- Extensor Lift to be decided

[rico300zx]

great medley!

[tdbas1]

thanks, i hope i can get at least 5 items.

Typo in the medley 1'' V-bar should be 120kg sorry

[tdbas1]

Brutal Hand Strength Competition Results

Weights were not calibrated.

Overall Placings

1st. Tom Basic, score 385

2nd. Tristan Woods, score 380.56

3rd. Karlo Briski, score 353.89

4th. Ivan zovko, score 342.22

2HP (2x20kg york plates 60mm width)

1st. Tom Basic, 75kg

2nd. Tristan Woods, 72.5kg

3rd. Karlo Briski, 65kg

3rd. Ivan zovko, 65kg

1 Hand Olympic Barbell Deadlift (Right Hand)

1st. Ivan zovko, 100kg

2nd. Tristan Woods, 95kg

2nd. Karlo Briski, 95kg

3rd. Tom Basic, 85kg

1 Hand Olympic Barbrll Deadlift (Left Hand)

1st. Tom Basic, 90kg

1st. Tristan Woods, 90kg

1st. Ivan zovko, 90kg

2nd. Karlo Briski, 85kg

Medley

1st. Tom Basic, 9 items

2nd. Tristan Woods, 8 items

3rd. Karlo Briski, 7 items

4th. Ivan zovko, 5 items

The competition went pretty well with all four of us having a bit of a laugh and having the final event the medley decide the final placings.

First time competitor Karlo did pretty well with limited competition training maybe month or so before the comp. He has trained with weights before and did boxing for a few years a while back, thanking that for his strong wrists.

Ivan was second up until the medley when he fell short on a few of the items. He did awsome on his right hand BB deadlift considering he is left handed.

Tristan has spent his time training for strongman so is thanking his heavy farmers walk for his placing. He could have easily stolen it from me narrowly missing the 1'' v-bar, hub and sledge front lever in the medley.

I was probably the only one who consistantly trained for this doing pinch and 1 hand deadlifts everyweek for a couple of months leading up to the comp. Probably could have trained more on the medley items but was more intent to train other things.

The medley was pretty heavy and the weigths can be found previous posts. The weights were not exact as stated on the list but were within 5kg, we counted inmplement and loading pin. Most items were still too heavy anyways. tristan was the only one to lift the 2'' v-bar, whilst karlo managed the rear weaver and sledge front lever. I managed the blob.

We were 2 competitors short for the comp with some late withdrawals on the day due to injuries and other reasons.

Overall it ran smoothly and we all had a great feed afterwards so hopefully everyone and a few more will be happy to come next year to the Brutal Hand Strength Competition

Youtube videos should be up tomorrow

thanks to all who competed, my old man for the bbq and James for lending me some of his equipment.

take care

Tom

[mobsterone]

I missed this before... I LOVE the name of the event. We need to change event names to stuff like this. WWE style baby

[tdbas1]

I missed this before... I LOVE the name of the event. We need to change event names to stuff like this. WWE style baby

Thanks, hopefully next year it will be even more BRUTAL!

take care

Tom

[cemery]

Sounds like a great comp. Congats to all Tom for the win and good show put on by all competitors. BRUTAL !!!!! HAHA

[tdbas1]

Sounds like a great comp. Congats to all Tom for the win and good show put on by all competitors. BRUTAL !!!!! HAHA

Thanks for that, hopefully with some more training next year we will all do better on the medley.

take care

Tom

[tdbas1]

Compilation of lifts from the competition

take care

Tom

[Incindium]

Cool stuff... Looks like your judging on the 1HDL was really strict from that vid.

[cemery]

Cool stuff... Looks like your judging on the 1HDL was really strict from that vid.

Exactly what I was thinking. And Damn, I need to clean my garage like that one !!

[bencrush]

Nice results guys!

[james_grahame]

Congrats on your win Tom...but YES....that is an awesome clean garage.

Edited May 20, 2009 by james_grahame

[tdbas1]

Thanks guys, the judging was pretty strict but we are all first timers for that event so im sure next time it will be better. You should have seen the garage 1 week ago you could barely move in there. my dad and me spent all sat cleaning the stuff off the floor. Next years comp will have few more events and hopefully some more competitors also.

Take care

Tom