2008 September - United States Grip Championship - Paul Knight

[Paul Knight]

Bob! you should write for a magazine or something! great reading! thanks.

My version:

Smitty: jokester - awesome at kettle bells/grip'n'rip - losing his hair

Chad: a gentle giant until he starts gripping stuff

Jedd: the blob boss - should enter the olympics in the 100 yard dash but w/a Blob - the next speed bag skunk!

Andrew: I think he sleeps, hanging from a 2" thick bar

Rex: very smart and scarey strong - watch this guy!

Eaton: biggest forearms I've ever seen! can prolly smash a bottle cap between his butt cheeks his girls are gonna be the next speed bag skunkettes!

Brendan: a creeper - right when you think he's not going to lift/squeeze/or bend something, he'll smash it!

Nick: farm-strength for sure! right after the comp, in the parking lot he was bending horse shoes barehanded!

Chris: all I have to say is - "who I wanna be when I grow up"

Brent: prolly would have won the whole contest if he didn't do so many damn warm-ups (he did the equivalent of 5 grip workouts during the contest before his attempts )

Josh: super cool - don't try a card trick in front of him thinking your going to fool him, he figured out one of the tricks that stumps everyone!

Zach: funny as hell - walking encyclopedia! he literally knows something about everything! very fun to be around - Zack/Jedd/Brendan/Josh/Andrew and myself stayed up til the wee hours shootin the $hit - very cool! Andrew and Josh were light weights (they passed out early - I was thinking about putting their hands in warm water but Jedd had all new furniture )

Bob: reminds me alot of Casey - a guy that size isn't suppose to be lifting that much weight! Bob has this muscle on top of his hand between thumb and index that needs to be sent off to a lab

The contest couldn't have gone any better! ................. the only thing the contest was missing for me was Eric Milfeld - thanks Eric for all of your expertise and training

thanks to all the sponsers for the cool prizes - holy crap there were alot of prizes!

can't wait til next year! hope I can do better on pinch and axle by then!

Edited September 5, 2008 by Paul Knight