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This idea is subject to approval by the grand high pubas of the S & P.
Who's in? A compilation video for and by the S & P of old time strongman lifts and feats.
I'll edit the video. Dead line for your submittal is August 1st.
Here's the idea:
Each person pick a traditional (old timey) strongman style feat of strength, and video themselves doing it. The idea is that it can't be one of the standard lifts performed in the weight room type of thing, i.e. no standard dead lift, bench, or squat. It's got to be a freakish old strongman lift.
For our purposes, the lift does not have to be a PR, or necessarily a huge lift. Although it would be nice to see some incredible weight moved, the central idea is to demonstrate these lifts with adequate skill. Let's not be pansies either though...
For ideas of the kind of lifts acceptable for the vid go to the following sites:
Oldtime Strongman Training Iron Game History Classic Strength Equipment Workout Techniques
StrongmanFeats.com
Strongman (strength athlete) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Just keep it obscure, traditional, circus like...but functional...and you'll be fine.
A major component of the video will be to adequately demonstrate some of these fine old lifting techniques in a compilation video from (and for) the S & P.
RULES:
-No white belts unless approved by a mod. There's legit reasons for this that I'm not going to go into. If you've got the goods, getting a mod to give you the green light should not be difficult at all.
-Post ONLY ONE video of ONE LIFT up on youtube and pm me to let me know it's up. You can post your video in here obviously, but PM me to let me know it's available up on youtube. Again, one video of your one lift. If you do 6 lifts for some reason, let me know which one you want me to use for the compilation.
-Please don't upload a vid and then a month later decide you want to do something else...Make sure you're really satisfied with your lift and the video, then upload it and PM me. That single submission will be your submission. This will make the whole process a lot simpler and I won't have to go back and re-edit stuff.
-Your video must be posted up onto YouTube by you. I will then "rip" the vid with vixynet and then convert it to a file that my editing software understands. Please use YouTube. Also, please include appropriate info: like how much weight is lifted, etc. in your pm to me. I'd also like to at least get the country you are from as part of the info.
PLEASE UPLOAD ONLY THE RAW VIDEO CLIP, WITHOUT EDITING. I'll add the info into the video when editing.
-I'll rip the vids from YouTube as quickly as I can. Once I have your clip on my hard drive, feel free to remove it from YouTube if you wish.
-Please get the best quality clip you can. Even shitty video cameras (of which I have) can provide good footage if things are done correctly.
TIME LINE:
I'm thinking about 2 months to get vids in, then it'll take me maybe 2 weeks to edit everything together. 2 months gives those of us who haven't really ever trained in these lifts to get a least familiar enough with one of them and get it to a demonstratable level.
So have a video of your lift submitted by August 1st.
NOTE: I couldn't find some of the links I wanted to about old time strongman stuff, so if anybody has any, please supply them, I'll edit them into this first post.
In fact, I imagine this first post will be edited several times as issues and questions come up.
Who's in? A compilation video for and by the S & P of old time strongman lifts and feats.
I'll edit the video. Dead line for your submittal is August 1st.
Here's the idea:
Each person pick a traditional (old timey) strongman style feat of strength, and video themselves doing it. The idea is that it can't be one of the standard lifts performed in the weight room type of thing, i.e. no standard dead lift, bench, or squat. It's got to be a freakish old strongman lift.
For our purposes, the lift does not have to be a PR, or necessarily a huge lift. Although it would be nice to see some incredible weight moved, the central idea is to demonstrate these lifts with adequate skill. Let's not be pansies either though...
For ideas of the kind of lifts acceptable for the vid go to the following sites:
Oldtime Strongman Training Iron Game History Classic Strength Equipment Workout Techniques
StrongmanFeats.com
Strongman (strength athlete) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Just keep it obscure, traditional, circus like...but functional...and you'll be fine.
A major component of the video will be to adequately demonstrate some of these fine old lifting techniques in a compilation video from (and for) the S & P.
RULES:
-No white belts unless approved by a mod. There's legit reasons for this that I'm not going to go into. If you've got the goods, getting a mod to give you the green light should not be difficult at all.
-Post ONLY ONE video of ONE LIFT up on youtube and pm me to let me know it's up. You can post your video in here obviously, but PM me to let me know it's available up on youtube. Again, one video of your one lift. If you do 6 lifts for some reason, let me know which one you want me to use for the compilation.
-Please don't upload a vid and then a month later decide you want to do something else...Make sure you're really satisfied with your lift and the video, then upload it and PM me. That single submission will be your submission. This will make the whole process a lot simpler and I won't have to go back and re-edit stuff.
-Your video must be posted up onto YouTube by you. I will then "rip" the vid with vixynet and then convert it to a file that my editing software understands. Please use YouTube. Also, please include appropriate info: like how much weight is lifted, etc. in your pm to me. I'd also like to at least get the country you are from as part of the info.
PLEASE UPLOAD ONLY THE RAW VIDEO CLIP, WITHOUT EDITING. I'll add the info into the video when editing.
-I'll rip the vids from YouTube as quickly as I can. Once I have your clip on my hard drive, feel free to remove it from YouTube if you wish.
-Please get the best quality clip you can. Even shitty video cameras (of which I have) can provide good footage if things are done correctly.
TIME LINE:
I'm thinking about 2 months to get vids in, then it'll take me maybe 2 weeks to edit everything together. 2 months gives those of us who haven't really ever trained in these lifts to get a least familiar enough with one of them and get it to a demonstratable level.
So have a video of your lift submitted by August 1st.
NOTE: I couldn't find some of the links I wanted to about old time strongman stuff, so if anybody has any, please supply them, I'll edit them into this first post.
In fact, I imagine this first post will be edited several times as issues and questions come up.
