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ultrafilter
Aug 23, 2007

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Sometimes riding a motor vehicle on a near-vertical surface just isn't crazy enough. So why not put a lion in your sidecar?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LqFApyS6Is

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Aug 23, 2007

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Zydrunas Savickas deadlift 1155 at this year's Arnold Classic:

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Aug 23, 2007

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Quoting from the powerlifting thread:

gohuskies posted:

I know Ali, lifted at meets with her several times. She was swimming and got ran over by a boat, and the propeller did its thing. She was an athlete beforehand and powerlifting was one of the only things she could do afterwards. Deadlift and bench are impressive enough but the squat game ridiculous.


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Aug 23, 2007

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He got 1016 recently.

ultrafilter posted:

Zydrunas Savickas deadlift 1155 at this year's Arnold Classic:


The difference between these two records is that Savickas is deadlifting in a strongman contest, which allows the use of straps. Straps allow you to hold more weight than you could with just your hands alone. Magnusson is deadlifting in a powerlifting style competition, which doesn't allow the straps. I'd really like to see what he can do with them.

Edit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17ptVrk4vo8 is Magnusson deadlifting 1100 with straps.

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Aug 23, 2007

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I don't know the actual numbers, but the risk of injury is lower than most people think. It's definitely not zero though.

On the other hand, if something does go wrong, it's probably not going to go a little bit wrong.

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Aug 23, 2007

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Ed Coan is 5'6" and he has a legitimate claim to being the greatest powerlifter of all time.

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I thought for sure this was going to turn out to be running in reverse, but it's apparently real. It's taken from this video.

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The best part is how the events change over time. At the 2014 Arnold Classic (the other big event besides WSM), the yoke walk involved carrying 1200 and 1400 lb. yokes for 10 feet. This year's event is 1300 and 1500 lbs. for 15 feet.

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Arnold's not as big as he used to be, but he was never the size of Brian Shaw.

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Aug 23, 2007

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Akrabbim posted:

This may have been posted already, but it deserves seeing again, starts about halfway in..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W34DU2Md_iQ

Hafthor again, breaking a 1000 year old strength record. If it doesn't look that impressive, remember that the log he's holding is 1,433 pounds.

The most impressive part to me is how long he manages to remain standing afterwards.

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Aug 23, 2007

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Slow Motion Flipping Cat Physics

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Aug 23, 2007

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Based on our best estimate of Pluto's size before the New Horizons measurements, we thought that it actually had less surface area than Russia. I don't know if that's still true, but if it's not, they're still comparable.

Also, the site's not responding right now, but there's a very nice scale visualization of the solar system where the moon is one pixel. It'll take you about twenty minutes to scroll through by hand.

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Aug 23, 2007

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Nordick posted:

I'd say that's not totally uncalled for, considering that he's literally one of the strongest men in the entire world.

It's not so much strength, though. Mariusz Pudzianowski won the World's Strongest Man competition five times, and had a pretty underwhelming career in MMA. The issue here is more that Hafthor outweighs the other guy by at least 200 lbs.

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Aug 23, 2007

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Gharibi can reportedly lift up to 386 lbs, which doesn't sound like much for someone built like a grizzly.

This looks like someone got a value in kg and the units got lost in communication.

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Aug 23, 2007

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Throwing a flaming hammer indoors seems like a bad idea.

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Aug 23, 2007

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He won the 1982 title by sumo wrestling: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2qCBkXrb8s

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Aug 23, 2007

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Needs babes.

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syscall girl posted:

Whether it's bad-rear end or not is debatable because the bomb-making fellas kind of outdid the fortification guys.

There's a certain asymmetry in that particular competition.

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Aug 23, 2007

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I don't know if that counts, but I definitely think it should.

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The floor is lava, hard mode.

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Aug 23, 2007

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Apparently that's known as cycle ball and is fairly popular in Europe and Asia.

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Aug 23, 2007

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How to Weaponize Fidget Spinners

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Everyone even tangentially involved in the Arnold strongman contest is on steroids.

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Aug 23, 2007

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https://twitter.com/landru79/status/988490703075463168

Footage from the surface of a comet.

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https://twitter.com/SimoneGiertz/status/991436386929553408

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Say Nothing posted:

The Mountain wins World's Strongest Man 2018 contest.



The little green plates are a nice touch.

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Aug 23, 2007

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Inzombiac posted:

I thought Arnold was on the shorter side but no, he's 6'2" :stare:

Maybe.

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Aug 23, 2007

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EoinCannon posted:

So you're saying the current generation of bodybuilders is probably not going to age as gracefully as Arnold?
That should be interesting

They're going to drop dead of heart attacks in their forties, or earlier.

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Aug 23, 2007

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Lead Psychiatry posted:

Never considered just how bonkers Franz Liszt's La Campanella can be until I saw this.

Piano Hero nightmare mode looking good.

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Aug 23, 2007

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This is a long read but it's worth your time.

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Hippos Poop So Much That Sometimes All the Fish Die

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At the end it looks like she's preparing to get the bar overhead.

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Bruce Dickinson has an honorary doctorate, not a standard one.

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The trick is to get really into mid-90s Norwegian black metal. Then you never have to worry about whether the people making your favorite music are terrible.

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Aug 23, 2007

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0NNA6w8Zk4

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Slippery posted:

He did make a sonata, or something, titled Lick my rear end where I Fart or words to that effect though

Leck Mich Im Arsch, which was covered by Jack White and Insane Clown Posse.

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Aug 23, 2007

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https://twitter.com/thedepthsbeIow/status/1093725804490559488

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Aug 23, 2007

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It's only the worst timeline if there's a list of the best golf hentai, and I'm not going to check on that.

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Aug 23, 2007

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The P900 can do more than that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSPstsNJ9jI

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