Giants Live Welsh Qualifier 2013

luke00 said:Personally believe you're all missing the point, with this inter-house squabbling. We all need to stop the dominance of the Eastern block and America and get a WSM from the UK again. Truth be told, if they are Scottish, Welsh or Irish they'll be classed as British and if they lose they'll be classed as Scottish, Irish or Welsh

We have so many good athletes at the minute, a truly awesome time to be British and strong, that this will eventually happen. So what if some of the nations are behind others in terms of strength, they have a smaller field to pick from and we should all be pushing each other to our limits and exceeding our expectations regardless of which part of the UK you are from. Pool our resources our knowledge and push even further forward. Through unity in the UK we will do this, not bickering about a few metres on a f**king yoke and starting to slag each other off. We go to war with the iron every day not each other, save that for the international circuit where we need to take the rest of the World to school.

JC said:
if that the case, why put "Event 1: 160KG Farmers x 15m (for TV purposes)"...I'm not qouting exactly, but it was something of that nature
As you point out, no-one should or probably does give a s**t, my question waas to do more with the "TV puposes"
I would disagree about making little diff on TV though. 160KG farmers at Worlds for example, would be far better to watch over 40ms than 20ms

Rob_Bush said:
I can understand your point JC but the weights and distances that are selected for the Worlds are to suit the abilities of that comp's competitors. This is Wales where there have only been 10 competitors competing at the last three years national comp and that 10 consists of competitors at different levels in terms of abilities. All I mean by TV purposes is that seeing less fails and more finishes makes for better viewing in my opinion.

Richard_Smith said:My opinion its a qual for europes an brits so the weights should be at that standard if the guys can't do it why should they get to go to the big boys comps wiv the countries best n the worlds best ! Its great for welsh strongman to hav all these great comps.but the standard is lackin in wales watchin wales strongest man the top 2 had no compition ! I'll be back soon to take over again that's a small joke befor my head get bit off ! Peace

bigdave30 said:so its from the floor is it si??

bigdave30 said:is the deadlift from the floor or 18' guys???

Simon_T said:What increments will the DL be raised by?