SM - The new king of strength sports???

Tiff_P said:
Just wish that they would move away from using an Oly bar and plates for doing the Dealift in SM which has crepted in lately and go back to the days of Silver Dollar Deadlifts, car DL, cart lifting, Axle DL etc.

Its alot more interesting for competitors and spectators!

Tiff_P said:
Just wish that they would move away from using an Oly bar and plates for doing the Dealift in SM which has crepted in lately and go back to the days of Silver Dollar Deadlifts, car DL, cart lifting, Axle DL etc.

Its alot more interesting for competitors and spectators!

JC said:


I agree, although I think the use of Oly bars is a cost thing more than anything. Cheap Oly bar is pittance, silver dolar deaddlift, car deadlift are a bit more expensive

I do agree though that the car DL etc looks far better and as a competitior I would rather do those events too

Boar said:


did this 'friend' recently get a SOLID deadlift PB

Alex said:
Anyone can have a go at things like farmers, yoke etc, and do well if they're strong - some things like log and stones require technique, but it's still largely brute strength.

Having to learn the movements of oly lifting for years to put up half-decent numbers might put people off.

Steve said:
Am I the only person who doesn't like the direction televised strongman seems to be taking.

If I want to see who's the fastest I watch the athletics - it seems that most of the TV events feature competitions which are far more about speed than actual weight lifted and very rarely do they have any events where the competitors attempt to lift as much as possible for a single rep.

I understand it probably makes better TV, but isn't being the strongest supposed to be about who can lift the most weight?

JC said:
If the weight is sufficiently heavy enough (ie not light to any of the athletes) in theory the strongest person should be quickest as they are carrying less weight, relatively!!

Steve said:


It often doesn't always work that way - some people simply can't move very fast.

I seem to remember comments from WSM in China - Pudinoski struggled with the squats in the heats - in the final they actually decreased the weight and he won it in the quickest time. It shows he was clearly the fastest on a submaximal weight, but as I said I thought it was strongest man, not fastest.

JC said:
Not a great fan of squats in strongman TBH. If you look at the cage squats in BSM last year, most were bounced at the bottom for starters!!