Lancashire 'Strongman Champions' Sun 21st Feb 11-3pm

Martin_Jones said:
Unfortunately I had a s**t day. Nothing went right and most of all my head was f**ked.

Martin_Jones said:
Not really good to gauge his performance on me mate. Not that he didn't perform well, I thought a lot of people perform very well and will go far.
Unfortunately I had a s**t day. Nothing went right and most of all my head was f**ked. Can't wait to get back to training and sort things out.
It was a nice suprised to see the comp finished on time, must be a first for me.

JC said:
We all have them mate!
No doubt you will make amends at the Welsh

robocop said:
we all love you martin xx we all have good and bad days bro
your still No1 for footware in strongman

robocop said:here is my thoughts on the day i am in the shop it quiet so thought i would add something to the thread

first
-awesome meeting some top sugden guys thanks to iceman for a shot of his tacky

-blagged some wd40 also so thanks to whos that was cheers

-trying to explain to kingham who goose was and how he was his long lost brother was fun

-thats twice i have met mick ashurst and still not had a chance to get a propper chat cause he is always grafting

-martin joes is getting bulky 20 stone of welsh beef

-tom reminded me of Mall Kay

-first time i have met wayne tusnstal propper nice guy

-first time i have had a chat to dean slater good banter

-mick gossling is a very good reff

-les was great as MC now that he had a fully working mike

-JT's stones are the bo***cks

-ken was a waste of space guy is a retard

-no JC !!


i had a great time and a good workout before arnolds
first event
came out for sack race with eventual winner gary so i had a good pacer i had a play with sacks before it started and i noticed that the first two where piss easy but the 3rd was wet and difficult to handle so i did a coulpe of sets just picking up the 3 sacks one after the other and this really helped
was about mid table comming out so i was able to watch what was a good time and to learn from others mistakes
decided to just pace myself and make sure i did not make any mistakes
gary was ahead of me first sack and second i think i caught him up a little in third saw him load the third as i was ruinning in with mine i had a feeling that this would be his event so to only finish a couple of sec behind was good
think i finished 3rd in this
my achillies started to flair up after this but was not too bad felt it was ok prob just me being over protective of it

second event
thought it was log but was deadlift so got the finger out and stuck on the old suit noticed that the barbells where smoothe and i felt that this was gonna effect grip
did not really warm up to good as we onlt had 100k in athlete area so going from 100k to 270k was not the best conditions but thats comps for ya was not paying attention to running order and my name was called out ran to bar forgot my belt but was not to bothered as i pulled beltless at powerlifting comp couple of weeks ago and felt fine
started repping and hamstrings where tight not warmed up propperly so was slow off the floor even for me had to re-grip every lift also which was affecting my rythm but pulled a steady 6 reps should have got 1 or 2 more but was happy enough the real stars of this event was dean and jack double figures from both

third event
log and i wanted this to be my event
very narrow handles but nice enough i did like a set of 6 reps with 20k dumbells as my warm up so again poor show from me
i cant drive through my calve yet so cant really use legs propperly with log at the min so just had to strict press my reps lucky 110k is ok weight for me to do this
done 7 reps in 20 sec in training then burned out so wanted to pace myself a bit better first couple where slow as shoulder where not warmed up propper and i was getting used to log then found my grove and pressed out 9 wanted 12 but was good enough for the win good performances from martin jones dean garry and wyane all gave me a solid battle


so there i was leading at interval and felt great but achilies was playing up

forth event farmers
came out last with dean and f**ked this up big time
anyone who knows me well will tell you that farmers is a very good event for me but i spent so much effort trying not to over step on bad ankle i was ruinning like a retard and this threw me all off came round turn pretty fast was head to head with dean but kept banging frmers off legs and lossed grip about 5m from end and with so many guys having solid performances at this i lossed about 25 points
silly mistake prob should have went at own pace rather than try to hang with dean
but s**t happens

last event stones
now i had no chance of winning i just wanted to put some nice stones up and go home with all the positives from the day
one motioned the first 3 then got massive pain through hamstring calve and achillies nearly passed out took about 20 sec for pain to go away was holding onto stone wall shaking lie elvis in his prime got s**t together then put up 4th stone went for last one but was out of time shame cause i wanted to finish them and felt strong
went from 1st to 8th but still early days in the road back from injury had a great time and english strongman look to have a great future lots of top guys
so well done to you all
got like 10 days to prep for arnolds and yesterday was a great warm up so thanks again to denny and mark for putting time and effort in
ill be back with two legs soon enough

Big_JK_88 said:feeling ......sore ? ..... Understatement !!

Was a great day, good to put names to faces
finding it hard to get a job as a stuntman after my farmers ill try harder next time maybe more air ???

lydia said:Hey,

I took some pictures as a spectator at the competition yesterday. You can see them on my website at here:

http://www.lydiasmith.co.uk/lydiasmithphotography/page1081

These are not official photographs and Im happy to remove any pictures (just email me)

There are more to go up shortly.