Time for an u120kg weight class?

martinb said:This was the main reason I suggested the 120 weight class, cause I don't like the way open comps are going, but figure there is no stopping it

Again, I will say, it tends to be better in Scotland

pandion said:Terry do you think a more rounded comp would attract guys from other sports (retired, injured etc) and would that help raise the profile of SM? I know you guys are the pinnacle of the sport and specialist but maybe the cross over would attract curios fans.

terryhollands said:
I dunno really. I just think part of being a good strongman is being athletic. If people wanna see guys doing heavy deadlifts, squatting and pressing there is a sport already like that. Also seeing guys putting big weights overhead, there's WL. I think part of what makes strongman entertaining is the running around and conditioning needed to be at the top. Take those away and for me it loses it's appeal a little

terryhollands said:
I dunno really. I just think part of being a good strongman is being athletic. If people wanna see guys doing heavy deadlifts, squatting and pressing there is a sport already like that. Also seeing guys putting big weights overhead, there's WL. I think part of what makes strongman entertaining is the running around and conditioning needed to be at the top. Take those away and for me it loses it's appeal a little

shanejer said:
That' exactly what i said in the gay u90 thread and got shredded and called crossfit lol

terryhollands said:
Everyone has a different opinion I guess. Thing is a lot of guys on here come from pl or WL backgrounds so guess that would be the majority opinion

terryhollands said:
I dunno really. I just think part of being a good strongman is being athletic. If people wanna see guys doing heavy deadlifts, squatting and pressing there is a sport already like that. Also seeing guys putting big weights overhead, there's WL. I think part of what makes strongman entertaining is the running around and conditioning needed to be at the top. Take those away and for me it loses it's appeal a little

Gra_Bul said:
#Warning off topic slightly lol#
Im a little bit agreeing with this, but then I also think that they lift heavy at those other sports because thats all the lifts they have, where as strongman has unique lifts to strongman which I think should be made heavy and be so specialist in either weight or technique that only a very competant strongman can attempt them, I think when events are very light people lose the fear factor of the event, and the crowd see all the lads completing the course within milli seconds of eachother, which makes me think either everyone is fantastic at that event or the weight was set too low for the specialists in that event to make a stand out performance, its just my opinion but when I got into strongman i made the mistake of weanting to get all my events up to the heaviest I could, when I acheived these big lifts at the sacrifice of making gains in static lifts I found out that I dont have to be all that strong on most events to do well, I was let down if im honest and thats why Ive packed in strongman, I think heavy events and mderate weights on the basics, which like you say can be seen at powerlifting and weightlifting shows.
and im sorry for calling U90 crossfit Shane, its just not the sport I imagined when I first started out maybe im wrong in what im saying but its just my opinion.