General Greatest feat of strength you ever witnessed?

[Dave_Accu]

Probably the wrestlers that were in my gym when I used to active. Never had much experience with wrestlers before so it was interesting to me, how they drive for takedowns, especially double legs. It was like it was a practice dummy or they were driving through one of those thin paper walls. They took "driving through your opponent" as literally as one could take it.

 

[Jesus X]

When I used to work in a galvanizing company some 6'8" 320 lbs Mexican dude who looked like tim sylvia would move around like 200 lb things like it was nothing he would do it for us manlets he was basically a different breed of human he could have been a strong man competitor. He was technically violating the jobs rules as anything over 100 lbs was a team lift or forklift.

 

[kvr28]

Probably the wrestlers that were in my gym when I used to active. Never had much experience with wrestlers before so it was interesting to me, how they drive for takedowns, especially double legs. It was like it was a practice dummy or they were driving through one of those thin paper walls. They took "driving through your opponent" as literally as one could take it.

It is bred and beaten into us, don't just go for the takedown, drive to the takedown 5 feet behind them.

 

[kvr28]

When I was in college I was pretty strong. I went to Mizzou and I used to see some of the football team out and about and wonder just how strong they really were. Especially the offensive linemen. I'd see them out and they were larger than me, but looked pretty doughy and soft. I figured it was just their height that made them good players.

Well, one day I see one of them at the student rec center gym. This was odd because of course the players have their own elite gym no one else gets to use. Not sure why he was in the student one. Anyway, it was the starting offensive tackle Brad Imes. Some may remember him from his UFC run. I think he lost to Rashad Evans in the finals on the heavyweight Tough Enough season. Brad goes over to the bench and I think, well now let's see just how strong this guy really is. He starts putting on weights and I'm not impressed... He keeps adding weights...okay that's a lot. I wanna say it was six plates on each side, but I may be misremembering. It may have only been five plates on each side. But I remember being impressed he was going to put it up. I was thinking, ok, he's stronger than I thought. He gets on the bench and whips out ten reps like it was nothing. He was throwing it up like it was a single plate on each side. I was like holy shit, I did not expect that. This guy is crazy strong. Turns out those big doughy guys are monsters. I think I heard somewhere that he became the strength and conditioning coach for Oklahoma State after his MMA career. Fucking strong guy.

I was shocked when Imes lost to Rashad, I thought for sure he was going to take the whole thing.


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4894uEq_50

 

[MountainMedic]

It is bred and beaten into us, don't just go for the takedown, drive to the takedown 5 feet behind them.

If you guys just stopped using your head as a battering ram you'd be unstoppable lol.
I learned alot from wrestlers, and I only had a couple things I could teach them. Protect your neck on the takedown was always a really hard one for them. Not getting strangled on the way to the ground was the biggest hole they had. They just never needed to worry about it.

 

[SongExotic2]

This thread has been done before at some point in my glittering online posting career.

2 people in my town are famous. One was dh Lawrence who wrote shit books for puffs.

The other is John evans....


Who is John Evans you say?


He's the man that balanced a mini on his head.


View: https://youtu.be/hN9Ntax0QKg?si=QZ7y58NEKkwVDOP7



Before that he did about 100 pints of fbeer on a.piece of wood on my school playground when imwas about 8. He was always balancing shit on his head. I think maybe the headteacher sat on a chair on a plank of wood and he balanced her.

He can balance anything on his head!

He should join the X men!

 

[Robbie Hart]

Had to carry and old timey cast iron stove up from the basement and this skinny crackhead build friend of mine is helping. These stoves are heavier than a son of a bitch and there isn't one spot that gives you a good comfortable hold. The stairs going up are floating, you can walk under the staircase it's all exposed. Every step up I can feel the steps flexing. That skinny fucker helped me get that thing up and didn't break a sweat. I thought he was for sure going to die. I think pound for pound he might be one of the strongest people I've ever met. I need to find a picture of one of these stoves to paint the picture.

In the famous words of splinty, “drugs are a hell of a drug”

 

[SongExotic2]

In the famous words of splinty, “drugs are a hell of a drug”

In the famous words of Max and paddy, baldy baldy throbert

 

[Robbie Hart]

In the famous words of Max and paddy, baldy baldy throbert

Go fack yoself

 

[SongExotic2]

Go fack yoself

Cant. I tried the boomerang but I can't reach

 

[Uncle Tom Doug]

This thread has been done before at some point in my glittering online posting career.

2 people in my town are famous. One was dh Lawrence who wrote shit books for puffs.

The other is John evans....


Who is John Evans you say?


He's the man that balanced a mini on his head.


View: https://youtu.be/hN9Ntax0QKg?si=QZ7y58NEKkwVDOP7



Before that he did about 100 pints of fbeer on a.piece of wood on my school playground when imwas about 8. He was always balancing shit on his head. I think maybe the headteacher sat on a chair on a plank of wood and he balanced her.

He can balance anything on his head!

He should join the X men!

I hate to be a debbie downer, but brown people have been doing this shit for centuries.

 

[SongExotic2]

I hate to be a debbie downer, but brown people have been doing this shit for centuries.

I realise that
He does weird stuff. Like cars. Not bags of maize.

 

[rmenergy]

I had a dude drop off a 144 cu in engine (Ford inline 6) for us to do a tear down/rebuild. Race engine - hydroplane.
He had it in the back of a pickup truck. I went to go get the engine hoist but by the time I wheeled it back over to the truck my cousin had already picked the fucking thing up and put it on a cart.

No idea on weight - but I'd guess it to be north of 350 lbs. Not an easy lift on something as awkward as an engine.
Dude was crazy fucking strong. Farm strong. Still is - but now he's a little smarter than to attempt something like that.

Have the 170" version in the Bronco. I believe it's listed as 385lbs & that holds for several versions of the same engine family.

 

[kvr28]

If you guys just stopped using your head as a battering ram you'd be unstoppable lol.
I learned alot from wrestlers, and I only had a couple things I could teach them. Protect your neck on the takedown was always a really hard one for them. Not getting strangled on the way to the ground was the biggest hole they had. They just never needed to worry about it.

lol, true