Awesome! that style of lifting is so raw and old style, love it, always wondered why a big rectangular Basque style stone never made an appearence in strongman comps actually, would have been a cool event. We had the Icelandic Husafel Stone and the McGlashen stones I guess..?
Funny about the one arm lift there, I had a round
80kg warm up stone that I could lift with one arm and for a bit of show off I did an impromtu display of it at my sons school fete in 2000, I could aaalmost press it overhead with one arm, just required to much balance to lock it out without it falling on my head
..never tried rolling at around the back of my head though
And yes, I recognise Dave Foster. Atually back in 1998 I was at a strongman comp in Tasmania being held as part of the Latrobe Gift and we were the joint entertainment for the day along with the axemen (aaamazing stuff they do!) and Dave was there. The organisers of the event decided it would be a good exhibition to have one of the strongman competitors take on Dave in an improptu axe hold event..well having the Australan record at the time in such an event I was the logical choice. We were to see who could hold an axe at arms length for the longest time. I was a bit nervous because Dave was so big and well he is an axemen efter all huh??...I decided that well if he did beat me well he is the World Champion with an axe and if I won well how cool would that be
...so I agreed. The orgaisers then spent an hour trying to find him with no luck, I was ok with that as I was pretty focused on the upcoming events I was already going to have to do as part of the comp. Later I was told that the organisers couldn't find him because he was in a sponsors tent drinking beer and he was...smashed
Would have been an interesting contest......I did win the strongman comp though
Thanks so much for showing those photos and in your image thread, great stuff
Mike
