Thanks to Doug over at Rise Above Performance Training I’ve got more video from the event. In a previous post, I talked mostly about the competition.
In this one, we have the performances. I often tell people the difference between modern strongman and oldtime strongman is the first is competition based while the second is performance based. There are other differences of course but that is the main one.
In this first video I demonstrate a few of the basic feats. Whenever I go somewhere there are usually the feats I take to perform. The reason being that they’re small and easy to carry. This includes bending a bolt, bending a spike, tearing a phonebook in three, and finally bending a horseshoe. As this was after the competition I was a bit tired, with the horseshoe giving me some trouble making me resort to trapping it to get started, but I still finished it.
Then they requested I did a little kettlebell juggling. Just a few moves here with the 24kg bell. If you want to do all these and more be sure to check out The Definitive Guide to Kettlebell Juggling.
After that it was time to eat. And what great food they had.
Hope you enjoyed these.
In strength,
Logan Christopher
P.S. I was recently interviewed for the new site Brothers of Strength put out by Nate and Josh Day. Check it out here.
Filed under Feats of Strength, Hand Strength, Kettlebells, Oldtime Strongmen by on Oct 4th, 2010. 2 Comments. 
You’ve seen my performance from the Atomic Athletic Strongman Picnic. But what about everyone else?
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There was Olympic lifting. There was ‘regular’ vehicle towing (because towing a semi-truck with a harness is regular compared to doing it by the hair). There was lots of stone lifting.
There was all kinds of metal being bent from horseshoes to bars of iron and even scrolling.
There was martial arts demonstrations, Indian club swinging, people lifting, and even a circus sideshow.
One of the highlights for me was K.C. Gittleson and his sledgehammer finger walking. If you’re not familiar with this exercise it involves holding a slegehammer upright, with the head below you, by the four fingertips of each hand (no thumbs). You then walk your fingers down the shaft until you get to the head of the hammer.
Stewart Rosendaul lifting his daughter, Brianna
Andrew Durniat amazed the people as usual with his barbell juggling. But he didn’t stop there. He also flipped and tossed around a 50 lb. stone padlock and a 45 lb. plate. If you think any of those are easy give it a try and you’ll find out otherwise.
As previously mentioned, we went head to head in kettlebell juggling trying to out do one another. And we both did in different ways.
I’ll have more video of these events in the coming days and weeks. And later on there’ll be a DVD released that shows it all.
In the end it was worth the trip out to Ohio. I’d do it again in a heartbeat. And if at all possible it would be great to organize a similar event to do over here on the west coast.
In strength,
Logan Christopher
Filed under Feats of Strength, Oldtime Strongmen by on May 20th, 2010. 1 Comment.
