Inspiring Grip Feat

I have seen some of the most amazing grip feats of the last fifteen years. I'm just lucky.

I have also been putting on crazy, odd-ball and awesome strength events every year for six years running, and several others before that. It helps that I worked for the York Barbell Company and made some amazing contacts and friends.

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I have seen my share of great performances, but this year's Olde Time Strongman Picnic had another surprise performance. It was not a surprise that the athlete was there. I had heard about this kid for years. You see, he is one of Mike Gittleson's kids. In case you don't know, Mike was the Strength Coach for the University of Michigan for 30 years. Trust me on this one, if you think you know how Mike trained those guys at U of M, unless you were there, then you are probably wrong. There is a lot of misinformation out there.

The kid is not a huge football looking guy. In fact, he is kind of skinny. He is also young, just starting college. He is so unassuming that I had to apologize to Mike for almost forgetting to put him on the stage. That would have been a real mistake. While every act at my picnic is great, I have a pretty good idea of what the show is going to be. Not in this case. His feat of strength was so good that it has become an underground challenge on the strongman and the strength coaching circuit.

Coach Hillman, here at BGSU has even been personally working on duplicating it. He has been having all kinds of athletes from a number of different sports attempt it and train at it. I know that several other coaches are doing the same. I know that nobody is close to it right now.

Here is where you can see it. It's professionally filmed, edited and plainly obvious what he is doing. This is pure gnarly, fibrous strength without any puffery. The real thing.

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