I am SO proud of my son!

 

Yesterday, July 1^st, 2011, my son entered into a BC Strongman Competition in Hope, BC.  He had a trainer but his trainer bailed on him so he was doing all the training on his own for the last two months. Granted he has been weightlifting for several years now but he needed some specialized training for this event.

 

Anyway, we went to watch his competition and I was totally blown away by how well he did and how strong the little bugger is!!! He pulled an 18-ton semi-tow truck (you know one of those big tow trucks that look like semi trucks) for a block in 46 seconds!! Oh yea my mouth was hanging open at that one!!!  I was screaming and jumping up and down I was so happy and proud of him!

 

They also had to lift a car, moved varying weights of Atlas Stones (they are heavy rocks ranging in weight from 190 lbs to 300lbs and you have to lift them up onto a 4ft tall stand), lift varying weights above your head, flip an 860lb tire as many times as you could in a minute and a half (he only trained with a 600lb tire) and pull the truck! I think that was all of the events but I am sure I am missing one of them out!

 

During the event, while they were moving some of the equipment out of the area, the kids got to have a tug-o-war with all the Strongmen. There must have been about 40 little kids on one side of the rope and then 8 or so of the Strongmen on the other side. The strongmen were not really trying but they made it look like the little kids won by falling down and all the kids laughed and cheered that they had beat the Strongmen! LOL it was really cool!

 

Some lady came up to my son and asked if her son could have a picture taken with him because he is a Strongman Competitor, he said yes and the kids smiled and had his picture taken and all that and then he asked if he could put my son in a head lock for a picture and my son said sure and he thought that was the greatest thing ever LOL

 

Some of these guys are built like brick shithouses but they are the biggest teddy bears going. Justin was all new to this and was placed in the heavyweight class and didn't know anything about the event, the other competitors rallied around him and helped him out when he needed it by yelling out instructions for how to do this or that and they shared their chalk and tacky with him.

 

Oh I have to tell you about this Tacky stuff. It is a combination of tar and molasses. The men rub it on their forearms and hands when they are using the Atlas Stones to give them a better grip. So you have these giants putting on this super tacky, super sticky, super stinky stuff on their arms (I now know why bodybuilders shave their arms!!!), and some of the guys were pretty hairy, then you hear, "OH SHIT! This stuff hurts!" as one of the guys is slapping his forearm with his hand and ripping out chunks of his arm hair! Oh you know I was laughing! I said they should sell it to women for waxing and the guy said the only problem with this is that you need a special remover to get the tar off! Of course this is the jokester of the bunch that had also let my son use it and then he tells me he doesn't have any of the remover! LOL I told him he better or I will kick his butt LOL He said he did and not to worry he wouldn't let him leave with out taking the tacky off!

One guy got his shirt stuck to the 300lb Atlas stone and it totally ripped his shirt and left a bit of chest hair and shirt on the stone as well!

 

So, there were 6 guys in the heavy weight classification and my son came in ……. Drum roll please ………… 4^th place!!!!!!  Oh yea you know I was doing the happy dance!

 

He didn't even think he would do as well as he did as he had no clue what to expect and he had no training for this particular event. The crowd was cheering for him and urging him along, it was awesome! Then this little girl about 3 or 4 years old was screaming, "GO JUSTIN GO! YOU CAN DO IT!" lol it was adorable!

 

Well that was my good news for Canada Day. Do you have any good news to share?

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