This holiday weekend, Labor Day Weekend, I am on a Mission to spread the word of Grip Strength.

On this Sunday Morning, I will be traveling to Ottawa, Ontario, Canada to assist with the running of the Canadian National Hand Strength Challenge, which is being run in the same locale as the Canadian National Armwrestling Championships.

In many chats, David Horne has told me that he always thought arm wrestlers would be a group that would really excel in Grip Sport. I am gearing up to see about that this weekend!

Details about the event are below, but what I am asking today is for you to take just a couple of minutes and help me promote this event via Facebook, Twitter, and any other forums and miscellaneous platforms you might use.

On top of running the challenge, I will also be speaking to the arm wrestlers about Grip Sport, how Grip Training can improve their game at the arm wrestling table.

If you could help me spread the word about this, it would be great. For Facebook and Twitter, I already have tools installed on the post in the upper right hand corner, so you can use those. For other sharing methods, you can simply copy the address of this specific post.

Thanks for the help. Check out exactly what we will be doing, below, in this excerpt sent to me by Eric Roussein, who is organizing the entire event.

On the evening of September 4th, in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, the inaugural Canadian National Hand Strength Challenge will be held.

This will be a medley-type event, in which competitors will try to complete as many challenges as possible among the 35 on hand.

A variety of objects will test different aspects of grip strength, which should keep things interesting for both athletes and spectators.

Participants will compete one at a time and each have six minutes to accumulate as many points as possible (each successfully completed challenge will earn 1 point).

Two separate divisions are offered: a small hands division (hands measuring 7.75″ or less from wrist to tip of middle finger), and a large hands division (hands greater than 7.75″ in length).

There are nice trophies for the top three finishers in each division. In the event of ties, gripper strap holds for time will be used to determine the winners.

The event is being held in conjunction with the Canadian National Armwrestling Championships, which should expose grip sport to many people who already have strong hands and wrists.

The action will take place following the armwrestling tournament in the ballroom of the Albert at Bay Suite Hotel in downtown Ottawa.

This competition is open to all Canadian residents. Interested participants can register at the event venue between 8 PM and 8:45 PM on the Sunday night (cost = $20). The challenge will start at 9 PM. Jedd Johnson will be driving up to officiate the event.

Event Venue:

The Albert at Bay Suite Hotel
435 Albert Street
Ottawa, Ontario

For more information, contact Eric Roussin at 613-837-1724 or eroussin@rogers.com

So, if you are in the neighborhood, I hope to see you there!

The top three performers in each category will also be featured in David Horne’s Top 3 that he maintains at his World of Grip website.

All the best in your training.

Jedd

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This week’s Grip Strength Challenge is different from the regular.

This week’s submissions will come from those who bought the Home Made Strength II Online DVD during the introductory sale!

This is what you have to do.

1. Build one (or more) of the Home Made Strength II pieces of Grip Gear.

2. Film yourself training with it – Get Intense – Show us what you are made of!

3. Upload your video to YouTube!

4. Send me your submission!

This week, instead of just one winner, there will be 3 individual winners that win a copy of Dave “The Iron Tamer” Whitley’s, Lessons of the Oldtime Strongmen.

Video submissions must be received by Thursday April 7, 2011 night 8 PM EST.

Voting will take place from Friday April 8 until Monday April 11 at 8 AM EST.

Votes will be counted on Monday April 11. One vote per I.P. address, please.

Any questions, feel free to email me at jedd dot diesel at gmail dot com.

For more details, check out this video…

When you submit your video, make sure it contains the following information:

  Subject: Home Made Strength Grip Challenge

 Description: http://www.dieselcrew.com & http://irontamerdavidwhitley.com/
Home Made Strength Grip Challenge

 Tags: Grip Strength, Hand Strength, Thumb Strength, Wrist Strength

Looking forward to the submissions!

Jedd

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This week’s Grip Challenge is as many reps as possible in the Plate Hula with Two 25lb (or Two 10kg) plates.

Here is how this lift is done…

Complete list of rules, below. Please review:

Rules for the Weekly Diesel Grip Strength Challenge:

1. Every Sunday/Monday, check DieselCrew.com to see what the Grip Feat is for the week.

2. Shoot a video of yourself by the following Friday completing the feat.

3. In the video, you must include the following phrase: “I’m ____________, and this is my video for the Weekly Diesel Grip Challenge at DieselCrew.com.” Hit the feat and upload it to YouTube!

4. The Information for your YouTube Video Must Be:
       Title: “DieselCrew.com Grip Strength Challenge – Name of the Feat”
       Description: http://www.dieselcrew.com Name of the Feat for the Week
       Tags: Grip Strength, Grip Training, Hand Strength, Hand Strength Training, Strong Wrists

5. Email me at jedd dot diesel at gmail dot com with the link to the video. I must receive the email with the video link no later than 8PM EST on Friday.

6. I will post all of the videos that qualify here on the Diesel site. My goal will be to post all of the videos I receive by Saturday at 8PM, EST.

7. Viewers at the Diesel site will leave comments, deciding who has the best video and who should win a prize. Voting will continue until Sunday at 8PM, EST.

8. Whoever is voted “Best Video” for the Weekly Grip Strength Challenge, will receive a special limited edition Diesel Tee Shirt.

9. Videos can not contain anything that may be offensive to Diesel readers. Getting pumped up is fine, but you WILL NOT BE CONSIDERED if you use racial, ethnic, sexual slurs and things like this. We do reserve the right to disallow a video if we deem it inappropriate.

Looking forward to the submissions this week, with the slightly altered rules.

Kick ass in your training this week.

Jedd

P.S. No dancing is required for this video…

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I tried five or six attempts. The one in this video clips is my third. After this one, my distance dropped off.

For those of you who may not know, the Blob is one head of a York 100-lb dumbbell. Here are some other facts about the Blob.

* Richard Sorin named the Blob and was the first to attempt to lift it.
* Lifting the Blob is a test of pinch grip strength.
* It is a great feat of grip strength to lift one Blob to the full deadlift position.
* The Blob tapers outward from the top to the widest portion.

For more Blob lifting videos, check out my YouTube Channel.

All the best in your training,

-Jedd-

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In the past I have completed all three of the challenges twice, but those times were a lighter version where only the #2.5 Captains of Crush gripper had to be closed and only 187 pounds had to be lifted on the Rolling Thunder deadlift handle. Going in, I knew that the 207-lb Rolling Thunder would be the biggest challenge for me because IronMind recently put out a new version of the handle that is somewhat more free-spinning than the older version. To prepare for this challenge, I have been training on a super slick and smoothly rotating deadlift handle that we got from John Mannino years ago with ball bearings and slick steel.

I made two trips to the Gauntlet, but I first went at about 11 AM on Friday morning. After limbering my hands up a bit, I got in line to take my shot. When I got on the platform, the first thing I went for was the blob. Wade’s blob is painted with what he calls stove paint. This paint is very slick and when combined with the greasy oils on the hands of the people who try the blob, it gets even more difficult to lift. My first squeeze on it, it popped out of my hand after pulling it just an inch or two off the platform. I reapplied chalk on the mid area of my thumb and was able to pull it easily to lockout with my right hand, and then I transferred it to my left hand and set it back onto the platform. Next, I went for the #3 gripper. I set it to parallel, paused it and shut it as Brad looked on. The only thing left to do was attempt the Rolling Thunder.

I purposely left the Rolling Thunder for last because I wanted to give my hands ample time to warm up. My hands felt good by this time so I wiped the majority of the chalk off my hands. I have always preferred to lift the Rolling Thunder with very little chalk because I feel that I get a better grip on the surface of the RT this way. I am normally stronger on the RT and other thick bar events with my left hand, plus I had done the #3 right handed, so I attacked the RT with my left hand first. My early pulls on it ended up being my best and I broke it a couple inches off the platform, but I was unable to pull it any higher than that. Even on an old seasoned handle, 207 pounds is a good pull for me, so I knew that it was going to be tough with the new handle. I was happy to get it somewhat off the ground anyhow!

At that point, it was time to talk shop with Wade for a bit. I rarely get the chance to chat with Wade, so I made sure to get some time with him while I was on the platform. Wade is a great and strong guy, and I look forward to one day competing with him if he so desires. Wade made a post of his account of the weekend’s events at the Gauntlet on his website Jackals Gym. Check it out here.

After the gauntlet, it was time to get something to eat, so the hometown boys (Sean Dockery, Nick and Stew Rosendaul, and Chris Rice) took me to the North Market which featured foods from Poland, Mexico and many other countries of the world all inside one large building. Needless to say, we don’t have any places like that in Bradford County, PA.

After lunch, I got a call from Paul Knight saying he was about to arrive in town, so we made our way to Goodale Park for some grip feats. There I would try to go for a new world record in the Double Blob Farmer’s Carry…

There are plenty more events to cover from my trip to Columbus. To find out the rest of this story, you need to check back later in the week.

-Jedd-

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