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Feats of Strength Workshop – Coming Soon

Jedd Johnson — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 16:17:18 +0000

Hello DIESELS!

The moment so many of you have written to be about is here.

In October, I will be holding my first Feats of Strength Workshop in Baltimore, MD, along with Mike Rinderle.

This will be held in conjunction with the Grand Opening of my good friend, Dan Cenidoza’s new facility, Art and Strength.

The Workshop will be entirely Hands-on. No lecturing, just demonstrations and working with you on a Hands-on Basis to develop your skills.

What we Will Cover at This Workshop

How to Wrap Steel for Bending
Short, Non-Braced Bending Techniques: Reverse, Overhand, Underhand
How to Wrap Horseshoes
How to Bend Horseshoes
Where to Get Steel to Bend
How to Progress to the Red Nail Certification
How to Tear Cards
How to Rip Phone Books
And MORE…

Here’s where I need your help…

The Grand Opening of Art and Strength is Saturday October 15th from Noon to 4 PM, but I can’t do the Workshop during that time, so I want to know which option of the following two works best for you…

The Workshop will either take place on Saturday Oct. 15th from 5 PM to 9 PM or on Sunday, October 16th from 10 AM to 2 PM.

I need you to tell me what time you would prefer.

To give me your preference, simply leave a comment below or reply to the email I sent you by way of my newsletter.

Not on my Feats of Strength Newsletter? That’s crazy talk.

You can sign up for my Feats of Strength Newsletter below.

All the best in your training,

Jedd

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Turn Back the Clock – Diesel Card Tearing 2003

Jedd Johnson — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 02:41:03 +0000

If this is your first trip to the Diesel Crew website, WELCOME. Here at our site you will find some of the greatest free information on how to get strong, fit and muscular!. Before you go, I have a question for YOU at the bottom!

As you peruse the site, you will see countless free articles that Smitty and I have written to help you out. These articles are at no cost because we love providing good solid training information. To check out our articles, click on the MEDIA toolbar above. In addition to the hundreds of articles and posts that we have put up, you’ll also find numerous articles and posts from guest authors who have wanted to help you out as well.

Another thing that you will find is a ton of great free video clips. When we develop new exercise variations, we post them. When we perform cool feats of strength, we post them. Keep coming back to see our videos and subscribe to our YouTube Channels.

Speaking of videos,we were one of the first strength training teams to put out videos on the internet. Back before YouTube was taking the internet by storm, we were editing videos and putting them to hard core metal head banging music, and streaming them off our site.

In fact, we used to get so much traffic and so many visitors downloading our videos, we had to upgrade our bandwidth settings with our providers multiple times! Luckily, these days we don’t need to host locally anymore and there are places like YouTube and Revver to help us out…

Every so often I’d like to turn back the clock and show you one of the classic Diesel Crew videos from back in the day. It’s hard to believe how far we’ve come, but it’ll also show you how long we’ve been doing what we love – providing you with great information and enjoyable entertainment.

So without further ado, let’s take a trip back in time about 6 years.

I took a temporary position working from noon until 9:30 at the plant which enabled me to workout every single day in the morning This was great because I could roll out of bed, go to the gym and hit a hard workout completely fresh, when I was completely fully rested.

First Strongman Competition – Farmer’s Hold for Time

I was training for my first strongman contest and had no specific equipment, no knowledge of the sport, and no idea how to train for it.

Grip Contest – Two Hands Pinch Event

I was also training for my first grip contest and had just learned how to tear a deck of cards in half.

I had just gotten done with a lower body workout where I trained Back Squats, Front Squats and Heavy Zercher Lifts, when I figured it would be a good time to deload my lumbar spine by hanging upside down with the gravity boots and had just recently gotten.

Hanging upside down letting the blood rush to my head in order to deload my spine seemed like it would be a little boring, so I decided to do something else while I hung there…

Please pardon me for the crappy quality of this clip. I made it on a very old and primitive video editing software. But I can ensure you that the graininess of the clip will not take away from the coolness of this strength feat!

That was like one of the first 5 videos I ever posted on the net. If you want to see more of them, check out my YouTube Channel.

So – QUESTION FOR YOU – if you’ve been coming to the Diesel Crew site for a while, is there a video you’d like to see featured on the site in a periodic Turn Back the Clock segment? If so post below in the comments and we may just be able to dig it out for you!

Thanks and all the best in your training,

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Success in Card Tearing – Barry Gibson

Jedd Johnson — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 03:07:09 +0000

Hey everybody, it’s Jedd checking in.

Hey, before I get into this post, does anybody know where I can pick up a pair of boots like this?

That is an image of Frederick Winters from the 1904 Summer Olympics. Seems like a crazy get-up for the summer time, but to each his own.

Speaking of summer, I hope everybody’s summer is rolling smooth. We have had a cool and rainy one here in Pennsylvania, but that seems to be turning around now.

Tonight it was so hot in my new garage that sweat was dripping off my head onto everything I was trying to lift in the gym. I was trying to pinch 3-25′s plus weight, but didn’t quite get a full pull and my camera battery was dead so I have no video anyway. It was so hot, even with shorts and a tee shirt on, i still felt like I was wearing ol’ Frederick’s wardrobe shown above.

When I got done with my workout, I opened up the laptop to check my email and I got a note from Barry Gibson of GrappleFit.com:

“Hi Jedd,
Finally did it man. Got through the full deck!! Thanks for the help and advice with the cards and nails, the ebooks were a massive help!! Thanks again my friend!! I know the camera work is a bit off but that can be improved,
Cheers,
Barry.”

Ya know, the main reason I write strength-related products is to help people. When someone who buys one of my products, I want them to know when they read it that I put everything I could as far as information and effort that I could into it. And when somebody writes or sends a video of him or herself and thanks me, I am truly humbled.

Man, this kind of feedback makes me feel great! Back in April of 2007, I started writing the Card Tearing eBook on a long weekend off from work after I had received quite a few positive emails about my Nail Bending eBook.

I thought that if people were getting so much out of the Nail Bending eBook, then maybe they would enjoy an ebook on Card Tearing as well. I got a great start over the course of that weekend, but finishing it proved to be a long, painful process. Finally, with the help of Smitty I was able to finish it off this past March. Feedback like this from Barry makes me happy that I kept chugging away and finished that project.

Barry sent me a link to a video of him dashing through a deck. Wait until you see this – once he gets this thing started, it’s over in a hurry. Check it out!

I hope everyone else who has picked up the Card Tearing eBook is mowing through decks just as quickly as Barry. If you are, I’d love to see a video. If not, please let me know if you have any questions.

If you’d like to find out more about the Card Tearing eBook, please click here: ===> How to Tear Cards.

Check back soon, too, because I have a big announcement about Card Tearing that you won’t want to miss if you have been training hard. It’s time to get some recognition for your efforts, and I am your man!

All the best in your training,

-Jedd-

P.S. While I wrote this, I got another note in the email from Simon in Australia, who recently picked up the Card Tearing eBook: “Thanks Jedd Great book incidentally.. just spent the last week getting back to crossfit training but moved my sessions to 6am in the morning.. did a great fighters session at CF Victoria this morning (my local crew/gym).. gonna do some heavy lifting and my first grip training tomorrow Peace from Australia, Simon”

P.P.S. To see more posts on Card Tearing, just click here: ===> Card Tearing Posts

How Twitter Will Unite the Grip Strength Community

Jedd Johnson — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 11:55:39 +0000

By Shane Swing

Grip strength training can be a lonely endeavor. Unlike team sports, usually a grip strength practitioner undertakes his obsession by himself in a dusty basement surrounded by storage boxes, or in a small portion of the garage that’s just big enough to house a garage gym. When he beats a personal record, the radio and perhaps a pet are the only things around to share in his excitement. When he hears terms like hub lifts, pinch grip, CoC #4, or sledgehammer leveraging, he understands perfectly. When he tries to explain these terms to his friends and family, they rarely understand (or want to for that matter).

So, he does the only thing he can; search for a sense of community with other grip strength enthusiasts, and online is the best place to go.

Luckily for him, there have been several key players that have stepped in to fill the void.

The Gripboard is an outstanding resource for people wanting to learn, discuss, and share everything grip. From FAQs to training routines, a gripper will find the information he needs there.

IronMind Enterprises creates many top-notch training devices for grip strength folks. They have standardized grip strength training with their products and certifications, without which no community can grow. It would be hard to imagine how people would train or accurately measure their grip strength without IronMind.

Diesel Crew expands on every aspect of grip training. They create specialized information products, and use their marketing, copyrighting, and video production skills to push grip strength training into a wider audience through ebooks, youtube videos, and participation in social networks.

These sites and many others have done wonders for our community. Yet, the Internet is moving away from traditional websites and forums and into social media—primarily Twitter—and the grip strength community as a whole will inevitably have to do the same. It’s where the action and intimacy that we crave is. Yes, some people in the community are slow to adopt Twitter, but that will change, and change fast.

When it does, though, we’ll be faced with the same problem as before unfortunately. What other grip strength folks use Twitter? How can I find them? What are they doing? What’s new in their training? Why do I feel isolated once again?

Sure, Twitter tries to assist people in finding others with similar interests. But, I used Twitter for months before I learned that Twitter had a search site at search.twitter.com that allowed people to search for topics, Twitter names, and a persons’ own Twitter name. It took me several more months to learn that people used special searches using a hashtag (#) to assist people with their searching efforts. For example, people wanting to find out information about the nationwide tea parties used the #tcot in their tweets. Everyone adopted the search term and could therefore search for this specific phrase and see what everyone within that community was talking about.

So, although Twitter does help people meet up, I feel there’s a need to go a step further to unite our grip strength community.

Why can’t there just be one place where people can go to see all the tweets about grip strength training? Why can’t this place standardize the way people tweet to assist the community in finding each other better?

These seemed like reasonable questions for me to ask, but unfortunately, nothing like this existed.

I decided to change that.

I created a website that captures and displays grip strength tweets all in one place using standardized search phrases. The goal of the site is to get every single grip strength fan on the planet to stop by for a visit, meet and interact with everyone else in the community. There’s absolutely no reason why every single grip strength fan on the planet shouldn’t be able to tweet with every other grip strength fan on the planet. The goal of the site is to allow this to happen.

I hope to have all grippers out there sign our guest book and leave their information (and Twitter handle), so that our community can unite online, and we can finally see how many of us are out there.

I know I’m curious. Aren’t you? Visit http://gripstrengthtweets.com and let’s get this sucker started! And don’t forget to join twitter and follow GST at http://twitter.com/gripstrengthtwt.

Shane is a grip strength fanatic from Maryland. He’s a 9 to 5 working man, but thinks grip all day long. Although herniated disc surgery and a torn wrist ligament get the best of him on occasion, nothing can stop him from trying to be the strongest gripper on the planet. If not for grip, he has no clue what he’d do for a hobby each day.

Want to learn more about Grip? Just click here ==> Grip Strength

Napalm Jedd vs The Iron Tamer

Jedd Johnson — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 11:54:30 +0000

In the video below, I mentioned that I got the chance to finally meet David Whitley at the Fast Track seminar in New Jersey last weekend.

I never knew that Dave was actually a pro wrestler on the Indy circuit back in the day and we shot the sh*t about that for a while. I learned a bunch of stuff about the wrestling business and how the moves are choreographed. If you were there, you probably saw us doing some collar and elbow tie-ups and some Irish whips. That was cool.

David’s specialty is kettle bells and he is a Senior RKC, but he also does some nail bending and card tearing. Here’s a little video we shot out in the hallway where we bent a 60D nail using a technique that you probably haven’t seen before.

Check it out.

Believe me, it ain’t all fake, brother. My ribs, collar bone, spine and sternum all adjusted on that elbow drop…

I put him over strong this time, but next time it’s gonna be a different story.

-Jedd-

P.S. You check out the Nail Bending eBook by clicking the image in the side panel or by just clicking here.