Mariusz Pudzianowski, Real Deal ??

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Haha Demon Knight kicked ass. I saw that when I was like in the fourth grade . . . messed me up good.

[quote]Massif wrote:
ToShinDo wrote:
rrjc5488 wrote:
creed wrote:
The guy was a boxer as well.

Jeez, never get in a ring with him. He’d kick my ass. Blindfolded. With one arm tied behind his back. On one leg.

Did any of you guys ever see Demon Knight? When Billy Zane punches that sheriff in the face? That’s what I imagine Mariusz’s punch to be like.

Demon Knight is one of the best movies of all time.

What else can be said about Pud? He’s the fucking man. That is all that needs to be said.
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YIKES!

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[quote]RIT Jared wrote:
Big but not too big? Look at the picture-- the man is a friggin’ monster.[/quote]

When I look at my screen I’d have to agree he’s not too big - only about 4 to 5 inches tall. Quite smaller than my GI Joe used to be.

DB

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How are you people watching the WSM contests? I checked the ESPN site for a show schedule and couldn’t find one anywhere. Googled WSM and that didn’t give me any answers either.

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Are you kidding me buffalokilla? Thats a HUGE advantage. You think the U.S doesnt have people that would completely whoop Marios ass? We do. Trouble is no one here has the luxury he does. And yes, thats a shot at him. Great athlete or whatever man, I know for a fact the U.S would dominate any sort of strength sport if there wasnt the need to keep a “real” job on the side. Rezezadeh Hussain of Iran, too is TOTALLY state sponsored. His marriage was aired on public television for christs sake. You think More than thirty people in the U.S even knew who Shane Hammond was at the last olympics?

State sponsorships go a LONG way, bottom line.

Amir

[quote]buffalokilla wrote:
I can’t understand why people rag on Mariuz for not being the absolute strongest in static events. First of all, he’s WON many of them over the past 2 years. Second, even when he hasn’t won recently, he’s taken 2nd or 3rd. The guy’s limit strength is HUGE.

He does have a bit of an unfair advantage, though, in that strongman is actually supported in Poland. Training to be the world’s best is is job, just like any other professional athlete. Most strongmen, especially from the US, have to have other jobs. This does take away from time that could be spent on recovery methods, food preparation, etc. This isn’t an attack on Mariuz, more of a dig on how strongman isn’t financially supported in most places.

The IFSA World’s were pretty heavy this year. The WSM was a more “athleticism” contest. I really think they need to consolidate, splitting up a smallish sport is fucking rediculous.

Mariuz is dominating right now. He’s unreal.

I do hope he stays healthy though.

-Dan[/quote]

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AMIRisSQUAT wrote:
Are you kidding me buffalokilla? Thats a HUGE advantage. You think the U.S doesnt have people that would completely whoop Marios ass? We do. Trouble is no one here has the luxury he does. And yes, thats a shot at him. Great athlete or whatever man, I know for a fact the U.S would dominate any sort of strength sport if there wasnt the need to keep a “real” job on the side. Rezezadeh Hussain of Iran, too is TOTALLY state sponsored. His marriage was aired on public television for christs sake. You think More than thirty people in the U.S even knew who Shane Hammond was at the last olympics?

State sponsorships go a LONG way, bottom line.

Amir

Did you just suggest that US citizens are, without a doubt, the most genetically blessed people on earth?

Because if you did, then you’ve got some seriously screwed up views.

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“These days, the man with the greatest absolute strength does not win the world’s strongest man competition. It is the strong guy that has great cardio.”

Wrong, its ANAEROBIC ENDURANCE

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Well, first all, I DO have some seriously fucked up views. But I didnt mean that. Im tryin to say that our strong-men have the ability to be the absolute best. Just look at T-Nation’s Cardoza. Ill bet my savings account if , oh lets just get random here, Ted Turner sponsored him, fully, he’d be right up there with Marius within a year. Ive seen him compete. Animalistic fierceness!

I know for a fact (being half iranian and having plenty of connects out there, not a terrorist by the way) that Hussein, worlds best heavy-weight O lifter manages to get 12 (a bout of 8 and then a 4 hour nap he gets up to eat, train and pray only well not that extreme but you get the pciture) quality hours of sleep every day on top of numerous luxuries which the state proudly provides since he is a national hero there (full time doctors to moniter him daily, huge amounts of exotic fruits, veggies and meats daily, a full time servant, no Im not kidding etc etc). I dont know any american athlete, hec, hardly an american citizen that could afford that type of CNS recovery.

Just look at the big money in our football, baseball and basketball and look at the quality of athlete produced.

Nuff said, I dont want to go into tedious nit-picking.
Im an aerial viewist.

One last thing, Im talking specifically about the strength sports which the world (and Ive been nearly everywhere) thinks we have always and will always suck at. When I try to explain the almost complete lack of O lifting facilities and the lack of support for powerlifting and strongman in general then they tell me we’re just spoilt. Well fuck that! Damn Nazis! (I keed I keed)

Anyways, Go USA!

FUCK YEAH!

Amir

[quote]Classy_Cojones wrote:
AMIRisSQUAT wrote:
Are you kidding me buffalokilla? Thats a HUGE advantage. You think the U.S doesnt have people that would completely whoop Marios ass? We do. Trouble is no one here has the luxury he does. And yes, thats a shot at him. Great athlete or whatever man, I know for a fact the U.S would dominate any sort of strength sport if there wasnt the need to keep a “real” job on the side. Rezezadeh Hussain of Iran, too is TOTALLY state sponsored. His marriage was aired on public television for christs sake. You think More than thirty people in the U.S even knew who Shane Hammond was at the last olympics?

State sponsorships go a LONG way, bottom line.

Amir

Did you just suggest that US citizens are, without a doubt, the most genetically blessed people on earth?

Because if you did, then you’ve got some seriously screwed up views. [/quote]

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Hes a great strongman no doubt. He does things that no other men can do. People sometimes pick the biggest and strongest guy and throw the drugs in his face, but all the pros take them so its all fair.

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[quote]Vegita wrote:
I can’t believe I got yelled at for making fun of leg extensions? WTF? Guy’s I think Marius is awsome, however, leg extensions? come on, sure they may have their purpose, but it certainly isn’t gaining real world functional strength. If it were a Ronnie Coleman photo shoot I would expect it, not an animal of a man who could tear the limbs off 85% of the human population. Show him doing some real hardcore lifts!

Now obviously it wasn’t his idea to take those pictures, he has someone who designs his marketing and they put it all together and tell him go here and do this. Anyways I wasn’t knocking Marius.

And If the biggest guy in the gym is doing quarter squats are you gonna start doing them? OK so the idea that he is bigger than me so he is right is Stupid. T-Nation in general stands for the opposite of that sentiment so check yourself. :wink:

Vegita ~ Prince of all Sayajins[/quote]

Vegita, Look at his training… After he does 16 sets of squat working up to over 600lbs, he does 6 sets of 20 extensions and 6 sets of 20 curls. That is tough.

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[quote]supsaiyan wrote:
Brad Cardoza wrote:
Best athlete in the sport today. Possibly the best athlete the sport has ever seen. Just my two cents…

Aw, what do you know Brad. Unless you’ve actually competed in a strongman…What?..Really?..Uh, nevermind.[/quote]

LOL classic

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[quote]Logical Lifter wrote:
How are you people watching the WSM contests? I checked the ESPN site for a show schedule and couldn’t find one anywhere. Googled WSM and that didn’t give me any answers either. [/quote]

I just happen to get lucky. I routinely channel surf past ESPN on the weekends, because I know that they can show the WSM or any of the qualifiers at any friggin’ time. Most of what I’ve seen on ESPN (WSM related) was about two years old. It really blows ass.

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marius is strong,fast,agile,lean, and powerful freak of nature.

for the events being held on strongman he is the best.

but he is not the strongest man in the world.

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The most vocal critics of Mariusz are usually the fat pieces of shit in strength sports, who envy how outclassed they are and are searching for any excuse-- see Glenn Ross, for example. He’ll complain that a loading event doesn’t truly represent strength because of the advantage a faster or “fitter” man has. Then he slaps the contest with the label “World’s Fittest Man.” Of course, he’s got nothing to say about how much the two tons of lard he’s got on him ‘unfairly’ help him in the truck pull.

It’s really pathetic-- people see greatness and immediately have to start overcompensating for their own blatant defects or laziness. Even outside of these so-called “flawed” contests, Mariusz still places highly or wins “heavier” contests, as someone pointed out. He’ll adjust his training accordingly, whereas the fat sacks of shit won’t adjust their diets. The only thing to really criticize him on is his grip, slightly. Ok, so we don’t have “the” perfect strength athlete yet. The guy is still amazing.

Amir, stop transferring your jealousy over the state of international olympic weightlifting to taking shots at Mariusz. Sure, state sponsorships go a long way, but I don’t see how that takes anything away from Mariusz. Svend Karlsen and Magnus Samuelsson are both former WSM winners who are entirely supported through endoresments and other sponsorships-- not to mention Zydrunas Savickas of Latvia. None of them are “whooping Mario’s ass.” When Mariusz isn’t outright destroying them he’s never far behind them. I suspect U.S. athletes would be more on the level of these men if strongman had the popularity to support it here in the States.

Trying to diminish Mariusz as a strongman makes no sense and only makes people look petty and ridiculous.

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[quote]superscience wrote:
marius is strong,fast,agile,lean, and powerful freak of nature.

for the events being held on strongman he is the best.

but he is not the strongest man in the world.[/quote]

“Strength” is hardly an easily defined term. There are people who say that “absolute strength” is the true measure, i.e. theoretically the greatest number of pounds moved through one specific path in one burst. Feel free to criticize me there on definition, I’m just assuming that’s what most of these people (including the aformentioned fat slobs) are getting at when they make statements like what superscience just wrote.
If we’re going to distill strength down to that, I think we’ve got a pretty sad definition of strength. It doesn’t work-- when a defensive lineman explodes out of a three point stance and pancakes an offensive lineman that can out-lift him in the squat, deadlift, and press, is anyone really going to say that the O-lineman is definitely “stronger” despite being owned face to face? That’s just one example. Evaluate what strength is to you and you’ll realize it’s more than some base definition.

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Back to boxing. With Vitali Klitschko’s retirement there’s an opening for a big white guy in the heavyweight division. Mariusz is not tall, but he is BIG.

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[quote]The Red Monk wrote:
The most vocal critics of Mariusz are usually the fat pieces of shit in strength sports, who envy how outclassed they are and are searching for any excuse-- see Glenn Ross, for example. He’ll complain that a loading event doesn’t truly represent strength because of the advantage a faster or “fitter” man has. Then he slaps the contest with the label “World’s Fittest Man.” Of course, he’s got nothing to say about how much the two tons of lard he’s got on him ‘unfairly’ help him in the truck pull.

It’s really pathetic-- people see greatness and immediately have to start overcompensating for their own blatant defects or laziness. Even outside of these so-called “flawed” contests, Mariusz still places highly or wins “heavier” contests, as someone pointed out. He’ll adjust his training accordingly, whereas the fat sacks of shit won’t adjust their diets. The only thing to really criticize him on is his grip, slightly. Ok, so we don’t have “the” perfect strength athlete yet. The guy is still amazing.

Amir, stop transferring your jealousy over the state of international olympic weightlifting to taking shots at Mariusz. Sure, state sponsorships go a long way, but I don’t see how that takes anything away from Mariusz. Svend Karlsen and Magnus Samuelsson are both former WSM winners who are entirely supported through endoresments and other sponsorships-- not to mention Zydrunas Savickas of Latvia. None of them are “whooping Mario’s ass.” When Mariusz isn’t outright destroying them he’s never far behind them. I suspect U.S. athletes would be more on the level of these men if strongman had the popularity to support it here in the States.

Trying to diminish Mariusz as a strongman makes no sense and only makes people look petty and ridiculous. [/quote]

It’s called jealousy and it happens in life in just about everything regardless of the level.

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[quote]The Red Monk wrote:
superscience wrote:
marius is strong,fast,agile,lean, and powerful freak of nature.

for the events being held on strongman he is the best.

but he is not the strongest man in the world.

“Strength” is hardly an easily defined term. There are people who say that “absolute strength” is the true measure, i.e. theoretically the greatest number of pounds moved through one specific path in one burst. Feel free to criticize me there on definition, I’m just assuming that’s what most of these people (including the aformentioned fat slobs) are getting at when they make statements like what superscience just wrote.
If we’re going to distill strength down to that, I think we’ve got a pretty sad definition of strength. It doesn’t work-- when a defensive lineman explodes out of a three point stance and pancakes an offensive lineman that can out-lift him in the squat, deadlift, and press, is anyone really going to say that the O-lineman is definitely “stronger” despite being owned face to face? That’s just one example. Evaluate what strength is to you and you’ll realize it’s more than some base definition.[/quote]

Great point, it’s all up to how you define strength (within reason).

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Jealous? I normally wouldnt care, but bro, you have no idea who youre talking to.

But anyways, I will say this, the BEST potential strongman are in the U.S. Hands fucking down. (I cant systematically prove this but go from east to west coast and back twice in month and try out every gym you can, you’ll know what I mean) Its just that so many cant pursue it to the level of dedicated effort like Pudgeaknowskiki can/did/is doing and it usually boils down to finances and the lack of national support for the sport. Mariuzs is a national hero where he lives. Is he a great athlete with immense power, strength and speed? Sure. But that still doesnt counter my argument. Understood? Now go eat something, cuz I will.

End of argument, since this isnt really arguable. Just my opinion.

Amir

P.S And Im NOT, for the record, jealous of that short little ripped to shreads speed demon of a gremlin, ok?!?!?

[quote]The Red Monk wrote:
The most vocal critics of Mariusz are usually the fat pieces of shit in strength sports, who envy how outclassed they are and are searching for any excuse-- see Glenn Ross, for example. He’ll complain that a loading event doesn’t truly represent strength because of the advantage a faster or “fitter” man has. Then he slaps the contest with the label “World’s Fittest Man.” Of course, he’s got nothing to say about how much the two tons of lard he’s got on him ‘unfairly’ help him in the truck pull.

It’s really pathetic-- people see greatness and immediately have to start overcompensating for their own blatant defects or laziness. Even outside of these so-called “flawed” contests, Mariusz still places highly or wins “heavier” contests, as someone pointed out. He’ll adjust his training accordingly, whereas the fat sacks of shit won’t adjust their diets. The only thing to really criticize him on is his grip, slightly. Ok, so we don’t have “the” perfect strength athlete yet. The guy is still amazing.

Amir, stop transferring your jealousy over the state of international olympic weightlifting to taking shots at Mariusz. Sure, state sponsorships go a long way, but I don’t see how that takes anything away from Mariusz. Svend Karlsen and Magnus Samuelsson are both former WSM winners who are entirely supported through endoresments and other sponsorships-- not to mention Zydrunas Savickas of Latvia. None of them are “whooping Mario’s ass.” When Mariusz isn’t outright destroying them he’s never far behind them. I suspect U.S. athletes would be more on the level of these men if strongman had the popularity to support it here in the States.

Trying to diminish Mariusz as a strongman makes no sense and only makes people look petty and ridiculous. [/quote]

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There are only two words to describe Mariusz… BAD, and ASS.