Cue this photo:
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I can confirm that there are people, some that even do speaking events that have never built a rod, don’t tie their own flies and may have very rarely caught a fish.
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The whole concept is like taking sex tips from a fucking virgin. But ! But ! i read the Kama Sutra !!!
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I don’t know about this since I don’t read those forums but the type I’ve met in real life are either:
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Deluded. They REALLY think they play well even though they suck. These are the “experts” who will give you advice on everything. I have a share in a music school which has the expertise to accept advanced students and even at that level, the amount of them I’ve met is staggering. (I’m not an advanced musician. One of the educators is a good personal friend and he whines about them constantly.).
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90’s Punk/Grunge fans. These fellows know they suck. So playing anything that’s even slightly technically complex is playing without “feeling”. Usually idolize the guitarist from Pearl Jam. They’re like those small fellows who proclaim they squat ATG all the time with 225lbs and won’t stop whining about relative strength.
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Watch your fucking mouth
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Lmao Okok but you know what kind of guys I’m talking about, don’t you? Anything above 3 chords is selling out. Formal music education is “fake”. The Operation Ivy singer ending up in a halfway house is “authentic”. The establishment has to fall. 3 note improvized solos are “genuine”.
Fucking middle class kids going to concerts dressed like steel mill workers.
FTR I actually do like Operation Ivy.
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Chords, music teachers and music classes are silly. New fangled instruments aren’t necessary. People made music before long electric pickups. Music is instictive.
It’s easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right time and the instrument plays itself.
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You must be a Sonic Youth fan.
j/k
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I never really learned how to play the recorder.
I blame the internet. People take this shit waaaay too seriously away from real life.
I train in a group setting. People rock up, lift something challenging, complain that it felt like shit then come back and do it again next week for a bit more.
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I did single leg box jumps into a pistol squat as part of my Instagram specific training 2 years ago. It was my most viewed video.
I think this confession is flame worthy
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And here I am. Barely made it out with a 3.3 this semester lol
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It’s certainly not unique to this hobby.
I get I at work on pretty much a daily basis, we repair a unit, the customer receives it and has some questions so asks on a forum/owners club. Someone on there says it’s not been repaired right because of xyz, next they rock up at work telling me it’s faulty.
My response is always the same…
“I have repaired 30+ units a day for the past 11 years, plus offering a 2 year warranty so if it is faulty we pay all the Labour. I’m not going to do the maths but do you think that’s would be more or less units than the person advising you it’s wrong?”
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Hot Cross Buns song can go to hell.
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C, A, B, C, A, B, C, C, C, C,…
dammit!
C,A,B, C, A, B, C, C, C,
dammit…
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I get a kick how fan boys online will elevate someone to God hood status. Now guys are talking about the possibility of Larry Wheels eventually at some point winning WSM.
Yeah im going with NO for several reasons.
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To get political for a second, I can definitely see Larry winning WSM.
Why? Because WSM has always been a TV show, not a sporting event. From day 1, it’s been about ratings, and doing whatever it takes to draw the biggest audience. When sponsorship came from Britain, Geoff Capes HAD to win. The show became a holiday for the Brits, played during Christmas, and they needed a hero. Kaz embarassed Geoff so much that they banned Kaz from competing to give Geoff a chance.
Then we had charismatic Jon Pal come to the scene and they had a new money maker, so they tailored events to make sure Jon Pal would win. Remember O.D. Wilson, quite literally one of the strongest men to ever walk the planet? Remember him losing in a goddamn brick race for 1/4 mile? Does that in any way sound like strongman?
I love Mariusz, but holy hell was the early 2000s all about catering towards his strengths. Why? Because he HAD to be champ, because he had the look they wanted.
Eddie Hall gets a Netflix documentary, he’s the next British champ, it’s Geoff Capes all over again, so they make a contest that is basically tailor made for him to win.
It goes on and on.
I think, if Larry gets to WSM, within a year or 2 he’ll take it, and it will be a WSM competition that is basically a powerlifting meet.
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Yeah … I can see your point if they were to change things up to play into his strength. But from what I understand didnt he Bombed out badly in his last PL outing.
Yeah and it killed him
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Hah! You bastard, that’s cold.
I legitimately don’t follow Larry to know anything about him aside from what people spam on the starting strongman facebook group about him. No idea how he’s done in powerlifting. I just know he’s got such a big fanbase online that I could easily see it happening. That said, I think Brian Shaw has seen the writing on the wall, because he’s getting out there a lot more online and seems to be trying to amass a presence.
I’m on a big Jon Andersen kick these days, and he had a podcast where he talked about how weird sponsorship has gotten these days. Used to be you just had to be big, jacked, good looking and able to speak and sponsors would contact YOU and say “Hey, wanna sell our product?” Now you have to get on instagram, amass a few hundred thousand followers, use a bunch of hashtags and then contact the sponors and say “Hey, can I sell your product?” It’s a weird world.
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I liked when all of the contestant names were Magnus. Either their first, last, or both.
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