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Igor Mazurenko - Armwrestling about doping control in 2013

VIDEO: Armwrestling about doping control in 2013, English Subtitles │by Armpower.NET

 – at the beginning of the video talks about doping control,
 – from 6:14 talks about doping control,
 – from 12:17 talks about doping control

Published on 4 Jul 2013

Igor Mazurenko, Andrey Pushkar, Nazarij Ivanitskij, Georgy Lobanov and Oleg Zokh about doping control results in 2013.

Source: armpowernet

Start time Transcript from YouTube
00:02 Right now we will speak about the doping control.
00:09 We have 12 positive results now.
00:12 The results are positive for big stars in armwrestling
00:14 How it will change our discipline of sport?
00:17 I think now is a moment for new competitors
00:21 For that, who was not so strong yet
00:28 For example in 80 – 86kg
00:33 If they was not so strong
00:38 and they oponents was strong
00:42 now, they can be at the first places.
00:48 The level of the category will be different
00:50 and we will receive new winners.
00:57 Is this good for us that there will be missing champions like
01:01 Rustam Babayev, Arsen Liliev?
01:05 I think…
01:10 they was fighting in open classes
01:15 Rustam Babayev, Liliev, Mamedov
01:18 and Tsakhilov…
01:21 Right now the open class will be not so interesting.
01:28 Mamedov for example was the best in 80kg
01:39 and he won with the verry good sportsmens.
01:43 It was standard for this class
01:50 but now we will not see him.
01:53 And Rustam Babaev in 86kg
01:56 was strong in this class – even he pulled with Denis Cyplenkov.
02:00 I think it will be missing.
02:07 How it will change our sport?
02:10 Is this means that it will change the point of view for young people?
02:17 They can say “we don’t need this sport because we can be “positive” too.
02:26 I think they will not think like this.
02:30 They will think that they have to train harder.
02:35 And do not use anything what is not allowed.
02:38 Just to train this sport.
02:42 … ?
02:52 What is your opinion about doping control?
02:56 I’m not using anything what is not allowed.
03:03 I was tested at the European Championships
03:06 and there was no problems
03:11 I think you can train and collect the results without that.
03:17 Relly important topic right now – doping control.
03:26 This situation from European Championships with 12 competitors
03:31 including the big champions
03:33 Rustam Babaev, Kvikvinia ect.
03:36 Bratchenia, Mamedov ect
03:44 Every name have some fans around the world
03:49 In their cities, regions…
03:52 … makes some good things…
03:55 and they are positive during the doping control. What do you think about this situation?
04:00 Is this some mistake?
04:03 I think, that because of football Euro 2012 – in Poland there was some changes in the laboratories.
04:21 And now they can find more than before.
04:29 So, thats why it changed situation.
04:42 Its really hard time for this sportsmen and I think everyone have to think about it.
04:46 Do you think that all of this 12 competitors will come back after 2 years?
04:51 I think we can not see everyone.
04:57 I want to say, that (if I remember it good) they have to make second test after this 2 years.
05:20 Yes, they have to do second test.
05:22 I think some of them will be affraid to make this test again.
05:28 They have an option to fight in pro-armwrestling.
05:33 Yes, they can go to the pro (PAL)
05:39 It hard to say, but it will be hard to leave this sport.
05:45 Its not a hobby – its something like the way of life.
05:50 How will be armwrestlig changed now (i mean the popularity)?
06:05 I think for next time and it will get the championships level down.
06:15 Topic: doping control
06:20 There was 12 competitors “positive” at the Europeans.
06:27 A lot of competitors with big names.
06:29 Could you comment this?
06:33 Is this some mistake?
06:49 Right now no on knows a date, how long the substances stays in your body.
06:53 And its changing every year.
06:58 There is some substances what you can find in your body for 2-3 weeks.
07:03 And some stays more that 3 months.
07:06 No one knows how long it stays.
07:10 And they are positive.
07:13 Do you think they will return to armwrestling after 2 years?
07:20 I depends of them.
07:25 Its important moment now
07:31 … ?
07:35 How it change our sport?
07:40 Some sportsmen or fans can go away?
07:49 A lot of people can more think about it.
07:58 Is this good to use some substances for this championships or not if you want to start.
08:03 Because you dont know the end of this.
08:07 you know – you can became the pro-armwrestler anyway (later)
08:10 Since there is no doping tests in professional armwrestling
08:14 Yes, but now they have 2 years break.
08:24 What you can say for all this “positive” tested 12 boys
08:33 Just wait, train… its only 2 years…
08:40 and come back!
08:50 You are the Ukrainian champion and competitor in Worlds and Europeans.
09:00 This year after the doping control we received 12 positive test results.
09:07 And there is 12 positive for really big competitors.
09:21 What do you thing about it?
09:24 How it will change the armwrestling?
09:34 Its really negative for us.
09:40 for us and armwrestling image
09:47 But we have to know, that they known what they are doing.
09:57 For the future? Its possible that more people will not came to worlds or europeas.
10:07 It will be negative for armwrestling?
10:18 I dont think so – everytime its some good result after the doping control.
10:31 Do you think this should be tested again, because that all of 12 competitors was positive for…
10:41 … only one substance.
10:56 Its hard to say. I dont know the technical way for doping control.
11:03 But globally i think that it will be good to make tests for all top 3 competitors in every category.
11:23 I think it will be standard in next few years.
11:31 What all the 12 should do now for this 2 years? Will they return to armwrestling?
11:39 Why not?
11:41 In our sport we have a lot of fanatics.
11:47 Real sportsmen really love this sport. If not – they will not become the armwrestler.
11:57 I think they will return and they will fight.
12:00 Fight at the same level like today.
12:05 Do you think that they will not go to Worlds or Europeans but only for Nemiroff?
12:12 It depends of them.
12:18 In 2005 European Federation make the first doping control procedure.
12:22 EAF wanted to check the “clear level” of our sport.
12:30 From the 2004 and 2005 we started official procedure to become Sport Accord member.
12:36 The organisation who can say that we are the sport discipline officially.
12:42 And give us more possibilities for the future.
12:49 One of the important point in this procedure it was the doping control.
12:59 In 2005 during the Europeans there was no one positive tested.
13:05 And it was really good for us.
13:09 And we was thinking that our sport is far away from the doping.
13:24 But at the Worlds 2005 there was one positive result.
13:32 It was the russan competitor – Artem Klimenko.
13:37 It was positive for … (some substance name)
13:41 This substance stays in your body for 2 years.
13:46 So – this is the start of doping control in armwrestling.
13:51 In next years there was some competitors checked and suspended for doping.
13:57 It was sometimes 3, sometimes 2 and sometimes 5.
14:00 In 2006 there was 6 positives.
14:05 But this size (like this year) – 12 competitors – its the first time.
14:13 And the tests was positive for big names.
14:19 They was “our future” I can say.
14:23 Our symbols for armwrestling.
14:29 Arsen Liliev, Rustam Babayev, Mamedov, Tsakhilov…
14:37 Kvikvinia…
14:41 For us it was a shock.
14:44 All of them was tested positive for one substance.
14:48 Now we have to ask:
14:50 is this some mistake in the laboratory?
14:54 Or the biology, chemistry made some step forward to find this?
15:04 Even there was some joke that its because football Euro 2012.
15:12 And the laboratories changes the procedure to make the doping tests.
15:27 And from 2012 the laboratories was changed.
15:37 So if the sportsmen will open “B” test
15:42 and the result will be negative – its mistake.
15:51 But if the test will be positive – sportsmen will be suspended for minimum 2 years.
16:02 How it will change our sport?
16:05 Its not good, but there is the teory to not susped them,
16:15 because they are the legendary competitors in armwresling.
16:21 Some persons said that there is nothing to watch at A1 in Moscow.
16:25 There was Arsen Liliev at the top 3.
16:28 Now they dont want to watch it.
16:33 What I can say…
16:36 If we will not susped the champions then who we will suspend? Only 5 or 6 places?
16:45 Its not right.
16:48 Otherwise its not good.
16:54 But I’m sure that that competitors, or other competitors will think twice before they will use doping.
17:02 Its really important.
17:15 My first reaction for this situation was the phone call to WAF President (Assen)
17:27 and my question was “what next”.
17:32 What we have to say to people.
17:36 But what we can say. All of you have to know, that in internet there is only me online on all of community sites.
17:46 I have an account at facebook, vkontakte, g+ ect and I’m receiving a lot of questions.
17:58 In this year I think its not possible but for next years we are going to increase the doping tests.
18:08 We are going to test all of 3 top competitors from every class.
18:14 From seniors.
18:17 Even this year there will be 40 tests inplace of 20.
18:24 At the worlds 2013.
18:27 For next year we will make 60 tests.
18:32 And finally we want to make the test for all medalists.
18:42 So for everybody I can say – It will be not easy in the future.
18:49 Do you think there will be more positives? I dont think so.
18:57 But we have to show everyone, that armwrestling is clear.
19:06 But all of you know there is no “clear” discipline.
19:14 And every year there is some positives – and it not depends of the fight with doping.
19:21 But we can see, that there is some new substances every moment in this kind of sport.
19:27 And a lot of not allowed substances.
19:30 But not only in armwrestling.

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Andrey Pushkar talking about doping control in 2013, English Subtitles
Andrey Pushkar talking about doping control in 2013, English Subtitles
ARM WARS UPRISING LONDON - 15-16 June 2013

ARM WARS “UPRISING” MATCH CARD & TIMINGS │15-16 June 2013, RISE Superclub, LONDON, ENGLAND

ARM WARS “UPRISING”  │15-16 June 2013, RISE Superclub, LONDON, ENGLAND
ARM WARS “UPRISING” │15-16 June 2013, RISE Superclub, LONDON, ENGLAND

Many thanks to Neil Pickup for sending this match card exclusive for XSportNews.com :

ARM WARS “UPRISING” MATCH CARD & TIMINGS

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ARM WARS “UPRISING” MATCH CARD & TIMINGS / DAY 1 / SATURDAY 15TH JUNE 2013 / “RISE”, LONDON, ENGLAND
ATHLETE ONE        ATHLETE TWO ARM
HENDRIK NENTJES         HOL Vs MATT PRESTON              GBR
R 10.00HRS
CHRISTOPHE REY          FRA Vs BARRY KNOWLES            GBR
R 10.20HRS
MARTIN SEDLACEK        SLO Vs IAN STONES                   GBR
R 10.40HRS
KNUT SANDBAKKEN       NOR Vs DAN THOMAS                 GBR
R 11.00HRS
ANDREAS HOFFNER      GER Vs  ASLE KVAMSDAL            NOR
R 11.20HRS
 TED WILSON               GBR Vs KEVIN BERBERICH         GER
R 11.40HRS
MEINDERT NENTJES      HOL Vs PETER HENDERSON         GBR
R 12.00HRS
DANIEL ABERG              SWE Vs STUART HALL                GBR
R 12.20HRS
NIKLAS NANNESTAD     SWE Vs JANIS AMOLINS              LAT
R 12.40HRS
CRAIG SANDERS           GBR Vs  FRODE HAUGLAND         NOR
R 13.00HRS
13.10 – 14.00HRS – 1 HOUR BREAK FOR PRODUCTION CREW – 13.10 – 14.00HRS
MARCIN SKALSKI            POL Vs MIKE AYELLO                   USA
R 14.00HRS
RAIMONDS ANTONOVICS LAT Vs CEDRIC LA COLA              BEL
R 14.30HRS
JUHA SALMINEN              FIN Vs SOSO IMMERLISHVILI     GEO
R 15.00HRS
AYMERIC PRADINES      FRA Vs GARRY RICKETT              GBR
15.20HRS
JEAN MICHEL SMEERS   BEL Vs GREGORY SCHNEIDER     FRA
15.40HRS
ANDERS KARLSSON      SWE Vs PHIL SAMPSON               GBR
R 16.00HRS
15 MINS – BREAK FOR PRODUCTION CREW – 15 MINS
CHRIS RIMMER              GBR Vs ADAM JOHNSTON             IRE
R 16.40HRS
  JAN ERIC SUNDE     NORWAY Vs CHRIS HAM                     GBR
R 17.00HRS
RIK KAMANA                AUS Vs ALEX ATKINSON              GBR
R 17.20HRS
 CHAMPION Vs CHAMPION
R 17.40HRS
18.00HRS CLOSE OF EVENT DAY ONE 18.00HRS
ARM WARS “UPRISING” MATCH CARD & TIMINGS / DAY 2 / SUNDAY 16TH JUNE 2013 / “RISE”, LONDON, ENGLAND  
ATHLETE ONE ATHLETE TWO ARM
RIK KAMANA                  AUS Vs ALEX ATKINSON            GBR
L 10.00HRS
DANIEL ABERG              SWE Vs PETER HENDERSON       GBR
L 10.20HRS
HENDRIK NENTJES         HOL Vs TOM HOLLAND               GBR
L 10.40HRS
SOSO IMMERLISHVILI   GEO Vs JUHA SALMINEN              FIN
L 11.00HRS
MEINDERT NENTJES       HOL Vs STUART HALL               GBR
L 11.20HRS
JEAN MICHEL SMEERS   BEL Vs GREGORY SCHNEIDER     FRA
R 11.40HRS
FRODE RONNING          NOR Vs GARRY RICKETT            GBR
R 12.00HRS
MARTIN SEDLACEK        SLO Vs IAN STONES                  GBR
L 12.20HRS
RAIMONDS ANTONOVICS LAT Vs NIKLAS NANNESTAD        SWE
L 12.40HRS
KEVIN BERBERICH         GER Vs TED WILSON                 GBR
L 13.00HRS
13.20 – 14.00HRS – 1 HOUR BREAK FOR PRODUCTION CREW – 13.20 – 14.00HRS
MARCIN SKALSKI            POL Vs MIKE AYELLO                   USA
L 14.00HRS
AYMERIC PRADINES      FRA Vs NEIL PICKUP                   GBR
R 14.30HRS
ANDREAS HOFFNER        GER Vs ASLE KVAMSDAL              NOR
L 15.00HRS
FRODE HAUGLAND          NOR Vs JANIS AMOLINS              LAT
R 15.20HRS
JAN ERIC SUNDE            NOR Vs CHRIS HAM                     GBR
L 15.40HRS
JASON KELHAM             GBR Vs ADAM JOHNSTON           IRE
R 16.00HRS
15 MINS – BREAK FOR PRODUCTION CREW – 15 MINS
ANDERS KARLSSON      SWE Vs PHILLIP SAMPSON           GBR
R 16.40HRS
CEDRIC LA COLA           BEL Vs NEIL PICKUP                   GBR
L 17.00HRS
 CHAMPION Vs  CHAMPION
R 17.20HRS
 CHAMPION Vs CHAMPION
R 17.40HRS
18.00HRS CLOSE OF EVENT DAY TWO 18.00HRS

► ARM WARS “UPRISING” MATCH CARD & TIMINGS ◄

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London Rising: Arm Wars 18

” The Super Series now rolls onto London after a very successful “Defiance” card hosted by FIBO Power in Germany. Arm Wars 18: “UPRISING” is set for Saturday 15th & Sunday 16th June and is to be held at RISE, Number 1 Leicester Square. This venue is only opening this week and is in the very best west end location possible so make sure you rock up to watch some of the action across this explosive weekend. Read More to buy tickets! ”

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ARM WARS Professional Armwrestling Super Series:

The ARM WARS “UPRISING” NANNESTAD Vs. AMOLINS Card at the Brand New “RISE” Super Club, 1 Leicester Square, London, England, 10am – 6pm – Sat 15th & Sun 16th June is almost upon us ! The Event promises to be ACID as usual with some incredible Supermatch action. Alongside the Main Event for the ARM WARS Middleweight World Title there are some real SCREAMERS in store, exciting debutants & returning Super Series Legends. Tickets on the Day for spectators are priced at just £5. Don’t miss the Worlds Premier Professional Armwrestling Promotion as it returns to the UK. IT IS ON !!!

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35th World Armwrestling Championships 2013 (WAF), Gdynia, Poland

35th World Armwrestling Championships 2013, Gdynia, Poland │POSTER and INFO

35th World Armwrestling Championships 2013, Gdynia, Poland
35th World Armwrestling Championships 2013, Gdynia, Poland – Poster│ Image Source: World Armwrestling Championships 2013

Armpower.NET: ” Enjoy great excitement at 35th World Armwrestling Championships with matches taking place in a new sports hall in Gdynia on 04-07 September 2013!

The broadcast as exciting as the live match!

That’s our ambition. Those who can’t make it to Gdynia will be able to follow the event on armpower.net for four days from dawn till dusk.

The finals in senior classes, right and left will be telecast worldwide. In Poland the main broadcast station will be ORANGE SPORT. Global TV stations (e.g. in Russia, Bulgaria, Lithuania, Turkey, USA and others) have announced that they would live broadcast or rebroadcast the final matches in senior class. We’ll keep you posted as to which TV stations will broadcast the event. ”

This is just a small fragment, read the full article on Armpower.NET

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Marvin Alex Cohen

Marvin Alex Cohen interview about World Bar Arm Wrestling Championships │by Armpower.NET

Marvin Alex Cohen
Marvin Alex Cohen │ Photo Source: Armpower.NET

Marvin Alex Cohen: Joe Hand Promotions PPV Department of UFC approached me regarding armwrestling events as they realized no US promoter had TV or real prize money. They look at pullers as true athletes who deserve respect through TV and big prize money. Their final objective is to have a one million dollar Super Match with invited competitors from around the world. The target date is late summer 2014.

Marvin Alex Cohen: The main prizes at the Championships include a brand new truck worth 46 thousand dollars, 20 thousand dollars for first place heavy weight, 50 thousand – Super Match. The winner of August heavy weight class and winner of Michael/Travis will meet at a next event after August. The prize will amount to 100 thousand dollars. 

Marvin Alex Cohen: Our team respects and honors A1. As well as what Igor Mazurenko has accomplished. Therefore all winners of A1 and Igor’s events (NEMIROFF WORLD CUP) will be given FREE hotel rooms in Las Vegas August 22-23 and 24. Let me know who they will be. Any problems with visas, contact me! All sponsorship clothing will be permitted. Pay per view will be telecast in Russia and the United Kingdom. We will inform you as we add countries. What’s also important is that there will be very few rules on August 24. Joe Hand Promotions and I want no one to foul out.

I’ve underlined just some important new info but there is more, read the entire interview about Marvin Cohen and his love for armwrestling on Armpower.NET: ARMWRESTLING ICON IS BACK?

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John Brzenk - Final Over The Top match

VIDEO: John Brzenk – Over The Top final match │John Brzenk’s best shape discussion

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This is a great video with John Brzenk from ARMSPORT VIDEOS, made by Ian “The Grippler” Carnegie with matches from the past including the final match of the famous 1986 Over The Top, won by John Brzenk (3:30 in the video – “John Brzenk: Part 1”):

armsportvideos.com - John Brzenk: Part 1
John Brzenk – Final Over The Top match │ Image Source: armsportvideos.com – John Brzenk: Part 1
Click on the image to see the video. This image is taken from “John Brzenk: Part 1” but there is also a Part 2 on armsportvideos.com – John Brzenk

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Next you can read a discussion about John Brzenk’s best shape, from Armwrestling John – Engin:

(if you click the red names you will be sent to the exact location of the comment)

John R Brzenk The lower part of my wrist still gets inflamed very easily it’s just barely good enough to keep me from having a MRI on it ! Getting old 🙂 nothing will heal 😉 2008 isn’t my best shape … More like 1986 Over the Top shape ! 🙂

John R Brzenk I was MUCH more explosive as a younger adult !

Fabio Nimis John you had said that you peaked in your late 20s/early 30s, now you say Over the Top that means your early 20s, you have to decide my friend!!  ) just joking 🙂 you surely were more explosive when you were young with healthy joints and you had a better had control that time, but, if we talk about pure arm strength, not explosiveness, I mean hook, side pressure and toproll with the STRAPS already applied, which condition of your career would you choose as your absolute best? I personally vote for Vegas 2006 🙂 when you said that you were on a sirious mission to beat Voevoda! (who was supposed to come back in aw that year…)..

*better HAND control I meant, without the strap

John R Brzenk Impossible for me to guess ! To many variables , strength , power , speed , mind set ,confidence, health !! There were many times I was running in all cylinders ! Can’t pick out one time to say … Oh yes , I was my best this day !

Fabio Nimis Thank you for answer John, I understand… Ok, so I must decide for you too 🙂 and I decide Vegas 2006! 😉 end of discussion. 🙂 🙂

Joking aside John, if you could choose more than a option between all the best conditions you have had during your whole career in all the tournaments and supermatches you pulled, not only a single peak, would you still answer exactly the same to my question??… I WANT a real answer John  🙂 🙂

John R Brzenk My weight has been between 210 and 225 my whole life … I was probably 220 at over the top in 1986 … I might be 225 at 2006 Vegas pulling Farid ! Best shape is hard to define … I had A lot of energy to work out harder and longer when I was younger . I could pull for hours after an event and be little to no fatigue !! I had a set back in the late 80’s when I threw my shoulder out .. Tearing my labrum … Which I currently got fixed … So before that event might have been some of my strongest years on the table !
Hard to say because the amount and level might not be the same as it is today … Although maybe it was ! I’m pretty sure I had a very good level compared to the rest of the world during this period! If I had to say a specific date I would say right before I threw my shoulder out … 88 89 or so ?? I remember clearly beating Ron easily one week and then just barely getting by him two weeks later … Cleve , lupkus , Arnold , Norton ,walker … were no slouches in 86 and I think I could have been very effective against them all that year !  I had the most confidence that I could beat anyone during this time !

Source: Armwrestling John – Engin

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Ievgenii Prudnyk eating

Ievgenii Prudnyk Interview by IronWorld.ru │MAY 2013, PHOTOS

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Ievgenii Prudnyk eating, August 2011
Ievgenii Prudnyk eating, August 2011 │Photo Source: Anastasia Bondareva
Ievgenii Prudnyk is an actor-singer at Kiev National Academic Theatre of Operetta, and he is another vegetarian armwrestler whose diet doesn’t include meat.
This year he plans to compete at:  /  / 

Original article – IronWorld.ru │ Google Translate:

” Today the “Iron World” would like to introduce you to an athlete whose performance at the European Championships in 2013 can be called sensational. That he was able to win on his right hand in the 85 kg class armsportsmenom strongest over the world – Rustam Babaev. Ten consecutive years of losses Rustam did not know at the European championships. And found a competitor who challenged and defeated Rustam. It appeared to be his countryman and teammate Evgeni Prudnyk (Ukraine), in which we interviewed.

IRON WORLD: Eugene, how you came to armsport? How did your training? Who is your coach?
Eugene Prudnyk: First there was the Metallurgical Academy … the competitions between departments. I was invited to participate, and I agreed. Competitions were held without weight categories among people who had no idea about armsportu. I looked at a seven foot big man weighing 120 kg and dropped a phrase: “I think I know who will be first!” But my friend interrupted me: “You’re wrong! This guy will be the first, “and pointed to one participant, who in all respects inferior to this big man. Of course, I did not believe it and was looking forward to their duel. And indeed, when they met, the forecast was justified. I still did not know any technique, and from the outside it seemed incredible spectacle while this big guy was yelling and shaking with tension, unrelenting champion with a smile revealed his fingers “top”. I was surprised by this fight, but I thought it was probably just a big man weak. But when I saw the secret struggle, the sport became an enigma: the champion tried to keep two hands, but it was useless. I could not believe it, but it was true! No one could, even with both hands, put this man. His name is Dennis Shustik, later he became my first coach. He really Ukrainian champion and winner of Europe. And he also studied at the Academy of Metallurgical and decided, so to speak, to play around with amateurs.
As for me, I also never lost. The fact that the competitions were held for some unknown to me already and I have not met with Shustik or so husky.
After these events in my head did not come out armsport, and I decided to try it.
I myself tried to Dnepropetrovsk city competitions for juniors, when I was 17 years old. Without training and knowledge of equipment, I won 1st place at the right hand and the 2nd – on the left.
A month later, again without any preparations, went to the regional competitions for juniors and it took third place on his right hand. Then a month later followed by “Ukraine” Junior, where I took third place on the left. After that, I was even more breathtaking competitions and I started training. In the future, my coach was Vladislav Starokon, he showed me a lot of good exercises, some of them I carry to this day.
Now my coach is Vladimir Petrenko. I am infinitely grateful for the help and support he has provided me. I hope that in the future I will be even more pleasing his own achievements.

JM: Make a list of your most important titles and ranks.
EP:
It is not important titles and ranks. For me the important decent, bright, colorful and professional wrestling.

JM: At the European Championships – 2013’re on the right hand has won gold in the struggle with himself Rustam Babaev, who had ten consecutive years, had lesions in the struggle for European gold. And you fought before? Your emotions and impressions of the final match?
EP:
Of course, when I won, very happy, because you want to not only participate, but to win, especially since I was struggling with an excellent athlete, a true professional. Yes, we fought before, because competing in the same weight class.

JM: What’s your main rivals on the world stage?
EP:
I respect each of his opponent, and I think that we are all human, and everyone can win as well as lose. For me, even there is no such thing as a “rival”, and when I fight, it does not regard it as a war, but as a game. I just like to fight and be a part of arm wrestling. Every competition brings me new knowledge, questions, discoveries and experiences. I am glad that I can grow and develop in the sport.

JM: Tell me about your diet, there are some special diet?
EP:
Special diets do not stick, except that I do not eat meat. Of them feel the weight, and in general do not like meat. It would seem a paradox, but without it I have a good appetite, can only eat a lot and often. I decided to do an experiment on himself and I feel that it suits me, and then – let’s see. I try not to pollute your body with junk such as chips, crackers, coca-cola food “McDonald’s”, etc. I do not smoke and do not drink. My one weakness – it is sweet.

JM: What is your favorite exercise in armsportu? Your weight in the off-season, drove before the competition?
EP:
All my favorite exercises, because each of them is like a nut in the overall system. Exercise a lot, but of course, I have set priorities and exercise basic – power – and more accurate, ie technical. I aspire to the ideal form, but always, when I come to the competition, I feel that not enough this and that. As a result, the ideal form to which I aspire, is not yet reached, but I think that in the future everything will be.
My weight is always equal to about 87 kg, is reset to 85.

JM: Have you ever had the desire to quit watching armsportu?
EP:
At first it was, and very often, but when the desire arose, I won. That is, so I say to myself, so everything is the last event in which I participate, and go to another sport, and for some reason this competition is necessary to win, and everything was cool. Then I grasped it, and I started to train even more.

JM: Do you ever had to radically change something in your life?
EP:
At first, I was in the Metallurgical Academy as an engineer and was planning to go to work at the factory, but then, in the summer, thanks to my parents, at sea, we started a business called “karaoke”. There I felt raspelsya and a vocal talent, but to me it lacked expression, ie, filing, acting. So I decided to work on it, but nothing worked. Then, perhaps, fate brought or completely by chance, I got to play “Romeo and Juliet” in the walls of the Dnepropetrovsk Theater and Arts College. The director of this production Gregory Feodosievich Bogomaz-Babi. I loved how the students were playing, and I realized that there is much to teach. I believe their game and never for a moment doubted that. After the performance I went up to him and asked if I could at my age, and when I was 21, and learn to do it on the course. He said that just this year, picking up a course for training. I decided to try and do that. Then he studied in parallel on two daytime divisions. In Metallurgical Academy – the fifth year, and in the college’s theater – on the ground. We had to pass here and there. And to make ends meet was very hard, but I succeeded. I finished the first course almost perfectly, and diploma on a well-defended. I slept for four hours a day. After that, I realized that the man is capable of anything, you only need to aim. I’m radically changed in their lives and seriously engaged in theater work. At first it was a lot of dead ends, and seemed desperate situations, but in this case I helped arm wrestling. He supported me as a person. In a short time I have achieved success in their studies, he began to feel a partner, the scene has learned to act, to find images and fittings. In the end I finished DTHK in “Actor”.

JM: Where do you work? The work does not interfere with training?
EP:
I work at the Kiev National Academic Theatre of Operetta actor-singer. Perfectly combines sport and work. The fact that I’m the kind of person who needs a change of heart and action. Laid out at work – go and enjoy a work-out, respectively, distracted from work, rest of it. Next rest of reinforcement at work and so on. Special thanks to our artistic director of the theater Bogdan Dmitrievichu Strutinskii for understanding. He lets me go to the main event, despite the heavy workload in the theater. So I’m doing a great job with the work and the preparation for championships.

JM: What’s your sport plans for 2013?
EP:
I plan to participate in the tournament A1, go to the World Cup and Nemiroff.

JM: What is your biggest challenge in the sport that you set for yourself?
EP:
Self-knowledge. I do know yourself, explore, try yourself for strength, walking the razor’s edge. Each competition – this is a test.

JM: Do you think that men are the most important thing to do in life?
EP:
In my opinion, the most important thing for a man – be a man in any situation. And then – to build a house, plant a tree, raise a son and become the undisputed champion of the world!

Author: Andrei Sharkov ”

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Ievgenii Prudnyk vs. Rustam Babayev -85kg right final │23rd European Armwrestling Championships 2013 EuroArm
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Ievgenii Prudnyk winner of the -85kg right final │23rd European Armwrestling Championships 2013 EuroArm
Ievgenii Prudnyk winner of the -85kg right final │23rd European Armwrestling Championships 2013 EuroArm
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Ievgenii Prudnyk singing, August 2011 │Photo Source: Anastasia Bondareva
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Evgeny Prudnik showing the sign of victory with two fingers, December 2010 │Photo Source: Maxs Odessa
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Evgeny Prudnik isometric hold – woman on his arm, deep hook – September 2010 │ Photo Source: Yana Gurchenko
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Anastasia Goncharenko, Evgeny Prudnik, Artem Taynov, Andrey Sharkoff – Crimea Championships 2010 │Photo Source: Andrey Sharkoff
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Artem Taynov, Evgeny Prudnik, Anastasia Goncharenko – World Armwrestling Championships, Italy 2009 │ Photo Source: Andrey Sharkoff
Evgeny Prudnik singing with a girl, November 2008
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Artem Taynov - Evgeny Prudnik
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Evgeny Prudnik - Artem Taynov, April 2008
Evgeny Prudnik – Artem Taynov, April 2008 │ Photo Source: Alik Smaglyuk

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In the next video, you can see Prudnik singing from 0:55 in The Phantom of the Opera musical:

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Евгений Прудник Призрак Оперы [Google Translate: Eugene Prudnyk Phantom of the Opera]

Uploaded on 3 May 2010

Евгений Прудник Призрак Оперы,The Phantom of the Opera , Студ весна 2010 Мед академия.

Google Translate:

Eugene Prudnyk Phantom of the Opera, The Phantom of the Opera, Spring 2010 Stud Med Academy.

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