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This video is about the most important events of 2014 that changed the iron sport, according to Iron Rating.
I set the youtube player to start at 7:00 – when they start talking about armwrestling and A1 Russian Open 2014.
From 7:55 there is a short interview with John Brzenk, which unfortunately is translated in Russian, but you can still hear what John said in English, if you really try hard… 🙂
Эти события изменили железный спорт #83 ЖЕЛЕЗНЫЙ РЕЙТИНГ (Google Translate: These events changed the sport of iron # 83 IRON RATING)
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I added “& 2013” in the title, because the original title for this video on YouTube (John Brzenk armwrestling Highlights of 2014) is not 100% correct. John Brzenk actually pulled Marcio Barboza and Corey Miller at UAL IV – 24 August 2013 – Las Vegas.
The popular Russian TV channel “Боец” (translation = “Fighter”) will broadcast a recording of the A1 Russian Open 2014 tournament on 25, 26 October 2014 and on 1, 2 November 2014 at 23:00 – Moscow time. Click to see the official ► teleprogram on boets.ru.
Below there are 2 windows (which I found on internet using Google), they use content delivery system from cdnet.tv. You can use them to watch all the programs from TV channel “Боец”, if you can’t watch on TV “Боец” = “Fighter” TV Channel.
When you will click the play button in the windows below you will receive a message from Adobe Flash Player Settings: ” Peer Assisted Networking clients.cdnet.tv may use peer assisted networking. Do you want to allow access to your upload bandwidth ? “. For more info about this see ► Adobe – Flash Player : Help – Peer-assisted networking pop-up question
Below the windows I posted a clock with the Moscow time. Below the clock you can read an interview with the story behind this broadcast told by Ilya Paramonov to the Russian Armsport Association (RAA).
A1 on the TV channel “Fighter”! Interview with Ilia Paramonov
Friends! We remind you that the 25, 26 October and 1.2 in November 2014, at 23.00 Moscow time on the TV channel “Fighter” will be shown the international arm wrestling tournament A1! On the eve of the broadcast, we contacted Ilya Paramonov:
– Ilya, you participated in the scoring record, tell us what are your impressions about the tournament and how scoring happened?
Ilya Paramonov: – Hello! I was contacted by the editor of TV channel “Fighter”, Vladimir Burahanov and offered voice recording of the tournament. If we talk about the tournament, it should be noted that the organizers can achieve positive dynamics. Comes more stars armsportu, refereeing, location, intensity of the struggle, a full auditorium – all this, in my opinion, makes this tournament the best event in the world armsportu 2014.
If you remember, the shooting occurred as the tournament itself, then I would have stopped on the positive things, and not so. Teams working in the tournament – high-level professionals working in the top tournaments in martial arts. But, unfortunately, the guys do not have enough experience in photography is armsportu. So the first day was a bit crumpled, the camera went to the fight, which has not yet ended, close-up could not give arms athletes, such as the shoulders and head and facial expression only could figure out who won, and these flaws were enough. However, in the process of shooting, I tried to explain to the cameraman and director essence of what they have to convey to the viewer. Outright can be divided into three phases – the installation of capture, the beginning and the end of the fight, and the ending – it’s a foul, or winning or one of their competitors, each of these phases need to shoot in different ways and it is important to convey to the audience exactly what happened at the table – winning or foul. As a result, the second day was much better than the first filmed.
After the completion of the tournament, dozens of hours of footage and gigabytes were processed and turned into a four-hour program, which will be shown on the TV Unit. In these programs, by the way, includes some moments of the tournament, do not fall into the online broadcast. Voice stuff I’m not alone, and paired with a professional television commentator Roman Mazurov. The novel is not only the voice, but not bad already versed in the intricacies of arm wrestling, he is not the first comment on our sport and is a fan of his.
Voice was easy, we have worked out all the parts at once. It was very nice again plunge into the atmosphere of the tournament, which is a real holiday armsportu. I hope that this atmosphere will feel all the spectators who will watch the broadcast on TV Unit.
From 24:00 Toddzilla talks about how he started armwrestling and about his background in armwrestling. He started armwrestling in Michigan with Karen Bean and Frank Bean’s organization AAA – American Armsport Association. He then spent about a year pulling local bars, local armwrestling tournaments all for trophies and such. And after about a year he got his first taste of what a truly national level puller feels like, when he pulled both Bill Ballinger and James Horne in a tournament. Back then his only goal in his life was just to win the Michigan State Championships. James Horne won like 6 classes then and Bill Ballinger won the rest of them, nobody was touching these guys.
Then Todd lost his job, he worked in the automotive industry, and he went to South Carolina for 10 years, and then he started touching the national level pullers and the world level pullers. There was an actual camp that had a dedicated training philosophy, the philosophy that no one else had, it was their own, it was South Carolina style practice and there he learned a lot.
After South Carolina, he spent 5 years in Utah with John Brzenk, Bob Brown and Kevin Bongard and other armwrestlers from Utah. And according to Toddzilla the most amazing thing about Utah is that even in some small tournaments for people who pull once a year, everybody knows who to armwrestle, to toproll, hook, press. Jordan Sill, Justin Green are there in Utah a lot of really good guys are there, just hovering, according to Todd Hutchings it’s easy to get up to the national level capability in about 5 years, but to make that jump up to the world level, that 5-6% takes years to develop and you never know when it’s gonna happen. There are a lot of armwrestlers in Utah ready to do that.
Now he lost his job again, and he is in Arizona (with a new job), John Brzenk came there also and they train at Eric Wolfe‘s house. According to Toddzilla Craig Soubliere has to talk with Eric Wolfe on his Arm Wrestling Nation Radio, because Eric has a garage if anybody ever conceived, thought of, mentioned, drawn or yet to have thought of an armwrestling training contraption machine or device Eric has it. 🙂
From 28:10 Toddzilla talks about his training off the table, because John Brzenk and other armwrestlers are 3,5-4 hours driving away from him in Arizona. His training strategies didn’t really change in his last 14 years. When Shawn Lattimer started armwrestling after his records from powerlifting, Toddzilla connected with him on linkedin, “which is facebook for nerds” – Toddzilla’s words. 🙂
I wrote only about a small part of the show, there are many other interesting topics, please listen to the recorded show below.
Check out this Monday night on AWNR Todd Hutchings action starts at 8pm est.
In this video you can watch the most important matches from the SENIOR MEN RIGHT 100 class. You will see here many matches that didn’t show up on the live stream.
