Why should you compete?

My aim last year was to compete this year, 2008. Then I went and chopped my damned finger up in February so that blew this year out of the water. If I can continue the progress from the latter half of this year into next year and stay relatively injury free then finances permitting I can make your's David although Steve's is a bit of a stretch from North Derbyshire.

Cheers, Lol

i only started real grip training mid 2008 but picked my first gripper 2 years ago.
I train alone at my garage but i fell good about it.

if at the beggining of 2010 i could lift 90kg R.T /2 HP (the same) and closing from paralell one gripper around 3.4 i will do it(i need to do it):-)
cheers

now i can close one gripper around 3.0 and R.T 70 kg , not sure about 2HP .

Lol999 wrote:My aim last year was to compete this year, 2008. Then I went and chopped my damned finger up in February so that blew this year out of the water. If I can continue the progress from the latter half of this year into next year and stay relatively injury free then finances permitting I can make your's David although Steve's is a bit of a stretch from North Derbyshire.

Cheers, Lol

We're under an hour from David's... a teeny weeny bit further

I don't mind the traveling, it's the damned petrol!
We'll have to see what happens nearer the time. I'm hoping that the OrbiGrip I get for xmas will propel my grip strength through the roof

Nag another lifter into having a go and split the costs. The last time I went to David's (this years Peter Horne event) we went up in my mates Alf and Tania's super fast Volvo. Now they came for support etc. But Alf ended up competing and coming 3rd in spite of never ever training grip. No probs for me coming 2nd and that's without doing one event at all but for the rest... he he

Let's see what appertains. If there's anybody near North Derbyshire wants picking up en-route etc then it's an option. Either that or it's back of the Netto with my handbag for petrol money again

If you compete then the part in bold will never refer to you!

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.” Theodore Roosevelt

I used to have that, paraphrased, on my home gym wall back in London. I think that there was a chalk dust and spit part to it as well. I copied it from, I think, a photo of a gym (forget the guys name) who used to write regularly in Hardgainer.

I'd rather try, and fail, than not try at all.

That reminds me of a time I was walking a guy around Hastings, and we saw some teenagers skateboarding, I said to him "They're clearly not dong it right, they've got no scabs!" One of the kids heard me and said "We're TOO GOOD to get scabs", the guy I was with said "Well, I've always got scabs".

That man was Tony Hawk, unarguably the greatest Sk8r of all time.