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Who's the guy that pulls 925 like its nothing?

Kind of a late reply, but he is Jerry Pritchett. Unless I'm wrong, he is a deadlift specialist, and mostly competes in Strongman to deadlift, which is why he can keep up with Thor and the rest but always does pretty poorly overall.
 
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Pretty sure he got the 2nd or 3rd highest ever deadlift. He might of even attempted 500 when Eddie hall did it

Kind of a late reply, but he is Jerry Pritchett. Unless I'm wrong, he is a deadlift specialist, and mostly competes in Strongman to deadlift, which is why he can keep up with Thor and the rest but always does pretty poorly overall.
 
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Pretty sure he got the 2nd or 3rd highest ever deadlift. He might of even attempted 500 when Eddie hall did it
He was the WR holder in 2017 with 1031lbs on the elephant bar. I think it belongs to Thor now with 1042lbs or something, from the 2019 Arnold Classic.
 
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Kind of a late reply, but he is Jerry Pritchett. Unless I'm wrong, he is a deadlift specialist, and mostly competes in Strongman to deadlift, which is why he can keep up with Thor and the rest but always does pretty poorly overall.
Jerry is not a young man and therefore is prone to injury. He’s a hell of a competitor and still one of the strongest men alive.
 
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Jerry is not a young man and therefore is prone to injury. He’s a hell of a competitor and still one of the strongest men alive.
I can't argue with that. He is pulling over 1000lbs and competing in the Arnold Strongman Classic. You don't get much stronger than that.

I only mentioned that he does poorly because he gets very low overall scores but he does really well in the deadlift events. In the last Arnold Classic he got under 15 points whereas Thor got around 45, and Thor didn't even try in the Stone to Shoulder event, he just did one rep and left.
 
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I can't argue with that. He is pulling over 1000lbs and competing in the Arnold Strongman Classic. You don't get much stronger than that.

I only mentioned that he does poorly because he gets very low overall scores but he does really well in the deadlift events. In the last Arnold Classic he got under 15 points whereas Thor got around 45, and Thor didn't even try in the Stone to Shoulder event, he just did one rep and left.
I was there. Jerry, like Brian Shaw, was injured on the deadlift. Pretty much took them both out of competition.

Father Time is an asshole. Both of them are getting older and their bodies may not put up with the abuse for much longer.
 
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Seems silly experimenting this stage with a comp coming up in less than 4 weeks

This is powerlifting in 2019. The likes on social media are more important then the actual comp. Sad but true.

Social media has grown powerlifting's popularity to places nobody could have expected just a few years ago. But it's ruined it at the same time.
 

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https://youtu.be/43t1WZLxw5k

can anyone tell me why he shoulder pressing barbells like that??

Showing off? Just harder balancing 2 BB's than 2 dB's of equal weight, and way harder than ONE BB of equal total weight?

Probably just doing it for the clicks. He did the same with flat bench a few weeks ago.

Yup.

Seems silly experimenting this stage with a comp coming up in less than 4 weeks

AGREED. But he seems to be more of a very strong Showman than a very strong strength sports purist at this point in his career? Kinda like carving out his own niche in the strength world. Back in the infancy of PL, in the early 1960s, contests were often called "Odd Lifts," and did not always use the same Big 3 we use today.
 
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YouTube is more profitable than any competition he may have ahead. He probably knows this and is willing to risk it for the clicks. Most strongmen are focusing a lot on their YouTube channels lately because they've realised that it pays well.
 

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Lol, yeah, I'm naive enough to not always see that fact even though it's right there in front of me when I​ go to youtube. Already hooked on all the stuff Brian Shaw has churned out, although I confess I'm more amazed by his eating episodes than by his training ones.
 
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I've been watching a lot of Martins Licis recently. The guy is extremely funny and gives some great advice sometimes.
 
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All about the money. The guys making a better living than most of us and doing what he loves at the same time. And traveling the world.

And to top it off, he’s one of the most genetically gifted powerlifters/strongmen we’ll ever see.
 

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YouTube is more profitable than any competition he may have ahead. He probably knows this and is willing to risk it for the clicks. Most strongmen are focusing a lot on their YouTube channels lately because they've realised that it pays well.

This used to be true before Google bought YouTube, but it is not true anymore. I personally know (my best friend/brother) is one of the big names on YouTube and he makes considerably less than half of what he used too. His salary is average at best now, sadly. That is the current truth/state of YouTube. My friend has a quarter of a billion views and over a million and a half subscribers. The powerlifting guys are just trying to get a little slice of the pie (like everyone else) and it's wise that they are doing so, but it's not a lot of scratch like people think it is.
 
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This used to be true before Google bought YouTube, but it is not true anymore. I personally know (my best friend/brother) is one of the big names on YouTube and he makes considerably less than half of what he used too. His salary is average at best now, sadly. That is the current truth/state of YouTube. My friend has a quarter of a billion views and over a million and a half subscribers. The powerlifting guys are just trying to get a little slice of the pie (like everyone else) and it's wise that they are doing so, but it's not a lot of scratch like people think it is.
Ads are not the only way to make money off YouTube. You still have sponsors, selling merchandise, you can even use YouTube to promote future events.
 
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My 5 year old watches a channel on there, channel made 22 million bucks last year. To review toys....

Im sad that my son watches people play with toys.
 

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