By Mark A. Holowchak, Terry Todd, J. S. Russell
A set of essays that philosophically examines power, thought of in its brute, actual experience.
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Any strongest-man-in-theworld contest, if it is to decide truly the strongest man in the world, will have to appeal sufficiently to and draw in just those men who are the strongest in the world. I4 That means that the events included must not show a strong bias in any one direction towards any one strength sport. Otherwise, athletes, sensing bias, will be disinclined to participate and the winner's claim to be the strongest man in the world will be suspect. The problems of spectacle and biased events notwithstanding, I return to the four critical questions, listed above, as they pertain to structuring the sort of strongman contest aimed at determining the strongest man in the world.
Very quickly the notoriety and status associated with the title "World's Strongest Man" pulled a large number of athletes away from weightlifting and powerlifting to train for the yearly contest, and although the primary aim of the producers of the event was to create an entertaining television show, it also gradually became a better test of strength. Once the contest was established as a serious and legitimate competition among many of the world's best strength athletes, numerous others were attracted to strongman simply by watching the likes of Kazmaier, Sigmarsson, and Magndsson on ESPN's coverage of the yearly WSM contests.
2S: Yes. MAH: What are your favorite strength events and do you have any one event—is there any one event that you like best? 2S: The most? I like most—um, I like all the events. It is very hard for me to decide which event I like the most, but one of my favorites is the [overhead] log press. MAH: Hmm. 2S: I like doing competitions with more weight involved. With more weight involved, I feel that that's my strength and I can be better than everyone else. That's how—I mean, all these strength competitions with heavy weights—that's my power.