Toepfer Arm Wars II. We had a riot a couple months ago and decided to do it again.
Mens
210 lbs and under
210 lbs +
Womens
Open weight and must bring snack
We have 6 plaques. Right and Left handed winners for each class.
Burgers and drinks will be supplied. Invite your friends. A couple meat heads come but most of us are reg dudes. Txt me for details. 957zerothree77
Damn 210 and under? That’s a big range, but I’m not familiar with arm wrestling weight classes at all, I’m 155 and I used to love doing this in high school for cookies during lunch.
I have watched 1 too many videos of arms getting snapped in half.
All I can say to guys who are afraid of losing or embarrassing themselves is to just do it. There is no pressure. None of us are pros. We are just having fun. Last time was a blast! Every one of us would get destroyed at a regular competition. I’m trying to get 3 of my friends who have never done it before to go. An added benefit is that you’ll find out if you are a “natural” at it. It’s one of the few strength sports out there where you see 2 guys going to the table and you honestly have no idea who is going to win just by looking at the physiques. A 150lb pro arm wrestler that looks like a string bean will destroy a 225lb bodybuilder that can bench 400lbs. It happens all the time.
Here’s an example. Devon Larratt 230lbs going against a strongman competitor over 400lbs.
Bumpski!
@joelster , I just saw the video! Dayummm!
Seems like this event didn’t end well…
I cringe every.damn.time.
I did good! I won my weight class under 210 heavyweight. Right-hand and left-hand. Yes it’s quite a broad range of weight but the attendance just isn’t there to justify making any more classes. I went up against Dakota who is roughly 185 and I’m 200.
Left hand hvy final:
Right hand hvy final, I was worried because Dakota had beaten me before months ago:
Then I did something dumb and went up against big gorilla Zak, who is 260ish. We had a good battle left hand a few months ago.
DO NOT WATCH IF YOU HAVE A WEAK STOMACH!!!
Now I have a plate, 7 screws, 3 lag bolts along with 26 staples.
FWIW, there was very little pain. I thought for sure the ride to the hospital was going to be brutal, and that massive pain was going to set in. Nope, not at all. Pain was maybe a 1 on a scale of 0-10. After surgery the nausea was brutal and I took a pain pill anticipating the nerve blocking meds to wear off, and for surgery pain to set in. Again, nothing happened. I just take 600-800mgs of ibuprophen for swelling every 8 hours. They prescribed me all sorts of shit, and I refuse to take it. Haven’t even filled the one for Narco.
The only bad thing so far is now I have very limited movement of my hand. Before surgery I had full movement. Now, I cant straighten my fingers or bend my wrist up. The Doc said there is a radial nerve that runs right along the bone and ANY trauma can cause it to get “sleepy” (his words). He said he was super careful around it, so hopefully it just wakes up in the next few weeks. Right now my arm is just sore from like a hard workout the day before. If my hand was 100% I have no doubt I would be fishing and doing light gym stuff in a week.
Lol called it
Ugh…get well soon.
Thank you!
I was surpirsed to see you pull up in the drivers-seat of your womans car, haha.
Get well soon man.
I’d like to announce my retirement
Thanks chooch!
Me too!
Thats crazy! Get better man.
we had a riot and obv bad things can happen. Sucks but Joel will heal.
Glory lasts forever.
Any one wanna buy an arm wrestling table? Its built to WAL spec. lol
I saw this on facebook, nasty injury, hope your recovery goes well