![]() Events such as Keg Toss, truck pull and fingle's finger highly favour the tall man. Guys like Mariusz was pretty short for a strongan, listed at 6'1 - no taller then 5'11 and along with the 6'0 max Poundstone were last of the 'small' strongman to be dominant and in Mariusz defense he did beat Big Z a number of times before coming second at his last outing whereby he came before Brian Shaw aswell, since then the support has evolved into a larger man's one. There was also Dimitar who at 5'10 is Top 10 last year and Lalas won the Arnold a few years back in the competitive Giant era and beat Brian Shaw whilst doing so he is nothing more then 5'10, around 5'9 - 5'10. Johno said on agreed we can thank Brian Shaw for evolving the support into a giant's game although, Big Z, at 6'2 is still dominant and Eddie Hall at 6'1 - 6'2 is still progressing. The one arm dumbbell press has also been dominated by tall guys in recent years, actually it’s a VERY good event for Thor, he often beats both Z and Shaw in that event, and this year Thor has been practicing with a 129kg (283.8 pound) dumbbell. Kirill Sarrychev is a Russian powerlifter he has long arms, but none the less at 6’6” hold the Bench Press WR at 738 pounds. There are other potentially tall strongmen out there as well. Yes Lalas and the Dimitar are both under 6ft and have handled it. Michael Burke 6’6” has gotten it, Robert Oberst 6’6” (claims 6’8” but that’s exaggeration), Misha 6’5” and so on. Not sure what Thor’s OHP limit is now, but its way over 400, and if he can get the Austrian Oak 445, at the AC will make him another one of the few men who could do it, and most of those guys were pretty tall. Robert Oberst has an incredible OHP, and Shaw’s has improved tremendously too. We have some other great OHP guys, and some of them are tall men. Z is a fairly tall man, at least 6’2” and is the best OHP man in modern recorded history. You will always have a few guys in the 5'11" range out there, but them winning the major events will become less and less common. Eddie Hall is closer to his own Genetic limit in terms of adding any significant amount of muscular bodyweight, and his static strength at this point it is going to be more about his central nervous system up regulating – which is finite as well. Thor, obviously, his height is not just longer arms and legs, but he has thicker bones, bigger hands, and a larger torso with larger internal organs. When you look at a guy like Eddie Hall (who is over 6ft himself), compared to Thor Bjornsson, which of those two guys clearly looks like you could add another 50 pounds of muscle to him still? ![]() That is the issue, the shorter guys literally run out of skeletal room for more muscle. Guys like this still have room for more muscle as well. You got guys like Jerry Pritchet DL over 950 and OHP over 450 as well. It also isn’t just Shaw and Thor, they may be the tallest, but other guys in the 6’4”+ range are a dime a dozen in this sport. There reason they did not become as competitive until recently was that taller men were not able to fill out as much. ![]() Combined with the dynamic events which favor Tall men will be enough to will overall, and even in the AC 3 of 5 events are virtually always heavy Dynamic events – Frame uphill carry, Yoke, Stone, Throw for height, 1 arm Dumbell (more dynamic than it looks). The point is that the really tall guys, if they have thick enough bones, can potentially hold so much heavier body weight that they can eventually eclipse the shorter guys on static strength, or come very close. John, I'm not saying the shorter guys cannot still be competitive.
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