I’ve watched it twice already – back to back! As a longtime fan of WSM I found it utterly fascinating. The `30 Years of Pain’ documentary is a look back at the history of WSM and the extraordinary competitors involved. In the mid 90s I was a fan of Manfred Hoeberl and his freakishly large arms, though it was Magnus Ver Magnusson who dominated that decade! In the 2000s I relied on my half Polish bloodline to get behind `The Dominator’ Mariusz Pudzianowski who has just last year broken the previous record of 4 WSM wins (set by Icelanders Jon Pall Sigmarsson and Magnus Ver Magnusson) to become the only man to ever win 5 WSM competitions, and there may be more to come!Īfter the latest WSM I scoured the internet for DVDs, but found none ? You can imagine my delight when I found this Worlds Strongest Man – Thirty Years Of Pain DVD and promptly pre-ordered it. I started as a Geoff Capes fan and cheered him in his battles against the mighty Bill Kazmaier and Jon Pall Sigmarsson (Viking Power!).
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He carried Jon Palls formula of being athletic for the dynamic tests of strength and having tremendous static strength to out lift some of the best Powerlifters.
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He is considered to be one of the first modern strongman competitors and is regarded by many to be one of the best strongmen of all time. He has also won the Icelands strongest man competition many times and the West coast Viking Vestfjardavikingurinn of Iceland nine times. In addition to his four Worlds Strongest Man titles, he was also runner-up in 19. His strongman victories include the 1989 Pure Strength contest in Scotland, the 19 International Power Challenge, the 1992 Scandinavian Strongest Man Finland, the 1992 Nordic Strongest Man Denmark, the 1994 Europes Strongest Man, the 1995 World Muscle Power Championship, and the 19 Viking Challenge. He decided to focus solely on strongman competition after he won the 1991 Worlds Strongest Man contest. Magnus competed in his first strongman contest in 1985, finishing third in the Icelands Strongest Man competition won by Jon Pall Sigmarsson.