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[Simon_De_Vogelaere]

Hi, my name is Simon De Vogelaere, a novice strongman from Belgium. I made an account on this board since it houses some great strongmen and other lifters. I hope to learn alot and succede in my goal to become a succesfull strongman one day.

I've been training since octobre, about 13 sessions of event training with Jimmy Laureys ( Belgium's strongest man ). My first competition is coming up next week, april 6th so wish me the best :D

[IdrisH.]

Welcome to the fourms Simon. :I: This is a great place and you will learn a lot. I wish you the best at your first comp.

[Matthew White]

Welcome to the boards!

[Kristyn Vytlacil]

Welcome to the forum and best of luck at your contest! What events are you doing?

[Jared Enderton]

welcome. good luck man

[Mike Landrich]

Welcome to the forum. Good luck next week.

[Simon_De_Vogelaere]

Thanks everyone !

The competition i'm participating in consists of 5 events because of the high number of competitors ( 25?! ). It used to have a 320kg yoke but they cut the event because of the time it would take.

Sterkste Man van Limburg
Brunssum - zondag 6 april 2008

1) Farmers walk medley
(80-100-120 kg, each 30m with a turn at 15m)

2) Logpress (IFSA size log press)
(max weight - 3 attempts)

3) Medley
(Sled pull, 300 kg 15 meter, duckwalk, 160 kg 15 meter, mining cart axle load, 120 kg 15 meter
120 cm high)

4) One handed 50 kg Thomas Inch (60 mm handle) dumbell press for reps (timelimit 60 seconds)

5) Wheelflip (340 kg - 6 flips)


Some of the better athletes competing are Jimmy Laureys ( Belgium strongest man ) Fouad Hsaini ( hollands strongest man -105kg / atlaslion on this forum? ), JanPieter Neuteboom ( Jan Neuteboom on forum ) and some other good athletes. Baptism by fire :LOL:

[Matthew White]

Baptism by fire is an excellent way to look at it.

[Simon_De_Vogelaere]

Baptism by fire is an excellent way to look at it.
Yep it's great really, i get to do my first comp with serious competitors ( not some novices ) which i can learn from so that's great.

Should i do some carb loading in advance to the competition or something? I haven't spoken about it with my trainer but i will sunday, any advice tho ?

P.S.: Squatted 200kg/440lbs yesterday for a single, new personal best :D Also did 5 x 170kg so that's a new 5RM and did a zercher lift from kneeheight with 200kg also. Sweetness :D

[Kristyn Vytlacil]

Congratulations on the personal bests. It's always nice to hit those right before a contest. The show looks like it's gonna be a good one, definitely some amazing competitors. Again, good luck. You'll have to let us know how it goes!

[Simon_De_Vogelaere]

Congratulations on the personal bests. It's always nice to hit those right before a contest. The show looks like it's gonna be a good one, definitely some amazing competitors. Again, good luck. You'll have to let us know how it goes!
Alrighty will do, thx alot :)

[Simon_De_Vogelaere]

Competition report:

06/04/08 1st strongman comp: Sterkste man van Limburg 2008

Drove 200km to the comp, in an escalade ( don't see that alot over here ) which was nice haha. Arrived there, the material looked professional and i was looking forward to compete.

First event: Farmer's walk
I took it easy with the 80kg and 100kg implements, 30m each went smooth, than i had a struggle with the 120kg ones, managed 22m with them, didn't finish because i ran out of time.

Logpress, 1st time on a thick log ( IFSA specs ), cleaning the log was easy as hell, press a bit uncomfortable because I had to lean backwards more than normal. Managed 100kg on 2nd lift, failed 110kg at lockout.


Third event: Medley
300kg sled, 160kg duckwalk and a 120kg minecart axle to be moved 15m each. Sled was easy as hell, duckwalk went ok but the axle was pretty annoying because of the only place to grip it proper was the wheels which spinned héhé. Managed to finish it in 1m01 at a 2m time limit.

Inch dumbell press ( 50kg )
Managed 7 reps, 8 reps actually but was one second out of the 1 minute time limit, bit gay but hey can't do much bout it.

Tire flip i miscalculated it, the tire was smooth and had almost no grip, the fact i was sweating bad and used magnesium didn't help either. Only managed 4 reps out of 6. Some competitors used tacky which wasn't allowed but it was ignored so that was a bit lame.

Managed to get 11th out of 21 competitors which is nice seeing i only wanted to place "not last" haha. My trainer won the competition ( as expected :p )

competitors:
http://i25.tinypic.com/t5239s.jpg

I'm 2nd on the left, trainer is 5th on the right.

[Kristyn Vytlacil]

Hey, congrats on your first contest! You did awesome. 11 out of 21 seems pretty fantastic to me. Great job!

[Matthew White]

Yeah 11 out of 21 with the guys you said would be there is great!