Congratulations to John Schuna of Fargo, ND

[Matt Brouse]

The lightweight national champion and newest lightweight professional strongman!

According to James Deffinbaugh he first contacted Mike Caruso and the rest of the Fargo crew to try out strongman training (purely for 'recreation' at the time) around September 10th, 2007. How's that grab ya?

And it was a few weeks before he really started training with us consistently.

We had to encourage him to do nationals this year.

Anyway, awesome job John! You will be a force to be reckoned with.

[Ryan Carey]

Thats really cool. Good for him. U guys musta done some good convincing. Schuna bet some tough competition. Congrats!

[Matt Brouse]

Thats really cool. Good for him. U guys musta done some good convincing. Schuna bet some tough competition. Congrats!
Yeah, I heard the LW field was pretty stacked. And it came down to the last event. He gave props to the second place gent, whose name slips my mind at the moment.

[Ryan Carey]

Kaufman was 2nd and Mutaffis was 3rd. To beat out those two guys is a real accomplishment. Very cool! Hope he does good in the pro ranks.

[Matt Brouse]

Kaufman
That's the one! Gave him a run for his money.

[MarkSikora]

Congrats to all who competed.


Um...Tom Mutaffis went first in the 200's last year and 3rd in the overall lw this year?? Holy----yeah edit. Freaking BEAST!!

Now I will look for hwy winners....

see ya and big congrats to all who had the fortitude to compete.

see ya

Mark

[Ryan Carey]

Congrats to all who competed.


Um...Tom Mutaffis went first in the 200's last year and 3rd in the overall lw this year?? Holy----yeah edit. Freaking BEAST!!

Now I will look for hwy winners....

see ya and big congrats to all who had the fortitude to compete.

see ya

Mark

Yes Indeed Mr. Sikora. Tom Mutaffis is a SUPER BEAST. He will certainly have his pro card very soon.

[Tom Mutaffis]

http://media.www.spectatornews.com/media/storage/paper218/news/2005/04/14/Sports/Schuna.To.put.Away.Final.Season-924260.shtml

Schuna is definitely an athlete... no wonder he was so explosive - has a number of NCAA throwing titles to his credit. He dropped from 280+ lbs in 2005 to a lean 230ish at 6'4 for Nationals.

He is used to competing and knows what it takes to win. Very good speed on the moving events and also has a strong deadlift.

Great guy and I am sure he will soon be a force in the LW Pro ranks.

[Ryan Carey]

That was a good article Tom. Schuna has a real good athletic background. No wonder he made a good transition to strongman. He'll do real well in the pro ranks. Sounds like he has all the tools to become a champion with whatever he does.