3 questions

[Alawadhi]

Hello and hi. I'm new to the forum. My name is bader alawadhi, 16 years old from UAE. My first question is I have read in another forum that ironmind grippers get weak when time pass. I train my grip on an 55 kg grippers(50 reps on each hand). Which gripper should I buy from iron mind. My last question is my hands gets sweat when I think of it or train hard. So I have a larg steel ball weights 10 kg and I can't grabd it when my hands are sweat. Any advice.

Thanks for taking time to answer my question.

[SqeezeMasterFlash]

If you're ordering from ironmind I'd get the #1 through the #4. With shipping costs to the UAE you'll eventually want all 4 and it'll be cheaper to get all 4 at once. You might want to consider the RB grippers. They're made in Austria and might end up being cheaper with shipping costs. Your current gripper is probably close to their trainer. Grippers do season over time and end up slightly weaker than when they started after around 100 closes. Then they pretty much stay the same. As for sweaty hands, just keep a towel and a little chalk around and you'll be fine.

[Ryan Phillips]

hey i was just wondering, is there any gripper harder than the coc 4?

[SqeezeMasterFlash]

Plenty of them. If you call Warren Tetting he can make you a World Class, Galaxy, of Grand Galaxy, all of which are harder than a #4. Robert Baraban also made the WT (limited edition, they're all gone now) which had a spring twice as thick as the #4. You would've had to back a semi over it to even start to close it.

[Rob Okey]

I have a #4 and it was like squeezing a brick at first. How anyone can need grippers beyond that is insane, that's freaky grip strength :D

I got CoC 1-3 to start with and found that was an excellent range. I wouldn't bother with the trainer.

[SqeezeMasterFlash]

No-one has closed anything beyond the #4. Those heavier ones are generally for doing negatives when trying to close the #4 or for chest crushes.

[Rob Okey]

"No-one has closed anything beyond the #4"

Heh, that's a relief. I can crush my #4 together with both hands and fingers locked and using a load of general upper body strength and it's bloody hard even like that. It's gonna be a long long time before I can even think about generating that sort of crushing power with one hand.
My hat goes off to Magnus S and the other #4 guys. Awesome stuff.

[Ryan Phillips]

i've never tried any. it sux. i'd love to have a play on them