Friday, September 28, 2007

  • Charles Rigoulot: One-Arm Snatch

    • Charles Rigoulot One Arm SnatchCharles Rigoulot: One-Arm Snatch

    The great French Strongman Charles Rigoulot snatches 242 pounds with one arm in old, Old, OLD Vienna, circa 1929.

    Note the continued use of globed dumbbells long after they went out of style.

    Just a few years earlier at the 1924 Olympic Games, the athletes still had a choice of either using a solid, revolving, plate-loaded barbell like you would see these days, or the archaic shot-loaded globe barbells of year's past.

    All the members of the French weightlifting team, including Rigoulot, chose to lift with the oldtime globe barbells instead of the modern ones... Rigoulot won the gold medal in the light-heavyweight class while his teammate Edmond Decottignies also took home the gold in the light-weight Class.

    Perhaps they knew something that others didn't. I think I know what it is... Click here to find out.

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    Posted by John Wood @ Friday, September 28, 2007

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