Thursday, January 28, 2010
Hand BalancingI don't know if there has ever been a strength athlete as well-rounded as Sig Klein. He was a champion in pretty much every area of strength training that you could imagine. Here's Sig performing a very interesting hand balancing feat. You also gotta love Sig's taste in equipment as well.
Labels: Balance Feat, Globe Barbell, hand balancer, Hand Balancing, Hand Balancing Feat, Sig Klein
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Wednesday, September 02, 2009
Balancing FeatBalancing Feats are always impressive but I do not recommend trying this one (or anything close to it!) Here Samuel Jenkins accomplishes something dangerous, impressive and quite possibly stupid at the same time ~ balancing precariously on two chairs atop a New York apartment building, circa 1923.
Labels: Balance, Balance Feat, Feat
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Thursday, June 25, 2009
Les BartrasLes Bartras, a European hand-to-hand trio specialized in prodigious stunts like this one which combined brawn with acrobatic skill. Their spectacular feats have brought them fame and prosperity in circus and vaudeville engagements. This trio trained extensively with weights to prepare for their incredible balancing stunts.
Labels: Acrobatics, Balance, Balance Feat, Circus, Circus Act, Hand Balancing Act, Les Bartras, Vaudeville
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Wednesday, June 17, 2009
A Unique FeatI don't know who these guys are or anything about them but I will say that this feat is quite impressive. In all my years, I have never seen this feat performed anywhere else. They certainly make it look pretty easy although it's a lot more difficult that it looks.
Labels: Balance Feat, Bodyweight Feat, Hand Balancing Feat, Unique Feat
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Wednesday, April 22, 2009
 Bob Jones | Who else? The incomparable Bob Jones balancing skillfully on his thumbs on a set of Indian clubs. Bob would begin this feat with an Indian club under each finger and then flick them away one by one until he was left on his thumbs. (Which is why the clubs are scattered beneath him.) With so many "lifting" records portrayed on this site it may be easy to overlook this one but if you want a good example of a feat which will never be duplicated, this would be it. It's difficult enough to hold a handstand, let alone on the thumbs, let alone balanced on Indian clubs. |
Labels: Balance Feat, Bob Jones, hand balancer, Hand Balancing Feat, Indian Clubs, Thumb Strength
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Friday, March 06, 2009
A Man Ahead of His Time: Jimmie PayneJimmie Payne was a popular west coast bodybuilder, hand balancer and arm wrestling champ. He regularly appreared on the television show "You Asked for It" performing unusual feats of balance and dexterity. Payne trained at Yarick's Gym and was also a regular at Muscle Beach.
Here he does a little lifting while balanced precariously on a "bongo board" -- he was able to press 180 pounds for 5 reps and, on another occasion, 30 reps with 135. Fifty years ago this was known as "screwin' around" ... these days it's called 'functional training."
Labels: Balance Feat, Ed Yarick's Gym, Hand Balancing, Jimmie Payne, Muscle Beach
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Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Doug Hepburn Handbalancing FeatThe great lifter and strongman Doug Hepburn was quite a handbalancer - something which has been presented here on prior occasions. (He said it helped his overhead press.)
Here's a feat you've probably never seen before though: Doug handbalancing on the top of a basketball backboard. Doug would have had to have been pretty confident in his hand balancing ability to even attempt this one, let alone accomplish it. That's a long way down. WOW!
Labels: Balance Feat, Basketball, Bodyweight Feat, Doug Hepburn, Hand Balancing
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Wednesday, June 18, 2008
 Bob Jones | If you could travel back in time and ask Bob Jones what his toughest hand balancing feat was, he might tell you this one... but he did it! Most of the time hand balancers balance on a solid, stable surface such as a table, or parallettes. That's a decidely "unstable" base, a free-swinging length of pipe hung by a couple ropes. |
Labels: Balance, Balance Feat, Bob Jones, Bodyweight Feat, hand balancer, Hand Balancing Feat
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