The Quarter-Sized Deck Tear by Dennis Rogers

The Quarter-Sized Deck Tear by Dennis Rogers
Every Strongman should be able to rip a deck of playing cards in half, but you truly need a whole other level of strength to accomplish this feat.

Like only Paul Von Boeckmann before him, Dennis Dennis Rogers is able to tear this quarter-sized chunk out of a deck of playing cards - a simply incredible feat of finger strength.

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The Double Bent Wrench

The Double Bent Wrench
It's hard enough to bend a wrench one time but Dennis Rogers can bend one twice... It's a very tough feat that takes incredible grip strength to accomplish.

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Steel Scrolling

A Classic Oldtime Strength Feat: Steel Scrolling
Steel Scrolling, also called "coiling," is a classic Oldtime Stength Feat that involves bending long steel bars by hand into artistic shapes.

The list of great oldtime steel scrollers is actually quite extensive: Siegmund "Iron King" Breitbart, Alexander "The Amazing Samson" Zass, Indian Strongman Monotosh Roy, and, of course, Joe "The Mighty Atom" Greenstein.

This lost art is still kept alive by several modern strongmen such as Slim The Hammerman, Dennis Rogers and Erik Vining.

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Dennis Rogers: Hand-Bent Wrenches

Dennis Rogers: Hand-Bent Wrenches
"Now THAT is strong..." You can expect that kind of reception when you can bend a wrench by hand like Dennis Rogers. You'll notice the wrench pictured above center has actually been bent twice -- an unbelieveable feat of hand and wrist strength.

And in case you're wondering there's no monkey business here, all these wrenches are name brands bought at the local hardware store.

If you want to learn how to bend a wrench, you'll want to check out Dennis Rogers' Odd Object Bending DVD Set.

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Dennis Rogers World Record Dumbbell Curl

Strongman Dennis Rogers

At 5'9" and a bodyweight around 160 pounds, Dennis Rogers sure doesn't look like your average strongman... But when it's time to lift some iron, Dennis can do some things that will shock and amaze you. One of Dennis' unusual abilities is his incredible bicep strength. At Memorial City Mall in Houston, Texas Dennis Rogers' established a World Record One Arm Dumbbell Curl record of 98 pounds x 10 Reps with an Iron Master Dumbbell- he weighed 148 Pounds at the time. (Above)

The screen caps on the left are from his 336 Pounds of Fury Strength Feats DVD.

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Dennis Rogers Airplane Human Link

Dennis Rogers' Death Defying Airplane Human Link Feat
The strength feat that put Oldtime Strongman Dennis Rogers on the map was when he successfully prevented a pair of Airforce T-34 Airplanes from taking off in the human link feat.

That's 285 horsepower on each arm -- and one wrong move meant they would be scraping Dennis off the runway. This amazing feat earned the Association of Oldtime Barbell and Strongman's (AOBS) highest award from Vic Boff.

You can see the footage with your own eyes in Dennis Rogers' 336 Pounds of Fury. DVD

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Dennis Rogers: How to Drive a Nail Without a Hammer

Dennis Rogers: How to Drive a Nail Without a Hammer
Dennis Rogers is keeping many of the Oldtime Strongman feats alive. Here is Dennis performing one of his specialties: nail driving without a hammer, a feat performed by many of the greatest oldtime strongmen and stretching back well over a hundred years.

Dennis regularly drives nails through several inches of wooden boards at once, even those set on fire shown here.

On the Discovery Channel show "More Than Human, Dennis Rogers drove a nail completely through a wooden board and Teflon coated frying griddle with one blow of his fist.

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Modern Strongman Dennis Rogers

Over the last decade and a half, Dennis Rogers has become the most widely seen Strongman in history. -- More people have probably seen Dennis than all the other performing strongmen - ever! Dennis has appeared on The Discovery Channel, The Best Damn Sports Show Period, Ripley's Believe It or Not!, Live with Regis and Kathie Lee, The Late Show with David Letterman, The Oprah Winfrey Show and dozens of other television shows in the US and all over the world.

Dennis Rogers

You may not believe this but Dennis Rogers weighed 79 lbs. in high school and even today tips the scales at only 160 pounds. Even though he may not fit what you think of as a typical "Strongman" Dennis has performed feats that have yet to be duplicated.

Keep an eye on this BLOG for an upcoming post taking a closer look at some of Dennis' amazing feats...

In the meantime, you can see these feats (and even learn how to do some of them) with Dennis' outstanding Oldtime Strongman DVDs:

How to Drive a Nail Without a Hammer

336 Pounds of Fury

Crazy But Powerful

Secrets of Odd Object Bending

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More on The Human Link Feat

Here's another look at some performances of the Human Link Feat:

An unknown strongman holds back four horses in the 1910's
A German Strongman holds back a pair of automobiles
Hermann Goerner restains the pull of a dozen men
Dennis Rogers established the all-time mark for the Human Link Feat when he held back two US Airforce T-34 Airplanes -- That's 285 horsepower on each arm!

(This incredible feat of strength earned Dennis Rogers "The Association of Oldetime Barbell and Strongmen Highest Achievement Award" in 1993.)

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Oldtime Strongman Feats: The Human Link

One of the great traditional "feats" of Old Time Strength is the Human Link.

There's no telling who came up with it first but what we do know is that Strongmen have been perfomring this feat for well over a century -- and because it is very dangerous, always goes over great with the crowd.

Many of the great ones such as Louis Cyr, Warren Lincoln Travis, George Levasseur, Apollon and many others included the "Human Link" feat in their shows.

Here's a look at a few famous performances:

The Great Canadian Strongman Louis Cyr
holds back two draft horses circa 1896


George Levasseur upped that ante with four hourses
as he performed this feat in the Circus


Dennis Rogers, The Pound-For-Pound World's Strongest Man for the feats he performs takes the "Human Link" feat to a whole new level as seen in his great video 336 Pounds of Fury -- That's a Harley Davidson Motorcycle at full blast on both sides!

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