Thursday, August 20, 2009
Rolled Frying PansRolling up a frying pan is one of the classic feats of strength and one that always knocks 'em dead during a live performance. Dennis Rogers makes it look easy but the feat requires tremendous fingertip strength to accomplish. You can always tell the frying pans that Dennis has rolled because they are rolled so tight that they can easily fit through the straps of a wrist watch.
Labels: Bending Feat, Classic Strongman Feats, Dennis Rogers, Feats of Strength, Fingertip Strength, Frying Pan Rolling, Grip Strength
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Monday, August 10, 2009
Dennis Rogers: ShackledModern Strongman Dennis Rogers is shown here in the spotlight performing his "Shackled" feat.
Labels: Chain Breaking, Dennis Rogers, Feats of Strength
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Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Dennis Rogers' Steel ScrollingA few years back Dennis Rogers performed in Detroit and gave me the piece of steel he bent during the show. If you look closely you can see that it is dated 11/06/2005 and signed by Dennis.
Labels: Bar Bending, Bending Feat, Dennis Rogers, Steel Bending, Steel Scrolling, Strength Feat
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Thursday, May 14, 2009
Card Ripping in Oven MittsIf you can rip a deck of cards you're pretty strong, but can you rip a deck of cards while wearing oven mitts? Not only can Dennis Rogers do this, he makes it look easy. See it for yourself in 336 Pounds of Fury.
Labels: Card Ripping, Card Tearing, Dennis Rogers, Grip Feat, Hand Strength, Strongman Feat
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Monday, April 27, 2009
Tearing a Mini-Deck of CardsPlenty of people can tear a regulation deck of cards but it's a whole new ball game with a mini-deck. Dennis Rogers can do this feat with ease, as well he should since his fingers are about as strong as a set of pliers.
Labels: Card Tearing, Classic Strongman Feats, Dennis Rogers, Feat
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Wednesday, April 01, 2009
Grip and RipHere's Dennis Rogers making short work of the Manhattan phone book. Note the technique. As you can see, learning to correctly rip phone books can build grip and wrist strength, as well as allow you to perform other interesting ripping feats, notching, double rips etc. Incorrect phone book tearing, however, is nothing more than a parlor trick and is not the least bit impressive.
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Wednesday, March 25, 2009
IsometricsIsometrics were all the rage back in the 50's and 60's. Here weightlifting and bodybuilding champion Steve Stanko gets in a quick bicep workout using the Isometric Power Rack -- looks like it's working pretty well.
Isometrics are not one of my favorite training techniques but plenty of modern day strongmen (such as Steve Justa and Dennis Rogers) use them with great success.
(Note: We do NOT have Isometric Power Racks for sale or know where you can find one.)
Labels: Arm Exercise, Dennis Rogers, Isometric Power Rack, Isometric Training, Isometrics, Power Rack, Steve Justa, Steve Stanko, York Barbell Club t-shirt, York Barbell Company, York Power Rack
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Monday, January 19, 2009
| Dennis Rogers can rip a deck of cards faster than anyone on the planet, he can also easily drive nails through wooden boards with his bare hands. One day he had an idea: why not combine these two elements into one amazing feat? The result was to drive a nail through a full deck of cards, a feat never before imagined, let alone completed, by any other strongman. Needless to say this feat goes over huge when performed in front of an audience. |  Naildriving Through a Deck of Cards |
Labels: Deck of Cards, Dennis Rogers, Dennis Rogers Nail Driving, Feat, Nail Driving, Strongman Dennis Rogers
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Friday, January 04, 2008
The Quarter-Sized Deck Tear by Dennis RogersEvery 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.
Labels: Card Ripping, Dennis Rogers, Finger Strength, Grip Feat, Grip Strength, Paul Von Boeckmann
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Tuesday, December 04, 2007
The Double Bent WrenchIt'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.
Labels: Bending, Bending Feat, Bent Wrenches, Dennis Rogers, Double Bent Wrench, Feat, Strongman Feat, Wrench Bending
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Saturday, November 10, 2007
A Classic Oldtime Strength Feat: Steel ScrollingSteel 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.
Labels: Alexander Zass, Dennis Rogers, Erik Vining, Monotosh Roy, Siegmund Breitbart, Slim The Hammerman, Steel Bending, Steel Coiling, Steel Scrolling, Strongman Feat, The MIghty Atom
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Thursday, October 25, 2007
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.
Labels: Bent Wrenches, Dennis Rogers, Oldtime Strongman, Steel Bending, Strongman Feat
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Monday, October 22, 2007
 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) |
Labels: Bicep Strength, Curl, Dennis Rogers, Dumbbell, Strongman Feat
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Friday, October 19, 2007
Dennis Rogers' Death Defying Airplane Human Link FeatThe 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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Wednesday, October 17, 2007
Dennis Rogers: How to Drive a Nail Without a HammerDennis 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.
Labels: Dennis Rogers, Nail Driving, Oldtime Strongman, Strongman Feat
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Monday, September 24, 2007
| 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 |
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Monday, August 20, 2007
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
(This incredible feat of strength earned Dennis Rogers "The Association of Oldetime Barbell and Strongmen Highest Achievement Award" in 1993.)
An unknown strongman holds back four horses in the 1910'sA German Strongman holds back a pair of automobilesHermann Goerner restains the pull of a dozen menDennis Rogers(This incredible feat of strength earned Dennis Rogers "The Association of Oldetime Barbell and Strongmen Highest Achievement Award" in 1993.)
Labels: Dennis Rogers, Human Link, Strongman Feat, Supporting Feat
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Saturday, August 18, 2007
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!
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!
Labels: Dennis Rogers, GeorgeLevasseur, Human Link, Louis Cyr, Strongman Feat, Supporting Feat
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