Zolk Gets WOB World Record 18’9"
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Topic: Zolk Gets WOB World Record 18’9"
Posted By: LarryBrock
Subject: Zolk Gets WOB World Record 18’9"
Date Posted: 7/18/09 at 9:51am
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Congrats to my teamates big mike Z for getting the WOB(standing) World Record. 18'9" in Antigonish Highland Games Today ------------- "No man Is entirely worthless, he can always serve as a bad example" Brian Oldfield |
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Posted By: mcdonl
Date Posted: 7/18/09 at 9:58am
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Congrats Mike!! ------------- Leroy McDonough |
Posted By: phatmiked
Date Posted: 7/18/09 at 10:04am
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Wow!! Awesome! Way to go Zolk! 19' is going down. ------------- |
Posted By: Ryan Stewart
Date Posted: 7/18/09 at 10:15am
Nice!! Just Awesome. Cant wait to see the video. Congrats Mike.  ------------- John Gallagher- "MASS MOVES MASS" |
Posted By: dWood
Date Posted: 7/18/09 at 10:46am
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Nice Mike-couldn't happen to a nicer guy(hard working also!) ------------- JUST BRING IT / SPEED KILLS..BUT STRENGTH PUNISHES |
Posted By: Roy Bogue
Date Posted: 7/18/09 at 11:20am
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I just talked to the legend and he is being very humble. I am super proud
of him!!! IMO, that's the best record to own in this sport when you consider the amount of rediculously strong men that have tried the wob. Wow! Amazing! ------------- Donate lately? |
Posted By: C. Smith
Date Posted: 7/18/09 at 11:39am
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That is so sick. ------------- |
Posted By: WALLY.OLECIK
Date Posted: 7/18/09 at 11:44am
And then some!! Way to put it up there, Mike!! ------------- 16lb-hammer(at)sshga.org "Try not. Do or do not. There is no 'try!'" Yoda |
phatmiked wrote:Posted By: Wayne Hill
Date Posted: 7/18/09 at 1:28pm
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Mike has a lot more in him. He had a tough time dialing it in, because he was trying to throw from his most efficient position, and it wasn't working for him today. He reluctantly took what he was offered by taking a step forward to make the throw. When he dials it in, there's no saying how high he'll throw. Mike was mobbed by kids who wanted his autograph. Nobody went away unhappy. Tommy DeBruijn had Mike talking to Wout Zijlstra from the field minutes later: that was very, very cool. ------------- "We may be small, but we're slow." - MIT Rugby |
Posted By: dWood
Date Posted: 7/18/09 at 4:06pm
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Mike is way cool with the fans...remember a few years back when some "special fans" came to cheer us on and 2 athletes stepped up and hung with these kids and made them feel like a million bucks and it was Mike Z and Tommi Nelson-2 class acts in the highland games ------------- JUST BRING IT / SPEED KILLS..BUT STRENGTH PUNISHES |
Posted By: will barron
Date Posted: 7/18/09 at 5:15pm
| the weight weighed in at 57.1 pounds. I'd say 19' is royally screwed. |
Posted By: kgb1
Date Posted: 7/18/09 at 6:40pm
| Way to go Meat! |
Posted By: matt
Date Posted: 7/18/09 at 11:04pm
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Mike top job good to see . and none of this spinning crap |
Posted By: big MAC
Date Posted: 7/18/09 at 11:10pm
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Cosign. ------------- |
Posted By: Sutherland
Date Posted: 7/19/09 at 3:00am
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Congratulations Mike. Very Impressive Shane Sutherland |
Posted By: Silverback
Date Posted: 7/19/09 at 4:22am
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That number is insane crazy cool good. Mike is the boss. ------------- Mule Sportkilt AST Sport Supplements |
Posted By: forrester
Date Posted: 7/19/09 at 4:52am
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AWESOME!! Way to go Mike! ------------- The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. "You life is an occasion. Rise to it."-Mr Magorium |
Posted By: ChiroThrower
Date Posted: 7/19/09 at 5:05am
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WOW, that is amazing. I wish I could have been there to see it with my own eyes. I can't wait to see the video. Please tell me someone got that on video. Congrats big Mike. 19' is yours for the taking. ------------- Brian C. Burnett |
Posted By: Big Ed
Date Posted: 7/19/09 at 6:14am
| Congrats Mike....an awesome feat!!! Hope to see you this year |
Posted By: The Jayster
Date Posted: 7/19/09 at 6:40am
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great job mike! been a hell of a year for ya! keep it up! ------------- please keep robbin, the Conway Family and Frank Henry |
Posted By: dave brown
Date Posted: 7/19/09 at 7:59am
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Wow Meat! Can't believe no one asked yet - did he take off his shirt for the final toss? If not, then 19 is ready to go down. I agree with an earlier post that the Ranking system doesn't give a bonus for a world record... would be cool to see a 1000 point bonus (in addition to all the rest of the scores) if you set a WR in a season - even a 500 point bonus for an AR would be appropriate. As mentioned in Mike's case, crowds go nuts, autographs get signed... very cool stuff. Way to go Mike! Dave Brown |
Posted By: M-BAAB
Date Posted: 7/19/09 at 8:42am
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Who da man? Meat da man. ------------- 51 , 72 and 15 at 50 |
Posted By: Daniel McKim
Date Posted: 7/19/09 at 9:19am
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Congrats, Mike! Your name will forever go down in Highland Games lore.
------------- http://www.believethrower.com" rel="nofollow - http://www.believethrower.com |
Posted By: 17/20
Date Posted: 7/19/09 at 10:40am
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Congrads big Z. ------------- I MAY BE BIG , BUT I'M FAST |
Posted By: Will Tagye
Date Posted: 7/19/09 at 11:36am
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Awesome work!! Great job Zolk!!!
------------- Audaces Fortuna Iuvat |
Posted By: phatmiked
Date Posted: 7/19/09 at 1:09pm
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Posted By: AlDargie
Date Posted: 7/19/09 at 1:13pm
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Awesome job Mike. Looking forward to your throws at Brunswick, ME.
------------- Dyin' ain't much of a living, boy. - Outlaw Josey Wales |
Posted By: Jeff Storey
Date Posted: 7/19/09 at 3:55pm
good googaly moogaly! Congrats! |
Posted By: big MAC
Date Posted: 7/20/09 at 12:35am
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Does anyone have a list of previous WOB record holders? Would be good to see just how awesome the strength tradition is in this event. ------------- |
Posted By: nesa
Date Posted: 7/20/09 at 3:43am
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Nice Job Zolk! ------------- Proud member of "Team Fulsterkur" |
Posted By: agm_
Date Posted: 7/20/09 at 6:07am
Go to highlandgames.net and look under record progressions. |
Posted By: Skullsplitter
Date Posted: 7/20/09 at 3:42pm
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True history made. Okay, this is the year. Mike hits 19+ and someone finally goes 50 feet in the 56 wfd. ------------- "I am the thread, the pupil, and the eye of the needle is my teacher" |
Posted By: grasshopper
Date Posted: 7/20/09 at 4:22pm
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Congrats Mike!!! Wayne just told me that the weight was about a POUND
overweight!!!! 19' will fall easy!!! ------------- "Breathe deeply. Refuse to be weak. Refuse to be sick. Refuse to die. Think strong and you will be." -The Mighty Atom (Yoselle Greenstein) |
Posted By: Lyle
Date Posted: 7/21/09 at 5:36am
| Great work Zolk, definately the most impressive throw I've ever seen, including beating me by 15 minutes to take 1st in the challenge caber. |
Posted By: ChiroThrower
Date Posted: 7/21/09 at 12:27pm
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Still waiting to see the video. Please tell me that someone captured this historic moment in our sport on video. ------------- Brian C. Burnett |
Posted By: gudmundsson
Date Posted: 7/22/09 at 2:02am
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Wow from Iceland. Ground damaging hights indeed. Congrats Z. Gudmundson. ------------- The viking is still throwing. |