Comments on: 10 Manly Feats of Strength

By: James

James — Sun, 24 Mar 2013 21:11:00 +0000

EDIT- the first person to touch their knee/leg or arm/elbow to the ground loses….

By: James

James — Sun, 24 Mar 2013 21:09:21 +0000

Here’s another one for y’all: Get into a pushup position facing each other. Each person tries to grab the others hand/arm/wrist and pull him off balance. The first person to touch their knee/leg or arm/elbow loses. For lack of a better term, we called it “push up wrestling”

By: Vlad

Vlad — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 06:07:52 +0000

Many of these are not tests of strength, but more tests of weight and height, since if someone is short and light his stability will be around nil and will never be able to “defeat” someone who is taller and heavier…

By: Jay carlisle

Jay carlisle — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 22:32:02 +0000

Nice. I am an Armwrestler and Scout Leader from Michigan. I have bee involved with Arm Sports for 35 years. I have seen that picture before, however could never find the article. See you on Facebook with this where I will share it with thousands of my friends World Champion Armwrestlers from over 70 countries. If you have any more armwrestling news, we would love to here it.

By: Brand

Brand — Sat, 29 Dec 2012 09:43:12 +0000

There is another one attributed to Bruce Lee. You grab another man’s hand as if to give a hand shake. Each grab tight and try to twist the other man’s hand.

By: Eff Yeah

Eff Yeah — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 16:42:26 +0000

I used to Indian leg wrestle back in high school. Good fun! Gonna try the other stuff listed as well!

By: Josh

Josh — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 23:19:26 +0000

1) Caber toss
2) Shot put – or some variation
3) Sumo wrestling
4) Brick bashing/board breaking – Bloodsport
5) Beer can crushing [full]
6) Deadlifting – and other weightlifting
7) rebar sculpting [no tools]
8) smithing
9) arm wrestling

By: Sam

Sam — Fri, 28 May 2010 15:52:47 +0000

@Tiny Augustine:

Yes! I love Indian arm-wrestling! It’s cool because it doesn’t favor bigger/stronger people (unless the size difference is so great that one person can just drag the other one). It requires a lot of skill and balance… I used to get beat a lot, but once I got my technique down, I win almost every time now.

Another fun game is Standoff. Two opponents face each other at any distance (the closer they are the more challenging the game is) with their hands held up around head level, palms facing toward the front. The object of the game is to hit your opponents hands and/or dodge their attempts to hit your hands, and the first one to lose their balance and move either foot wins. I once did this as part of a group activity with about 100 other guys crammed into a narrow hallway, along with finger jousting.

By: Corey

Corey — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 12:17:20 +0000

To expand on Jake’s comment#29. The variation I was taught was basically the same, but we start at the top and work downward. It was just called ‘broom stick’. It’s a great feat of grip strength. I’ll have to try it up next time the broom stick comes out.

By: Rick

Rick — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 14:31:26 +0000

As a Scoutmaster, I printed these off and it will be part of our next meeting. (scouting has become a little to P.C., but I’m sure our boy leaders till go for it.) We give the boys 45 minutes of activity before we even start any meeting, and these challenges will be good. I think we will end with the butt boxing from Adam’s comment above…I’m sure it will create more laughs than victors.