Thank you thank you thank you very much ladies and gentlemen
and you are all very very welcome along tonight to the
world's strongest man competition
the mime edition
joining us in tonight's final
two of the world's greatest mimes will go head to
head for this wonderful title
they have spent many many months in the gym
preparing for this event
watching other people lifting weights
but it all comes down to tonight
oh geez
all right uh
I don't know who you are watching buddy but uh
they were doing it wrong
okay
let's meet tonight's contestants on the right hand side
in the short sleeve shirt we have Von Hammerschmidt
Von Hammerschmidt tonight we'll be miming a six foot eight
icelandic giant
he is of course a much much smaller Irish man
his opponent this evening Macrudden
the local favorite
the bad boy of mine making his third appearance
in a final
he is still looking for his first win but in the form
of his life
he blows a kiss to his imaginary girlfriend
in the front row
she is looking absolutely beautiful tonight
in his mind
we come to the first event of the evening
the deadlift up first we have
Von Hammerschmidt he approaches the bar
of course in mime nobody knows how heavy
the weights really are
so it'll all come down to technique
let's see what fun Hammerschmidt can do
no he's not happy he backs away
not feeling it he's right now
this is very importantly lift this first one
he has to get settled
here comes the lift
no he's not happy again he backs away
oh he wants the crowd onside
wants to build the atmosphere in the room I can't blame him
and here comes the lift
that's wonderful
it's nice tight control
and up locking out wonderful
very realistic and the judges love the realism there
that is what we're after now but Von Hammersmith
absolutely exhausted from doing absolutely nothing
the physical manifestation of that exhaustion there
and into the fray comes my MacCrudden for his first
attempt for some reason tonight he's brought two sheep
we're not quite sure why
His mascot baa baa
off they go
he raised them from them from lambs now here we are
the first lift of the evening
and that is an unusually high bar for a deadlift
perhaps trying to steal a couple of feet on his opponent there no he
no no
excuse me he's lowering the bar in every respect
at the start of the show that's nice to see
let's see what he can do from here now
MacCrudden now
no he no he's not happy he's he's backing off he's
what's he up to here?
oh he's adding weights to the bar yes
he's obviously feeling very very confident tonight
he's going again now
he is very confident and now a heavier weight
the bar of course unevenly weighted now
oh what Incredible strength
he walked straight through the bar that was
he brushes that one off
Oh now he's picking up his girlfriend a little kiss
of encouragement nice to see
they are engaged to be married of course
an event coming up very soon and
no he's impaling her on the bar
to even out the weights a fierce competitor
he will stop at nothing
he comes back to the bar
which is it again in a new position
no he's back no okay there we go
it's still a little high I would say
oh that's good okay here we go the first lift
okay he's up into a T-Rex early on
it's not very realistic
on to the neck we're looking for realism here now
with the judge marking system
and now he's struggling to get it over the head
what's he gonna do here he has to lock this one out
he's bringing it up he's bringing
ladies and gentlemen I don't know if you know this
about mine but it is incredibly difficult
to mine sweat patches however
if you were in any doubt
as to the level of commitment this man has
so early in the competition
it is written large on his armpits right now
one-handed no you can't do that
no that's not realistic
he's twirling it
no one is buying into this
now playing basketball with it
Von Hammerschmidt does not like what he sees here
he's throwing it away he now he takes his girlfriend
off the bar puts her back into the crowd
she is of course
dead
Now folks before we continue we are honored tonight
to be joined by last year's world's strongest mime
a fierce fierce competitor
his nickname of course was the fore-man Paul
it's great to have you in here tonight uh
such a tough competitor
your retirement came as a shock to all of us
really but uh wonderful to see you here supporting
this great art form how do you think tonight's final is going Paul
I reckon the man on the right hand side
of me is very very good
That's an awful lot to say for a mime Paul
He's really fallen out of practice
in his retirement but it's great to have you here
the guys of course massive fans
watched you uh when they were growing up now
the second event is the atlas stone
these giant heavy boulders have to be lifted
onto the pedestal up first Von Hammerschmidt
he really is so technical it's beautiful to watch
okay and that's nice tight control rolling the boulder
onto the chest
sliding across oh
my god
oh Jesus he's dislocated his shoulder
this is absolutely gruesome stuff right here
flailing around in agony
the second shoulder gone now
the boulder hits the floor
he is making this so much more difficult than it actually
has to be
he flails at the bowler but it's just not gonna work
out and that's very sad to see
he's gonna have to forfeit the round
limp noodle-like arms
it's very sad to see
McCrudden coming across now
he's offering condolences
uh he knew
he knew what he was doing there he is the
bad boy of mime of course he's a reputation
his father before him was a very very well-known popular mime
so of course growing up McCrudden
was poor
but now we are at the final event of the evening
and the scores are tied
so it'll come down to this event to decide
this year's champion it is of course
the mimed tug
of war
Competitors take up their side of the rope
and we begin
in three
two
one and they're off who's gonna make the early gains
it looks like it Von Hammerschimdt
McCrudden in all sorts of trouble here being pulled
the fight back is on
and that is the best in-synce
you guys have done it on filming night well done
that is really great stuff now
a stalemate developing between these two
great competitors neither willing to give nor take
an inch in this epic battle of the mind
but something's got to give and it's gotta give quick
it looks like McCrudden
he has an idea
he takes the rope he ties it to his genitals
what
it's a crotch pull
incredible work
this is terrible stuff now
for Von Hammershmidt
he's in big trouble
Disco fever happening here
what is gonna happen
It's gotta be
Von Hammerschmidt has to do something he has an idea
he takes the rope
he flips it into the groin of his opponent
wonderful work there
Doomdah
this is us in Perth
but if you can't make it to our live show you can
we're going to be doing a live stream of our previous show 'Swines'
on March 16th at 8pm
tickets on our website
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