so Mitchell do you know why we called you here today, my name is Mitchell Hooper I'm
27 years old from Canada, I'm six foot three 143 kilos my nickname is the Moose because
I'm called the Moose because when I was competing in Australia one of the
guys in the crowd just shouted that and it ended up sticking
hop off the bottom I don't know if you're brewing me because I'm a Canadian
but we're part of the Commonwealth I'm on your team yeah
I think my favorite moment in Strongman so far is walking out into the Royal Albert Hall, it was my first
Stadium experience, first time in front of a crowd that size and that place is yet to be
matched by anything I've seen yet [Music] my favorite food is pizza meat lovers Pizza and
ice cream, chocolate chip cookie, no ice cream my most hated food would be cucumbers ¿why?
I don't know, I just can't do it, it's just, it's just, it's sort of the same as watermelon where
it's food but it's nothing you know, you're just chewing on like husk and fiber [Music]
¡yes! is hard to say your best friend in a Strong man because it's really such a brotherhood that
there's not many people who I wouldn't want to sit down and go for dinner with that being said
I haven't done a professional competition with that'll Oleksii Novikov and I think him and I
have started to form a pretty good friendship I have a lot of respect and time for Luke Stoltman
a quick story about Luke at Worlds I put myself at the end of the breakfast buffet first day
when everyone was coming in so I could introduce myself and say hello and Luke was the only one
out of 29 other guys to actually come up to me first and say hello and welcome me to Strongman
and for me something like that speaks volumes, the biggest inspiration is a tough one for me because
I don't, I don't have an individual person who I look at and they inspire me as a whole I take a
lot of elements from different people in my life my grandfather was a very successful businessman
my dad's one of the hardest workers I know, my mom's one of the most compassionate people I
know so I try to, I try to pull the best elements from different people and try to replicate those
the best that I can, the worst injury I've had is when I was deadlifting in the gym in
my powerlifting short powerlifting career it was this second floor of the gym I felt my back tweak
and I sort of lent over for five ten minutes expecting it to improve it got worse and worse
and worse I ended up on the ground had to call the ambulance got taken away in the ambulance
basically got pumped full of Oxycontin until I could stand up and use a walker to get into the
hospital it took me about a week to be able to walk properly again and rehab myself back
in about six months to win the National Housing title,
the most incredible thing I've witnessed in Strongman is when I was in the Boneyard at World's Strongest Man
I was getting advice from a couple of other guys completely unsolicited
Gabriel Peña told me about how someone always gets hurt in the
yard and to be careful then I was practicing the power stairs before the heat which was an event in
the finals and Bobby Thompson ended up coming up to me and telling me stop now you're about
to hurt yourself and that was my introduction to the pro scene and to see that level of camaraderie
where it will literally take money out of these guys pockets and that's been consistent all the
way through my experience and and that's one of the biggest reasons that I love the sport
I, I think if, if the, if the events line up well I could be the World's Strongest Man sometime in
the next three years I don't think there's a competition in the world that I couldn't
win in the next few years that being said a lot of things have to happen that you have
to go out there and execute you have to stay injury-free the events have to line up right
¡um! certain guys that are particularly good at certain events have to not show up ¡um! but
I think at the moment with the right set of events I would be the the Strongest man in the world
¡um! so there's lots of potential but I certainly see myself as a as a staple in
a lot of competitions moving forward thanks a lot for watching guys ¡um! go over like comment
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