so Magnus you've been well Strongest Man II won just about every title but a lot of people
don't actually realize you were also Europe's best arm wrestler at one point so can you tell
us the secrets for a layman like me who loves a bit of arm wrestling in the pub exactly how
to do it ¡yeah! this is what it all started 15 years ago and I think we start by just showing
you the basic rules, it warming up a bit and then we go into the details, so the starting
position in armwrestling very simple, center of the table pretty neutral grip which means that
both, both thumbs should be visible like this okay your thumb seems to be under your first knuckle
needs to be visible like this okay when it comes to the pad here you're allowed after the whistle
you're allowed to move around here but you always must keep contact with this on the pub on the pub
that will do this it will disagree with that but on the contest state what you're allowed
to do that and then basically just try to get the opponent down to that with all means that
you can - that right there oh ¡yeah! how do we warm up to this thing I think they'll be best to warm
up or just by armwrestling a little bit them - just pour it back yeah a bunch of bananas okay
the Magnus please show us the basic techniques that of how you yeah so we can say that it's more
or less two basic styles of armwrestling and the easiest one to learn the most common one for the
strong guys is it they call it almost in a hook which means that you go down in position where
you hook, your wrists that's why the name and just try to as much as possible to relate to biceps
power and more let's pull down before opening this yeah and this is for me the the best way
to on restudy I think what I can remember these never lost the fight that way the only problem
is that you're pretty vulnerable when you try to get into a good which leads us into the next
technique which is what they call a top roll, the top roll is a movement where you try to pull away
the wrist from the opponent so you put my wrist is going down back ¡yeah! so if you try to arrest
let me sideways I will try to put my power is on your fingers like this if you take control
wrist like that or you pull so many different versions of this but otherwise what they do is
they open either from the back side or they're going over like this okay so for me to do it to
you if I were to try and cut off you I didn't like pull up and come around like that but all
that this may be a little bit too much to think about in the beginning okay so I think we focus
on a few simple tricks, tricks that you first need to control and that you also can use at
the pub later when you're going to steal money from people, okay, and in on wrestling of course
bicep and everything is very important but it's the most important thing is to have a very strong
grip in a very strong form it doesn't matter how massive biceps you have and if you have
a weak forearm so what I usually do is you take a pretty normal grip and then you put back pressure
and what most people want to take back pressure they pull back over, over show it now just to show
people yeah they pull back like this with albo backwards and if I do that to you still gonna
feel pretty comfortable you still you still feel like you can you can move you should try to get
the power up instead so you in this case you just bend your knees a bit and pull up and now you feel
because if you can take control of the other guys wrist here we lose the fight so for me
do it I would go back ¡yeah! exactly that's good yes but don't open up but keep the distance over your
shoulder and your hand the same so walking, walking yeah that's a very important thing to do like and
don't show with two obvious, don't, don't show with ten seconds before the fights gonna start ready
then you push up a little bit right because then you have him it's not cheating but if you show
it's like it's like playing poker if you're gonna show everybody you got full house everybody gonna
lay right down the course anyways sure, sure, sure, so before the start you just pull up a bit yeah like that yeah
and the key is here for you to always keep this position like this so it's just never ever come
down here come down there right so if as soon as I go down like that I'm weak you must try and
keep that straight wrist that's why if you're gonna train for armwrestling ¡yes! besides from
what your average grip training all that do a lot of events where you lifting boss or weights this
way ¡yeah! because this is usually the strongest then the weakest chain in the link and as I said
if you're strong there you can take down a much bigger than yourself, now what was the hook one, the
hook one was that that's the one I remember you first told me that about ten years ago you could
pull something like that in from this position what I try to do I this is just to try to kill
of people's technique just hook them in and now we down to more bicep strength Isis oh ¡yeah! so
from this position, you either need to attack this way and from this position you need to pull down
the hallway or you slide a bit forward as you're allowed on the pad ¡yeah! and pull down so you see
cuz what kind of equal they're really on ¡yeah! so and here's the thing you see no actually you are
leading over me ¡yeah! because you are pushing me down here so the best here for me is just to do
this is that an arm lady, arm lady, only knee you just do two structures even lower Avenue ¡yeah! I'm kind
of soft into my for on that yeah nicely tell who's in the lead in a hook just going to the
hook and just if your straighten your fingers and your for your fingers go upwards towards the sky
your, your, you're losing and if your fingers go sideways you're winning in that position
so now but then you can combine the two things and the do combinations but that we take that after a
few fights, right okay, so firstly we'll just show you how it feels with if you put some pressure on
everything it's one unit right first routine keep some back pressure here so you can't escape keep
this tight and just pull it down okay and the other one would be a top rule and then have
two ways to attack they either want to just do like that and take the whole wrist and then just
do that where you go from which is a more simple technique is to go from behind I do do like this
the difference is that on either the first one I'm attacking up here first and the second one
I'm opening everything you said here it seems to be getting first in the attack though every seems
to be the first card but for sure the most famous arm wrestle in history is you vs megaman you might
be six 57 and 155 kilos but he's the biggest man in history and for some reason you were able to
hold his power ¿how was that? because he was I mean it was terrifying to watch and he back then you
were 40 kilos or 30 kilos like I was almost 40 kilos lighter but say yes I started to put back
pressure on I could feel that he was having a weakness in his wrists so the only thing I do
before the start is I'm just pulling him up a bit like this so when a start go sister is starting to
attack East right side that's right he went turned his body is I'm just doing nothing and just hold
holding so he pulls and pulls on us and the more he pulls are just curly I mean more and then after
while we're here you now have him and then I just go sideways and then it's really sort of it it
will never meant to drink it him that the way it happened but it gives a lot of side pressure it
that way any tricks any any cheats final thing any thoughts that was there was the biggest sneakiest
thing I can pull off in the pub any anything I can do the snake is waiting to pull up in the
pub especially after a few beers you would just cheat a bit the slight up high all right so even
me you just try to slice your finger so I'm almost done back pressure straighter back my sister and
now even you're gonna struggle to get me out of there and then just go backwards watch your chance
backwards backwards to through the whole fight right always putting okay not sideways actually
on restoration or I shouldn't you shouldn't hardly never push sideways so much more towards
you and down so if you do that I think you can make you at least a few hundred pounds a night
some people trained to look pretty I just trained so I
can be the Strongest Man that is and then again I'm already
say Magnus Sammuelson the bad greatest arms, Magnus have a biggest yet, arms, arms