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don't don't um make yourself fall
short you know it's it's so easy to
to accept that nothing is going to
happen for you
you know that you're just gonna be
another number that's the easiest way
you know get a job nine till five and
that's easy
you know it's it's accept that something
can happen
that you have to put the work in it's
just don't be scared of hard work
and you know let the
that fire that you've got on your belly
you know translate into something good
you know if you've got that passion and
that drive
so i'm tom stokeman and i'm a
professional straw man and i'm one half
of the
world's strongest brothers my name's
luke stoltman i'm 35 years old i'm a
professional strongman you know being
the strongest brothers that's
cool you know but let's not sell
ourselves short it's
the two strongest men in the world and
to be highlanders from scotland
that would be epic you know finding
someone something you love to do and
i was never kind of the guy that wanted
to go out on weekends and drinks so
i thought i'd put all my time into the
gym and get fit and
just build myself up you know it was
just more for me to make myself
confidence
confident around people you know meet
new people and yeah it kind of excels
quickly from there
for tom and i strongest brothers in
history first brothers in history to
ever make the world's strongest man
final
that's never ending i just want to make
this name a legacy you know
i want to be i don't want to just one
world strongest man once i just want to
win it a multiple times i want to break
as many records as i can i just want
this name to be like
as soon as someone says straw man they
remember this name stokeman they're
making a legacy with
being the strongest brothers to ever
live which is
mind-boggling like i said coming from a
small town in vergarden
doing something easy you get a lot of
reward from it
doing something hard and succeeding it
doing a marathon climbing mount everest
lifting 500 kilos putting 230 kilos
above your head
those are extremely hard things to do
but the reward
is never ending you need to do the hard
path you know you can't just have it
easy you know if it was easy everyone
would do it see myself improving love
pushing my body to limits that it's
never been before and i just love that
buzz when you do something
that like no other human can do
to kind of be the best in like the world
you kind of have to
you know go places where no one's going
to go take your body to places
no one's going to go to be the strongest
brothers ever lived
if we said that 10 15 years ago people
would laugh at me
i've said it to the promoters and stuff
tom and i are going to be the strongest
brothers that ever lived and they
laughed at me
the highland warrior aspect you know
that's when i
started kind of doing strong man and
strength that's what
you know i envisioned myself to be it's
like almost like a modern day kind of
highland warrior
now you know we're going to battle with
the strongest men in the world
and and that's what we want to do we
want to show scotland for what it is
it's
a strong nation full of strong men and
and that's what has been
historically
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a teacher said oh you're not gonna do
nothing and that kind of stuck
with people of additional needs you know
if some someone says that they'll
believe it
and i believe that for a long long time
it doesn't matter where you're from
it's really about how much you want to
succeed in something and i think wanting
to be successful you shouldn't have any
of these excuses
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whatever you want to do whatever goal
you want to set what if it's the biggest
goal
smallest goals just go out and smash it
because you know i'm kind of
i'm hoping i'm an example of it you know
and i've proved
hundreds and hundreds of people wrong
and that's what kind of
i'm wanting a lot of other people to do
and that's what i'm trying to show
people that
you know just because i've got
asperger's doesn't mean i'm going to sit
back and
not achieve goals you know i want to be
the best in the world and i'm going to
be the best in the world so
yeah i just think posit have a positive
attitude to everything you do and just
be around
positive people and you'll get far in
life for those two things
you only get one life don't don't throw
it away by
being in something that you hate doing
you know it's
and i think our mum passed passing away
that really kind of installed that kind
of thinking it's like
your life is just so fragile
my mum was my biggest fan you know she
she came to every single competition i'd
done the last words that
she said to me was uh you know achieve
achieve what you want to do and
that stuck with me and that's what she
said go for your dreams and my dream was
to be world's choice man so that's kind
of
driven i was driven myself and luke big
time because
like she's still there in spirit like i
always have her in the the back of my
head like what would mum think what
would mum think
it's a massive drive like that's given
me since she's gone that's given me an
extra 20 30
you know on every lift like
when you're watching someone
or cancer you know you're watching her
someone that's like
the that pit me of everything um
go through that much pain that's like i
have pain not
squatting not i've got sore knees that's
not pain man she inspired me
no way to like push through that
whatever limit that i thought i had i'm
just pushing through and breaking
through
and that's one of the reasons that was
like thinking about mum what
mum you know would want for me or would
she want me to take a chance
and go out and go get my passion
that's uh i'm i'm done offshore 15 years
in the pub scene
uh well i could have done that i could
have done this i could have them strong
man's kinda
made me believe i'm more than just
another number working for someone else
you know you're just a number to that
company but because a strong man i'm
more than a number i'm
i'm luke stolman professional strongman
one of the strongest men in the world
for tom and i you know to be putting the
stoltman name
in the history books the first brothers
in history to ever reach the world's
strongest man final so effectively the
strongest brothers
has ever lived it's a legacy i'm trying
to create for my family and
it's it is everything at the moment
putting yourself in situations that you
never thought you could handle is
a great feeling as well you know because
like i've been in a situation in
strawberry where luke's not been there
you know i have to get out of it myself
don't make excuses and just have some
pride in what you do just to
be the next big thing is because i want
that title more than anything right now
for me it's the most colossal title in
the world you know like world's
strongest man
just know that it's possible don't
ever let anyone say that you can't do
tom and i are literally the living proof
that
you can't achieve it i won't stop until
i get that title and nothing like no one
nothing will get in my way and
world strongest man is what i say every
day and when i'm in the gym and have the
down days that's
well strong as mine goes through my head
and that's what keeps me going and
keeps me eating that next meal and easy
path hard path
hard path every time every time i'm
going to do a sport i love it and
when the day i fall out a lot of it with
the day i stop and i'm already planning
a 350
360 you know stone list so like i want
that stone to be like no one can touch
it like
myself six in a competition i thought to
myself you know it's like
these guys have got so much more than i
ever will have and they're so much
stronger than
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the day i fall in love with it will be
the day i stopped but if that means
i've won five strong with man titles
then i'll do it but with strawman you
know you're away from family you know
you have to kind of sacrifice a lot of
things and
you know you have to be mentally and
physically strong i think it's one of
the toughest sports you can do and for
me having
asperger's you know and autism and you
know telling putin out there that like
people with this
disability can't do stuff you know and
it's just a label and
yeah strong man's my life i live breathe
and die this sport and
i do it because i love it you know and
just take the plunge and 100
just if you want to do it just go for it
you know that's
two brothers that are not just on that
national stage but on like the world
stage and kind of
are proving to people that like you know
there's something in scotland and we're
going to
dominate the worlds yeah i guarantee you
that uh
there's gonna be a one and two stop one
world straws man in the next few years
and we're both gonna win world's
strongest man before luke finishes
career
for us to be able to say that we are the
strongest brother ever lived and the two
strongest men on the planet
that's a mic drop
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