So good to see you back, i remember you from the arm wars days and really awesome to see you back at it in this time where armwrestling gets more and more attention
I wonder which version of Lars would win in a supermatch, this one or the bulked one. He's more endurable now, not sure where his strength is. Honestly I'm not sure what his biggest win from the bulk era is, all I know is he looked good practicing with Devon (after Devon had been on the table for a while), and John was able to beat him as the final boss after pinning a bunch of people in a row, oh and Lars has won the Arnold which is big
Imagine Lars and the sideguy look at you like 22:34 and 23:17 , nonstop Personally Id fountain the pee out of myself Are all northern people vikingey like this? They are so badass and scary for sure, esp. for equatorial people like us whor small
Lars is tall and lean like Devon, great to see him use similar technique as Dev. Open toproll with pronation through the frame, take control of the hand and then commit the shoulder to pin.
Given the weight difference, Lars stopping Heta-Morris an inch from the pad is WILD. That's unbelievable strength. One of the most impressive things I've seen in the sport. Imo this match was the best one of the night.
I really think Maate should have won the first round when Lars did a little elbow lift on the way to very quickly being very-much pinned. That should not have saved him. Wouldn't have changed the outcome, but still. Awesome match.
Yep. WAL running foul system eliminates that. Why people don’t use WAL true running foul system is beyond me especially if we wanna reach new eyes. Fouls should never ever save the person who is losing.
29:52 round 5, Lars also appeared to elbow foul himself same time with Heta Morris. From this video camera angle, we can't clearly see elbow position of Heta Morris (he looks ok) but Lars's elbow looks very out of the pad. IMO, at least, this one should be 2 athletes both get elbow off the pad and it should equalized the call, no foul. When I watched to this timecode 29:52 I thought the elbow foul called for Lars and surprise Hristo called it for Heta Morris.
@@Dmgolfer22 - I like running fouls, but only if the foul is enough to warrant a running foul. So microscopic elbow bobbles for example are ignored. Also if the opponent does a huge elbow foul, intentionally taking a running foul to get into a really good position to drain you, then that would be a straight-up foul (which would be determined by like, obvious position gained, via the foul). Then if one KEEPS their elbow off the pad, to by-pass the running foul and go straight to a foul-foul, to get the restart, that's insane and should be considered as them stopping pulling, and they lose the round. I say. Running fouls can really sap all the energy out of pullers, and then there's a huge advantage for the pullers with more endurance or who are being more efficient. So they shouldn't be handed out like candy. John Brzenk likes foul-restarts, but that also means he has to beat the opponent twice every single round, because they essentially have a free-life to use up. Which does make more sense to have fouls in a losing position be a loss, if it's going by restart-fouls... to make it harder for them to intentionally go for a foul-restart... I just don't think that should mean that slips right above the pad should equal a win/loss.
@@3enjamin - Yea Lars came off the back before he finished slipping. Though I think there should be some leway with slipping. Slipping is very fast and messy, and it sucks to see calls made based on that, unless it's very obvious. Same with slips right above the pin-pad, I think they should just get the slip and go to straps. I hate the foul in a losing position rule. Denis Cyplenkov started hooking a lot more after he was losing to people who would use speed to get him just above the pin-pad and then the opponent intentionally slips, and then the ref gives them the victory because it looks like Denis fouled to escape being pinned (or slipped either way), when in reality he wasn't going to be pinned, and would have came back if the other guy held on (not that they SHOULD hold on). Harder to slip a hook.
Lars has insane power he reminds me kinda of devon similar build. That dudes breathing never even changed. Thats crazy. His cardio it un-worldly . He should train with larratt. I actually bet on lars. I was happy to see him pull it off. The guys crazy strong.
Wow im new to Lars' armwrestling career...how much potential does this cat have aye? Sheez...and hes got a DEEP....DEEP...gas tank it seems. Huge fan of his now. And a great fight given by The Beast too 💪 I have to say the Aussie AW and coach Ray were entrrtaining as hell too, theyre really getting good at it. I love seeing the guys that been around coming along with the sports success.
Fun fact regarding Lars endurance: He has/had a company in Norway that earned a lot of money, snowplowing and digging cabins out of the snow. He was basically shoveling snow 10-12 hours a day. Probably been favorable to his endurance😆
Note tho this is still "not very technical Lars". Imagine he start again armwrestling with full comitment, and get mentoring from good master such as Mindaugas Tarasaitis (HWMAW)
Some calls were incorrect, there were instances where Lars was pinning Morris and just second before the pin Morris get elbow foul in losing position and they should had counted as a pin and instead they restart all over again. Lars must have elbows of pure f*ckin steel with so much restarts, holy f*ck !
