176 Open Class - 2025 Illinois State Armwrestling Championships

[@A_Mystery_Man]

That amateur to pro transition is tough. Not only are a lot of the pros freaky strong, but they are also fairly decent at their move technically.

[@PlamenTheArmwrestler]

Yeh they have practice their move 10000 times by now. I'm still figuring out my move Which why I keep switching things up in my videos

[@justaguyfromreddit]

good shit, first pro competitions are always a steep jump

[@PlamenTheArmwrestler]

Went from armwrestling amateurs to top 15 in USA. XD

[@JBirch1990]

Nice to meet you in person finally, keep up the hard work Plamen. 💪🏽

[@PlamenTheArmwrestler]

It was a pleasure meeting you as well. I look forward to seeing your progression too!

[@kontakostyler]

Excellent video brother. 176 ammy out of florida here, had my first amateur tournament last year and came in second place and looking to get into some more action around march or so. Maybe we'll get to arm wrestle one day!

[@PlamenTheArmwrestler]

If you are in Chicago come to practice!! Congrats on second place !

[@TheRealPBJ]

Excellent video 💪

[@JacobLurz]

Beast

[@PlamenTheArmwrestler]

Go to 4:20 you'll see the best part of the video.

[@JacobLurz]

@@PlamenTheArmwrestlerlol I made the cut

[@PlamenTheArmwrestler]

@@JacobLurz I still have to post the other classes Jasmine took a bunch of videos of you

[@HandelandJ]

Good stuff!!! I’ll have to make it down next year.

[@PlamenTheArmwrestler]

Come through!

[@edgaredge3971]

Not Mirzad Kablić blocking the view at 5:29 😂 Lane Perry vs James Sample im guessing.

[@edgaredge3971]

There is a video missing. Austin Mast vs lane perry at 21:50

[@edgaredge3971]

That was a good one to watch. Lots of great matches lol.

[@PlamenTheArmwrestler]

Thank you! Yea I may have miss one or two but this was the most

[@Bstnrules]

That must have been pretty cool. Question, on your second lose RH, it looked like your knuckles were way lower than the opponent’s. Were you trying to do something specific? You have the passion no question.

[@PlamenTheArmwrestler]

Good question So I try knuckles up and stronger riser for this guy before in my previous match I think on left hand but he still completely overtook my pronation. I grabbed him lower and dump riser a little to protect my pronation to see if I can do something to his wrist. Either way he’s a beast I couldn’t do anything If you see my first match I knew he wanted to hook me so I dump my riser to protect my pronation and take his pronation .

[@PlamenTheArmwrestler]

He’s pretty high in the rankings for 176 so there was a big strength deficit.

[@MrJr01]

I had my first aw competition last week. Also lost 4 matches and won 1 match 😅

[@PlamenTheArmwrestler]

Where was your tournament at?

[@MrJr01]

@PlamenTheArmwrestler A small place in the Netherlands called Urk.

[@PlamenTheArmwrestler]

its good experience. Dont let it bring ya down!

[@MrJr01]

@@PlamenTheArmwrestler I weighed in at 67 kg's and signed up for beginners under 90kg's weight class. There was no other weight class in beginners. So I'm actually proud of the fact that I still won 1 match.

[@PlamenTheArmwrestler]

That's really good. You probably went up against some really big dudes. Good job!