A Brief History of the Atlas Stones

[@andrewcrichton6631]

Pudzanoski vs poundstone at finals WSM, millimeters decided the title that year!

[@robertbucks5537]

Or Pudz and Pfister the year before (iirc). Was so entertaining.

[@letdomf]

2008 !

[@dongatello6969]

If he hadn’t had dropped that stone he would’ve won

[@antoniocenteno1483]

Not milimiters but i mistake rotation Derek did, he should be 1XWSM

[@dongatello6969]

Antonio Centeno Him and O.D. are probably the strongest men to never win.

[@branominal]

Wes Clayborn also hit 256 on the same day Tom hit 256 and 273, less of a significant lift in itself, but for a guy who is not well known and is also significantly shorter than guys like Brian, Tom and Thor, I thought it was an incredible lift. He is still officially the second strongest stone lifter ever, and Tom's 286 putting him 11.7% further ahead than Wes just goes to show how ridiculous Tom's stone ability is. For context, the jump from 465 to 500 in the deadlift was 'only' 7.5% I think it'll be a long time before anyone really challenges Tom, I honestly think once he hits the 304, he should push for a 700lb (317.5kg) stone, which would make him the first to hit 3 different immense milestones in stone lifting (600lb, 300kg and 700lb). I think it would be decades before anyone else hits another huge milestone, and Tom's legacy would likely live on for as long as stone lifting is a thing

[@Sobersunrise]

You're the David Attenborough of strongman! Excellant video, Loz!!!

[@BigLozOfficial]

Thank you buddy

[@twecharclimber]

For me is got to be Jon Pall Sigmarsson, I saw him at the Callander highland games in 1988 or 89 without being disrespectful he was a prime athlete where as his competitors were although awesome had giant farmer type physiques, he also took time out for fans and seemed just a nice guy, obviously I have biases I was only 17 then and was awestruck, still am when looking back💪👊🙌🙌

[@MoltenGriefing]

Love these videos as someone who's only started following the sport recently its nice to see some historical background on events and lifts! Hope you do more

[@MoltenGriefing]

Luke Holland Boxing is my favourite sport but yeah I do love Strongman

[@dabneystephens1443]

If back when Brian Shaw was taking the stones to crazy weights, if he would have had the competition from Tom it is hard to say where they would have taken it. I would love to see them both concentrate on stones so we could see it.

[@hector-lu7cc]

Hey Loz, the reason why in 1989 the stones were lifted in a different way (above the shoulder) is because the WSM was held in San Sebastián, so they adapted the event to match the traditional "basque stone lifting". The record was set at 329kg by Mieltxo Saralegi in 2003. There have been another 4 men to lift over 300kg, the most famous one being Iñaki Perurena with 320kg, back in the 90's

[@BigLozOfficial]

Awesome, I love all the historical different lifts around the world

[@meginna8354]

Inaki Perurena also holds the world record of heaviest Atlas stone to shoulder, before Atlas stones were even a thing in strongman and noone has matched him since

[@skude3]

This series is great

[@Allan_Melon]

Your killing it with content! Love it, no one better to talk about history of strongman then a strongman himself, awesome Loz

[@robmassey8148]

My favourite KZbin channel here, Loz. So informative and you can see the hard work you put in! Please keep it going :) Hope to see your channel grow as it deserves.

[@BigLozOfficial]

Thanks buddy. I’m glad people are enjoying the content

[@imranullah1319]

@@BigLozOfficial hey are you stronger than a gorilla

[@biscuittechnician]

Tom is the stone king, i want to see that battle! you have the connections Loz!! start dropping hints

[@Scotlandsworstgamer]

Tom is untouchable imo. Love the bigman.

[@driftsnlifts]

i cant stop watching your vids loz. currently training for my first ever strongman comp

[@BigLozOfficial]

Thank you buddy

[@SamuraiBatgirl]

I think Brian Shaw is my favorite stone lifter. He's just good at everything and he was the first strongman I saw do the stones. He just seemed so methodical. Stoltman is the king right now, but I think for me Brian will be to the stones what Eddie is to the deadlift. They aren't the record holders anymore, but the lifts were so incredible you can't not remember them. Love your videos, dude. Have a good one.

[@BoydsrandomAlt]

To me yah I guess Eddie is the best deadlifter of his time he was ahead of everyone but I think he should be more known for his pressing power he was unbelievable even compared to someone like big z we were rob of tremendous battles with there primes being far apart

[@gryhelen444]

LOVE this!!🥰 Right now it seems like Tom will be the strongest stone lifter. I would love to see Tom and Brian battle it out. But I don't think Brian has been training much with stones lately. It'll be interesting to see if he'll start that up again, now that Tom has broken his record..

[@guliverovi]

I love this Thors picture, looks like a Blastoise or something

[@CK-iy3hx]

Great footage! I am really grateful you are summarizing the history of Strongman for us. Please give us more!

[@draverraj]

Nummisto is my favorite stone lifter. In WSM 1986 he was the first man to lift the 140kg stone in competition. He was the oldest man in the tournament, 5 years older than Capes, a decade older than Jon Pall, I seriously doubted he could do it, but he handled the 5th stone like a pro and it was absolutely amazing. One of my favorite WSM moments ever.

[@johnacoundouridesmrc9324]

This is awesome loz! Thanks big man

[@tommenzies1993]

Great video! I'm really excited that you included my family manhood stone in your list of notable Scottish stones - the Menzies stone. I'm training to lift the stone later this year. The Clan Menzies tradition was that a male must lift the stone to achieve manhood and to be able to get married - although my girlfriend somehow doesn't seem to agree this is a valid reason to wait! Watch out, Menzies is pronounced "Mingis". Great content, looking forward to more of this series :)

[@BigLozOfficial]

This is so cool. I hope you lift It buddy and thanks for the pronunciation. I’m planning a trip upto scotland soon to lift all the traditional Scottish stones

[@tommenzies1993]

@@BigLozOfficial Thanks, enjoy your trip!

[@APOKALYPSE34]

As someone that just started training strongman events and just got 3rd stone and a platform I really enjoy it and learning more about the history. Thanks for the history lesson!

[@DazDc]

Well done Big Loz. Bringing channel to new levels. Keep it up.

[@brainchilddesigner]

Love this educational format. Thank you for the info. Keep up the hard work.

[@reeceogle5092]

This series is amazing, brilliant stuff loz!

[@Vivando]

thank you very much. I like this alot mr warrior man :) greetings from Faroe Islands

[@franz61xxl13]

Thanks LOZ ! GREAT docu. vid. ! ! my wife and me was waiting for it, off we go ;-) ;-) ;-)

[@Backyard_Chickens]

Thanks Loz, great video. I really hope the 2021 Shaw Classic will have a stone battle between Brian Shaw and Tom Stoltman. That would be awesome!!!

[@fabiank485]

Thats the content we fans want to see😎🤗

[@allanmackie5803]

Great video. Thanks

[@hamishhamilton9287]

Great to see such informed, well presented content. The history videos you make are great. Tom is gonna keep smashing it. Cant wait for next WSM

[@danmilton5629]

Keep it up buddy! Enjoying the content!

[@endgame1436]

Can’t wait to see more been enjoying all ur vids

[@zubinel9540]

BIG LOZ! You d man! I love these little history videos. Keep em up!

[@springhillfitness6837]

Great vid! Maybe Basque stone lifters would have been worth a mention along with the Icelanders.

[@scienceownsimposters2142]

Exactly.This is literally a Basque tradition.

[@laforte1979]

Loved the stone run by Mateusz Kieliszkowski at World Ultimate Strongman 2019in which he was so good he did 8 stones basically with one arm due to a torn bicep. Incredibly impressive.

[@MoltenGriefing]

my opinion from watching everyone lift Stones I think Stoltman can take the record up to maybe 320-325kg and i dont think it will be beaten for a very long time.

[@mustang8206]

Brian Shaw maybe and Hafthor could have if he wasn't training for the fight

[@fanfeck2844]

Kieran , yes, Toms got the perfect body for it right now, huge long arms and not to big in chest and stomach, which reduces your reach. In the future when his frame gets bigger he might not be as good as he is now

[@MrHyabusa1300]

@@mustang8206 Brian is slowing up

[@los1wochos]

Great video

[@shawnyetman6875]

I like the Denny stones. Just so damn impressive the raw strength

[@tomrender89]

Loving these history series :). There's a really good Netflix doc about the Iceland stones but they didn't mention all the stones you did so props to you Big Loz :)

[@darrellwinter9487]

Kieliszkowski is my favorite stone lifter. He posted on Instagram a couple years ago doing a 360 lb atlas stone press in training. He also repped out the 400 kg natural stone for 5 reps to his shoulder when no one else could do more than one. Tom is amazing, no doubt, but MK is a freak.

[@chancellorrussell5946]

I think for my all time favorite stone lifter, I'd give my accolades to Magnus Samuelsson. First one to finish a 5 stone run under 30 seconds and had a similar dominance in his day to what Tom has today. Not the first King of the Stones, but definitely the first to have such a strong hold on it! 💪

[@pumagatt]

Very good vídeo! TKS for this...

[@samarthur1847]

Nice bit of trivia, at the 5:55 point DP and BS are lifting the stone over a bar made by Sorinex, a company owned by Richard Sorin, who I think was the first to close the COC 3 gripper.

[@Jqteadventures1659]

Great video friend! I love Brian shaw! But you know Tom stoltman is going to smash it!

[@codyratliff8302]

If it wasn’t for the fight I’d love to see Eddie do it ! Good vid as always Loz!

[@michaelarmitage3888]

Hi Loz, I’m loving the history series and your interviews with past greats, would you consider doing an interview with Gerrit Badenhorst, as a South African and strength history fan, I would love to hear from this legend, keep up the awesome content 💪🏻💪🏻

[@BigLozOfficial]

I have contacted Gerrit but still waiting for a response. I would love to chat with him as he was one of my favourites

[@michaelarmitage3888]

Big Loz Official That’s awesome, I hope you’re able to get him on, keep it up 💪🏻💪🏻

[@perryfight]

Awesome video. Keep the great content coming. 💪

[@jk-tn8ry]

Awesome vid, can't wait for more history of vids. Think my fave is fattisimus ( not spelt right all) stone lifts with pundstone

[@nontrickpony]

I really love these history of vids

[@Thelgren00]

Excellent 😎💪

[@BulkBrogan.]

It's always insane to me how far they made the competitors walk with the stones in the earlier competitions

[@martynkurr2126]

Thanks Loz, top-quality work as ever. Arild Haugen has to be one of the greatest stonemen of all time - guy was crazy fast and the classic jump onto the 5th plinth was the icing on the cake.

[@BigLozOfficial]

Absolutely! I was the poor bugger against him that day lol

[@martynkurr2126]

@@BigLozOfficial Aah, of course you were! No wonder he didn't make the documentary 😉

[@Maddolis]

Hahah I was just about to post the video but had to scan the comments first! One of the most memorable stones run of all time. It's a shame boxing was there to steal this fine strongman away (sounding familiar...) - but to each their own, I guess. watch?v=_1WTaeC7yQM

[@demetriuscooksey7147]

This was fun to watch! Record Breakers needs to approach the three you mentioned, but now that Thor is giving up Pro Strongman for ametuer boxing it might just be Brian and Tom. It would be epic either way!

[@lucascheidegger1625]

Great content thanks loz

[@BigLozOfficial]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@lucascheidegger1625]

@@BigLozOfficial short question do you have any advice on how to implement a squat in a strongman competition so everybody has the same squat Standart as we are trying to include it. Thanks

[@stevesedgwick5789]

Interesting and thanks

[@thechristopher473]

Love the stones

[@Unclejona]

I always remember Darren S failing the first stone, not because he couldn't lift it but because the platform was too high. Always seemed unfair to me that strength meant you had to be tall :(

[@Insectoid_]

Yes big boss man!!! 💪

[@Galois32]

Hey Loz, small thing but "Menzies" is pronounced "Ming - es". Weird I know. Nice lift from you in the vid. Favourite lifts have gotta -Donald Dinnie himself moving those stones across the bridge. - seeing the McGlashen stones on Blue Peter as a kid in the early 90s, and Gary Taylor winning on them around the same time. my earliest memories of strongman. - Tom lifting the 304 in a few months time ;) Thanks for the respect you show to Scotland too mate

[@howtowanderlust]

Great content.

[@mach_bar4692]

Great history - thx for sharing this. The Soltman's are the king of the stones. Luke should change his name to Luke Stoneman

[@mackindle12345]

One moment that never seems to get talked about enough... Arild Haugen in the 2008 WSM heats (against Big Loz, no less!) lifted all five stones in 16.14 seconds - I've never seen anything like that before or since

[@BigLozOfficial]

He was a fantastic stone lifter

[@fairyhardcore]

Poundstone Vs Puszianowski WSM final 2008

[@Daniel.Patrick.Walsh88]

This was great 👊

[@danhoude2749]

Nice video

[@JoshHigginbotham8716]

Good stuff

[@TomHenksYT]

Awesome content, Loz! As somebody else mentioned, I will never forget the epic battle between Mariusz Pudzianowski and Derek Poundstone in the 2008 WSM final, it was so close! By the way, I'd love to sign up for online training with you but it seems like it's currently unavailable on your website.

[@johnhorton5022]

nice time line and reminder of the history of the stones. seen so many awesome stone battles and performances over the decades. great content Loz ! [ by the way, will you talking with Svend Karlsen ? ]

[@BigLozOfficial]

I want to make that happen

[@sheenamcconnachie6592]

No one comes close to Tom Stoltman, king 👑 of the Stones 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 💪 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@jeremyburris4890]

Tom Stoltman is unbeatable in the atlas stones right now. Hes bound for a wsm win imo.

[@TravelsWithATwist]

Is this a re-upload?

[@BigLozOfficial]

Yes. I spotted a few small mistakes with the last video and couldn't stand it. Had to fix it!

[@codyratliff8302]

And I must say the beard is on point right now! Few more weeks and I believe your beard go for the deadlift record! Haha

[@philipforeman7676]

OMG, that man who lifted an atlas stone weighing over 600LBS, that's what I call fuckin insane strength.

[@alertedcoyote7892]

Ayy first in, have a good day Loz

[@leebell7585]

Brilliant as usual big guy! Any chance of interviewing 5 x WSM Mariuz? There’s a guy with a fantastic history in strength yet, seems to have dropped off the radar and barely gets a mention these days.. Always enjoyable. Thanks brother 👌🏻

[@BigLozOfficial]

I’ve been trying to get hold of him but no luck so far

[@leebell7585]

Big Loz Official it would be wonderful to hear from the great man. I know his career has gone in another direction now but, in light of Thor vs Eddie, his insight on this alone, would be most interesting. Plus, of all the greats over the years, his background seems particularly intriguing. Fascinating character with a certain mystique about him - a beast too. Anyway, great work and always entertaining and informative. 👍🏻

[@calogeroavanzato398]

Great stuff as usual Big Loz. Can I ask you about the strongman contests in the 70s and of that one super strong little guy Franco Columbo. How strong was he considering he was so small

[@BigLozOfficial]

Loved watching the old shows from the 70’s Franco was a beast

[@inciteful2216]

What is the origin of the "mcglashen stones" specifically. Do the original stones exist somewhere?

[@copperjacket00]

Much liked stone king TOM STOLTMAN.

[@mustang8206]

The Mcglashen stones were thought 3by impossible until Kaz did all 5

[@roytromb_strength]

Why couldn’t you show the Magnus/Manfred footage? Was that the only change from the original? I think I’ve seen that footage in plenty other videos. Weird.

[@dales4726]

Big Z dropping one on his chest

[@IsaacMorgan98]

You entirely missed basque country! Home of the worlds greatest stone lifters. In the early 90s they had a 105-110kg lifter shoulder a 211kg stone

[@DoggoWillink]

Damn, I would’ve been just beyond a weakling. I am a very small guy, so I guess I can’t expect much more. If my entire reputation depended on it though, lol, I could probably lift a 100 kg stone, or at least 200 pounds (if I really prepared for it). Makes you realize how huge these dudes are.

[@antoniocenteno1483]

My 10 favorite stone moments: 10. Thor vs Big z WSM 2014 9. Hafthor Bjornsson carrying the Hussaffell stone for over 200 mts ASC 2019 (And Novikov) 8. Big Z vs Pudzianowski WSM 2009 7. Brian Shaw Atlas Stone record at the ASC 2016 6. Kieliskowski beats Thor at trial by stone ASC 2020 5. Mariusz Pudzianowski vs Derek Poundstone WSM 2008 4. Brian Shaw breaks the Dinnie Stone carrying record at History Channells´Strongman program 3. Phil Pfister vs Mariusz Pudzianowski WSM 2006 2. Tom Stoltman Breaks Brian Shaw´s record at ASC RB 2020 1. Tom Stoltman breaks his own world record with a 286 KG Atlas Stone Honorable mention: Shivlyakov soldiers up after his third atlas stone misrotate and land on the place of the fourth stone, he carrys the fourth stone to the higher place at wich the third should be and lifts it there completing the lift and the atlas circuit at ESM 2019

[@jonathanvince8173]

My favorite was Donna Moore over the stones just amazing the only one to lift all the female set stones and break the worlds record.

[@georgnemlander7120]

Would love to see an atlas stone world record without tacky. Im guessing it would be pretty far from 300kg though.

[@craigmackinnon4340]

Tom is king of the stones 💪🏻 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@dsy4946]

What year did they allow tacky back into the wsm?

[@BigLozOfficial]

It was only 2003 that it wasn’t aloud

[@benjaminpovlsen8900]

tom is the king of the stones

[@KianCortada-Covarrubias]

2:20 oh my fckin God Who thought it was a good idea to have the crowd behind them when their trying to toss it on their shoulder?

[@tlenkeeb829]

Tom "stoneman" Stoltman

[@scienceownsimposters2142]

Stone lifting is a Basque tradition.....

[@thesupportingcast6972]

Loz, you look scary when you decide to! But we all know better 😁

[@stephenreeves314]

Andrew "stumpy" Raynes... probably strong enough to outline most competitors at wsm but at 1.6 metres high struggled to get the first stone on the platform.

[@stephenreeves314]

Outlift*

[@jameschristy9966]

Tom will take it up to 700 lbs witch is insane

[@lytken]

sorry loz i do not like these documentaries you make, I FREAKY LOVE THEM :* please make more and longer ones

[@arijitganguly1758]

There is a stone in front of every Hanuman temple in India

[@riselikethephoenix1]

No one is close to tom stoltman in the stones. Not even close. Not shaw. Not thor. Not even close.

[@michaeltuckerman6983]

Brian and Tom 600-600-5700

[@steemonkey2000]

Great video