bill kazmaier full powerlifting meet

[@petetang1985]

this wasn't a competition, someone just happened to be filming bill doing his warm ups

[@TheMightykaz]

That is what you call SUPER GENETICS mixed in with hard work.

[@sirgalalot88]

Bill is/was such a strong man!!!! I look up to him, lotta respect. I hope one day I can be somewhere near his power.

[@steelbrand]

He is my Idol. What an impressive strongman, athlete, and humanitarian. He inspired my 9 year old son to be the best he can be through taking an interest in him at a speech he made and I hope to inspire my son in the future like Kaz once did.

[@frankcolliton10]

This guy Kaz, and V. Alexieve from Soviet Union were my inspirations as a youth. Now in my early 60s I still idolize them.

[@Berzerker1386]

thats real power totaly raw, no bech or squat suits there

[@derkypoo42]

@dragery kazmaier tore his pec in a strongman meet bending a steel rod. he pressed 300kg before that (661lbs) in a meet. this is also why you never see that strongman event anymore.

[@thenerdking]

Bill is amazing. I love seeing the low gear lifting and super deep squats. Kick ass vid. Thanks.

[@topformfitness]

Massive and powerful! A legend!

[@xjcms]

this is what motivated me in the 80's to start lifting i say 80's cause i was a teenager but i started lifting with guys like this who made fun of you if you didn't go low on a squat. much less a meet go to a local gym and see what they call squats these days looks like walk out to me. cause of hip problems can only squat round 405 now but i would'nt change nothing. kaz yu're one of my hero's.

[@sgberta]

It's strange that he only went to barely over 500 on his bench. He set a record in bench at 661 lbs at one point.

[@tastefulphrasing]

His eyes are nothing but focused. I love his eyes.

[@Crocodile25]

I agree. Every single event now is an endurance event, usually doing a weight for numerous reps, or doing some sort of carrying/pushing event that is over 30 seconds long. I think there needs to be an equal mix of those events with the pure 1 rep max type strength events for it to be as exciting as it could be. And I wish they would be creative with the events like they were in the early 80's...

[@dkjdkj74]

That's so cool. I have no sound, but I can tell Bill is upset that his 2nd Deadlift didn't pass, because despite lifting the weight easy he let it fall a few inches when he was done...His last attempt he clearly lowers it while holding it and looks at the judges!

[@HeavyJ318]

David Jaworski That judge was so intimidated from just that stare he tried to have Kaz evicted from the building. True story

[@MadLip78]

Watching this guy in the Strongman comps was something else! He had sick strength!

[@justinmitchell691]

If u really wanna bulk up... Eat alot, lift weights, and drink alot of milk.... That's it, it is that simple

[@rfjohns1715]

Kaz was a good all around lifter and look how deep squats were performed compared to today with suits and very very wide leg stance.

[@stuqua]

Awesome look on his face before going under the bar for the 826lbs squat.

[@whfd322]

That was cool vintage stuff. My brother called me from up north. He met Kaz last week and Kaz said he doesnt even lift weights any more. These guys were great. Did you see Kaz needing help to get his squat suit down. You are right derek. He wasnt really unequipped. A squat suit that tight is almost as good as one used now. I never realized that. thanks for posting the vid dude. Hope all is well.

[@yasinpatel12345]

i really admire kaz as a true strength athlete..why couldn't they keep the lifting simple like it was back then today

[@NorwichGrad97]

@krakistophales I agree 100%. The problem with the sport of powerlifting is that there are so many federations. Multiple feds, multiple rules. Whereas Olympic weightlifting only has 1 fed.

[@ortizdr81]

The legend!

[@TheSpiritWalk]

Damn that is a close stance squat...damn near oly style...plenty deep and coming up smooth and fast

[@Vazcular]

@fmarotte He would have eventually gotten 700 RAW IMO. That pec tear from bending the steel bar in the 81' WSM really effected him from then on.

[@Polarcupcheck]

An incredible athlete.

[@rdedo10]

Kaz is just a beast. They don't make powerlifters like him anymore.....

[@tomn53]

Kaz is one of the few powerlifters that has a perfect squat. Today its a miracle if the heavy squatters get down to parallel . Mike Millers 1220 squat is not 1/4 of the way down that kaz squat is.

[@airtime48]

bill should have gone for more in the squat and deadlift. Looked so easy, sooo much accelleration and amazing bar speed

[@mixer14316]

@krakistophales I COULDN'T agree with you more. I never see powerlifters going that low anymore. Yes, they handle obsene weights, but they have very wide stances and don't go that low. Kaz was, and is, the man. Just unreal watching him on that squat. You're right.

[@dbarnett87]

man look @ that depth! better than any of the wpo b.s. you see today.

[@derkypoo42]

it would have to be some point after he stopped doing WSM after 83 i think. that marathon suit wasn't around before then. plus he was lifting injured and just lifting enough to win. sandbagging basically

[@CanditoTrainingHQ]

Pound for pound Lamar Gant might take Coan down though

[@slauge]

The half squat is a great exercise for strongman.

[@derkypoo42]

his lifts were at most 90% aside from the bench where he was recovering from a pec tear in WSM. he took easy lifts and buried them cause that's all he needed to win.

[@scottmitchell1974]

Now that's an awesome bench. Full ROM and no shirt!!

[@lutonmale1983]

I think the reason the descent on his second deadlift is deliberately slow is to prevent the bar from slipping out of his hands. The first deadlift did not count as a 'good lift' as Kaz did not have 'control' of the bar all the way down to the floor.

[@Cesiade]

@sgberta at worlds strongest man in 1982 (correct me if I am wrong) he tore one of his pecs during the bending the bar event and his bench was never the same after that.

[@pointman127]

@krakistophales Yeah, but in the IPF the rules still require a full squat(Breaking paralell).

[@krakistophales]

The most important thing to note about this video is that he is also a powerlifter, like modern powerlifters today, also lifting similar weights in similar lifts. The difference? Kaz goes ass to grass with 825 lbs in a textbook form squat, and it's easy for him. Modern powerlifters 1/2 squat 1200 lbs in multiple layer suits, and they struggle to do so. We should all learn from this man's lifting and strive to achieve the same, not the mockery of lifting that is today's powerlifting.

[@Vazcular]

@cyberkai99 Yeah they are. Today's lifter's are a circus act. I don't count any lift with squat suits, bench shirts, or wrist wraps.

[@cyberkai99]

They each have their own particular strengths. Powerlifting is more absolute strength than strongman where strongman requires a lot of endurance strength.

[@warjostrongman]

agreed. He made em look like openers.

[@ThePistolpete1963]

awesome!!!

[@rantanen1]

man he took this meet lightly:P

[@URAGR8M8]

Great pause on the bench and the depth of those squats! In those days they proved it to themselves, they didn't get try and get the biggest numbers with the cheapist tricks.

[@diesel7777777]

Lol. I just knew he was going to hold on to it extra long to make a point. I like how he looks up at the judges, just holding it for an extra five seconds after it's on the platform. "Good enough, bitches?"

[@1Dezan]

Put a suit on him in his prime and.....WATCH HIM GOOOOOOO!!!!!

[@hjejmnse1]

Not like most people think. Kurt Angle could Squat 225x 75 or 50 and his one rep max was around 500. His brother couldn't do that but his one rep max was 720. When you get up to 20 reps + the person with the best endurance will win.

[@vadertheviking]

You wont see guys in APF with form and depth like this.

[@sgberta]

@Cesiade I didn't know that. That would explain it.

[@staplegun16]

does anyone have the entire video ? i would like to see a british lifter called andy kerr who also lifted this year.

[@winston678]

his chest was in bad condition there but he benched 518 pounds.andy kerr from britain almost got over him. .the last deadlift of kaz is unique . sweden 1983

[@MightySaxon55]

this is not a suit. it's a wrestling singlet that does help ur body tense up if anyone has ever wresltied with a tight singlet would know. This is completely raw.

[@rehwwe]

yea man kaz was trying to bring raw powerlifting back last year, and everyone just critisized him, and started calling him arragant, he is a pionier for this sport, and people do this to him

[@TYKKETYKKE]

That is ONE FUCKING EXPLOSIVE SQUAT!

[@jlange73]

yea but derkypoo42, dude, ya still gotta give Kaz credit for this lift. The guy was a monster (and still is) and was lifting those weights like they were nothing. The other competitors were wearing the same quality gear and it's quite obvious they were struggling with their weights. See the other clip of this lifting meet (with sound btw).

[@ofnair]

Benchshirts first arrived in the 90's, and Lars did not use different equipment than Kazmaier, just kneewraps just like Kazmaier did. The only squatsuit by that time that arrived as early as the time of Kazmaiers world records, int hte 70's I believe, was Spanjan, a very primitive suit. Noréns best total was 1075, just 25 kg away from Kazmaier, that was becouse he did "only" benchpress 260 kgs.

[@imsean90]

it looked like geoff capes hurt himself in that event too at the same time kaz did

[@Senseial]

Not only deep on the squat but that is not one of the goofy squat suits of today that need 800 lbs before you can get them to break. Also those knee wraps are little more that ace bandages.

[@sridasaliyange7407]

Full powerlifting

[@derkypoo42]

i don't think anybody see's any wpo anything today, wpo has been gone for a couple years

[@BulletspongeM3]

a fucking beast

[@sb413197]

beast

[@clearliquid]

dave rowe is a giant!

[@tastefulphrasing]

@derkypoo42 I mean, look at the size of those shoulder straps. Yeah, that suit is not doing very much.

[@derkypoo42]

no he uses what looks to be a marathon suit

[@rehwwe]

this is real powerlifting.

[@delboy723]

He made the deadlifts look easy.

[@FUZZYisBIG]

Test is test mate, doesn't matter how pretty the compound it's in, test is test.

[@ARMFlGHT]

@JohnS0045 i know rite? but kaz did bench 660 one time in his life! The man is a total beast i think if he wanted to hie could have sq 900 bp 650 and dl 900 all raw which would crush any total today 2,450lbs!

[@llewgibson]

I viewed your channel mate, really love the content. Subbed straight away, We should connect!

[@cabertosser]

does anyone know when this meet was. If I recall his Raw record was 2450 and these weights didn't look anywhere near that number. And to repeat what a lot of people are saying on this site, could you imagine what he could have done with todays supplements and gear (bench shirt, squat suit - not roids, they had that then).

[@slauge]

equipment IS banned in the RAW PL-federations. But they are always small and attract little interest. Apparently, the people want to see gear, and the lifters want to use it. Everyone likes big numbers.

[@leez92]

That year he earlier tor his pec and could only muster a 500lb bench press, and when I say Only, its because he normally went well over 600

[@blueharleychevy]

Breaking parallel means to go lower than parallel to the floor. Doing deep squats which significantly exceed the line of parallel can be detrimental to the knee joint. Hope this clears up your confusion.

[@scottmitchell1974]

He went to the floor!! He could probably do 1100+ with today's gear and standards!!

[@Livebetter12]

the record 225 for NFL is 49...just FYI

[@raider75alljesus]

this was before the gear really made much more than a 25 pound difference elastic knee wraps and a marathon squat suit not much you can get out of that stuff

[@jdanieljones]

what a rare video

[@sirgalalot88]

DAMN RIGHT! Low gear lifting. I like that.

[@ofnair]

Lars Norén from Sweden did a higher squat and deadlift than him, but didn't have his superior bench sthrength. But that was in 1987.

[@paysonfox88]

Dude, the Kaz did a 661lbs bench RAW in his prime! He's the ultimate bench press master when not injured. After you rip up your entire chest, let's see you come back and bench 600+

[@SJRogers0786]

He made that squat look waaaaaaaaaaaay too easy.

[@elijahmilner9177]

Good Lord he could have repped out all of those weights if he had wanted. Imagine the look on the judges face if he had.

[@MrGentleman78]

That is a awesome comment

[@hjejmnse1]

Obviously but that wasnt the arguement

[@qtpie2630]

"only"

[@kirksman]

Good lord.....that was easy....all his lifts looked easy, just a lil shakey on the bench...... Major strength

[@golftd41]

son meilleur total effectué sans matériel à l"époque sq:400kg dc:300kg st:400kg lontemps inbattu même avec matériel

[@EastCoastPGS]

Kaz benched over 500lbs with a full blown pec tear. Anybody who has ever torn a pec knows this is an impossible feat

[@ryk1265]

KAZ is the shit i give you that, but pound for pound i gotta give it to ED COAN!

[@hawg427]

How fast his 3rd squat went up he could have hit 950 & maybe 1000lb squat that day.

[@tastefulphrasing]

@derkypoo42 But you have to admit, suits then, are NOTHING compared to suits now, where half the weight is being lifted by the suit.

[@mikeyburger1]

THAT SQUAT IS NEVER RAW IS IT OH MY GOD!

[@ShadowLegendxxx]

Mariusz Pudzianowski bench presed 290 kg at age 32 just imagine how much he would bench if he wouldn`t stop strongman :S (all time record in bench press 327 kg)

[@denwilson7278]

It's 335kg.

[@ReBooooo]

that 777 dead was fuckin crazy

[@Con7ent]

lol, can you imagine the GRIP strength you need to hold the 777 lbs in the deadlift? lol his hand could crush someones head

[@mflora72]

way back in 1962 i woke up walked in the dark for a snack........and stepped on a cat!!!!!!! ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

[@Soccasteve]

all the lifts looked ridiculously easy for him, was he going lighter during this meet or something? That's unbelievable

[@shawnofkansas]

I didn't have any sound.