The Best Athlete in Weightlifting | Yurik Vardanyan

[@wesdiaz3075]

"Most of you listening probably assume that the best of Yurik had been and gone...that he had wrung the water from the stone--but he hadn't. Greatness is, indeed, measured by the height of the peak, but legends are measured by the number of peaks--by the size of the mountain range." Take a bow, Seb. Always knew you were a poet, but you've outdone yourself here.

[@WeightliftingHouse]

Thanks Wes, I’m pleased that I was able to get it out right

[@yevgeniyfiskin4781]

That was so good it deserved to be highlighted in the comments!

[@aviationworld8939]

Growing up behind the iron curtain as native Armenian in 70s and 80s he was an iconic legend we all looked up to him and wanted to be like him. Thank you for this wonderful video and biography of Yurik Vardanya. I truly enjoy watching.

[@timothyhays1817]

My lifting coach had Yurik's sequence posted in our gym to show proper technique. My coach was Istvan Javorek. .

[@GS-zh4uy]

A true hero and inspiration for all Armenians 🇦🇲

[@rustyshackleford8473]

Azerbaijan > Armenia

[@unterhaltung3433]

​@@rustyshackleford8473 Azerbaijan is considered one of the worst countries in all international rankings and has not produced any great personalty known worldwide unlike Armenia! If someone like Safarov is a national hero, you should understand the true character of the Azeri nation!

[@rustyshackleford8473]

@@unterhaltung3433 Armenia got spanked in Nagorno Karabakh.

[@unterhaltung3433]

@@rustyshackleford8473 And Azerbaijan in the 90s.

[@JosephStill-in]

@@unterhaltung3433 actually, Gary Kasparov, grossmaster and legend, is from Azerbaijan

[@winanderson4143]

One of my original weightlifting heroes. Amazing replays. Fantastic tribute to the second greatest Sinclair of all time and one of the best athletes the world has ever seen.

[@toomuch9762]

The most impressive thing for me is that he actually made the 230kg clean after already breaking a world record and gone through 6 made attempts. No one else would do that

[@nickcovino2369]

This was the best one yet!!! Love the story at the end. I got chills!

[@WeightliftingHouse]

I’m so pleased!

[@BISHOPSAMA]

Same on the chills.

[@r.europa.m.canada.1554]

Один из сильным Один из любимым один из техничным Штангистом был он в Мире-Таких долго не будет ещё. Жал что так рано ушёл из жизнь 62 года. Пусть земля будет для тебя пухом-Юрик Варданян. Он был старше меня на три года. /1956-1959

[@Timonn87]

Вы были знакомы?

[@kwwillson]

I can’t thank you enough for the work that you have put in to these documentaries. You shed light on things we would have never known and are keeping the history of our (fragile) sport alive. All of this makes me want to be a better person and lifter. Thanks dude.

[@troyb5843]

You should do one on Yury Zakharevich. He may not be the goat by Sinclair or total, but his records of 210/250.5/455 as a non super aren’t talked about enough

[@maco1985]

Well he's the third greatest in history by sinclair, so I guess he should follow next.

[@barath4545]

This. Zak was TRUELY amazing and his hair was very un-Soviet at the time :) I mean when we look at non-supers doing 240 CJs then we are in true rare territory and then find me non-supers snatching 200+. Hell, find me (many) supers doing 200+ in snatch. And he did WAY more than that!

[@SilencedButNotForgotten]

What is a "non super"?

[@maco1985]

@@SilencedButNotForgotten nonsuper = weightlifter that doesn't compete in the super heavyweight class. At the time of Zak, supers were 110+kg. He was in the 110kg class.

[@SilencedButNotForgotten]

@@maco1985 ahhh, I see!

[@vagramovakimyan4768]

Thank you for the video. Felt nostalgic. I remember his triumph at Moscow olympics. True LEGEND!

[@keithgreenan3177]

Yuri Vardanian had the longest standing long jump ever recorded of 13 ft.

[@ВикторКураев-г4м]

Потому что штангистов самое важное - это взрывная сила

[@theaccordian9377]

​@@ВикторКураев-г4м No, because Vardanyan was already a high level track and field athlete before he became a weightlifter.

[@nickcustodi592]

This mans technique is just a thing of beauty

[@ConnRDR20]

Just like Naim - a weightlifting household name, but one that I knew nothing about. These videos are top drawer.

[@WeightliftingHouse]

Thank you, Conor

[@higherresolution4490]

So fascinating a documentary. This man has, or had, a mindset and belief in himself that is unparalleled. His training, including mental training, including great talent in many other sports, makes him virtually unique. Much gratitude for the great job in making this video. What a shame that he died at the early age of 62. What a shame that he missed three Olympic competitions! Learning about him will change my life.

[@ОлегИванов-т2щ1л]

Спасибо. Техника подъема штанги у Варданяна Ю. была присущая только ему самому.

[@ВикторКураев-г4м]

Согласен у каждого свои природные особенности поэтому техника зависит от этих особенностей подрыв у него особенный за счёт спины толчок с груди тоже особенный штанга вроде находится и впереди и вроде бы как нормально Хотя толкать надо за голову В общем природные способности имеют большое значение главное использовать свои сильные стороны

[@ОлегИванов-т2щ1л]

@@ВикторКураев-г4м все именно так, личные природные данные формируют индивидуальный способ поднятия штанги при одной теории (механики). Надо учитывать, что кто-то имеет более сильные ноги, чем спину и наоборот. Поэтому соглашусь с вами у Юрия более кажется выражена спина особенно в рывке. Недавно смотрел А.Арямнова так он вовсе на старте немного как бы сваливается (в рывке) на носки гляньте как-нибудь, так делают как он единицы. Как он сам говорит, так фаза подведения в подрыв эффективнее, плюс важнее спина так как рычаг по более, чем на ногах.

[@ВикторКураев-г4м]

@@ОлегИванов-т2щ1л Да согласен я обратил на это внимание он даже снимает спиной Варданян всё-таки снимает ногами в момент подрыва надо стоять на полной стопе а не на носках потому что Если стоишь на носках подрыв будет слабее всё-таки в технике есть какие-то низыблемые правила от которых нельзя отступать

[@ОлегИванов-т2щ1л]

@@ВикторКураев-г4м спасибо за ответ. Пусть слабее , но во первых, это только кажется, во вторых противоречит теории рывка, но при этом он взял золото ОИ-2008 не учитывая ЧМ и ЧЕ. Нивелировать силой технику также не удастся, за все это мы с вами и любим ТА. Если легкая атлетика королева, то тяжелая-император. Вы лично тренируетесь со штангой?

[@ВикторКураев-г4м]

@@ОлегИванов-т2щ1л Да природа его одарила как мы говорили в молодости физический чувак а может быть и физико-химический Ну раз не попался молодец какой-то он странный то появляется то куда-то исчезает мне 65 лет пока качаюсь регулярно классику конечно не делаю качаюсь чисто для здоровья

[@СергейБаранов-п6ы]

СЛАВА СОВЕТСКОЙ ТЯЖЕЛОЙ АТЛЕТИКЕ!!!!! СЛАВА ЮРИКУ ВАРДАНЯНУ-ПРЕКРАСНОМУ СЫНУ АРМЯНСКОГО НАРОДА!!!!!!

[@doncoates2609]

Superb Seb! I was lucky enough to watch his battle with Zlatev at the worlds in Moscow in 1983. Incredible vocal and partisan support from Armenian contingent. Great days! You should do Rigert - a fantastic lifter and character.

[@TomLaios]

Thank you, thank you,thank you! Keep the content coming. Vardanian was THE MAN! when I started in 1983.I appreciate the love these weightlifting legends are getting.

[@chasetorres4705]

This is incredible - thank you for this. Would also love to see you do an interview with his son Norik discussing his father's training programming.

[@scottessery100]

Weightlifting is lifting weights it’s the hero arc of 3 acts. It’s a story of ever lifter that personifies the human spirit of struggle belief dedication and sacrifice to redefine what is possible. And their names will live forever

[@luketweddell3559]

Loving these videos! The stats are insane 👌🏻

[@alanaliyev456GT]

Great quality of document thank you a lot !

[@vladzolotarev2027]

Прекрасный видеоматериал. Да и канал Ваш мне нравится

[@shantanubharvirkar7759]

Love this documentary style videos!

[@christianwijaya6906]

Second Heaviest Sincliar in WeightLifting 🏋‍♂

[@IgorMikeshin]

Thanks! As for the surname, Armenian surnames are stressed by the last syllable: VardanyAn

[@r.europa.m.canada.1554]

Блин как жалка Умер молодым Юрик Варданян Мой кумир был самый любимый самый сильный Штангистом был он. Пусть будет земля пухом для тебя Юрик.

[@JinnDante]

Who the hell are those 2 dislikes. Like what? Seb, this is one of the best videos this channel has brought to us.

[@scottwebster8756]

Pyrros Dimas fan boys

[@noahsspeelhuis3435]

Thanks for this awesome vid seb !

[@yevgeniyfiskin4781]

You did an amazing job on this. All of these type of videos you have done have been great, this one is my favorite so far. Before this one, my favorite was the one you did on Aramnau.

[@weightedsumwl]

This was awe-inspiring, great job on educating about such greatness seb

[@octaviovillarreal4922]

Amazing content, thanks.

[@Nikolayski1337]

Fenomenally put together! Great commentary. My deepest respect goes to this giant of weightlifting, as well as to Blagoev and others GOATS. Would love to see you cover some of Angel Genchev's (BUL) lifts/stories. His 202.5 clean and jerk at 67.5kg bw and many more amazing lifts, despite all the controversies etc.

[@Highbar250]

Sick thumbnail, Seb! I wouldn’t have clicked if t wasn’t for the sleek and enticing design

[@garikhovakimyan8448]

Юрий Вартанян Legend🙏👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@dankline7091]

Amazing. Great story, WLH!

[@TheTillhammer]

These videos are awesome. We need a Rigert video and poster!

[@WeightliftingHouse]

Ok!

[@TheTillhammer]

@@WeightliftingHouse Garage gym is gonna be looking lit!

[@64wy4x8s]

"If I can front squat it, I can clean & jerk it" absolute fucking gigachad

[@richardleewz]

These videos are honestly just so amazing, they actually make me emotional. Also... please tell me the Yurik posters aren't limited edition, I just bought the Naim one and can't afford this one rn 😭😭

[@gabrieljohannson6777]

An incredible summary & collage of videos. Caps off to you Sir and this channel.

[@sashole1]

Yurik Vardanyan - the greatest weightlifter who has ever lived.

[@jakejakejak]

That was really excellent

[@plamenseferinkin5617]

Great, great, i am speechless.

[@davidec.4021]

Thank you for this. Probably one of your best videos imo. 100/10

[@ConnoisseurOfExistence]

Nice. It's good to make one about Vasily Alekseyev also. Sometimes I'm thinking, we can't really compare him to the other super heavyweights, because he was doing the press as well. Maybe he was the strongest of them all...

[@АрсМ-ъ1г]

Thank you Brother!

[@G3Number]

Thanks again Sen for such amazing content

[@davedessureault5648]

What a fantastic story!

[@ash6415]

Brilliant video..one of my favourite lifters. His speed was ridiculous.

[@victorkonon]

Imagine him at the modern day crossfit games 😂 what a legend

[@Damzified]

Realistically, considering how explosive of an athlete he was, it's a safe bet that he would lack the aerobic capacity to be competitive in CF at a regional level, let alone at the CF Games.

[@JUNGLEsausage]

@@Damzified I'm not so sure about that. There are videos of Vardanyan running/jogging and riding an exercise bike. I won't say his endurance is better than Matthew Fraser, but I think he would put up a real fight.

[@ВикторКураев-г4м]

@@JUNGLEsausage выносливые штангиста Мне нужна тренировки должны быть совсем другие это два разных видов спорта

[@webtvmediaohio4900]

What a great video with excellent commentary. Great job!

[@leroymorris6036]

Incredible!

[@kamto5226]

This video actually inspires my meditation practice

[@andersbrorsson618]

Awesome👌

[@bratdfortd]

Love these!! Doing a class project on Naim after watching that video

[@therealforestelf]

thank you so much for this masterpiece of a video

[@JoshuaOdionson]

I'm gonna need to watch this when I get home.

[@slimshady2045]

These videos are so enjoyable to watch great work

[@kevinboueri1051]

This is one of the most badass things I have ever seen.

[@pdavis647]

Wow!He was outstanding.

[@joeblow7236]

Thank you.

[@dkcoolmed]

Well done Seb Deb from Australia

May he rest in peace..🙏🙏🇸🇻

[@carljacobson7156]

I think Yurik lived near me in Glendale, CA - his son was an active Olympic Lifting Competitor, I also think that Yurik and David Rigert had possibly the most balanced, impressive bodies in all athletics.

[@chuckbuckbobuck]

He actually lived in Moorpark, before he returned to Armenia a few years before his passing.

[@chuckbuckbobuck]

Guy was amazing!!!!!!

[@nainoa6848]

Pyrros Dimas would be awesome

[@brianmchugh3724]

His son, Norik Vardanian, has a fantastic gym in Colorado Springs, CO, USA.

[@Bret_Frost]

You earned a new subscriber today..

[@mishelney6535]

Мы с ним с одного города и выступали в одной и той же весовой категории, я младше на 5 лет. К сожалению травма локтевого сустава не позволила мне продолжить соревноваться с ним. Что я могу сказать, Юрик это легенда и такой филигранной техники и феноменальных результатов нет ни у кого.

[@harmonykrieg]

time to take up high jump, long jump, sprinting and volleyball.

[@irvinghsu2479]

謝謝，太棒的影片。

[@chuckbuckbobuck]

I can't believe he passed away two years ago. He was only 63!

[@oogwaymonke7767]

at least 63 is not that young

[@chuckbuckbobuck]

@@oogwaymonke7767 certainly not very old@

[@io3204]

That snatch at 9:04 might be the best ever.

[@ShowyThrowy95]

i tried to find this guy a year ago, and for the life of me i could not spell his name. thank you for your service seb lol

[@nchinth]

he doesn't even looked juiced. is it possible he was a real-life freak of nature??

[@henrikgulyas]

Wish I could've chosen a heart symbol when hitting the like button. I'll put it here.

[@cyruskhalvati]

I dont even weightlift except for maybe 3 times a month just for fitness, and i still think this was interesting.

[@xpswebstar420]

He could have crushed Crossfit.

[@scottwebster8756]

But aren't they the fittest on Earth ???

[@Axtellman]

Is it just me or does Yurik’s power position on the snatch look like it’s at the high thigh; below the hips???

[@turkishdelight6032]

As someone with ridiculously long femurs, he gives me hope

[@rockcensoul9569]

Of course❤

[@powmongo]

This is so good.

[@haroutghazar4725]

Viva Armenia and armenian spot mens

[@zg4705]

this is dope

[@fattyacid1901]

I see what you did there 😏

[@SuperAram111]

.maybe the greatest athlete ever..........a extreme example of the breed

[@joeydfalcon]

Amazing! (Algo)

[@WeightliftingHouse]

😍

[@Eric-qw1mp]

These videos are fantastic and I think it’s amazing to tell these stories of the great weightlifters. My grandfather was one of the coaches of Rolf Milser and would always tell me about tales of many of these legends when I was younger. HOWEVER, I think it is a bit dishonest to make comparisons between these athletes (ones like Yuri Vardanyan) and modern ones. Of course we don’t know everything that is going on behind the scenes nowadays, and I don’t want to make accusations, but we do know a lot about what was happening in weightlifting at the time (even if there is not always evidence, and again I don’t want to make specific accusations). Basically, it’s fairly likely that these achievements, though of course still the product of incredible work ethic, (often) genetics and incredible training systems, also made use of performance enhancing drugs that allowed these athletes to achieve awe inspiring feats, and to entirely brush over that doesn’t do justice to many other athletes and frankly the sport as a whole. It, for better or for worse, has just been a part of the game and ignoring the elephant in the room just seems a little silly to me. We should hold this sport to a high standard and try our best to push it and the politics surrounding it in the right direction, but I think it’s also crucial to be honest about our sport and own up to the history. Anyone who knows anything about performance enhancing drugs in a sport like weightlifting knows that these drugs don’t just gift/give you results for free and they don’t take away from the achievements. These athletes worked their asses off and used what they used so they could squeeze out just that bit more, recover faster and do it all over again. But they (many of them) still did it (took PEDs) and again, I think it’s just important to at least acknowledge that when we’re educating everyone - and potentially future generations of weightlifters - about this sport and it’s history. But maybe that’s just my opinion. Nonetheless, amazing freaking job: these videos are a pleasure to watch and bring some of the highs of this sport to life in a way no one else is doing! Love your stuff Seb, keep it up!

[@666BIGBLOCK]

Too bad your post is so short. You’re quite a know it all.

[@Eric-qw1mp]

@@666BIGBLOCK great response bud. I guess expressing my opinion and pointing out the reality of PEDs in weightlifting makes me a “know it all”. That’s a pretty low bar (lol).

[@shawnsimpson8762]

Belief in oneself is doomed for failure. It is idolatry. Belief in God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit and one will see God within him, and one can move mountains. Glory be to God!

[@marianoeusse4339]

Ok but can any of those niggas clean n jerkh 228kgs ???? Domt think so

[@posho9308]

WEIGHTLIFTING > crossFit, calisthenics and power lifting

[@jarama3324]

@Weightlifting House Could you do something like this on Leonid Taranenko? I think he once held the record for the heaviest c&j.

[@oliverallen5324]

Great Video Essay. I’d like to see more. Have you heard of Tommy Suggs?

[@Jack81631]

Comon mate We also need a video on best Sinclair on women.

[@jeffgroup9025]

Aye Yuri jan!!

[@khmak9387]

How does the his adage work? Shouldn't a 1-front squat be tougher than a triple? And he could clean and jerk *that*?

[@palavpalavets5911]

Many of those strength athletes died young, including all legends but Pisarenko and Blagoev. A liver can only take that much..

[@leonardchen3635]

next video will be Pyrros Dimas!!!

[@WeightliftingHouse]

I’ll give you a clue… he’s in it!

[@MrLGJ11]

@@WeightliftingHouse Greek dream team

[@tustari]

Undoubtedly the second greatest weightlifter of all time, after Naim. An absolute legend

[@henry7001]

Do you ship to Iceland?

[@toomuch9762]

Him and Ilya definitely my two favourite lifters. Such a shame there’s not more footage and training footage. I’ve scoured the internet and KZbin many times. I’ve seen all this footage many times over

[@nathanielsablan2474]

Correct me if I’m wrong but 177 and 222 is a 399kg total and not a 400

[@WeightliftingHouse]

177.5, 222.5

[@cbn1362]

Not to brag but my wife and my children are names Vardanyan :)