Pyrros Dimas & the Strongest Weightlifting Team Ever

[@WeightliftingHouse]

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[@JinnDante]

Seb and the rest of the team. It seems you outdo yourselves in every video. This is literally content someone would pay for. A big thank you from the weightlifting community and from the Greek community: ΣΕ ΕΥΧΑΡΙΣΤΟΥΜΕ. (se efharistume= we thank you)

[@WeightliftingHouse]

Thank you for the kind words, Johnny

[@zacktelander]

This is god damn superb, seb.

[@jamessalemi1477]

THE 3rd COMMANDMENT SAYS : THOU SHALLT NOT USE MY NAME IN VAIN...FOR IT'S HOLY UNTO YOU.

[@Itsadrianyay]

Incredible content! thanks to Zack for introducing me to this youtube niche with the "you are not" videos. thanks for this incredible storytelling of Pyrros, #1!!

[@MpougkaMpougka]

Alexiev: "He'll never surpass Sristov, this is a gold medal for Russia" *Kakhi loads 235 on the C&J* Alexiev sweating: "He's bluffing" *Kakhi smashing the lift* Alexiev: "NANI??!!?" Kakhi asking for Georgian flag to be waved Most based chad weighlifter confirmed

[@tryphon20]

The headcoach of the dream team was Christos Iakovou. In almost every C&J attempt by a greek athlete he used to scream "Sit under the bar!!!" or "Κάτσε κάτω από την μπάρα" (meaning that when in the jerk, the lifter should align his body properly under the bar). This expression is still used in the gyms around the country as a joke among amateur lifters! It is also important to notice that Kakhiashvili has a Black Belt in Judo!

[@Pantelifts10]

Σωστός 🇬🇷

[@greeceweightlifting9246]

Now that's a good video!

[@G3Number]

You are making history and inspiration for the new weightlifters! Someday some world champion is going to mention you because you show them how fun and amazing can weightlifting be. Thanks for your time and effort to show the world the history of weightlifting!

[@WeightliftingHouse]

Much appreciated. That certainly would be nice to see.

[@TAROTAI]

It's not fun working like a criminal 4 times a day year in & year out -

[@HIMCULES]

Perhaps it would have been interesting to add that the Dream Team "General", Christos Iakovou, was also a Greek born outside Greece, in Constantinoupolis, and who had gone on to compete in three Olympic Games for Greece, in 1968, 1972 and 1976, as a weightlifter. All in all, there may have been other videos on this topic, but I don't think you will find a better one. Congratulations to all who took part in making this video.

[@HIMCULES]

@Cringe Lord as much as I like your comment, the Grizzly didn't really have anything to do with the "Dream Team".

[@METALSCAVENGER78]

@@HIMCULES But he is one man Dream Team in his own right and in contrast to the si calked us basjetballs Dream Teams 2,3,4 etc who are much inferior to the original Dream Team from 1982, it is a well known universal axiom that Kyriakos is the ultimate Dream Team

[@METALSCAVENGER78]

@@HIMCULES But I totally understand where you're coming from fellow Grizzly disciple.We are talking about mortal humans here

[@antonispatsiantos6617]

I am Greek Cypriot and we really appreciate this video these men are a big part of our sports history! Thank you Seb and everybody else on weightlifting house!

[@HIMCULES]

Kakhiashvili's mother, Maria Lambrianidi was indeed Greek Cypriot!

[@getstrongby4038]

But didn't he say none of them are actually Greek?

[@HIMCULES]

@@getstrongby4038 Listen my friend, youtube is a great tool. There is video of Dimas' grandmother in Albania, speaking Greek. They are Greeks, that area was simply given to Albania after WWII. Similarly, Leonidis is Greek, as there were many Greeks living in the cities all along the Black sea coast, for centuries. Many still have their Greek names, such as Sevastopol. And so on...

[@getstrongby4038]

@@HIMCULES fair enough Tbh watching that video wouldn't make any difference to me as I wouldn't know what language they are speaking I hear you, but at the same time that kinda makes me African, but nobody would ever say that

[@HIMCULES]

@@getstrongby4038 If both your parents are African, and you grew up speaking their language, you should be proud to call yourself African.

[@themosfrantzis6176]

Growing up in the 90's in Greece, these weightlifters were something like superstars! Weightlifting back in the day, was even bigger than football in this country, due to these guys. They achieved a legend status and watching this Supeb video, brings back good memories of hard working athletes and grateful people. Thank you so much for the great video you created once more!

[@lelos224]

Also Leonidas Sabanis,Leonidas Kokas and Viktor Mitrou won Olympic medals those years!!!🇬🇷

[@evy5618]

You've struck gold Seb! I can't express how much I'm loving these types of videos; By far the best content on the channel. Hope to see much more.

[@ADDO...]

I have not seen such a nice video even in my homeland! Thank you from the bottom of our hearts for the tribute you made !! The Greeks greet you!

[@efthimiosmaheras4585]

And here i am a poor greek guy trying to get into weightlifting catching glimpses of his own coach Christos Spyrou training in the background behind Kakhi Dimas and Leonidis🤣🤣🤣

[@fabiobonetta5454]

55 kg squat at 7 years of age is one of the craziest things I've ever heard

[@TheAxis1275]

You are killing it with these documentary style videos. You have a great talent for narration. Keep up the good work! These videos are amazing and the posters are beautiful!

[@trancemadmaz]

5:31 Correction for you Seb and the viewers. Albania isolated itself from the Warsaw Pact and therefore the USSR because it was incredibly seen as too liberal and not communist enough. Albania was effectively a hermit kingdom from 1961 to 1992. Having said that, amazing documentary from you 👏

[@dan-wh]

Thanks for the note - we always appreciate the chance to learn more!

[@trancemadmaz]

@@dan-wh Albanians during that time were prohibited from wearing jeans, owning a car and travel out of a country only double the size of Wales. Their dictator Enver Hoxha was a sociopath with a personality cult to rival that of Kim Jong Un. There are plenty of vids on KZbin about how harsh life was like in Albania during those times. It made the USSR feel like a capitalist paradise in comparison. Life was that harsh.

[@stevenbode285]

please do more of these! Im not an oly lifter but am very inspired by them! I love history of different countries, and as a former History major, you are very articulately presenting the political/ethnic issues that plague these athletes as well as showing the beauty and sights of these places. keep going!!

[@MG-uk9ry]

DO👏NOT👏STOP👏MAKING👏THESE👏VIDEOS👏!!!!

[@ibfreely8952]

Now that's a fine quality production right there, great stuff

[@Theo-ul8qm]

These are without doubt my favorite videos on Weightlifting House! I love the current competitions, but these documentary style videos are truly unique to this channel. I hope to see many more in the future!

[@AlexandrosMpothos]

The narration combined with facts and the searching in this video are absolutely fantastic. We Greeks were used to this kind of documentaries about our national team but this?? I enjoyed every second. And considering it's not made by someone Greek, it was even more satisfying. Τέλεια δουλειά αδερφέ

[@willahrenholz214]

Though these videos undoubtedly demand the most time and effort to produce, they do not get the views they deserve. I hope that is not a deterrent to you, Seb. You're work is appreciated!

[@jakemcculley1867]

These historical videos inspire me! I love to hear the political and personal intrigues behind their success. I'm just a casual weightlifter, but after this, I'm super excited for the gym tomorrow!

[@slavstoyanov9245]

I really love these videos. They are expertly made and with a lot of research behind. Awesome work WH team.

[@alohamishka]

Valerios the Pontic Greek from Essentuki, a city in Russia which is mostly populated by Greeks.

[@joaomartins1521]

The clean at 14:37 is just so brutally fast i couldn't help myself but to replay it a billion times. Simply amazing.

[@jacoblatta-morissette1875]

Fantastic! Love these videos

[@dimitriss3635]

As a Greek, pyros was the closest to a superhero in real life, I had when I was a child. I got hooked on weightlifting in my adult life, but every time I c&j , I hear pyros shouting 'gia tin ellada' in my head 😂

[@J3susChrist]

this is too good, great work y'all!

[@bradenbash5916]

These videos are getting better and better

[@Pantelifts10]

Ah I remember watching them all when I was a kid. Good memories 🇬🇷. Sad to see our current state of weightlifting in Greece.

[@webapp31]

Yet another amazing piece of content that will preserve and hopefully grow this amazing sport!

[@aronhegedus]

so cool to see those white screens next to the barbells, obviously doing some bar tracking before software was a thing!

[@FearWarboar4135]

Seb you’re doing gods work for those of us who love this sport from its grace to its grit , to its rich history and most wholesome moments and sagas ! Will watch this again with my coffee tomorrow morning for additional motivation and inspiration.

[@larsottesen6354]

Thank you for making these videos

[@HonkeyKongLive]

I don't train Olympic lifting, but Dimas is the one who got me mega interested in the sport.

[@VastChoirs]

Love these mini-documentaries about teams and lifters. Thanks for this! In this case though, we can't talk about greek dominance without talking about methylated oral trenbolone.

[@terrencebeers7105]

Excellent report! You produce really great work. Thank you.

[@magnusl.l.5351]

This was incredible, wow Seb!

[@wilhelmw3455]

Great video on the history of this great sport keep them coming.

[@jgfleet]

What a fantastic video. 24+ minutes gone in a flash. Great information, great flow and great entertainment. Well done, boys.

[@turok2546]

Amazing stuff! I sincerely can’t get enough of this

[@alexev526]

This is so good. Please do more of this. I'll pay

[@jessen00001]

Great video 💪 hope to see more of this kinde

[@ennisgunns]

Great video. Thank you. I love how Dimas used his head. My lifts are puny by comparison, but if I find myself stuck, focusing on a fast head usually will help.

[@polobik4231]

Terrific video! Congrats!

[@vincentd8734]

Great video felt like a movie

[@scottessery100]

amazing old film of the children training.... overlaps with zacks video about training children. well done seb fantastic documentary

[@javiersanz29]

That program of training is the pure definition of living like a monk. Astonishing.

[@learningwithlioshad403]

i am more impressed of your knowledge of pontic greeks, well researched.

[@hernvillie]

Incredible series Seb and W.H. The power of an event as special as this; is the memory of where it all began! Well done!

[@MaxGalofre]

We don't deserve this. Amazing content, Sed and team. Thanks.

[@HIMCULES]

Watching this video, truly made my heart F U L L. THANKS FOR VIDEO.

[@enochcrosby6630]

Great video, dude. Really good footage, and solid voice over as well. Wanted to ask, wtf are they doing at 11:52? Do they have a pencil attached to the end of the barbell that marks out the barpath on that white board? I've never seen anything like that before.

[@thanasismusic]

Yes its the old method to track the bar path

[@WeightliftingHouse]

Thank you! And yes that's exactly right. Before bar path tracking apps this was how it was done!

[@enochcrosby6630]

Weightlifting House interesting. So were they still looking for that ‘S’ type curve back then, or was another bar path deemed superior? I'm curious about how technique has changed. I noticed in a lot of old (ca. Kono era) footage, guys made no contact in snatches and basically muscle snatched into a deep catch.

[@theodor320]

I think I am repeating myself at this point, but you really should release limited edition tshirts for every episode. That would be the cherry on top!

[@nexgenjdm]

Pure gold. thanks!

[@xchrissimmonsx]

Well done! Thank you!

[@viklifts-zk8bl]

Iakovou screaming at Dimas to "stay under the bar" during the jerk is a moment trully immortalised within the Greek lifting community

[@HIMCULES]

It's "Sit" not stay. Something about his jerking technique.

[@nilo7727]

Excellent vid!!👌💪😎🏋‍♂️🏠

[@thepahadibeast]

U r doing gr8 work

[@ryanoconnell6617]

Amazing work Seb

[@jessen00001]

Great video 💪 have seen it 2 times now 😁

[@harryharpratap]

This is brilliant!!

[@zennappi]

Gr8 vid!

[@Masterofmonotony]

Great job!

[@AnthonyGarcia-sy3yk]

This one and the about Yuri are my favorites from this series so far ..

[@lenz1244]

Forgot the one and only Gryzzly. Rookie mistake.

[@electricblue8196]

Valerios is the more technically gifted, disadvantaged weightlifter compared to Naim, due to being taller, having normal limb lengths(not short legs), having to pick up the weight from a relatively lower position on the floor, and having to lift it much higher(taller) versus Naim being shorter, not having to do the move the bar in the first pull off the floor as high(it's basically already there to do the second part of the movement), can hit the bar at the hips , not having to lift the bar as high etc etc.

[@procrustes7669]

Naim was a cheat code due to his build not his skill...Valerios was BETTER.

[@Scott-zh5ip]

Love it

[@HCrugger]

Where are all the likes? Come on, people! Either like these videos or be prepared to pay for this kind of content.

[@altingalanxhi7323]

the ALBANIAN Pirro Dhima trained under the legendary FERIT BERBERI, the coach for the Albanian National Weightlifting Team in the 1980's.

[@danielromerocalvo6028]

Wow!!! Awesome!!!

[@HellenicWolf]

well done

[@austinagayo8206]

Astonishing

[@dlprs17]

Pyros was from a part of Albania who had Greeks in fro an old part of Greece he was from Greek origins thats known fact

[@leonidas3127]

It's Leonidas. Remember my name.

[@davidsatsjelasjvili3679]

TENKIU. 🇬🇪🇬🇪🇬🇪

[@4lexandre331]

Hi, Seb. Great video, as always. Does weightlifting house ships to Brazil?? Dayumn, forget it. The dollar is way too high at the moment, my guy lmao

[@bor4oborisov]

This team is surly very good, this trainer also, but the dream team is only one - the Bulgarian team and the trainer of trainers - Ivan Abadjiev.

[@joneh9483]

Dimas squatted 53 kilos at 7 years of age!!!?? What a fucking beast

[@vinzenzschaller9146]

Gr8t vid :) If i may ask a question, what kind of music or what song is played in the background around 4.40 I‘d love to hear more of that

[@JUNGLEsausage]

15:23 Was that Dimas applauding Kakhiasvhili?

[@lolzertron2900]

dis gon be good

[@Theo-ul8qm]

For any Greeks watching, isn't Valerios's surname pronounced more like 'Leo-nee-dees', than like 'Leonidas'? Genuinely curious.

[@jamessalemi1477]

SIMPLE : THE STRONGEST WEIGHTLIFTING TEAM EVER...IN FACT OF ALL SPORT HISTORY WAS THE 1976 SOVIET UNION WEIGHTLIFTING TEAM. 10 WEIGHT CLASSES...7 GOLD, 1 SILVER AND OVER 180 WORLD RECORDS TOTAL RECORDED FOR THOSE TEAM MEMBERS. NONE GREATER EVER🏋️

[@freespirit1869]

My coach who lifted with those mem told us that Kahi never pushed himself on squats i think his max was 280kg because he could lift 235kg cnj with just that Did Pyrros lifted 225? when?

[@tonyteh]

30 minutes to eat and then straight to training? These superhumans didn't need to digest!

[@chrisgeorge84]

Do more cinematic videos pls.

[@scottessery100]

3:50 suspicious :) 4:11 suspicious :)

[@jessen00001]

It's well known that there was a lot of drugs back then and still is 😝

[@scottessery100]

@@jessen00001 still huge respect for training 3 times a day with or without assistance and 240 kg c&j is unreal. No disrespect for three of the greatest lifters ever …. It’s just an old traditional saying In sikastan… suspicious

[@scottessery100]

Totally agree. Sorry 😢 didn’t mean to sound disrespectful I watched his lifts on the bbc and it still gives me goosebumps… great lifter even greater performance

[@joaquingabotto5103]

Why is the metodology of force for the dream team?

[@dylanbepis570]

Those power jerks are so absurd

[@jancerny6665]

this is great. maybe its night but hey i want to lift

[@ozwunder69]

the soviet union was one country in 1960s leonov (caught positive steroids as a junior 1986) kaki 1969

[@HIMCULES]

Kakhi did not take his final two attempts, through good strategy, which made his opponents miss their attempts, because he had injured, i think one of his quads.

[@ShinSuperSaiyajin]

since you mentioned Alexeev, would he be next?

[@olivierrobert9496]

nice 😀😀

[@ptolemy7783]

It must be puzzling for the younger audience to understand what those "political reasons" were back in time. It is worth doing research, to appreciate the freedoms we enjoy today.

[@TomLaios]

Getten Helada? Not even close Seb."Yia tin Ellatha".

[@WeightliftingHouse]

My bad! I studied ancient Greek for years, but never spent any time learning modern Greek and/or pronunciation.

[@TomLaios]

@@WeightliftingHouse what British teach as Greek, ancient or modern ,bears no resemblance to what the language sounded or sounds like, but we Greeks appreciate the thought.

[@inky4690]

patriotism is weightlifting

[@patmorris9692]

100m sprint is not

[@inky4690]

@@patmorris9692 huh