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Canyon Clash Recap

After about roughly seven months of prep, I completed my first ever strongman competition. It was an absolute blast! I was one of two folks in my class - Men's Masters Heavyweight+.

Event Rundown:
Log Clean & Press Away (1min)
Nine reps! In training, my 230lbs rep PR was six. So getting to just shy of 10 was amazing. I just didn't have enough energy or time to lock out that last rep.

Deadlift Medley (1min)
In training, I had been training trap bar AMRAPs with 550. Surprise! The weights increased across the board on this event. The first bar was 495, second was 555, and the final on trap bar for reps was 615. Another wrinkle was the figure 8 straps I'd trained with didn't fit the trap bar handles. So I had to pivot doubly! I hook gripped the first two bars easy peasy and then used conventional straps to rep out on the trap bar. Five reps for that. Not bad, given the jump in weight compared to what I had trained.

Yoke & Sandbag (timed)
This was a great event idea - 605lbs yoke for 50' and then run back, grab the 230lbs sandbag, and go to the yoke and put it over the bar. Real clever event. Though here I did strategize a little. I'm not confident with sandbags as I haven't trained them and 230lbs was more than I had ever picked up before. So, I opted to only carry the bag enough to take the event for my class. I'll be honest though, that pick on the sandbag felt solid, but I still don't think I had it in me to get it over the bar.

Sandbag Toss (15', 1min)
So, here's where my mandatory drama came in. I was feeling decently confident going in after a couple of practice tosses. Then, I stepped funky on my first step away from the yoke and felt a pop. I was suitably surprised and worried. After a quick check to make sure that wasn't my Achilles, I had about 15s left and was damned sure not going to zero an event, so I launched the 30lbs bag and then hobbled off to the PT guy for a quick eval. Just a muscle tear/strain. Severe enough to make walking questionable, but nothing major.

More in the comments!

#strongman #amatuerstrongman by @levimakesart

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a year ago

I wasn't sure if I was going to post this - if you know me, you know my personal struggles that would keep me from doing so. However, I'm proud enough of this moment to actually put it out there in the world.

I decided, somewhat flippantly at the time, to commit to a powerlifting meet. I've been lifting weights off and on at various levels of intensity for about 6-8 years. Never with any purpose. As I neared 40, I realized now was a good time to try it out powerlifting because why not? Better late than never! It does help when your partner does it and your friend is a fellow squat record holder and overall strong dude. They were nothing but encouraging!

So, I signed up for WRPF NW Regionals and started training. I'm self-taught, with no coach, no PEDs, and at a commercial gym no less! I made my own programs and put in the work. This netted me a WRPF State record squat for 140kg+ Sub-Masters and third overall in the 140kg+ class across the board. Again, I'm proud of this accomplishment, which is a rare thing for me.

Huge thanks to @rampagerachel for being beyond encouraging and endlessly supportive. And also huge thanks to @catdaddystrength for being my handler and hype man. Couldn't have done this without you both.

Squat 699.9lbs/317kg
Bench 402.3lbs/182kg
Deadlift 556.6lbs/252kg
Total 1658.9lbs/752kg

#wrpf #powerlifting by @levimakesart

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2 years ago

I haven’t made non-ceramic art in what feels like years. Had to relearn Procreate.
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#pdxart #skullart #digitalart by @levimakesart

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2 years ago

More drawings from the Sketch Tuesday era. Near the end I was drawing mostly this kind of stuff.
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#pdxart #sketch #drawing taken in Portland, Oregon by @levimakesart

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2 years ago

Drawings from the Sketch Tuesday years, back when that was a thing. Found them on my phone and figured why not post them?
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#pdxart #sketch #drawing taken in Portland, Oregon by @levimakesart

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2 years ago

Relatable
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#pdxstickers #pdxart #stickerart #sticker by @levimakesart

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2 years ago

Dumb little stickers everywhere
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#stickerart #pdxstickers #skullart #pdxart taken in Portland, Oregon by @levimakesart

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2 years ago

👀👀👀
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#stickers #stickerart #pdxstickers #pdxartist #skullart #streetart by @levimakesart

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3 years ago

Nice try, buff man.
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#stickerart #pdxstickers #stickers #pdxartist by @levimakesart

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3 years ago

Dumb faces in unusual places
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#art #pdxstickers #stickers #stickerart #localartist #pdxartist #streetart by @levimakesart

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4 years ago

Sale time! All my woodcuts at @pdxchange have been marked down! I still have a couple of tooth magnets and plenty of sticker packs and singles (but those aren't currently on sale).

As you may have gathered by my lack of new pieces and my stories about ceramics, my art journey is taking a new direction. I'll still keep making digital art and stickers, plus potentially an enamel pin eventually, but woodcuts are just not something I'll be making for the foreseeable future. Same for magnets. So if you want to get an original handmade woodcut, this is where they are and it's pretty much the last of them.

If you're curious about my ceramics, I'll be posting those over on @levimakespottery and not here. This space will always be dedicated to my weird art (and socialist stories). taken in PDXchange - Fair and Square. by @levimakesart

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4 years ago

Some escape the buff, some don't.
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#art #lowbrowart #pdxstickers #pdxslaps #pdxartist #streetart #stickerart #skullart taken in Mississippi, Portland by @levimakesart

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