Haynes Strength Novice & Inters 2024

Good evening guys & girls!! 

Firstly, a huge huge thank you to you all for helping the day go so smoothly! It was a great day and I hope you're all recovering and enjoyed yourselves as much as we did!! 

We had a few technical issues with Strength Results, mainly affecting the Men's Inters (Post-Comp) - basically the results for the men's inters sandbag didn't save correctly for whatever reason - the placings are all 100% correct, but your result on the sandbags may not be, but the placings will not be affected so your result is your result. If you go on and think "I did two reps not one" - just drop me a message and I'll amend it, but it won't affect your overall placing :) 

It was our first show at the rugby club so thank you all for bearing with us, but I hope you'll agree its a fantastic venue for it - I'm already planning the next shows so details will be coming out very soon! 

As a thank you - I'd like to offer all athletes that competed this weekend 10% off the entry fee for the Haynes Farm Open when this launches in the next few weeks - I will speak to the team at Strength Register on how to facilitate this, but it will be communicated to you all when you sign up! 

Photos are gonna be available in the next few days (@tmg_productions_) - and we're hoping to have the YouTube video go live this week for you all to show your friends and families, which will be live on my YouTube (@paddy_strongman). 

If I could ask one final favour guys - if you could spare the time to drop us a Google Review, it would help me out an absolute tonne and help me keep continuing to grow the brand and offer more opportunities in the future. Leave a review here - https://g.page/r/CUMF0iKsFUoZEAE/review 

Good luck with your training for the next events and we look forward to seeing you again soon. 

Pads 

Good morning athletes!!! 
I hope you're all looking forward to the weekend. 

Few final bits from me: 

Sign in opens at 9am. Competition begins at 10am. Yoke heights to be measured at sign in. 

Please make sure any spectators or +1s have bought a ticket, if not they'll be purchasable on the day! 

Please note the final running order of events is: 
1) Silver Dollar Deadlift

2) Log Press

3) Yoke 

4) Conans Wheel 

5) Sandbag Over Yoke. 

All of the events will be competed on tightly packed gravel - its a lovely surface actually feels good underfeet so no worries about wet grass etc. 

Remember we're at the mercy of the elements - if you have a gazebo and would like to bring it that would be amazing and would help us out massively too just in case of rain! 

Also remember we will be having a BBQ running all day, and have all the Merch for sale! 

Best of luck with the rest of your preparations and we will see you bright and early on Saturday!! 

Pads 

Evening guys and girls!! 

Firstly a huge thank you to you all for signing up to the Haynes Strength Novice/Inters Competition 2024! It's gonna be a great day! 

I just wanted to send out a memo with as much information as possible ready for you, if you have any questions at all just drop me a DM and I'll be happy to answer any questions! 

GENERAL 

This is our first comp at Banbury Rugby Club, so please do bare with us, it will be a great comp, but we will be learning as we go with the venue!! Please arrive latest 9:30 ready for kick off at 10am. You will be required to get your Yoke Heights measured at sign in too, please. NO SIGN INS LATER THAN 9:45 or you won't be able to compete - please message me if you are going to be late for any reason and I'll do what I can. 

We're planning on having a BBQ going, as well as Merch for sale and various other goodies such as brownies and baked goods, so bring some spare pennies! 

Waivers will be sent out to all participants - you will not be able to compete unless this is filled in. So please get it done!

Please note, I did mention before but all events are outside. We are fully at the mercy of the weather for this one guys, we're gonna have a gazebo or two but if anyone has one and wants to bring it for shelter that'd be a huge help to us also and there's plenty of room. 

Event 1 

MAX SILVER DOLLAR DEADLIFT 

Kicking off with this one because it will be the longest event. We have two bars, men on one bar, women on the other. (novice and inters categories to be pooled all together for this one) 

I have changed my mind slightly on the jumps. They will now be:
W: 100, 140, 180, 200, 220, 240, 250, 260+

M: 200, 240, 280, 300, 320, 340, 350, 360, 370+ 

3 attempts each - it'll be run rising bar style so I don't need your openers or anything, just jump in when you want to. 

The bars are Wolverson Deadlift Bars, and they're standard Silver Dollar Height (18" I believe) 

NO SUITS. Figure 8 Straps are allowed - but thumbs MUST BE IN CONTACT with the bar throughout - that's the only rule I'm setting - if you use figure 8's don't take the piss basically we all know what's cheating and what's not! If in doubt use Figure 6's and then you've got no worries! 

Event 2 

Log Press For Reps 

WN 35KG / WI 50KG / MN 80KG / MI 110KG 

Belts, Wraps, Sleeves (One pair per joint only), grip tops, cuffs all allowed. 

Log just needs to touch pads in between every rep! This will be head to head in the following format. 

Women's Novice at same time as Women's Inters (because the two logs are different so it's not fair to put you head to head on different logs) 

Men's categories will be head to head as the logs are the same. 

60s time limit. 

Event 3

Yoke Walk 

15m out // 15m back - Depending on the weather, it'll either be on grass or gravel. Yoke heights to be given at sign in - we have two identical yokes so this event will be head to head WN - WI - MN - MI

Front of the yoke has to break the line in both directions. It'll be a drop and turn, no spinning with the yoke etc. If you don't finish the course we will measure the distance! 

60s time cap. 

Event 4 

Conans Wheel - I've upped the weights from the original sign in, but it honestly does mean nothing unless you have a physics degree!! WN will have 130KG total weight on the conans, WI 170KG and so on! - please note this does not mean the weight in the hands, this is just the total weight going onto the apparatus - it'll feel a lot less!! (I say roughly 50% but that's a proper vague estimate!! 

NO GRIP TOPS FOR THIS EVENT 

Belts are allowed, but buckles must be faced to the side or the back - this is to prevent athletes resting the bar on their belts. I'm not allowing grip tops for this event either because its just such a cheat code on conans - lets have a level playing field and see who's the best. 

Event 5

Sandbag over yoke. 

Number of reps in a minute guys dead simple, you can run round the yoke, jump over it, limbo, I really don't mind! 

Grip tops are allowed for this event, liquid chalk, sleeves, belts all absolutely fine.

Any questions hit me up guys but we will go through everything in the brief on the day! We've got a photographer coming, there's merch to buy, I'm obviously more than happy to do photos and stuff once the comps over too, but let's have a great day and put on a good show and show Banbury Rugby Club how cool strongman is. I believe there's also two games of rugby being played on the same day at the club - so there should be a decent crowd and also something for you guys to watch and enjoy whilst we compete (Make sure you support Banbury!!) 

Trophies are on their way, once they're here i'll put a photo round for you all to see! 

If you're bringing any +1s please make sure they've paid their spectator fees too guys! 

Looking forward to meeting you all very soon!

Pads <3