Casually Explained: Arm Wrestling

arm wrestling is my favorite Niche Sport and is perhaps one of the most misunderstood if you ask a random person on the street arm wrestling conjures up ideas of drunk idiots at a bar with fragile egos trying to out Macho each other but that's not the case at all Travis bajent's actually really good beyond that our general view of arm wrestling is made up of those videos where neither person knows what they're doing and just straight up snaps their forearm clean in half this isn't what arm wrestling is about because in reality the arm wrestling Community is a lot like the bodybuilding Community people think bodybuilding is about vanity and trying to be more jacked than other guys so you can get girls but anyone who's gone to the gym long enough knows the only people admiring your micro thong is the other homies in a similar sense arm wrestling appears to be two roided up monsters with wrists bigger than my neck trying to rip the other person's arm right out of the socket but if you start a match and your opponent doesn't want to hold your hand you literally asked a referee to get the strap on it's remarkably Progressive really what most people don't know about arm wrestling is that it's primarily a hand wrist and forearm sport it's not entirely how much you can bicep curl in a sense similar to rock climbing because even though specific strengths are different in rock climbing you can take a super jacked bodybuilder but because he's never trained his grip in a crimp position he's going to be barely any better than an average guy because it's largely about your finger strength to body weight ratio similarly professional arm wrestling requires strengths that most regular Jim Bros never train such as being able to rapidly off under the table or should post on YouTube shorts in a foreign language While most people think of arm wrestling as a side to side movement this is literally how you end up breaking your feeble normal person bones if your real life opponent insists that anything but side to side is cheating make sure you do it over a ledge so you at least get a banger of a LiveLeak video in reality arm wrestling properly is almost always both people pulling corner to corner or occasionally one person pressing and another person pulling if you ever see someone using their body weight in a casual environment that is actually the safe and proper way to arm wrestle because it keeps your arm in line with your shoulder if however you want some MLG pro tips to beat your friends at the bar here are some tricks grip their thumb higher up for more leverage start with a slightly cupped hand bring your elbow and shoulder in closer to the middle to get a higher hand position and a narrower V shape through your arm and shoulder lean in as close as possible to the other person give them a quick peck on the lips and then hit them with a flash pin like the Patriot you are there are then additional stylistic techniques such as back pressure side pressure posting which I like to do at most once per year then there's pronation top rolling and hooking then there's the more unorthodox moves like flop pressing the king's move the dad move and many others that you can employ to emphasize your opponent's childhood weaknesses and engage your strengths there is of course one strategy Above All Else however which is just being really really strong again at least physically one of the reasons I find arm wrestling so appealing is because it has one of the highest genetic anomaly to overall population ratios of any sport that I know of think of how crazy it was back in the day when Usain Bolt who is six inches taller than what everyone thought a professional Sprinter should be came in and smoked every world record and we all said wow very fast impressive I'm greatly pleased by this novelty arm wrestling is like that but it's almost every single person some people say you know what if there was a version of the Olympics where everyone was allowed to do as many drugs as they want and we say to heck with it let's see what humanity is really capable of and if you know anything about sports that already exists and it's called the Olympics but in arm wrestling it goes beyond that not to just the limit of human Pharmaceuticals but the limits of human evolution what if you combined a crab with a human that's right olegzok the greatest left-handed sub-heavyweight of all time an all-around nice guy how about a human and a can of spinach exactly Alan Fisher who reminds me of someone but I can't quite put my finger on it how about a bunch of bananas in a human not a gorilla it's Dennis the plankov's hands now imagine the enormous mythological creature the Leviathan doesn't really roll off the tongue does it but if we shorten a little bit exactly Lavon saganash Villi this guy's 420 pounds in his nearly 10 inch wrists for reference I just measure the circumference of my ankle and it was nine and a quarter and look how thick those bad boys are after looking at these mutant level athletes imagine what chance you'd have if you look like a regular dad exactly you'd be John brazink the Undisputed greatest of all time because you have to remember my Golden Rule always hide your power level one of the immediately noticeable characteristics of a lot of arm wrestlers is they can't fully extend their arms and well that leads to some of the most contentious issues in the sport it also leads me to believe that the evolutionary pressure on the T-Rex was actually Nature's effort to create the perfect arm wrestler arms that barely extend to help them win matches and a giant mouth to blame the refs nevertheless while doctors in the YouTube comment section which of course are the same people often debate the cause of why arm wrestlers have arms that are so messed up there is yet to be a definitive conclusion it does however remind me a lot of the people who watch Mogul skiing videos and comment why do they all need so many knee Replacements or the people who comment why does everyone to keep getting brain damage on League of Legends videos what I love about the arm wrestling Community is that it's niche enough that it's kind of like one big family and they all really admire each other I remember seeing mainstream Reddit videos posted of guys like Dennis the blankov crushing walnuts with his fingers or Oleg with his weird left arm and people would comment I mean if that's what you've been given then can't say I wouldn't do the same thing as if what they experienced was some type of disability and while yes Dennis probably needs to use an iPad as a phone these guys are genuinely revered in the community for their special abilities whether it's Olex weird arm in hand Dennis is unusual in jacked frame Devin's up elbows Michael Todd's coping mechanisms or Dave chafee's table IQ it's genuinely seen as each person's talent and all the average people in the sport are envious they don't have their own ultimate ability that other people can meme about as it currently stands the Undisputed number one super heavyweight is Lavon saganash Villi he's that one by the way who has literally obtained final boss status because he only does Super matches against one opponent at a time while Hermes gasparini recently showed some serious potential in stopping LaVon in later rounds after tiring him out the only person who's thought to be able to beat him currently is the Australian heavyweight Ryan Bowen who everyone in the community agrees would win pretty easily but unfortunately can't get his weight up to meet the class requirements meanwhile there are probably a dozen other people who are similarly matched to each other who are all vying for number two in the world because they all know the secret to arm wrestling success claim you're better than everyone else then injure yourself before you have to prove it one of the most popular arm wrestlers is Devon No Limits lared who's not only world champion in multiple divisions and an ex-canadian Special Forces member but also one of the most charismatic ambassadors of the sport when I was first researching arm wrestling a while back I thought hey maybe I should try this let me see what the best arm wrestlers for my small City are perhaps one day it could be me and then I was like oh that's Devin larret never mind anyway joke's on him there's no arm wrestling clubs here so I'm still literally undefeated Devin is a lot like if Goku and Wolverine were one person and that he always ignores his injuries Rises to the challenge of new opponents and then breaks his previous limit to defeat a stronger enemy and he looks like a homeless Wolverine while he was destroyed by Prime Dennis in 2018 this brought rise to the notorious pancake Devon who bulked up his six and a half foot frame and easily defeated Michael Todd for the heavyweight title in 2021. similarly in order to challenge Lavon Devin surpassed even his pancake form to contend with the Georgian but despite his efforts maple syrup intake and high IQ match preparation Lavon had a special strategy prepared which was turning completely invisible interviewed later Lavon said that at the time pancakes with syrup Devin was probably the second strongest arm wrestler on the planet validating the moniker Devin Levon is the limit larit which I'm sure he will not be pleased with me saying out loud in this video since then other characters have emerged such as Hermes no fat only quality gasparini who after learning English to sell merch is now clearly the main number two Contender there's also zour 10 to 12 minute breaks between sets but still gets injured anyway Pi zalaya another less tested number two Contender and Dennis never show any emotion because then they'll know your power levels to plankov who is staging his comeback as I'm sure you can tell I absolutely nailed the native pronunciation of all those names Dennis who I'm referring to on a first name bases because I like to imagine were best friends unfortunately fell ill in 2018 but was previously considered the strongest arm wrestler ever before Levon and is considered by some to be the only person in the weight class who could potentially match him on a strength basis given not only his past dominance but being pretty much the only person to have stronger gym lifts in multiple exercises having an enormous amount of table experience insane hand strength and having possibly the most unbendy arms in the game he's the only person who after his illness looked like this and people said oh he looks so small and frail I hope he recovers soon and then you step back a second and think wait wait a minute he's curling my bench press this guy's massive and you you're forced to diagnose yourself with someone else's body dysmorphia thankfully he's been doing a lot better and it's especially exciting because Dennis and Lavon have never faced each other before and everyone's hoping that Lavon triples his Georgian pancake intake Dennis absorbs another bar of plutonium turns his hat backwards and I can pay 25 to watch it on the internet similarly with the Internet it's the first time ever the teenagers around the world with giant hands forearms and literally no lower body have finally found their calling I mean I think we're currently in the Golden Age of arm wrestling so I highly recommend you get involved by getting a bag of chips leaning back in your gaming chair and watching hours of arm wrestling YouTube videos back to back without ever participating like me [Music]

Channel: Casually Explained

Views: 1,772,392

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Length: 9min 23sec (563 seconds)

Published: Sun Apr 23 2023

Reddit Comments

[u/Tuxhorn]

Casually Explained is clearly a fan. This has all the memes in the community.

This sport has been blowing up on social media in the last few years, it's crazy.

[u/BigRigs63]

Genuinely a hilarious video, his dry humour is great.

I can imagine some very confused people watching it completely missing all the jokes

[u/RandomDustBunny]

Outstanding vid. Impressed with how accurate he was with the memes and shit.

I feel bad for MMT 🤣.

[u/Table_IQ]

Casually Explained absolutely nailed it with this video. I'm expecting a bunch of 'how do i toproll i am 12kg bodyweight' type of posts here in the coming weeks, better embrace the exposure for the sport I guess.

[u/Kay_tnx_bai]

That whole vid was excellent not a second of filler in it.

That bit where he followed up that ‘MMT’s coping mechanism’ with ‘Dave’s Chafee’s table iq’ … Casually is a straight savage 🤣

[u/Squizgarr]

Absolutely killed it. 👏

[u/Yummehhh]

This was so good!

Also, there's no way he's not lurking here... somewhere...

[u/pwndaman9]

Show yourself casually explained. He's clearly here lurking.

[u/Dai_Vexes]

YOOOOOOOOOOO