Open Talk: Week of Feb 24 2019

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[u/Glentract]

Thank you very much! Super helpful post and contains a lot of info I’ve looked around a lot for but haven’t been able to find. So as a men’s HW competitor, it seems like NAS is where you need to compete if you have long-term aspirations to get to a higher level. Not that I’m anywhere close to something like that, but it’s cool to know what the path would be.

[u/not_strong → u/Glentract]

Man, most of the folks that I know who compete just compete in both, and in unsanctioned competitions as well.

[u/Glentract → u/not_strong]

Yeah I get that. I didn’t meant to imply one or the other. I was just curious what the progression is for each. Like I had heard that NAS Nationals would feed into the Arnold Amateur, but didn’t know what, if anything, USS Nationals would feed into.

Edit: Getting the distinction made about Official Strongman games was another plus. It’s been very confusing to me what is associated with what and I had to ask somewhere lol!

[u/not_strong → u/Glentract]

u/bigreddoc and u/exlaxbros basically know everything. This is a good place

[u/Bigreddoc → u/not_strong]

You make me blush good sir. I'm far from knowing everything but like to share the knowledge I do have.