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If you want to pack on some size on your forearm, get stronger or faster wrists, or need to rehab or even prehab this area, then this tool is for you. An unbelievable smooth, useful and innovative tool, the OrbiGrip is soon going to be known around the strength world. Obviously it has massive value to all strength athletes, but it would also be a must-have training tool for sports like tennis, badminton, squash, climbing, martial arts and golf.
Different ideas with the OrbiGrip.
Rotate the arm inwards, or outwards. This works slightly different areas as you’ll feel.
Train on different lengths of time, from 1-10mins, and count the reps, then of course try and better them next time.
Also do some sets with your elbow on a padded table, this works the hands and wrist even harder. It’s also fantastic for armwrestlers.
[If you happen to drop your OrbiGrip and the spinning arm’s angle moves, this is easy to sort. Undo the two bolts slightly, and with someone holding the arm level in place, just fasten the bolts back up again. It’s a 30 second job, and easy to do with a helper.]
Cost: £49.99 pounds sterling
P&P: UK £7
EUROPE; Please contact for a courier quote.
USA and REST OF WORLD; Please contact for a courier quote.
A sturdy ring made from solid steel. Get ready for this year’s Highland Games and Strongman events. Suitable for both weight for height and for distance. Handle can be attached to the weights by either thick rope or chain and by a carabiner (as pictured). The weight pictured here is 28lb (being thrown by Nick McKinless in training) but you can load the weight to your requirements. Please be sure when buying chain/carabiner for the ring that you get one that is strong enough for the weight that you will be throwing (easily found in your local DIY/hardware store). Great tool for strongman and strength fitness training.
Cost: £12 pounds sterling each.
P&P: UK £3
EUROPE; £6 (airmail)
USA and REST OF WORLD; £11 (airmail)
In 1991 David Horne promoted the British Grip Championships (the very first grip contest), which also is the longest running grip competition on the planet. These DVDs are copied from the original VHS tapes, which were taken on old video recorders. As you would expect the video quality is not great and it is in an unedited format. However, these DVDs are a rare and invaluable insight into the very early days of the sport of grip, and feature some very impressive lifts done by the sport's pioneers.
Amongst the competitors are Steve Sherwood; David Horne; Steve Angell; Chris Moore; John Moore; David Elmer; Frank Allen; Barry Anderson and Bob Howe. Top lifts include: 60kg One Hand Pinch Lift (David Horne); 203kg One Hand Vertical Bar Lift with hook (David Horne); 80kg Middle Fingers Clean and Press (Bob Howe); 110kg Two Hands Pinch Lift (DH); 242.5kg Table Top Wrist Curl (DH); 180kg Middle Fingers Hacklift (DH).
The Vulcan hand gripper is a fantastic new training device that is designed to allow your gripper crushing prowess to progress slowly and steadily from strength to strength without having to buy more and more grippers - it will take you from the lightest rehab training right up to the heaviest gripper close all in one package! The lightest setting is easier than the Trainer and the heaviest is harder than the equivalent of a #4. Adjustable nutcracker-style gripper with smooth action (no skew) solid steel handles and numerous settings (11 notches each side - see picture).
The first batch of the grippers is largely ready, and they are marked with a 1 on the handle end to indicate that they are from the first batch ever produced.
Production history
Number 1 batch produced February 2008, marked 1 on the front handle. Number 2 batch produced April 2008, marked 2 on the front handle, and with new sticker on.
UPDATE 18/12/07 - Today my 18 month old daughter Lucy had a go with the Vulcan Hand Gripper. You ask how? Well very simply really, I took the spring off and replaced it with a rubber band and hey presto a gripper for a baby! So she now can play, as that's what she's doing, with the same gripper I will be using to advance to close a #4.
Also with this rubber band idea, you can micro load even more. Rather than just moving the spring up one notch, which is a small increase anyway, you could just add an elastic band!
A pair of these converters will give you a fantastic piece of new training equipment for a great price. Each one can be bolted onto most sizes of car wheel* (we bought our wheels for £5 from the local scrapyard), and consists of a sleeve that will fit snuggly over the end of an Olympic or 2" axle bar, providing you with perfectly upright, bouncing rubber discs. They look impressive too! Great for strongman training, weightlifting - or for any situation where you need to deaden the noise of your deadlifts.
*70mm between the 4 square studs is needed, and with at least a 2 inch centre hole in the wheel (see pics).
Also available in custom sizing to fit the wheels you are using (ie. Land Rover 5 stud wheels). All I need with the order is a wax rubbing of the wheel hub, including the centre hole and stud holes where the bolts will go.
Available to suit 2" axle/Olympic bar or 1" exercise bar (see photo below). Please specify which you want when ordering. Cost is the same for both.
Cost: A pair is £35 pounds sterling.
P&P: UK £8.50
EUROPE; Please contact for a courier quote (roughly £20).
USA and REST OF WORLD; Please contact for a courier quote.
This is a very cheap way of training your thick bar, and making it very challenging to boot! When I'm using mine, I spray some WD40 on the end of the Olympic bar, and then wipe the excess off. This is where the Slippery Eel handle goes (see photo below), and boy does it spin! I find it a lot harder than the Rolling Thunder, as the spin is faster. The great thing about it is every time you use it you can spray and clean the bar/handle which will keep it spinning as fast. I know it's a piece of pvc piping, but to purchase the minimum length from most hardware shops will be far more expensive. Diameter is 56mm, 2.2".
Cost: £1.50 pounds sterling each.
P&P: UK £1.50
EUROPE; £2 (airmail)
USA and REST OF WORLD; £2.50 (airmail)
44 mins packed with unsurpassed steel destruction, including the following:
38" x 5/8" braced bend
Grade 5 bolt bend
Steel stocking leg coil
2 x 6" nail bend
Speed bending
Chain snapping
Reverse bending
Bottle cap bending
Wrench destruction
Sculpting a 48" x 1/2" bar
Fun bending
Double frying pan roll
Testing a bent Grade 5 bolt
Bloopers!
Will be supplied in PAL or NTSC format according to your region.
$39.99 + shipping (UK $4, Europe $5, USA/other $6)
SAVE $20!
5 of the feats featured on the DVD have previously been available on this website as clips (Steel Stocking; Double 6" Nail Bend; Chain Snapping; Wrench Destruction; and Double Frying Pan Roll) - if you have already bought 4 or more of these clips (as of 25/07/07) you qualify for a purchase price of just $19.99 plus shipping for this DVD! Please contact me with your registered paypal email address details to confirm that you are eligible for this discount and I will invoice you for the reduced price. Thank you so much for your support!
In 1993 David Horne began writing and researching for his now famous hand written Iron Grip Courses. This DVD is the first in a line of hands on (literally!) training DVD’s bringing the Iron Grip Course into the millennium.
On this DVD you will see everything! Big one hand pinches, Blob lifts, hub lifts, loose pinching, The Pinch Plank, The Plank of Woe, The Pinch Box, David’s World Record two hands pinch lift, Elizabeth Horne lifting 2x15kg/35lbs and hub lifting, Nick McKinless breaking gym records and much, much more! Also included is a special features section showing David and Nick training, fooling around and generally having fun.
This is not your typical training DVD.
Running time: 54 minutes plus special features and bonus footage
£19.99 + shipping (UK £2.00; Europe £2.50; USA/other £3.00)
£49.99 + shipping(UK £6.00; Europe £10.00; USA/other £17.00)
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This is a revolutionary new piece of equipment that will save you a fortune in bending steel and massively improve your reverse bending technique. Mimics the motion of a reverse bend and provides the opportunity for volume training without the expense of multiple pieces of steel. It is for Reverse bending style only, and not manufactured for the double overhand or underhand styles.
High quality all-steel construction, with two 12mm bar ’ends’ that are tensioned by a selection of springs. The range of motion on the machine will take you from the start position of a straight bar through to a 45 degree bend in a single movement, and then back to the straight bar again to start on reps! Move the springs along the notches to increase the poundage of the bend - or back again to make it easier. A fully adaptable and practical piece of apparatus suitable for any home or commercial gym.
Use your own bending wraps for the ends of the bars, or contact me if you need them. Please specify which of the three springs you would like supplied with the Wrist Developer. Original, 10% weaker, or 20% weaker. If you would like advice on which would best suit your needs, please contact me.
I invented this back in 2004 so that an adjustable pinch lift could be used in the European contests, and so that all hand sizes would be catered for. This was achieved by having hard rubber discs as the inside spacer discs to alter the width of the steel outer discs. These steel outer discs gave the same feel and look of a plated Pinch Lift.
It is cheaper for you to use your own 2" thick bar (ours is 30" long) and collars you already have.
See the new world record two hands pinch lift of 115kg (253.5lb) by David Horne set on 5th April 2008 at the Peter Horne Memorial Contest.
Cost: A set (2 x 6mm steel discs, 4 x 10mm rubber spacer discs and 2 x 6mm rubber spacer discs) is £136 pounds sterling.
P&P: UK £15 courier
EUROPE; Please contact for a courier quote.
USA and REST OF WORLD; Please contact for a courier quote
Adjustable Pinch Lift Loading Bar and a pair of T-Bar Collars
I've been asked for these, so here they are. The official 30" long bar and collars which will keep the discs very tightly together (see picture and video above of the official apparatus in action).
Cost: £30 pounds sterling.
P&P: UK £12 courier
EUROPE; Please contact for a courier quote.
USA and REST OF WORLD; Please contact for a courier quote.
One Hand Lift Handle
A sturdy triangular base with smooth steel 1” handle. Get ready for this year’s British Grip Championship. Handle can be attached to a loading pin by a carabiner.
Cost: £20 pounds sterling
P&P: UK £5.50
EUROPE £7 (airmail)
USA and REST OF WORLD £12 (airmail)
These are a MUST if you are contemplating going to Potarch to attempt to lift the two Dinnie Stones. You will tread the path that many strongmen have taken, including me twice. The first time I lifted them was in 1998 and I used a similar set-up, this was good, but not perfect like these. These have been designed using the exact measurements that I took from the Dinnie Stones when I went up to Scotland a few years ago and lifted them, and a small rectangular attachment has been welded to the bottom of the ring, with a weld that is designed to withstand thousands of kilos of pressure. The rectangle has a hole in the centre onto which the loading pins of the exact height are attached by a wing-nut bolt. See about the Dinnie stones here. See my training here.
Photos by Alan Wyne, taken on his recent visit to Potarch
Cost: A full set (everything pictured) is £65 pounds sterling.
P&P: UK £10
EUROPE; Please contact for a courier quote.
USA and REST OF WORLD; Please contact for a courier quote
It's been difficult to source good suede for bending wraps, but I have, and unfortunately it has been a bit more expensive to purchase. So there is a small rise in the price.
This new stock is 1.4mm thick which is ideal for an inside wrap and outer wraps. I use one wrap for snapping bars, and a pair for bending bars. I also have slightly thicker 1.6mm nubuck wraps available at this time (great for those of you who like single wraps, and also for braced bar bending).
Cost: £3.50 pounds sterling a pair, or £6 pounds for 2 pairs. Please specify whether you want suede or nubuck wraps when ordering.
P&P: UK - Pair £0.80. 2 pairs £1.30.
EUROPE: Pair £1.35. 2 pairs £1.70 (airmail).
USA and REST OF WORLD: Pair £1.75. 2 pairs £2.30 (airmail)
These hand warmers are heated up in the microwave (about 30 secs) and will keep, or even get your hands warm and ready for your grip session. The warmer my hands are the better my pinch lift is - I mean it! I wear gloves in between sets and exercises but these are a great kick start to your session, especially in winter!
Cost: £2.50 pounds sterling a pair
P&P: UK £1.30
EUROPE £1.70 (airmail)
USA and REST OF WORLD £2.30 (airmail)
The Roland Brothers - original strongman postcard c.1910
Acccording to the fine book 'Sons of Samson' by David Webster, The Rolands were a strongman act active c.1910. It seems these pair were James Findlay and the german Alfred Siegel. They would offer a silver cup to anyone who could duplicate their lift with a 2 1/2" thick handled dumbell that weighed in at 250lb. I pressume this was in the Bent Press. There is only one postcard, as it's a duplicate I have, so first payment/enquiry secures it!
Condition VG.
Cost: £10 pounds sterling
P&P: UK £0.75
EUROPE £1.25 (airmail)
USA and REST OF WORLD £1.75 (airmail)
