This page is dedicated to those Masters athletes who have closed the #2 gripper from Iron Mind under documented conditions.  If you are not familiar with the grippers or would like to purchase some to work on, visit www.ironmind.com and check them out.  The #1 gripper requires 150 pounds of pressure and the #2 requires 195 pounds.  Anyone for the #3 (280 lbs)?  

Scruggs will bring the grippers to games where anyone can give them a try.  If you, or someone you know, has a gripper and you want on this page, have someone take your picture holding the gripper closed and send it in.

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Masters of Crush

Bill Scruggs (2000)                               Kent Durso (2001)
at Frank Lux's place                            in Kansas City
Scruggs slammed the #2
20 times in KC 2001
                                     

Larry Ventress gets the right in 2001 
at Joe Lane's Texas games and left in                 Wilson Plunkett at the
2003 at the Oklahoma Games                               Texas games in 2001
                          

Kevin Youngberg goes Right & Left Friday night before the 2002 Springfield Highland Games
                    

Carlos Borges (below) gets the right at Sacramento, 2002, then adds the left at Pleasanton, 2003
Nice stogie Carlos - guess he doesn't realize it could stunt his growth.
   

Joe Farrer (below) gets left and right at the Oklahoma Highland Games in Edmond OK, 2003
   

 
Don Stewart (l.) and Mark McDonald (r.) slam with their right hands at the MWC in Springfield, IL 2003

Miles Wetzel goes right and left at Springfield, IL 2003 
(note, I was a bit slow on the shutter for the right hand picture as Miles was already letting go)
according to Miles, this marks the first for a 10-year-old guy - yes, he's a fair sized chap to be
so young.

  John McClure closes the #2 with his right at Pleasanton, 2003.

                       
Above, Hank Carson gets right (l.) and left (c.) while Rick Kramer (r.) gets the right 
at the Springfield, IL, Highland Games in 2004

New Masters of Crush at the 2006 MWC at Inverness, Scotland

       
Mike Staal gets left and right as does Jamie Barr.  Bull Bullock got the left but not the right.

      
Dan Dillon, Dave Glasgow and Stan Pike all got the right.

Other persuits:

     
Kit Sonesen (left with 150 lb) and Bill Scruggs (right pulling 175 lb) fool 
around with Kit's Rolling Thunder from IronMind.
Just part of a full day of throwing at Frank Lux's place in Loomis, CA.

The MWC 2006 in Inverness saw the first Rolling Thunder test for an MWC

           
Stan Pike and Mark McDonald both picked up 85 kg while Mike Staal and Rick Baird
topped out at 72.5 kg.  Angus Billy, not pictured, got 75 kg.