Tom Walsh
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Comes across as a top bloke, was speaking on RS this morning, reckons he is coming close to being in top form!!
Fast becoming a legend!
https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/other-sports/106715235/tom-walsh-too-good-in-diamond-league-final
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400kg trap bar deadlift too. That's an ok effort.
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@mn5 you couldnt even look at 400kg without having a hernia!
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@taniwharugby said in Tom Walsh:
@mn5 you couldnt even look at 400kg without having a hernia!
Trap bar is much easier to be fair.
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He has the best technique of any elite shotputter, by miles. So biomechanically efficient. So many of the top guys are absolute physical freaks in terms of size/strength, and have been from an early age, so never needed to be as technically proficient as Walsh who is (comparatively!) a midget.
Even when he was only throwing 18m in 2011 and Jacko Gill was the next big thing, you could tell Walsh would continue to get better and better as he got bigger/stronger.
As he gets into his 30s he'll get better and better as much of the strength/explosiveness is cumulative over many years of training. I reckon he could break the world record one day, which given it was set by a man who had buckets of steroids for breakfast in 1990 is amazing.
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I should add, he already is the "clean" world record holder after the 22.67m he threw in Auckland earlier this year, as everyone ahead of him on the all time list was from the late 80s early 90s drug era, and most have served bans.
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He also has a couple of guys to really push him. I've been so impressed by how much he has improved, and he's a geniune GC to boot. Would be an amazing effort to see him break some of those dubious prior records.
