The Axle weighted 366lbs(166kg) The bar was 49mm thick, without rotating joints Louis Uni (Apollon) realized it in 1892 There is no evidence that Louis ever cleaned, even less jerked or pressed that Axle The only officially lifts came from Charles Rigoulot, March 1930 John Davis, September 1949, and Norbert Schemansky, October 1954, Schemansky becoming the first to jerk the Axle three consecutive times. All three men were World Weightlifting champions and weighted less than 240lb
I don't think that steroids became a factor until much later. I met John over a friends home years ago and talked with him for hours. One of the most interesting and humble man I have ever met. A true gentleman. I do not think that being black had anything to do with his name not being remembered. I doubt that the average person could name any Olympic weightlifter.
A minor point, but only adds to the impressiveness of this lift. He starts out with a hook grip, notice his left hand position which he flips around when he cleans it!
Many world class strongmen of today that are 100lb+ heavier than Davis cannot lift the Appolons axle. And how many in history could lift it to the shoulders in one movement!? VERY few.
@@timnevinger5056 when i was obternational circuit..(i. Guest for a Telethon 1998)... IM NOT STRONGMAN.. but POWER/OLY LIFTER .(in coaching because ii had allways use peds in no negligeable quantity ) ....you can see my videos (but ii was a old 45 yo. man) i lift around 130 kgd IN HUMORISTIC MOD ...LOOOOL
@@timnevinger5056appolo axle nude weigjt just ...165kg...165kg in modern circuit IS NOTHING..... FOR INFO ...DAVIS BIDYWEIGHT IS LIKE MINE BEFORE 13 YO.. !!! FOR SIMILLAR HEIGHT ...... at my peak .at 19 yo..i was 5'11" 167 kg bodyweight (367 lbs) ..... i used Testo since 6 years .. HGH since 3.... e5c etc....nothing is comparable ...(no i have not good health... loooool i agree)
@@timnevinger5056 now in strongman. If a man clean nude axe.... all athlete laught during lifts.. serious John Davis...i reqpect him but he was natty... (no over food...no peds....) other time other performance.. but for info..CONTINENTAL CLEAN IS NOR MY "CUP OF TEA"..... I HAVE CHANCE to have relatively big hands (other time..other morphology tioo) and a good grip .i have use classic clean grip (except hook on 2 inch axle good chance loool )... and i accelerate relatively easy and i catch it in half squat (thank u captain of grip)
unlike today's roided out strongmen, this guy actually weighted LESS than the bar he was lifting. The bodyweight percentage lifted had to be an all time high for any man who successfully lifted the implement.
Wow, never seen a clean with a dead lift grip. Pretty dangerous to have to release the bar and turn your wrist around while catching the bar. If you pulled it short and missed the lift you could easily pin & break your wrist. Amazing footage.
He would have hit it way easier with a continental clean and press. Instead he split cleaned it, which is much more impressive but less practical. Amazing footage. I wonder what technique Apollon used.
I think he used that method due to the thick bar, which was too large for his hands. Using the split clean allowed him to get balance under the bar since he could not grip it. That is also why he used the mixed grip to start his successful lift after the initial failures. I read a story about this event in Sports Illustrated in the 80s shortly before his death from cancer.
Davis wasn't "the last strong man before steroids..." There's zero evidence that either Doug Hepburn or Paul Anderson used steroids, & each was stronger than Davis. That fact in no way lessens Davis' accomplishments, or those of the other "York" men.
All I have to say is that man toes would have been crushed had all that weight slammed down on him. Get the fuck out of they way hell the man has 366 pounds in his hands
To movmasty:don't go so fast.Apollon was a natural born athlete,a huge hulk for his time.He did a very little workout only.he knew nothing of the methods.But he could bend horse shoes,lift heavy sandbangs.Apollon was a huge man,standing well over six feet tall and weighing a hard 260 pounds.And also lift thick weights. Nevermind he his wheels or not,he would break or arm any day.or beat ordinary man in armwrestling today instantly.
john davis was the strongest man of his time a black man in rascist america he is in the tradition of jesse owens jackie robinson and goose tatum but who remembers him today this is sad also he was the last strong man before steroids tainted everything he was clean all after him cannot say so why has america and especially black america forgotten him?
John davis worked with my father in rikers and my dad and John bonded over liquor and Italian opera . I’ll never forget those weekends they were something
He was clean but not the last before steroids. I’m sure race had something to do with him not being better known but not too much as other black athletes before and of his era are pretty well known such as Joe Louis Jesse Owens Jackie Robinson. At least when I was a boy in school in the late 70s and early 80s I was familiar with them as well as white athletes from that era. I was not familiar however with John Davis or any other Olympic lifters present or past until I got into the iron culture and began reading the iron magazines of the day. I saw pictures and heard about Davis and other Olympic lifters there but not too much because the sport is not popular at all in the US anymore. You have to remember many young people don’t even know who Earl Campbell was and how dominant he was just because they know nothing of football from that era much less Olympic lifting from 80 years ago.
reverse grip in beggining and return of left hand is no productive....its line clan with one hand...now with a to large schaft lifters clean very quickly (its possible to pull bar very height in "open hands"mode)... old lifters(Davis.. Anderson..Rigoulot. )trust too in strenght than technics... now an poor ass like me (in big category. i weight 330lbs) can easy clean/jerk 400lbs (180kg)...its syndical minima
John davis lifting apollon wheels picture hangs in my room over my weight bench...i havent forgot this great athlete
😂😂😂dem legs gt me dancing lol💃💃
My favorite lifter of all time. Used to train in a church basement, alone. A total beast long before PED'S came along.
Fair enough PEDs´where already around at the time, not saying he used tho
The Axle weighted 366lbs(166kg) The bar was 49mm thick, without rotating joints
Louis Uni (Apollon) realized it in 1892
There is no evidence that Louis ever cleaned, even less jerked or pressed that Axle
The only officially lifts came from Charles Rigoulot, March 1930
John Davis, September 1949,
and Norbert Schemansky, October 1954,
Schemansky becoming the first to jerk the Axle three consecutive times.
All three men were World Weightlifting champions and weighted less than 240lb
Well he assemble it and what is the purpose of this if he didn't lift this? He assemble it to lift in his showman carrier
Flying mix grip was really impressive !
I don't think that steroids became a factor until much later. I met John over a friends home years ago and talked with him for hours. One of the most interesting and humble man I have ever met. A true gentleman. I do not think that being black had anything to do with his name not being remembered. I doubt that the average person could name any Olympic weightlifter.
He's Brooks Kubik's favourite lifter, I'm sure he'd be fascinated with what you guys talked about if you got in touch with him
But even on weightlifting sites and pages... you don’t here about him....
At least not before Paul Anderson. The few I remember are all European.
A minor point, but only adds to the impressiveness of this lift. He starts out with a hook grip, notice his left hand position which he flips around when he cleans it!
John Davis is a true legend in weightlifting and a great American !
brute strength at its finest.
A truly great, great weightlifter
A mixed grip clean! ? Crazy
Luke Brown I like it
Grande entre los grandes!!!
0:11 This train wheels just bent the bar, this just shown how heavy the Apollon wheels.
Many world class strongmen of today that are 100lb+ heavier than Davis cannot lift the Appolons axle. And how many in history could lift it to the shoulders in one movement!? VERY few.
Im former oly Lifter(little 350 level total for a bodyweight over 150kgs) and i was able to do one rep but with a speed original clean..
@@alanaliyev456GT You're saying that you were able to do a one motion clean with the axle?
@@timnevinger5056 when i was obternational circuit..(i. Guest for a Telethon 1998)... IM NOT STRONGMAN.. but POWER/OLY LIFTER .(in coaching because ii had allways use peds in no negligeable quantity ) ....you can see my videos (but ii was a old 45 yo. man) i lift around 130 kgd IN HUMORISTIC MOD ...LOOOOL
@@timnevinger5056appolo axle nude weigjt just ...165kg...165kg in modern circuit IS NOTHING..... FOR INFO ...DAVIS BIDYWEIGHT IS LIKE MINE BEFORE 13 YO.. !!! FOR SIMILLAR HEIGHT ...... at my peak .at 19 yo..i was 5'11" 167 kg bodyweight (367 lbs) ..... i used Testo since 6 years .. HGH since 3.... e5c etc....nothing is comparable ...(no i have not good health... loooool i agree)
@@timnevinger5056 now in strongman. If a man clean nude axe.... all athlete laught during lifts.. serious John Davis...i reqpect him but he was natty... (no over food...no peds....) other time other performance.. but for info..CONTINENTAL CLEAN IS NOR MY "CUP OF TEA"..... I HAVE CHANCE to have relatively big hands (other time..other morphology tioo) and a good grip .i have use classic clean grip (except hook on 2 inch axle good chance loool )... and i accelerate relatively easy and i catch it in half squat (thank u captain of grip)
He was doing a snatch clean with one hand reversed! Very strange. But he did it!
unlike today's roided out strongmen, this guy actually weighted LESS than the bar he was lifting. The bodyweight percentage lifted had to be an all time high for any man who successfully lifted the implement.
Oly lifting background is a great tool even with this hard bar
Fourth time was the charm
Wow, never seen a clean with a dead lift grip. Pretty dangerous to have to release the bar and turn your wrist around while catching the bar. If you pulled it short and missed the lift you could easily pin & break your wrist. Amazing footage.
He would have hit it way easier with a continental clean and press. Instead he split cleaned it, which is much more impressive but less practical. Amazing footage. I wonder what technique Apollon used.
I think he used that method due to the thick bar, which was too large for his hands. Using the split clean allowed him to get balance under the bar since he could not grip it. That is also why he used the mixed grip to start his successful lift after the initial failures. I read a story about this event in Sports Illustrated in the 80s shortly before his death from cancer.
he is passing out at the end lol
He had hypertension after that lift.
Davis wasn't "the last strong man before steroids..." There's zero evidence that either Doug Hepburn or Paul Anderson used steroids, & each was stronger than Davis. That fact in no way lessens Davis' accomplishments, or those of the other "York" men.
Dope taints everything today. Now guys like him are turned out like candy bars. It's appalling.
Way heavier men sir...
All I have to say is that man toes would have been crushed had all that weight slammed down on him. Get the fuck out of they way hell the man has 366 pounds in his hands
To movmasty:don't go so fast.Apollon was a natural born athlete,a huge hulk for
his time.He did a very little workout only.he knew nothing of the methods.But
he could bend horse shoes,lift heavy sandbangs.Apollon was a huge man,standing well over six feet tall and weighing a hard 260 pounds.And also lift thick weights.
Nevermind he his wheels or not,he would break or arm any day.or beat ordinary
man in armwrestling today instantly.
I have an album on my computer with 56 pictures of Apollon. He was a beast! Those forearms, yikes.
john davis was the strongest man of his time a black man in rascist america he is in the tradition of jesse owens jackie robinson and goose tatum but who remembers him today this is sad also he was the last strong man before steroids tainted everything he was clean all after him cannot say so why has america and especially black america forgotten him?
Race haves almost nothing to do from it. The average American can't name any Olympians from that era black or white other than maybe Jesse Owens.
John davis worked with my father in rikers and my dad and John bonded over liquor and Italian opera . I’ll never forget those weekends they were something
He was clean but not the last before steroids.
I’m sure race had something to do with him not being better known but not too much as other black athletes before and of his era are pretty well known such as Joe Louis Jesse Owens Jackie Robinson.
At least when I was a boy in school in the late 70s and early 80s I was familiar with them as well as white athletes from that era.
I was not familiar however with John Davis or any other Olympic lifters present or past until I got into the iron culture and began reading the iron magazines of the day.
I saw pictures and heard about Davis and other Olympic lifters there but not too much because the sport is not popular at all in the US anymore.
You have to remember many young people don’t even know who Earl Campbell was and how dominant he was just because they know nothing of football from that era much less Olympic lifting from 80 years ago.
reverse grip in beggining and return of left hand is no productive....its line clan with one hand...now with a to large schaft lifters clean very quickly (its possible to pull bar very height in "open hands"mode)...
old lifters(Davis.. Anderson..Rigoulot.
)trust too in strenght than technics... now an poor ass like me (in big category. i weight 330lbs) can easy clean/jerk 400lbs (180kg)...its syndical minima