Rickard
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I am going to wake this thread up. At the time I didn't really know how to put it. But perhaps it is the easiest to try and list just why oh why I feel it's the most inspiring PERSON with the most inspiring feats I know off.
His name was Ricky Bruch, he sadly passed away in 2011. He is in many ways a legend. But for all around badassness (this must be a word, right?) he can't be beaten. First off he competed as a young guy in powerlifting, OL weightlifting and several throwing disciplines.
We can start with his problems. My mother who works as a psychiatrist and has a burning interest in sport likes him too and we discussed him at length at times. She believes that today he would have been diagnosed and treated with medicines in someway. She is very against diagnosing and as she herself says she treats humans not diagnoses claiming that originals just like Ricky Bruch isn't always something bad. He missed being taken out to olympic games later in his career because he bitchslapped one of the persons on the commitee that nominate people for the olympic games. His videos also show a guite angry man, possible sideeffects of steroids tho:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NM4vsQEr0o&mode=related&search=
around 2.42 shows a bit of err... Agressive lifting?
We'll start with the throwing. In Sweden he was first over 19m in the shot put, in the discus he was first both over 60m and 70m in Sweden. But according to an old friend of his I've had the pleasure to talk to he was always best when it didn't count and this friend claimed that he several times during training threw over world record length. He said he had problems with the nerves. Many of the throwing records he did was after his rift with much of the track and field community.
Dan John sometimes ask if people are a "lifter that throws or a thrower that lifts". Considering the Rickys past he perhaps was the ultimate hybrid perhaps?
I'll list the lifts that are verified, if not perhaps judged everyone of them but verified by other people.
Deadlift: 340kg (from 1977)
Squat: 305kg (1977)
Clean and jerk: 220kg (1970) (Done infront of Alexeyev whos worldrecord at the time was 227kg, he was mighty impressed)
Snatch:152kg (1977)
Bench: 305kg (1970)
Best PL total 850kg, (1977)
He lifted RAW.
Sadly he has done alot of bids for attention when he got older. One time he told the press that he had been using steroids all his training career and another time he claimed he was going to burn all his medals and awards (wich includes a bronze in from the olympic games in München 1972). He has also released a book with poems and there are a selfbiography and a documentary worth reading and watching.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRvobUzSOjg (Just another one of the crazy movies about him)
His name was Ricky Bruch, he sadly passed away in 2011. He is in many ways a legend. But for all around badassness (this must be a word, right?) he can't be beaten. First off he competed as a young guy in powerlifting, OL weightlifting and several throwing disciplines.
We can start with his problems. My mother who works as a psychiatrist and has a burning interest in sport likes him too and we discussed him at length at times. She believes that today he would have been diagnosed and treated with medicines in someway. She is very against diagnosing and as she herself says she treats humans not diagnoses claiming that originals just like Ricky Bruch isn't always something bad. He missed being taken out to olympic games later in his career because he bitchslapped one of the persons on the commitee that nominate people for the olympic games. His videos also show a guite angry man, possible sideeffects of steroids tho:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NM4vsQEr0o&mode=related&search=
around 2.42 shows a bit of err... Agressive lifting?
We'll start with the throwing. In Sweden he was first over 19m in the shot put, in the discus he was first both over 60m and 70m in Sweden. But according to an old friend of his I've had the pleasure to talk to he was always best when it didn't count and this friend claimed that he several times during training threw over world record length. He said he had problems with the nerves. Many of the throwing records he did was after his rift with much of the track and field community.
Dan John sometimes ask if people are a "lifter that throws or a thrower that lifts". Considering the Rickys past he perhaps was the ultimate hybrid perhaps?
I'll list the lifts that are verified, if not perhaps judged everyone of them but verified by other people.
Deadlift: 340kg (from 1977)
Squat: 305kg (1977)
Clean and jerk: 220kg (1970) (Done infront of Alexeyev whos worldrecord at the time was 227kg, he was mighty impressed)
Snatch:152kg (1977)
Bench: 305kg (1970)
Best PL total 850kg, (1977)
He lifted RAW.
Sadly he has done alot of bids for attention when he got older. One time he told the press that he had been using steroids all his training career and another time he claimed he was going to burn all his medals and awards (wich includes a bronze in from the olympic games in München 1972). He has also released a book with poems and there are a selfbiography and a documentary worth reading and watching.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRvobUzSOjg (Just another one of the crazy movies about him)
