Strong Man Shane Hamman and CrossFit

CrossFit is attracting the best of the best. Welcome Shane Hammond!

Awesome video! Thanks for sharing brother! so great to see so many brothers and sisters in Christ giving the glory to God, and professing their faith. God Bless

Thanks Again, Faster for putting together a great video about an amazing athlete and person.

What a nice humble guy. It's awesome that Crossfit has such incredible people and resources coming into the community.

I had the pleasure of meeting and being coached by Shane at the Olympic Lifting Cert in OKC. What an amazing, kind, professional man. It's great getting to see him again.
Welcome to crossfit Shane!!!

All I have to say is I can't even begin to comprehend squatting 1,008 pounds? That's insane!!

That is a strong human being.

That was the best example I've seen of how explosively violent the snatch needs to be. He explodes with that bar (no weight) and you can see how each rep is a perfectly executed explosion. He made the clean and jerk look like a warm up set with a pvc.

That was awesome.

Wow, hadn't heard the story that he injured both wrists so severely only 3 weeks out from setting those records, just watched them on Youtube and am blown away. Amazing stuff.

He is an awesome dude! Humble, gifted and real faith - brilliant :-)

Get this man on video again!

Scary how fast he is for such a big guy. I almost can't see the motion. One moment the bar is down, then it's up.

Awesome!

In the March 2003 CrossFit journal, there was a review of the World Class Coaching Olympic-Style Weightlifting videos. One of the primary athlete's in these videos is Shane.

The article:
http://journal.crossfit.com/2003/03/the-worlds-fastest-lift-world.tpl

The videos:
http://www.metroweightlifting.com/index.html

Also, here is a link to September 2000 interview with Shane on NPR:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1111372

Impressive man with a great faith. A couple of things I noticed...

1. He was very explosive, but almost quiet moving the weight. His clean was just a thing of beauty and it seemed like it was effortless.

2. Does he bump the weight on his hips as he is coming up on the snatch? Haven't been to a cert yet, but I heard him saying pockets...does that mean to pull the weight toward your pockets?

funny clip with shane

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZqOs-Ghvps&feature=related

I just googled him to learn a bit more and a picture comes up of his vertical leap -- just wow!!

I also had the privilege to meet and train under Shane at the OLY Cert at CFOKC.

Funny story: So, aside from being HUGE, Shane was quiet, humble and moved very slowly. Therefore, I thought to myself, "Shane=big, slow guy" and focused most of my attention on Coach B that weekend.
At one point, Coach B had us break up into small groups. I'm standing there watching Sage instruct our small group while Shane was standing to the right of me, about 3 feet away, teaching his group. Suddenly, Shane shows his group how to execute the Snatch correctly with the empty barbell. With me right behind him!
Yeah, I pretty much dove for cover (along with a few others, I might add)! I was just not expecting a "big, slow guy" to move THAT FAST! Wow!

Welcome to CrossFit Shane, we can learn a lot from you!

Unbelievable how CrossFit attracts great people - glad to have you to learn with and from Shane! Paul

Anyone know what kind of shoes he's wearing?

that is one of the best interviews on the journal, welcome, welcome, welcome brother. i hope to one day meet you personally at a cert. Your just one more awsome person added to an already amazing group of people.

Great Stuff

Shane, thanks for your Christian witness. Great to have brothers in Christ in Crossfit. May God continue to bless you. Jim Rooks, Crossfit No Limits. Steilacoom, WA

Awesome to see another brother in christ lifting the iron, welcome.

Great video and awesome testimony! Keep up the good work!