You doth smoketh too much crack.
I chimed in when you said:
Yeah justify it with drugs....
Take a look at the arnold classic deadlift comp results and see how many are strongmen. Arnold classic is biggest dl comp and all the best deadlifters are invited. Strongmen are currently raping pls in the dl
I posted a link of the Arnold classic deadlift invitational- pointing out that Ian Bell, last years winner, was indeed a powerlifter and they pretty much all are.
Your reply:
Brad gillingham is on there though and attributes strongman to his deadlift.
To which I pointed out you have exaggerated things here for the benefit of your argument. Gillingham adds in strongman stuff to make things interesting. Who told me this? Him!
When I said that strongman is no better than powerlifting for developing the deadlift your responses have been that gpp is essential- and since strongmen have great gpp this is somehow the ingredient that PLs are missing out on. When I pointed out that PL templates can use gpp and that the best coaches in the world are not getting their PLers to do strongman training to develop their deadlift, but rather that strongmen draw on PL training as part of their strongman training- your replies? Well- that the PLers were doing something like strongman anyway. I pointed out that the best strongmen Dlers are infact powerlifters- Misha, Savickas, Benny etc- you response that its somehow the strongman side of the picture, rather than them doing what PLers do, along with the other stuff as part of their strongman routine.
Example-
me: the Russian powerlifters lead the way, but the likes of Sorokin, Fedosienko etc are not flipping tyres etc.
Oni: but they do goodmornings!
me

smashes head on keyboard).