Monday, July 30, 2007

Old school

" Weightlifting was one of the sports known by the ancient Egyptians. One method of weightlifting was the attempt to lift a heavy sack of sand with one hand (clean and jerk lift) and keep it high in a quasi-vertical position. The player had to stay in that position for a short period. This is one of the rules of weightlifting applied till now."

Looks more like a swing to me ...

1 comment:

Scott said...

Then, when the guy on the right failed and knocked out the guy to his left with the heavy bag of sand, the crowd loved it so much that it was the beginning of the gladiator era. You already had the huge muscled dudes. Why not have them fight each other?