I have seen several videos of you closing No. 4 under the new rules and I no longer doubt whether it was closed or not. Do you understand filmed as you were told and it becomes difficult to get everything in then and not the best angle for us who are sitting in the stands watching. an outstanding achievement and many congratulations.

Nice close Carl. Well done 💪

@alwaysoutafterdark6136

11 ай бұрын

Can you still close a #4 CCS? Can you do a new video for us???

@Hollegripchannel

11 ай бұрын

@@alwaysoutafterdark6136yes I will do thank you 💪

@wp3991

10 ай бұрын

2 grip legends!

@ElCuervoProductions

10 ай бұрын

Leyend!!💪

@rollinupeverest5042

10 күн бұрын

​@Hollegripchannelyes please only just found out about your amazing grip strength. Subscribing, hope you post from time to time❤

Congrats! That is monumental and incredible. Very strong…you used a lot of strength just having to setup for the card set, that’s super impressive. Most I can do is the #2…I couldn’t imagine the strength it takes to close the #4. Don’t listen to the negative views, great job!

@shel0016

10 ай бұрын

Yes indeed I'm about to close a filed#3(rgc 155) and man #4 is like 50-70 lbs stronger rgc. I can bring a coc#4 really in doing my negs too. Closing 3.5s, ghp8s and a#4 are my goals indeed. Immense overall Strength and punching power and more the benefits of training grip. Also arm wrestling.❤

Hey Ironmind, can I make a suggestion for your certification page? The Captains of Crush #4 certification should be separated in 2 sections: pre-credit card set and current "credit card" set rules. Carl's close should be noted as the first official close under the current rules.

@bruceleroy8063

10 ай бұрын

Tbf the credit card rule favors larger hands. It should be a percentage of your hand length

@Om11811

7 ай бұрын

yeah but also people had 20 years to train for it since then

@jdamsel8212

7 ай бұрын

@@bruceleroy8063 That's just the way it is. I have tiny hands and I just gotta accept it.

@bruceleroy8063

2 ай бұрын

@@MDias7777 there is no bare minimum. It only gets harder the higher percentage of your rom it requires

@MDias7777

2 ай бұрын

@@bruceleroy8063 ok what hand length would you consider impossible to close ccs due to leverage I heard jedd johnson say 7.75 inches

the speed that he closed a number four is amazing

Amazing work, great job. Congrats. Anyone that has tried a number 4 knows exactly how hard this is. Speaking from experience.

@shel0016

10 ай бұрын

Yes indeed. 🏋‍♀️👍

Amazing achievement Carl - well done mate and thanks Ironmind for posting!! I think Tiziano Becchio (Italy) will be next with the ease he closed #3.5

@fakeemail9081

2 ай бұрын

This didn’t age well lol

Absolutely stunning. That was monumental. And to accomplish that just alone in your garage! Pure strength, inner and outer. What a beast of a guy.

Hmmm. I watched at 0.25 speed and zoomed all the way in. It didnt look fully closed.

@slinkybopper2903

11 ай бұрын

Smart of you to check with such detail. I did the same and my opinion is that it DID close. I heard the click at the exact moment it appears to touch. Certified beast, this man.

@visiblemode

11 ай бұрын

@@slinkybopper2903I did the same. I’m also not 100% sure. It was incredible nonetheless, the guy is a beast. Can I say he made the handles touch, though? Very hard to say. It looked like there may have been a very tiny space. That sound is doesn’t seem to be from the handles. Probably just something crinkly that he stepped on. Even still, this guy has strength that only a few others do.

@RD-lf3pt

11 ай бұрын

4:38 looks closed imo

@sour_lemon_00

11 ай бұрын

I zoomed in. It looks fully closed 👌 checks out

@WorldwideDarts

11 ай бұрын

@@slinkybopper2903 That's the problem here. A certification should remove any and ALL doubt. Reading through the comment section will show you that many others have doubt, myself included. I'm a former Ironmind ref. Why wasn't there an official ref on sight of this close? The camera angle wasn't great and isn't 100% conclusive. For such an important close it lacks in many categories.

This should not count. A certification of this significance should be held to the highest standards. The close should be unquestionable and this attempt is certainly not. To clarify, I'm not in anyway questioning his enormous grip strength.

@Om11811

7 ай бұрын

He needs a seperate camera man to zoom in , and should be done at a fit expo event or grip contest with live witnesses

It’s been done…. Congratulations Carl sir!!🏆

@NoName-fn6qw

11 ай бұрын

No it was not, it was rushed for the 20 years anniversary. I don't care what IronMind says, that was an awful attempt.

@evanescence2

11 ай бұрын

@@NoName-fn6qw that was a close! stop being a hater!

@TyghtAlso

11 ай бұрын

"hater"@@evanescence2

@TyghtAlso

11 ай бұрын

@@evanescence2 He closed it, I don't doubt, but I'm surprised IM certified on the basis of this video, which is poor.

@shel0016

10 ай бұрын

​@@evanescence2well put. Clearly haters are disgusting

Nice going, man. Inspiring!

Great!!!

Is this really the standard for verification? Really? Here I was thinking there'd be some sort of ... idk.... method of verifying authenticity ?

@ElCuervoProductions

10 ай бұрын

You can see the other videos of his channel, and the IronMind Apollon's Axle world record with referee. There is no doubt

@MrMhtmht

6 ай бұрын

There are tons of videos of small asian guys easily closing the 3 and 3.5 and even a 4. I think Asia started to copy the grippers IDENTICALLY but they are much lighter

@TheAngelsKill

5 ай бұрын

There are serial numbers on each unit and must be verified before any attempt is verified. Maybe Google stuff before you come acting so ignorant. @@MrMhtmht

Was it really so hard to have a ref there? How is this ok in the rules?

@WorldwideDarts

10 ай бұрын

Turns out they changed the official rules during covid. I have no idea why they wouldn't use a ref for such an important feat like this

Congratulations Carl. Your the first to do it with new rules. And there likely wont be many. Awesome achievement!!

Amazing! Simply amazing on so many levels! Congratulations! Historic accomplishment!

Сильно. Но нет чёткой фиксанции. При всём уважении к этому могучему мужчине, засчитывать закрытие Я бы не стал.

@dibumartinez4190

11 ай бұрын

?

@riro89165

10 ай бұрын

Да, там даже при приближении на скорости 0,25x видно(хоть и плохое качество), что не закрыл до конца(пару миллиметров буквально), плюс вниз в конце опустил. Хотя стоит признать, что у него действительно самый сильный в мире хват

@392504

6 ай бұрын

На сайте ironmind он написал, что свела судорога руку к концу сжатия, он хотел в конце что-нибудь сказать, но не смог от боли. Олимпийский чемпион по толканию ядру, 7 лет шёл к закрытию четвёрки, а 2,5 с первого раза закрыл. Причём я так понимаю не первая попытка у него закрытия.

that was incredible!!!

I have a doubt about the closure but who am I if IronMind verifies it! *The first man to close CoC#4 since the credit card rule, the first man to close it since 2004 and the 6th man to join the elite of the elite elusive crush grip holy grail club after Joe Kinney, Nathan Holle, David Morton, Tommy Heslep & Magnus Samuelsson. HEARTIEST CONGRATS CARL MYERSCOUGH, YOU ARE A LEGEND!*

@belalirongrip8984

11 ай бұрын

👍🏼👍🏼

@saxon8981

11 ай бұрын

you can clearly see it closed.

@MAGNITUDE16

11 ай бұрын

Don’t forget Ivan cuk

@evanescence2

11 ай бұрын

it's clearly closed! don't kid yourself there is zero doubt about it!

@evanescence2

11 ай бұрын

watch this one then with a gripper measuring 220 rcg! watch?v=Xinfhnp9M6A

I feel like the added effort of keeping the gripper in place while doing the credit card set makes the close harder. Very nice close.

Incredible!

Congrats

I do not believe this was entirely closed. I want so badly for him to have this certification, but I just can’t bring myself to believe it was touching. That said, I do believe this man can achieve it without any doubts at all and I would very much like to see that happen.

@popsbubbles1242

9 ай бұрын

Yes, I agree not fully closed. I zoomed in and froze the image. Still excellent effort, but those last 1 / 2 mm's are a beast

@MichaelWarne

9 ай бұрын

He does have the certification. This video shows him fully closing it, after reading your comment I paused and looked myself and must say it is fully closed. And we can likely both agree the movement of the gripper shows that he 100% can close it.

@enteoz1694

8 ай бұрын

It touched, just pause the video and put it on fullscreen

@ayoroschevalier1485

7 ай бұрын

De toute façon, une vidéo de Larry wheels montre Carl le fermer. Il n'y a aucun doute sur sa capacité à fermer CoC#4

@HeathWatts

7 ай бұрын

Slow down the video and zoom in. I wasn't sure either, but I am convinced that it closed.

#4!!!!!! Nice!

Its a close, just slow the video down to 50 percent speed and you can see it is closed.

That’s insane! Dude is grip machine! I can’t close my #3 for a year 😂

@user-ok6qv2yp4x

10 ай бұрын

I can close it for 3-4 reps and not even close with my 3,5)) already 8 years there is no lvl up

@TheAngelsKill

5 ай бұрын

Video? @@user-ok6qv2yp4x

Just wow!

That wasn't closed.

it didn't fully closed...!

How much does the certification cost?

Absolutely incredible achievement.

И что, это зачли😂😂😂)))??? 1. Что за магнезия? 2. Где касание? 3. Почему нет фиксации?

@NoName-fn6qw

11 ай бұрын

Согласен. Касания не было. Фиксации нет, потому что он его не осилил. Если бы смог, то всем бы показал удержание.

@eurohit

10 ай бұрын

Он сделал попытку закрыть этот эспандер. Выслал видео в Ironmind. А те ее зачли. Хотя не была выполнена половина условий сертификации. Не было касания ручек, фиксации на камеру и прожатия. Это фарс.

Congrats! How many have closed the No. 4 now?

@pascalrouen

11 ай бұрын

Carl is the first person in history to certify on the No. 4 with a credit card set, the rule established in 2004. 5 people between 1998-2004 certified on the No. 4 before the rule change, and did so without having to have such a wide set like a credit card set - so it was much easier, though still difficult. If you're asking how many people have ever gotten a No. 4 of any kind closed at all from any set width, I'd estimate it's around 25-40 people total.

@bernardo2151

11 ай бұрын

7

@dibumartinez4190

11 ай бұрын

​@@pascalrouenwhat's credit card set

@mystyle8753

10 ай бұрын

​​@@dibumartinez4190meaning you have to open the gripper enough to fit the credit card like the video shows.. Meaning you can't use your other hand or leg to close and maintain it that way and it's harder especially for smaller hands

@MrThijsdc

10 ай бұрын

@@dibumartinez4190 It means that before closing the gripper, you need to show that a credit card could fit in between the handles.

Just curious, what is the point of the card? What does sticking it in the gripper beforehand actually prove or do?

@donhosbf

8 ай бұрын

I always assumed the CC Rule was the handles have to come together and make contact/squeeze the card. Proving they touched. Didnt know it was a standard to set starting spacing?? So is a certified attempt, contact? Or just close?

@dexio8601

Ай бұрын

Proves you can close it from a credit card width

Hopefully this is not official certified video. Insane strenght of course!!

@TheAngelsKill

5 ай бұрын

???? Lets see you close a 3.5 soyboy

No doubt about man's grip strenght, but the video is awful for certification. 1. 2:55 he left for a minute with static image, no clock no anything,no music. 2. 4:20 we cant see gripper for a 7 seconds, i think there is a rule about it. 3. 4:38 gripper is too far from the camera, you cant see exact touch of handles. 4. I think he should show gripper again to make sure its coc4.

That's wild.

Wow!

AWESOME! But cmon IronMind, that quality is enough for you?!?! It is No 4!!!!!!! 4 !!!!! Im not counting dat!

Can we go back to parallel close? I feel like only giants with massive hands have a chance at closing them.

@Om11811

7 ай бұрын

You can do the mash monster cert route

@fluffyrider9467

7 ай бұрын

@@Om11811 I've seen that and have no idea where to even start. Advice is apricated. I love grip and have been chasing that 3 for years.

Superhuman strength, incredible

Wow, he closed it effortless! You got to make him the 4,5 now😅

I'm not so sure that was closed.

@NoName-fn6qw

11 ай бұрын

Yeah, I think he needs another certification for such a milestone crush.

@millerjohn619

11 ай бұрын

Iron Mind considers it official.

@pryme2013

11 ай бұрын

It was.

@GoncaloFerreira

11 ай бұрын

I bet Ironmind has already seen videos from him showing he could, and we know gripper strengths may vary on different 4 grippers, and as such maybe they have some tolerance on this one for being the hardest, so maybe they just needed a video of him doing that but already knew he could. It's difficult to see if he has done it until the end, but, it seems that he can do it and that he's a person that deserves the certification. Don't forget that there are several persons certified on the 4th that never had to do it with the new credit card rules, so this was the best 4th close video ever. Anyway this certification through video seems a good idea, as I live far from the US, and in 2016 I was bending red nails very well just a few months after starting bending nails, and wanted to certify and Ironmind took months to answer, and told me there wasn't anybody in my country to be a referee, and when I tried to contact them again the following year they didn't seem much interest in having another red nailer (DO method), so I gave up certifications, and never bent anything more since then (got tired of bending). But seeing certifications by video, makes me think that nowadays certifying would be easier for me that live in Portugal, Europe. But now I don't like bending as before, so, who cares about certs now, I'm having fun doing other things. :) Anyway I think that although the video didn't have the best quality, Carl deserves to certify, as there are other certified who didn't follow the new rules, and it not any person that would do something like this. So congratulations to him.

@WorldwideDarts

11 ай бұрын

For such a huge milestone why was there no official ref there? Also, not the greatest angle on the close. I have no idea how they made this "official"

Congratulations! You are a true legend!

wow i played it in slow motion he closed it 365lb closed wow

Greatest crushing grip strength in human history.

He ghp 10 closed what is the talking about coc 4 227 ghp 253 ???

Very strong but couldn't see the ending...not sure how they certified that attempt...

Watch the video with Larry.. Great video... Congrats 👏

Best closed hand crush ever

Why the card like that?

Wow bravo 💪💪💪💪

Insane work. Can't wait for the workout routine! Lol

OMG! Amazing!🔥🔥

Impressive. I'm curious, how does someone's size and body weight factor into their "relative grip strength". For example, you'd expect a guy who's 6'4 and 280 to be naturally a lot stronger than a guy who's 5'7 and 140. As someone who's 155lbs. I don't think closing a 4 is within my genetic potential.....so the question is, given that I'm half the size of the guy in this video, if I close a 3, will it be as impressive as him closing a 4? or something like that? Right now I'm between the 2 and the 2.5

The video was made far away, he is alone. Turn on your brain. And let him do it again. This is not respect for the entire Captains of Crush community!

Being the first person in 20 years that so impassive

No4の認定者久しぶりじゃない？

💪 💪

Congratulations Carl. The only wall you have left is Ghp10.

Amazing! If I ever meet you I’m not shaking your hand🎉🎉🎉😂

nice

Ух, не думал, что в ближайшие годы закроют "новую" четверку по "новым" правилам 2005 года.Супермощно! ПОЗДРАВЛЯЮ!

TOP TIER GRIP FEAT!!!!!!!! CONGRATS!

Amazing but bad camera angle my man, you wanna be closer to the camera and the gripper parallel to the floor so we can see the close

Congrats, made it look easy!

Insane😮

History is being made.

Amazing!

Wow, congratulations!!

Wow! 👏👏👏

I watched and it seem like colosed and not closed, for sure he don't show and dont hold its was fast. I use 0,25 and like need one milimetre for to close. light and video its very bad , Now every smartphone filming 4K and if you put sume lantern its perfect for camera.

Странно а было закрытие повернулся спиной и гадай закрыл или нет вот это съёмки .

@user-sc2gu6op8v

6 ай бұрын

Глаза раскрой Он, сначала сомкнул ручки СОС 4, а затем развернулся

Все хватит спорить, не закрыл!)

@pro100grip9

7 ай бұрын

Да пздц 😂

Very impressive! Congrats my man!

Amazing congratulations 👏👏

Congratulations 🎉💪 Can anyone explain the ridiculousness of the credit card rule 🤔🤔

@Om11811

7 ай бұрын

Many have closed it before from parallel set position which is easier.

The first person doing this with the new credit card rules, so congratulations Carl, you deserve it.

Congratulations Carl!

Amazing this guys a beast 💪💪😆Haven’t even heard of him until now either. I figured Ivan Cuk was next.

Big respect 💪💪💪

Good job daddy

It's not a certification. It is conducted with a number of violations of the rules. First, Carl was not in the frame for a whole minute, the image was static, there were no sounds. So you can stop the video, replace the gripper with a weak one, and do a video splicing. Secondly, he closed his hand with the gripper for 7 seconds, which is forbidden by the rules, and thirdly, he did not show a clear closing of the gripper handles.

@BottleDeopt

Күн бұрын

There's a different video/short of Carl closing the No 4 gripper from his account. From watching that I do think that he has the ability to close it fully.

not close

Congrats 🎉

That is what I called fantastic result!!!!!!!!!!🔥🔥🔥✊✊✊🙂💪💪💪💪👊👊👊👊👊👍👍

This video is more Credible that joe kinneys certificate

people who say he didn’t compeletement close it. You’re like the raging ones stuck at 225lbs squat and talking about those who squat 450lbs but not below the parralele. This CoC is totally closed.

Not a close

Very strong 💪

Awesome, now do it without any rails.

Congrats!

A #4 is hard to even move much less close

LEGENDARY!!!

Наконец-то свершилось! Урааааа🎉

Legendary

That was not a 100% close. He even hides it immediately after the attempt. Most guys hold it for few seconds while showing it.

@Joe-mp4nw

11 ай бұрын

Yeah you can zoom in and see it wasn’t closed, still super impressive though

@MrSiledov

11 ай бұрын

@@Joe-mp4nw I saw the opposite. It's closed.

@Joe-mp4nw

11 ай бұрын

@@MrSiledov it defo wasn’t, it was close to being closed. When have you ever seen a certification be this rushed? He was super far away from the camera as well for no reason, you would think for such a huge certification that there would be an official ref present, or at the very least a clear shot of the close, it’s not fair to the other people trying to certify to count this

@GoncaloFerreira

11 ай бұрын

@@Joe-mp4nw one thing is certain, in 2016 I tried to contact Ironmind because with a few months training I was already bending several red nails in a minute, but not sure if it was because I had a 150 lbs bodyweight, they only answered me months after when I wasn't bending anymore telling me that there were no referees in my country, and when I got back to them several months later and tried to certified again and told them there were several famous athletes/persons to certify me as a referee in my country (Portugal, Europe), so that they would accept my certification attempt (I would do videos also, etc), someone answered me that trying to choose referees would get me disqualified, so, at that time, I realized they didn't want me to certify on the red nail, and gave up. So I like that they allow remote certification attempts nowadays, because I couldn't certify back then, and I lost a lot because I would have been the first one in my country to do it. But on the other hand, almost no one in my country knows Ironmind, so I didn't lose that much I think, the most important thing is that thousands of persons saw me do feats live those times, I have videos, photos, memories. Why do I need certs? Specially nowadays that I stopped bending for 6 years now and started doing a very cool thing: program computer games. :) So in a way, I think "yeah it might not be fair to allow others to certify by video nowadays" as they didn't let me, but on the other hand, I don't want others not to be certified for the same reasons I didn't. But on the other hand, Ironmind changed rules many times, so not all COC 4 roosters are the same, not all steel benders are the same in the certs, etc, those certifications are always changing rules. Now the question is: are they allowing everybody to certify through video, or do they allow it just to Olympians and famous people? But I congratulated him because I think that if Ironmind accepted it it's because they probably have an idea that he can do it. Of course I can't be sure, but contratulations to him anyway, as it's a COC 4.

@MrSiledov

11 ай бұрын

I agree it definitely was rushed. Watched it at .25 speed, and it really looks like a closed coc4. @@Joe-mp4nw

The credit card set is killing me, I have small hands - with the card, my pinky isn't even around the gripper so I'm losing potential strength. Not that I could ever close a 4, genetically - but it's annoying to think that I can't even ever certify on a 3 unless I somehow manage to get strong enough to close a 3 partially with only 3 fingers until my pinky can join the game. Nonsense.

wow you really big men