Scooter Chapman
Make room for muscles
Published on Wed, May 5, 2010 by Scooter ChapmanRead More Chapman
If you are into pushing and pulling, flipping and stacking, chopping and sawing, climbing and falling, then this coming weekend is for you as the Sequim Irrigation Festival comes to a spectacular conclusion.
The guys with the big muscles return for the Sequim Strongman Showdown Friday night, then the Logging Show moves in Saturday on the grounds next to Carrie Blake Park.
Get ready for some fast action. Bring a seat cushion, a warm coat and hat and maybe an umbrella because you never know what the weather is going to be like.
The strong and the stronger
Six contestants will vie for prizes in the Strongman Showdown and this year's show is dedicated to the troops and is sponsored by the U.S. Army. There also will be a Navy SEAL demonstration.
Jesse Marunde brought his fellow strongmen to Sequim several years ago and they love the area and the crowds and the cheers so much they keep returning.
The show is sponsored by
7 Cedars Casino, Allen and Charter, K.C. Construction, Holiday Inn Express, Hiday Concrete, Met-Rx, Atlas Nutrition,
Tarcisio's and Jeremiah's BBQ.
Competing in five contests are: Grant Higa of Maple Valley, Dave Ostlund of Minnesota, Kevin Nee of Arizona, Karl Gillingham of Minnesota, along with Breck Gault and Chris Lee of Sequim.
There's the hand-over-hand truck pull that features an Army Humvee. The contestant must pull the vehicle 30 yards against the clock. The press medley consists of two log presses, a truck axle press and a dumbbell, while the tire flip shows how fast each guy can flip a 900-pound tire four times.
Throw in a yoke and farmer's walk and the popular "stone stack" and you have a strongman show.
The show starts at
6 p.m. and ends at 8 p.m., then it's the Loggers Ball in the arena until 11:30 p.m. with old time fiddlers and Robbie Walden and the Gunslingers, then a fireworks show.
All the vendors for the log show will be open and ready Friday night and it's all by donation, so bring some bucks to help out this event.
Logging gets larger
The Logging Show is getting better every year as loggers and would-be loggers show off their skills with chain saws, bucking saws, ax chops and ax throws, as well as pole climbing and pole falling.
The fast-paced show also includes lawnmower races and static displays of old logging equipment, tractor pulls, chain saw carving and much, much more. It all will wind up around 5 p.m. on Saturday afternoon when they bring out the big chain saws. These big boys include bar and chain mounted on automobile and motorcycle engines.
It's all family fun and there's lots of good food and drink. It's all by donation so bring five bucks or so for the pot. Sponsors such as Ruddell Auto Mall and Les Schwab Tire Center help pay for the big items and 75 other sponsors help pay the freight, so help out if you can.
So here's the deal. Get your pickup truck parked on Washington for the parade, hit the strongman show Friday night, watch the parade and then head for the 22nd logging show grounds for the big festival finale.
Columns by KONP 1450 AM sports announcer Scooter Chapman appear weekly in the Sequim Gazette. He can be reached via e-mail at scooter@olypen.com.
The guys with the big muscles return for the Sequim Strongman Showdown Friday night, then the Logging Show moves in Saturday on the grounds next to Carrie Blake Park.
Get ready for some fast action. Bring a seat cushion, a warm coat and hat and maybe an umbrella because you never know what the weather is going to be like.
The strong and the stronger
Six contestants will vie for prizes in the Strongman Showdown and this year's show is dedicated to the troops and is sponsored by the U.S. Army. There also will be a Navy SEAL demonstration.
Jesse Marunde brought his fellow strongmen to Sequim several years ago and they love the area and the crowds and the cheers so much they keep returning.
The show is sponsored by
7 Cedars Casino, Allen and Charter, K.C. Construction, Holiday Inn Express, Hiday Concrete, Met-Rx, Atlas Nutrition,
Tarcisio's and Jeremiah's BBQ.
Competing in five contests are: Grant Higa of Maple Valley, Dave Ostlund of Minnesota, Kevin Nee of Arizona, Karl Gillingham of Minnesota, along with Breck Gault and Chris Lee of Sequim.
There's the hand-over-hand truck pull that features an Army Humvee. The contestant must pull the vehicle 30 yards against the clock. The press medley consists of two log presses, a truck axle press and a dumbbell, while the tire flip shows how fast each guy can flip a 900-pound tire four times.
Throw in a yoke and farmer's walk and the popular "stone stack" and you have a strongman show.
The show starts at
6 p.m. and ends at 8 p.m., then it's the Loggers Ball in the arena until 11:30 p.m. with old time fiddlers and Robbie Walden and the Gunslingers, then a fireworks show.
All the vendors for the log show will be open and ready Friday night and it's all by donation, so bring some bucks to help out this event.
Logging gets larger
The Logging Show is getting better every year as loggers and would-be loggers show off their skills with chain saws, bucking saws, ax chops and ax throws, as well as pole climbing and pole falling.
The fast-paced show also includes lawnmower races and static displays of old logging equipment, tractor pulls, chain saw carving and much, much more. It all will wind up around 5 p.m. on Saturday afternoon when they bring out the big chain saws. These big boys include bar and chain mounted on automobile and motorcycle engines.
It's all family fun and there's lots of good food and drink. It's all by donation so bring five bucks or so for the pot. Sponsors such as Ruddell Auto Mall and Les Schwab Tire Center help pay for the big items and 75 other sponsors help pay the freight, so help out if you can.
So here's the deal. Get your pickup truck parked on Washington for the parade, hit the strongman show Friday night, watch the parade and then head for the 22nd logging show grounds for the big festival finale.
Columns by KONP 1450 AM sports announcer Scooter Chapman appear weekly in the Sequim Gazette. He can be reached via e-mail at scooter@olypen.com.
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