http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111904060604576570882341095292.html

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"A Toast to a Real Strongman There are athletes with nine-figure contracts and seven-car garages; athletes with Hollywood spouses and political ambitions. There are athletes who leap, throw, run, swim, kick and punch, and a few known to fly. But aren't too many athletes out there who can do what Rogelio Juarez does. Juarez, 49, is a rising New York star in the tiny but transfixing sport of Masskrugstemmen, an endurance competition in which athletes—and they are athletes—try to hold onto an enormous beer for as long as they can. ... Masskrugstemmen is much tougher than it looks. One liter of beer in a glass stein weighs about five pounds, and most people can't last longer than a couple minutes. Last year's Central Park champ went almost ten. Halter has heard reports of a 24-minute record overseas. "

9/15/2011 2:18:00 PM

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"NEXT BIG THING"

9/15/2011 2:19:13 PM

the hardest part is not drinking the beer

9/15/2011 2:20:34 PM

i could hold onto it longer, in my bladder

9/15/2011 2:21:12 PM

cheers! forever alone style.

9/15/2011 2:21:39 PM

an alternate version should be holding up one in each arm

9/15/2011 2:22:57 PM

don't get crazy now

9/15/2011 2:36:28 PM

This motherfucker would DOMINATE

9/15/2011 2:37:09 PM

I wonder if the guy is about to beat his wife, she begs for the left arm

9/15/2011 2:38:22 PM

as long as she pours a frosty 5lb stein of beer before the pain, dude's instincts take over and shes in the clear for 24 minutes

9/15/2011 3:00:33 PM

no mention of moments?

9/15/2011 4:21:19 PM

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"the hardest part is not drinking the beer"

9/15/2011 4:23:38 PM

Bitch, I'm in motherfucking Ulm right now. I know people who do this for a hobby!

9/15/2011 4:55:49 PM

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"no mention of moments?"

or bending stress/strain on your shoulders.

9/15/2011 5:05:11 PM

In the land of the Masskrugstemmen, the short-armed man is king.

9/15/2011 5:14:09 PM