You're set then. Future champion right there ! 😂

Your guests just get better and better buddy. What a great guy. You a re the perfect "nerd" to get the juicy details out that no one gets. Long time listener. Godspeed sir.

Thank you Lex Fridman, you are awesome for doing this. Had no idea was going to come on your show, so awesome.

I will watch this over and over, pure Gold, and Lex Fridman is the man for doing this, What an amazing guy!

Lex you should program a robot practice arm that uses all these techniques!

Lex secretly thinking his robot arm can' break😂

Some people will probably believe this is real 😂

Nerd strength is a real thing

😂

And his automatic laser defense system, he had to whitelist Devon prior to this

Wait until you see him next to Rogan, Joe will look like a toddler.

If you haven't seen the Firas Zahabi vs Devon Laratt BJJ match at TriStar gym look it up. Devon towers over everyone in the gym.

@@InsaneFame Joe is taller than Lex

@@InsaneFame Wait, is that about to happen?!

@@thermalmedia6454 Not even in heels.

@@freitas209 Fusion dance. Makes it that much more ridiculous and entertaining. Fu-Sion-HA!

Same

No its actually Devon Fridman. They do look similar though.

@@i_kill_for_zardoz Devon Fridman comes from using the Potara earrings. Very similar yes. Lol, what the hell am I even on about again?

this is basically real life Lex Luthor and Superman, nobody can tell me otherwise

The arm wrestling world is so full of unique characters…between the most vain and egotistical guys on Earth, to the most down to Earth humble dudes like Devon and John Brzenk.

@@guslevy3506 I haven't really seen any top armwrestler who is extremely egotistical, like never ever.

That arm-wrestling guy doesn’t seem too shabby, either! ; )

@@anonymousunknown2919 Travis Bagent.

@@MesmerGW2 on second thought I guess I have, but he's not really active anymore.

That was actually Levan in disguise

At first I was like is this mf calling Lex a child 😂 then I remembered the clip that played at the end.

devons head shaking face reddening acting is top notch

Bro he made it look sooo legit to! 🤣 10 outa 10 for acting 💯🤣 and the crowd to, so awsome to see, bet the kid was over joyed 👌

@@wizard4203 what acting? kid legit destroyed him smh

Yes I don’t think Lex would fair to well against that X special forces Giant even with his Black Belt!! I love you Lex and also Larratt notthing against lex we all have our super powers but i think you would probably win more on the intellectual end of a fight but hand to hand combat with Larratt I don’t think so!!

Hopefully they don't recall him to remove truckers from the border eh?

before Devon is the nices guy you can see in the KZfaq “body building seen”, so charismatic, but big guys always have to be nice cause when push come to shove we know the biggest guy always get single out by others wanna be Beta Males. kudos to lex for having him on, the world is built on the shoulders of men in the special Forces. real monsters are not on KZfaq.

​@@Viking7771 Would be fun to watch these guys playing in BJJ. I'm sure Devon could do some serious damage with his size and arm strength

@@viniciuslongo4622 Dev has background in jujitsu actually. He’s rolled with Firaz Zahabi recently and it’s on YT.

They better watch out, they might exert so much force on each others immovable arms that they mold into one entity that will rule the world for thousands of years. Levon.

He is eating many many pancakes

Sauce is back

I love Devon, makes us Canadians proud but he simply doesn't have the strength to compete with Levan...when the strength gap is too big , it leaves no room for Devon to apply all his dirty tricks 🤣 as Levan will just take him straight to the pad, no stops! Just like Denis did!

@@elvisdon6822 can't even compare the two matches.. Devon and Denis were left and that was a different Devon. Like 60lbs ago Devon lol.. Levan has been beat by guys that Devon would smoke.. It'll be interesting

Big time, high school started in ‘97 for me, arm wrestled everybody, and poorly 🤣🍻

Back in my freshman year (1996) I actually knew much of these things (somehow, don't ask me where I got it from) and I stand all of maybe 5"6 and weighed, maybe 145lbs back then. It was entirely satisfying to see the reaction of 6"+ athletes the moment they realized their arm was going to be pinned, and watching them grapple with that was something I found thoroughly entertaining at the time.. they'd ask me how much I weigh hope that I threw out a high number, or anything that explained how they had lost to such a small person. But, I always comforted them when they lost and told them there's way more to it than they think.. and assured them that if they ever learned, they would crush me.

@@trueneutral3092 I was a brute force kinda guy back then. I had trained naturally by ATVing for the last 10 years so that gave me some great muscles most didn't have. Kids these days have all the advantages with this youtube thing! haha

Its not as easy to execute it. You think Larry wheels got as good he is from just given tips from 100s armwrestler? No, he worked his way into to the tips and tricks to become what he is today.

@@benedikt1054 definitely not as easy to execute, but Devon has explained before that when he was coming up in the sport it was very difficult to find a well trained arm wrestling coach who really knew what they were doing compared to today. And with KZfaq it’s easier to get good content and advice to get people started properly, but it still takes a lot of practice and experience to become a good arm wrestler 👍🍻

You should be disappointed to have something you were certain of confirmed

@@joaodanni you're not very bright

@@scottgsarmwrestling4639 and then you just respond with an insult... Anything more important you have to say? I was being serious, but think what you want

@@joaodanni to be fair, you were wrong in the first place. They figured they did a practice session and is glad it's a video they can watch. Come on now, you're both being dinks.

@@MartyrFaythe I have autism, I don't understand people well sometimes but I don't have bad intentions. I was trying to say to him that if he was certain it's not a surprise that the thing he was certain of happened. Maybe this is not relevant to him, I was just trying to help...

Hope Lex keeps doing these!

Any competition-based sports in detrimental for your health. Fact.

You do anything for the first time hard enough, and you'll be out of commission to some extent for some amount of time. Armwrestling in the beginning phases (properly getting into the sport) is associated with some shitty elbow pain for like, the first year until it gets conditioned enough (though people differ, also depends on variables). The best advice is to join an armwrestling club, because wow is it easy to snap your arm by being in a poor position.

Im a 17yr old armwrestler. Ive been doing AW for 1 year and working out for 2 years. I also have a retail job which commonly includes physical hard labor. Its actually not that bad. Maybe if i armwrestle a couple dozen times in a day ill be sore for a couple days, but AW pain doesnt last long.

​@@-Sober- - Not everyone is you. Generally there is pretty shitty constant elbow pain for about a year, for people who are genuinely doing club armwrestling, with the proper club training and all. I don't know if you're armwrestling in a manner that is very applicable for this subject, maybe you are. This varies widely depending on the individual, and for you, if your elbows are already a bit conditioned from labour and gym stuff, then that can help to some extent. Though this will usually not help someone very much at all, because armwrestling has it's own pressures and the forces are much greater than other stuff they do. Some people literally just get no elbow pain, though this is rare.

@@user-mm8pm7ol3r Well sure but if an inexperienced guy pulls with his buddy just messing around for 20 30 minutes the next day is brutally sore around the bottom of the bicep and the elbow. Armwresting is something you get extreme soreness from pro or not Pro not so much once your body becomes used to it though. Yes all sports at a certain level become detrimental to health in general but I think you completely missed the OP's point.

The best

King's Move to Kimura

@@aklc2872 I was thinking the same thing…also dragging the opponent so he extends his arm while you’re bringing your elbow closer to your body. Classic kimura control.

@@danielsiriphongs "Once you understand the way broadly, you can see it in all things." - Miyamoto, Musashi

@@danielsiriphongs nice details/ideas btw

HAHAHAHA

I'm not your favourite? 😢

technique beats out raw strength when the gap in strength isn't too large

When your in the gym training you aint hitting the muscles that are involved in arm wrestling

@@411nightnheaven You're not hitting *all* the muscles involved in arm wrestling.

@@Kavriel *visible confusion* uhm.. biceps? Its a thing you know.

@@haghendowdy4750 it's not technique at all in most cases, the armwrestler has very specific strength in which he is extremely stronger than you, most armwrestlers don't need technique to beat the average joe, the amount of videos in which the comment section is filled with comments like, ”he has better technique that's why he won” is just mind boggling, no he knows better technique but in most videos the armwrestler is usually letting the guy get a better grip, better position, hit first but still win because he's just stronger in those specific armwrestling areas.

Yeah he was in the Canadian special forces, I believe he did a few tours

@@RDS_Armwrestling Seven tours in Afghanistan

Back to Indus Valley

@Lex▫️Fridman ※※ huh never thought lex would be guy to excessively use heart emojis, oh well, I’ll be sending you my life savings soon lex!

Same, but i find the technical aspect actually interesting, not only watching matches. I would've never guessed there's so much to it.

@@DoctorStrange01 You're right, it's almost always interesting to listen to a master explain his craft. At first glance you'd think it's just about brute force but as you say there's so much to it!

Pft if Devon is so great why did he lose to that little kid in the end. The kid couldn't have been more than 10 or 11

@@scroopynooperz9051 That was actually Levan in a body of a kid, it's an illusion. The kid doesn't exist.

Mad scientist I love it

Haha ya and the music with it at the same time

He is truly huge! lol next to 193cm and 125kg.

He’s preparing for a match with Levan! If you think he’s big now wait until June on weigh in day for the match

Yeah 6’5 tall and almost 300 lbs.. Big guy is understatement

@@northlord8938 lol

yeah okay u did not have bigger biceps than levan bro he has like 60 pounds on u and is an actual arm wrestler

Think of an egg. Strong on the long axis, weak in the short axis. The arm-wrestler is a short axis specialist.

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telling me you had biceps 1 inch less than denis cyplenkov sure buddy

@@xelzp Fatceps, not biceps, most likely

Average Canadian

John Brzenk would like a word with you.

@@mixedmartialoddest Stallone lifted the sport back then. John was incredible but the regular guy didn’t know him until they heard he was the inspiration for Stallone

He's built like Machamp but has 2 arms instead of 4.

That’s hard

@@IIcultivatorII that's what she said

Or have a hydraulic bionic arm implant like the Terminator 👍

@@dude3099 alllllll rigggghhhhtttt

No, first step is build strong tendons and joints this will alone take couple years for beginners in armwrestling. Big muscles do help but if you dont have the tendons and joints trained properly its snap city baby.