The 2025 Australian Grip Sport Nationals was held on June 1st in Brisbane. The Competition was hosted by Isaac Pitt who joins the show to recap the results from the 4 events contested. The events were 2 3/8" Napalm Nightmare, 3"x4" Napalm Nightmare, 2" Cannon/HIlt, and the Silver Bullet. Sarah Rainbow won the Women's Overall. For the Men's Podium it was 1st Place Henry Mullett, 2nd Place Isaac Pitt, and 3rd Place Lachlan Simms. The Australian Grip Scene continues to improve and congrats to everyone who took part in this year's Nationals.

The 2025 U.S. Grip Sport Nationals was held in St. Clairsville, Ohio on May 31st. The events contest were: The Silver Bullet, 2" Saxon Bar Deadlift, 2" Country Crush, and Little Bighorn. The Women's Overall podium saw Sarah Chappelow take 1st Place, with Melissa Dingey 2nd, and Sara Saffell 3rd. For the Men's Overall podium Jason Dingey took 1st, Jedd Johnson 2nd, and Luke Raymond in 3rd. Jason Dingey and Sarah Chappelow after these performances are now the current National Champions as well as the North American Champions (which they won in Canada last year... with North Americans being held every 2yrs. etc.) This was one of the biggest turnouts numbers wise for a Grip Sport Nationals and probably the strongest in the organizations history. Thank you to Jason and Melissa Dingey and Mike and Sara Saffell for running such a great competition. Thank you to all the competitors that helped make this one of the most exciting, strongest, and competitive competitions of 2025.

Prior to his involvement in Grip Sport, Zach Staniewicz pursued a professional career in baseball. Through the highs and lows and decades of effort Zach's dream of playing in the Major Leagues came to an end but not due to a lack of effort. Zach had been introduced to grip through grippers and a few other training methods early on and always sought out strength training knowledge that would stay in the back of his mind. With baseball being over Zach refocused his drive to strength training and started to have more dedicated time to train his grip and continue to learn more about Grip Strength History and Organizations contesting grip. From his first competition, to achieving major grip milestones in training, Zach takes us on the encounters he's had with grip legends and regular everyday people alike that led him to pursue filling a void in the United States Grip Scene. With York Blobs being rare and costly and Inch Dumbbells of varying increments almost being non existent, Zach reached out to 20+ foundries and continued to dial in formulas and create patterns to make equipment for the grip community. Zach's current catalog under the Staniewicz Strength Equipment title offers several lighter weight Inch Dumbells, a Fatman Blob Replica, a lighter Blob, and an Anvil Trainer that was cast from a true anvil horn. SSE (Staniewicz Strength Equipment) continues to evolve and Zach has many future ideas and several projects in the works... Tune in to hear all the details! https://www.staniewiczstrengthequipment.com/home The Grip Show Discount Codes: "Gripshow20" for 20% off at https://dieselcrew.com/store/shop/ "Thegripshow" for 5% off at https://www.armassassinstrengthshop.com