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Strength.<\/h2>\n

Circumspection.
\nInvulnerability.
\nProminence.<\/p>\n

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Mastery.<\/h2>\n

Aggression.
\nViolence.
\nDaring.<\/p>\n

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Courage.<\/h2>\n

Toughness.
\nConfidence.
\nSelf-Reliance.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWhen a contemporary man looks down into his psyche, he may, if conditions are right, find under the water of his soul, lying in an area no one has visited for a long time, an ancient hairy man.\u201d <\/i>\u2014 Robert Bly<\/b><\/p>\n

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\u201cAnthropologists are almost universally agreed that these cave sanctuaries were created, in part at least, by men for men and specifically for the ritual initiation of boys into the mysterious world of male responsibility and masculine spirituality.\u201d<\/i> \u2014 Robert Moore<\/b><\/p>\n

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“People always assumed that men were drawn to certain kinds of activities, and that providing some sort of release valve for natural male aggression was healthy. It made men happy to do the things they wanted to do, and ways were found for men to exert their virility constructively \u2014 or with minimal destruction.”<\/em>\u00a0\u2014\u00a0Jack Donovan<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cOnly recently have we begun to discover the invisible cords which have moved us for so long, to feel their silent tugs at our fantasies, judgments, and fears. One can only dimly imagine what the world would be like if we could somehow turn the music off, cut the cords of sex roles, and discover ourselves.\u201d <\/i>\u2014 Robert Brannon<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Kentucky Strongman
\nClint Poore<\/b><\/h1>\n

I started working out when I was 13 years old. I remember it was September, 1986, and it was one of the defining moments in my life. I needed to get stronger for softball and found out I liked weightlifting as much as anything else. I liked the pump. I liked the feel of the weight. I liked getting stronger. It was addictive. Especially for a young man, you have a lot of testosterone running through your body from age 13 to 18 \u2014 more than most of the rest of our lives. It is a great way to release stress at that time.<\/p>\n

I continued weightlifting through high school and played football and baseball. I played a little baseball in college \u2014 kept lifting \u2014 and then became cheer leader and gave up baseball. Lifting was a part of cheer leading and it meant being surrounded by good looking women. The combination was hard to resist!<\/p>\n

In 1999, I competed in my first competition \u2014 in Richmond, Kentucky \u2014 and took second place. I came back the next year and took first. After that, I started in my first meet with USA Powerlifting. I did the bench press division at the USA Powerlifting Kentucky State Championships in Henderson and I\u2019ve been doing it ever\u2019 since. I enjoy it. I do powerlifting, some strongman, and if I\u2019m injured, I do bodybuilding.<\/p>\n

Powerlifting is static. Strongman is movement. Powerlifting you can build up to a maximum effort. Strongman the events are maximum effort from the get-go \u2014 and you\u2019re like, \u201cWait a minute! That\u2019s a good way to get injured! But strongman is a lot of fun. I enjoy it. I watch it on television. I can recite every winner since 1977!<\/p>\n

Powerlifting is very different from bodybuilding. With powerlifting, I get to listen to my body; take an extra day off if my joints are hurting. I may even take an extra week off. With bodybuilding, you are getting your weight down and pushing your muscles to the surface. You do that with diet but you gotta get that workout in every time, even if it is light weight. It\u2019s fun but I like powerlifting more not because it\u2019s less work but because it\u2019s more fun to compete in something that is not subjective.<\/p>\n

Well over a decade ago, I joined the Omega Force Christian Strength Team. We are known as the \u201cWorld\u2019s Strongest Team and the World\u2019s Greatest Message.\u201d We have traveled over the eastern half of the United States, had a lot of shows, been to a lot of different towns, and seen a lot of people make life-changing decisions.<\/p>\n

We do what your power teams and other strength teams do \u2014 we blow up and break hot water bottles and break baseball bats and those sorts of things \u2013 but that is just the tip of the iceberg for what Omega Force does.\u00a0We do every feat of strength you see on World\u2019s Strongest Man and we create a high energy, exciting show based on those feats to illustrate the gospel.<\/p>\n

This type of evangelism requires absolute faith because you gotta trust that God works on hearts and you pray your audiences will grow in their faith. I was at a gas station one time and a guy came up and asked, \u201cAre you on Omega Force? You were there when my son got saved. It completely changed his life.\u201d You hear those stories more than you think and it\u2019s a real confirmation.<\/p>\n

I like drug-free lifting. If you\u2019re natural, you\u2019ll last a lot longer. I workout with athletes who\u2019ve been in powerlifting for 15 or 20 years or more and they are still healthy and lifting because their bodies haven\u2019t been subjected to performance-enhancing drugs. It will take you a lot longer to get where you want to go. Your gains won\u2019t happen overnight. But you won\u2019t have the excessive problems with knees and hips and shoulders and find yourself broke down after five to 10 years of competing.<\/p>\n

I eat eat whatever I want though I try not to eat as many carbs after six o\u2019clock at night. Sometimes I get carried away (and I like lasagna)! When I went into the Arnold Sports Festival in Columbus, I competed with USA Powerlifting in the Pro Raw Bench Press. I weighed around 230 pounds and benched for 430 pounds.<\/p>\n

The key to a lot of it is participation. If you want to be on Team USA, then take the steps, go compete, be drug-free, get a qualifier in, get a nationals, and when you do, you may earn yourself a spot. You\u2019ll never earn a spot if you don\u2019t make the effort!<\/p>\n

\u2014 Clint Poore is seven-time Bench Press National Champion, six-time member of Team USA, and five-time gold medalist in North American and Pan-American Bench Press Championships. He lives in Albany, Kentucky.<\/strong><\/p>\n

[\/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=”1055″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center”][vc_column_text]“I\u2019ve competed in one Highland Games \u2014 and that probably shouldn\u2019t be discussed! I\u2019m five-foot-seven on my best day. Bulky powerlifters don\u2019t do too good with Highland Games. The throwing requires strength \u2014 and they are usually big guys \u2014 but throwing means they are constantly stretching their muscles maximum distance. They have a totally different look.”<\/strong>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_single_image image=”1050″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center”][vc_column_text]“Omega Force was also invited to be a part of America\u2019s Got Talent. We went on and it was a lot of fun to meet people, get to go behind the scenes, enjoy the experience, and be seen by over 25 million people.”<\/strong>[\/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=”1051″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center”][vc_column_text]“We use a Bavarian deadlift. We lift logs. We do a\u00a0 Basque bell-raising contest, raising a 150-pound bell, arm-over-arm. We carry a 350-pound cross on a special apparatus (it\u2019s awkward but really cool).\u00a0We use a Basque stone \u2014 a 314-pound stone with a mirror inside that must be rolled onto your shoulder and placed on a barrel.”<\/strong>[\/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=”1052″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center”][vc_single_image image=”1053″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center”][vc_column_text]“Crowds love to see fun feats of strength \u2014 breaking bricks, breaking bats, tearing 1,000-page phone books in half. Blowing up hot water bottles are probably the most dangerous. If you don’t know how to handle your breathing, the pressure from the bottle can rush back down into your lungs and \u2014 potentially \u2014 explode a lung.”<\/strong>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

More from Clint: “Powerlifting is static to me. It\u2019s completely static lifting. But strongman is movement. You have to move with the heavy weights. Powerlifting you can build up to a maximum effort. In strongman, \u00a0the events are all max-tempered from the get-go \u2014 you’re like, “Wait a minute, that’s a good way to get injured! So, powerlifting lets you build up to a maximum effort; not start out at a max effort and try to not get injured. Strongman is a lot of fun. I enjoy it. I watch it on television. I can pretty much recite every winner since 1977. Know them all by heart! Strongman is a lot of fun.<\/p>\n

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Moonshine Pears<\/h1>\n

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“Moonshine Pears are mighty good on the dark winter nights of\u00a0January… but they’re not too shabby anytime of year (as long as you can get\u00a0good pears).” \u2014 StateoftheOzarks<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Moonshine Pears<\/h1>\n

One to four firm D’Anjou pears
\nHoney
\nCinnamon
\nAllspice
\nVanilla ice cream
\nMoonshine
\nIrish whiskey
\nMoonshine cherries<\/p>\n

Preheat oven to 375*F<\/p>\n

Wash, halve and core pears. Place on foil-covered baking pan. Fill cored center with honey. Add liberal pinch of cinnamon and allspice.<\/p>\n

Bake pears for 20 minutes. Turn oven to broil (525\u00b0F) for 5 additional minutes. After 5 minutes, turn off oven, keeping pears in oven for 10 minutes. Then, remove pears, place in serving bowls, add to each pear:<\/p>\n

1 scoop vanilla ice cream
\n1\/2 shot moonshine
\n1\/2 shot Irish whiskey
\nGarnish each pear with a moonshine cherry.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt\u2019s a bad time to be a boy in America. The triumphant success of the U.S. women\u2019s soccer team at the World Cup last summer has come to symbolize the spirit of American girls. The shooting at Columbine High last spring might be said to symbolize the spirit of American boys.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n

\u2014 Christina Hoff Sommers<\/strong>, The Atlantic<\/i>, May 2000<\/p>\n

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Farnese Hercules<\/strong> by Glykon, AD 216, Naples. Wikipedia Commons.
\nThe Majesty<\/strong> or Great Oak<\/strong> at Fredville, drawn from life by Jacob George Strutt for the\u00a0Sylvia Britannia<\/em>, 1824.
\nAnti-aircraft Fire<\/strong>, Hell’s Belles’ Marine Corsairs in foreground, Okinawa, 1945. US Marine Corps.
\nCairn in Snow\u00a0<\/strong>(H\u00fcnengrab im Schnee)<\/strong> by Caspar David Friedrich, 1807,\u00a0G\u00fctzkow, Germany. Wikipedia Commons.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text]Clint Poore Photos<\/strong>\u00a0courtesy of Clint Poore, Albany, Kentucky, and Omega Force.
\nRob McDonald<\/strong>\u00a0photos courtesy of Rob McDonald and ModernWildMan.
\nMoonshine Pears Photos<\/strong>\u00a0by Joshua Heston, StateoftheOzarks, January 12, 2017.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”1008″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center” css_animation=”fadeIn”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_single_image image=”1010″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center”][vc_column_text] Strength. Circumspection. Invulnerability. Prominence. [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_single_image image=”1014″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center”][vc_column_text] Mastery. Aggression. Violence. Daring. [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_single_image image=”1012″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center”][vc_column_text] Courage. Toughness. Confidence. Self-Reliance. [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_single_image image=”1016″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center”][vc_column_text] \u201cWhen a contemporary man looks down into his psyche, he may, if conditions are right, find under the water…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1048,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1006","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","description-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateoftheozarks.net\/showcase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateoftheozarks.net\/showcase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateoftheozarks.net\/showcase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateoftheozarks.net\/showcase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateoftheozarks.net\/showcase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1006"}],"version-history":[{"count":99,"href":"https:\/\/stateoftheozarks.net\/showcase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12955,"href":"https:\/\/stateoftheozarks.net\/showcase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1006\/revisions\/12955"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateoftheozarks.net\/showcase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateoftheozarks.net\/showcase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}