My first thoughts of winning plane tickets immediately put my mind into a fast track to a tropical place like Hawaii or Maldives. Somewhere beautiful and relaxing that really takes away the stress of being in a busy city. Or perhaps one of my gaming dreams, going to an Evo Tournament in Vegas. But at this time in my life, things aren’t going the very best, and I would actually use those tickets to go to the Shaw Classic in Colorado this year.
If you know me, you probably know, I am not one who cares too much about sports, but when I learned about Strongman as a sport / competition I was immediately hooked. Strongman became a huge interest to me during pandemic days and I connected so much with the concept of athletes training themselves to be able to lift and exercise to achieve a feat of strength that pretty much would be considered humanly impossible by most. This is where I discovered the most elite strongman athletes on YouTube and thus began my journey into learning all about the sport and now wanting to go to a live contest for the first time.
The Shaw Classic 2023 is the 4x World Strongest Man Brian Shaw’s own show that he has been putting on since 2020 and it will be his last show of his Strongman career. Truthfully, I don’t have many people I would consider to be a hero for me personally, but Brian Shaw is definitely one of my heroes. I have already bought tickets for the show, but unfortunately I was working on a side project this year, and built a new custom PC and this basically used up all the resources I would have used to go to see this contest. Sadly it was one or the other, so I now have an awesome new powerhouse machine to make new content, and play games with better performance (since my old rig was already starting to die on me) but the opportunity to see the show was the trade off.
Bottom line: I would use those two free tickets to go to see the Shaw Classic coming up in August. Things in my life stressful at the moment, so going to see an extreme strength competition would be amazing. Not to mention seeing some of my favorite athletes like Brian Shaw, Luke and Tom Stoltman, Evan Singleton, and Oleksii Novikov would be incredible. They’re physically giants, they’re incredibly strong, and they all compete with each other in a respectful and supportive way, which is pretty much awesome for individual sports competitions. Most importantly though, they all worked incredibly hard from the ground up to get to where they are today. Each one of them has their own story and they have each literally destroyed their bodies to get strong and powerful, which for me is the most inspiring part of all of this. Their hard work, their determination, their struggle, and their ability to overcome life’s obstacles to achieve their goals, is something I wish to emulate in my own life.
To everyone who read this, thank you so much for your time. These days it’s been challenging to write anything so I’m really thankful to everyone who reads anything I have to say. This writing prompt was definitely something different for me, but it helped to get some creative juices flowing again so I’ll probably continue posting some new stuff later today.
I hope you have an awesome weekend.
