I know it's been said before but i have to very impartially note that besides maybe Taner Sagir, no one has the explosiveness and speed of Dimas, especially in the snatch. From the other weightlifting videos I've seen, most other weightlifters rely more on brute strength on the snatch than on speed and technique. This is prime, optimal, inhuman snatch technique. Awesome.
@@kelesar Don't destroy his illusion. Only bodybuilders are on juice ;) And better don't ask about football players and why they heal out injuries three times faster then an average person.
i met him in real life in Burwood PCYC 2000 weightlifting gym about 6 months before Sydney Olympics looking small, then again in the training venue at Auburn with the Greek team and he was absolutely ripped and huge for 94 kilos .......unbelievable and friendly guy as with all the Greek team and coaches during the Sydney Olympics......
This is perfect. I just logged on to look at some motivational videos of great lifters snatching before my early-morning snatch session, and I see that you have uploaded this. What a great channel!
+H4rdwareNightmare Ανέκαθεν η αλήθεια πονούσε , αλλά στη περίπτωση σας ο πόνος έχει φτάσει στο απροχώρητο. Ένας από τους κορυφαίους αθλητές της άρσης βαρών είναι Έλληνας από τη Χιμάρα της Βόρειου Ηπείρου, και σας ενοχλεί τόσο, βγάζετε όλη την εμπάθεια σας γιατί είστε ανθρωπάκια.
ti diaolo , xalasane kai ta ethnikia epi syriza? kanonika esy protos de tha eprepe na "ponas" pou enas alvanos foraei ti galanolefkh? a.. pernei xrysa opote einai "dikos mas" sorry :)
Its a bloody shame that the weightlifting sector changed all the classes as some of the most recent lifters are praised when they make lifts that were eclipsed in the 80's by now unknown lifters such as Vardanian,Zlatev and Blagoev just to name a few.If you don't know these names younger lifters look up their records.
Edhe Luan Shabani është grek, edhe Mirela Manjani është greke... Greqia përfitoi nga kushtet ekonomike të shqiptarëve dhe i detyroi të ndryshojnë edhe emrat biles. Dikush sikurse Dhima e bëri me pasion duke u hequr më grek se grekët, të tjerët me vështirësi e përtypën këtë turp!
I Know they do, I am a bodybuilder myself, and prefer looking how I do, but it is very impressive watching Pyrros Dimas lift these huge weights above his head
2011: Oh, cool video! 2013: Not one single breath 2015: Still not even a heartbeat 2017: The video is dead, move on 2019: TH-cam commences the Suggested Videos program to bring this back from the dead.
It's not bitching ...he is extremely sensitive about his nationality and background...He is a very proud Greek man hence is why there is a lot of envy from the Albanians. And to be fair...who the fuck want's to be Albanian any way.
What gets me is...while PD broke a world record for that time...PR's are temporary. Was PD that "great"? Great enough to get a ROGUE bar named after him according "to his spec". Was PD the Mike Tyson of OLY Weightlifting?? This was a 1996 RR...I wonder who broke his record and how many time since (now 2018).
It's that it uses the posterior chain which is used in practically everything: running, swimming, jumping, sitting, bending over. Something like bicep curls or lat pulldown isn't functional because it doesn't use the muscles in conjunction with each other.
father of Pyrros Dimas is Greek. According to UN Greeks on Albania are between 200,000-300.000 Greeks leaves in this part of Albania the last 4000 years.This part of Albania called Epirus. Epirus used to be 2000 years ago A greek city-state and kingdom. Until 100 years ago was part of greece.Then the great powers (France and Great Britain) demand from Greek government to give this part of land to the newly Albanian country. In Greece,Albanians are only immigrants
@HellenicPower GrecoByzantineEmpire greace dont exsist, in greace have 6 million arvanitas-albanina whu mother lengua is albanian , and the book of homer is screev in albanian lengua , all fights against ottoman empir in balcan is albanian vs fucking turkey, i am chatolik albanian and your laier for 200 years and now the truth is coming , you will see we take back the history, the decument in france germanu austry everyday one by one they goning ta be her forever the truth ,
I see a lot of people complaining about steroids, but steroids aren’t everything in weightlifting, just because you take steroids doesn’t mean that you will be able to perform a snatch or a jerk, it requieres technique, explosiveness and a lot of training, don’t try to dismiss the effort of these athletes just because of the juice they use to be at peak performance.
he was so explosive. it looks like he snatched the same way as naim (pulling his upperbody and head back). he had a rotator cuff injury back in the days right, and surgery?
I don't speak Greek. I know Dimas identifies with Greece, but it's a fact he was born in Albania. Even if he has renounced all ties to Albania, he was formerly of there.
Dimas is an Ethnic Greek born in Albania, and he competed as a junior lifter for Albania. The "looser" (it's spelled loser) journalist was not wrong to call him formerly of Albania.
He is Greek-Albanian from Albania, may anyone like it or not. Greek minoriity people have intermarried since ages with the local Albanian orthodox population (which are larger population than the greek) in southern Albania, so the overall herritage background of christian people in the south is Albanian dominated. Even the city of Himara, southern Albania, where he/his parents come from, is full of northern Albanian family names (Gjoleka, Ndrenika, Gjondeda) along with southern albanain and greek ones. The old inhabintants of Himara are 100% orthodox, but they are far from being 100% ethnic Greek.
Well there's a cut off point for improving max strength lifts. Squats and front squats always come secondary to explosive training in olympic lifting, as they train you to move a lot of weight, but slowly. Of course, squats greatly improve strength and stability needed to transfer power through the core and the strength to catch and lift the weight once it's been tossed in the air. However, they don't overdo it if you know what I mean.
***** he was born in albania and both of his parents were albanian... wtf are you talking about? in fact that wasnt even his name until he changed it when the greek team told him to change it (they also did this with other albanian athletes). his birth name was Pirro Dhima.
Stavros Man if youre going to call me an idiot at least get the name of the place he was born right, moron. He is from Himare, which is no where close to the greek border. if he was greek then why did he change his name when he joined the greek team? why? surely an ethnic greek wouldnt need to do that... google greek weightlifters, none of them look like him. why? are they not greek? google piro dhima and on the first page you will see an old newspaper with his picture and his name on it, "Piro Dhima". when he lifted for albania he was given the highest award for "sports" in albania "master of sports". and was very well respected by albanians. did you ever think that he lied about being an ethnic greek and "racism" he faced in albania being an ethnic greek so the greek people would more easily accept him, seeing as he is a politician?
1:29 The second guy looks like a ripped Mr. Bean
Carson Murray lol wtf
They should have hired him in a show xd.
Truth .😂😂
Lol...you had me rolling!
Beat me to it lol I thought the same thing
0:49 - "Nothing to see here, move along, I'm just chilling with 170 kilos above my head"
DealerCamel Already seen in 1980. He's doing the same like the Albanian *Aleksander Kondo*
:) th-cam.com/video/nk5c57mx0SU/w-d-xo.html
I just can't fathom Olympians and Athletics world record holders.
HectorLigoni well roids helped a lot of these old records
Maverick Kennedy is he on roids in this vid
Fitt kukens morsa yes.
This must be the only lifting video on the internet where form isn't criticisized! Amazing.
until the moment you wrote
stefdem I didn't criticise it.
The commentators took their job haha.
No
Olympic weightlifting is a whole nother animal.
Imagine how good Dimas would have been if he got into crossfit ... kidding ... kidding ... I'm not a fuckin' asshole.
I could literally feel my blood pressure rising before I read "kidding" hahaha
Yes, you are.
You son of a bitch. Have an upvote.
Bite your tongue! Crossfit?
yo nana but really tho
he would have been great (assuming he had good endurance)
He is a snatch artist! The most beautiful snatch, including all meanings of the word ;OP, I have ever seen!
I know it's been said before but i have to very impartially note that besides maybe Taner Sagir, no one has the explosiveness and speed of Dimas, especially in the snatch. From the other weightlifting videos I've seen, most other weightlifters rely more on brute strength on the snatch than on speed and technique. This is prime, optimal, inhuman snatch technique. Awesome.
Pretty much yes. Check Angel Genchev tho!
i think akkaev was the most explosive snatcher ive seen. just beautiful explosion every time with inhumanely fast drop.
Raw strength. A fucking machine. Talk about a strong back. Dimas all the way.
Not just raw strength, strength with speed.
@@davidcohen7881it's called Power.
Very impressive speed and power, not to mention technique
4:01 to 4:05 a Spartan growl
Gotta love these guys! Midsized men throwing weight around
like it's nothing. It shows you what years of training will do.
Years of training and steroids
El Pingu you’re joking right
@@brodybauer5864 he's not.. it was pretty easy to take steroids in 90s. drug testing is improved a lot since then
@@brodybauer5864 you seriously think that's the body of someone who doesn't juice??
@@kelesar Don't destroy his illusion. Only bodybuilders are on juice ;) And better don't ask about football players and why they heal out injuries three times faster then an average person.
Being entirely serious now, his slow motion looks like my normal snatch.
Jon Beardsley how do you get the bar to fall so slowly?
@@liamofearghail9316😂😂
Can't fathom how much talent and raw power this dude really has, fucking inspiring.
4:13 Creepiest neck muscle grab ever.......
*cringiest
@@swan8758 Nailed it lol
He was going for a hug but got boxed out. Quit being pussies
Greeks do this a lot
that's just overgrown traps
i met him in real life in Burwood PCYC 2000 weightlifting gym about 6 months before Sydney Olympics looking small, then again in the training venue at Auburn with the Greek team and he was absolutely ripped and huge for 94 kilos .......unbelievable and friendly guy as with all the Greek team and coaches during the Sydney Olympics......
You mean 85kg? He never amounted to 94kg in his Olympic career
That's the magic sauce in action
Pyrros Dimas is pretty heavy for his looks and size. He weighs not more then 83 kg but is only 1,73 cm tall and looks pretty lean.
He strong af tho
Look his legs , the answer is there
Amazing to be watching this 24 years later. I was only 5 when he achieved this feat.
*than
It's his bones. They must be heavy and dense.
First of all, TH-cam algorithm
The secret is in the double face slap...
The most Manly scream i've ever heard
Arodis Melgar Larry wheels
@@Fingeringmyboarddude yep
Best snatch ever!!! So fast, so strong, so easy!
You must be doing something wrong
I think lu xiaojun is the best snatcher ever, but it's up for debate.
whenever you don't feel like training, watch this. Inspirational drive and power.
He is snatching more than I can deadlift
weak
Mole Hansman strength is relative and is different for all exercises but ok
I wonder can you deadlift it now?
@@MrTVx99 whats your deadlift now?
Holy shit, he's so explosive!. even the replay in slow-mo goes faster than normal people snatching.. lol
always great to see more dimas action, thanks Frank!
0:30 - That is the great Polish lifter Zygmunt Smalcerz three times world champion in the 52 Kg class. Still coaching today (2022).
This is perfect.
I just logged on to look at some motivational videos of great lifters snatching before my early-morning snatch session, and I see that you have uploaded this.
What a great channel!
Dimas first snatch, amazing how fast he gets 374 lbs over his head.
One of the best weightlifter in the history of Olympic Games is GREEK!
Well done Pyrros!
axm.. Albanian , mh ta ksanaleme.. :)
+H4rdwareNightmare Ανέκαθεν η αλήθεια πονούσε , αλλά στη περίπτωση σας ο πόνος έχει φτάσει στο απροχώρητο. Ένας από τους κορυφαίους αθλητές της άρσης βαρών είναι Έλληνας από τη Χιμάρα της Βόρειου Ηπείρου, και σας ενοχλεί τόσο, βγάζετε όλη την εμπάθεια σας γιατί είστε ανθρωπάκια.
ti diaolo , xalasane kai ta ethnikia epi syriza? kanonika esy protos de tha eprepe na "ponas" pou enas alvanos foraei ti galanolefkh? a.. pernei xrysa opote einai "dikos mas" sorry :)
nomiza oti thaxes thn stixiodh droph na allakseis foto toulaxiston , to eponimo sou kanei ton gurw se polous sindesmous.. DROPH THS AEK EISAI!
RE droph ths AEK stathakh allakse fwto, fasista!
olympic weightlifting, the purest example of functional strength. they lift crazy weights without being musclebound.
those lifts were so clean
Now I'm ready for my training sessions today.
Its a bloody shame that the weightlifting sector changed all the classes as some of the most recent lifters are praised when they make lifts that were eclipsed in the 80's by now unknown lifters such as Vardanian,Zlatev and Blagoev just to name a few.If you don't know these names younger lifters look up their records.
Not sure to what you're referring so i'll have to look that up. Interesting to know why the changes were made. thanks for the info
***** Now, that would be Naim Suleymanoglu: 342.5kg total at 60kg in Seoul 1988.
I wrote further comments on Lift up the Russian site.
Some are quite interesting as a have meet many of the world record holders of 60's and 70's.
look at artem ivanov, too!
***** i thought that as pocket hurcles
Dimas a greek legend
maybe he is a greek god but for sure albanian.
@@abab-gj7mm ask him what he is.
In Albania there is a greek minority who speak their ancestors language ,the Greek language
@@abab-gj7mm en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greeks_in_Albania
Edhe Luan Shabani është grek, edhe Mirela Manjani është greke...
Greqia përfitoi nga kushtet ekonomike të shqiptarëve dhe i detyroi të ndryshojnë edhe emrat biles.
Dikush sikurse Dhima e bëri me pasion duke u hequr më grek se grekët, të tjerët me vështirësi e përtypën këtë turp!
Pyrros Dimas is my fav natty lifter
I think he's also vegan
my favorite natural vegan christian bodybuilder
wait !!! wrong channel
Gluten free, all organic
Also flat earther
great physique too . great athlete
That feeling when a dude snatches your deadlift
TH-cam recommends the strangest things
Glad I wasn't the only one
ΠΥΡΡΟ ΔΗΜΑ ΓΙΑ ΠΑΝΤΑ ΣΤΙΣ ΚΑΡΔΙΕΣ ΜΑΣ
5:36 the Greek coach says "It will happen! it will happen!" which is great
I have yet to see anyone with that same technique
I Know they do, I am a bodybuilder myself, and prefer looking how I do, but it is very impressive watching Pyrros Dimas lift these huge weights above his head
this dude was engineered specifically for the snatch.... look at dat form mayne
Gorgeous,Huge,ENORMOUS, Gigantic Purros Dimas! Σε αγαπαμε Πύρρο :)
Dimas be like...3 white lights; cool, i'm just gonna take a look around the room and hang out a little more with this over my head.
just insane!! real athlete
My Powerlifting Hero!!!
He is a great athlete for all of time
one of the greatest athletes in the world.And to all Albanians.Purros is greek
fuck off.why is he greek when till 20 y.o he was albanian.his albanian name is Pirro Dhima and he has declared that is not a minority.
@@abab-gj7mm idiot he is Greek from chimara deal with it
He is a Greek, born in Albania. Albania used to be part of Greece and is full of Greek inhabitants. So chill everyone
Do you think he does side lateral rises in his workout routine?
Nah, but he is using something
Highly doubtful he did, but he was lean, on steroids and jerked over 470lbs so obviously his delts will look nice
Nope all that comes from snatch pulls, push press and deadlifting. You rarely see Olympic weightlifters doing isolation unless it’s for rehab purposes
@@johnappleseed9290 I was being sarcastic 🙂
2011: Oh, cool video!
2013: Not one single breath
2015: Still not even a heartbeat
2017: The video is dead, move on
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6:26 It should be a crime to make it look that fucking easy.
Today he would have lifted 190 kg in snatch.
This is a really strong man and he's 187 pounds here
It's not bitching ...he is extremely sensitive about his nationality and background...He is a very proud Greek man hence is why there is a lot of envy from the Albanians. And to be fair...who the fuck want's to be Albanian any way.
My fav lifter of all time......nothing else to say
He is Greek from the Greek minority in North Ipiros in Albania. Not former Albania!
How the hell do these guys lift that.
yea right? I straggling to get one plate up. But im just starting to snatch.
@@Crazylalalalala how is it?
@@afb9176 lol prob quit around 4 years ago
Time and consistency. Anybody can perform such feats if they put in the time and consistency.
Ζήτω η Ελλάδα
The speed though 🔥🔥
Hi is Greek from Albania but he is 100% Greek nationality !
Damn look at that speed under the bar!!
Nobody even beat his first lift!
What gets me is...while PD broke a world record for that time...PR's are temporary. Was PD that "great"? Great enough to get a ROGUE bar named after him according "to his spec". Was PD the Mike Tyson of OLY Weightlifting?? This was a 1996 RR...I wonder who broke his record and how many time since (now 2018).
lol just hit a 95lb snatch, and its a big benchmark for me as well
usually people stumble getting the bar stable once under, but fuck me, pyrros is fucking solid catching it
STUNNING
It's that it uses the posterior chain which is used in practically everything: running, swimming, jumping, sitting, bending over. Something like bicep curls or lat pulldown isn't functional because it doesn't use the muscles in conjunction with each other.
gorgeous lifting...
father of Pyrros Dimas is Greek.
According to UN Greeks on Albania are between 200,000-300.000 Greeks leaves in this part of Albania the last 4000 years.This part of Albania called Epirus.
Epirus used to be 2000 years ago A greek city-state and kingdom.
Until 100 years ago was part of greece.Then the great powers (France and Great Britain) demand from Greek government to give this part of land to the newly Albanian country.
In Greece,Albanians are only immigrants
One of the most greek legends
Good Strong Greek Man !
Greeks are gay man, and pirro is albanian but we help greace gay whith strong man
@@historyhistory1901 fak off bastard
kristi kristi μπράβο το βρήκες μαλακά
@HellenicPower GrecoByzantineEmpire greace dont exsist, in greace have 6 million arvanitas-albanina whu mother lengua is albanian , and the book of homer is screev in albanian lengua , all fights against ottoman empir in balcan is albanian vs fucking turkey, i am chatolik albanian and your laier for 200 years and now the truth is coming , you will see we take back the history, the decument in france germanu austry everyday one by one they goning ta be her forever the truth ,
@@historyhistory1901 ,,history,, of ottoman mosques & ,,history,, of Islam in Albania .
I see a lot of people complaining about steroids, but steroids aren’t everything in weightlifting, just because you take steroids doesn’t mean that you will be able to perform a snatch or a jerk, it requieres technique, explosiveness and a lot of training, don’t try to dismiss the effort of these athletes just because of the juice they use to be at peak performance.
how can anyone dislike this?
Greek Steel, baby 💙🇬🇷
WHY DOES TH-cam NOT HAVE A SLOWMO FEATURE YET
***** Dude! I didn't know either. Thanks!
***** well don't i look stupid. haha. thanks man.
Hello I am from the future. TH-cam has slo-mo now
@@teds935 lmao
Greek God!
I wish all my friends gave me kisses everytime I lifted lol
Gaiiiiiiii
he was so explosive. it looks like he snatched the same way as naim (pulling his upperbody and head back). he had a rotator cuff injury back in the days right, and surgery?
"Βάρα Χρήστο βάρα..."
χαχαχαχαχαχα
I don't speak Greek. I know Dimas identifies with Greece, but it's a fact he was born in Albania. Even if he has renounced all ties to Albania, he was formerly of there.
Love a good snatch me
I preferred Lock Stock
he's so damn fast
Like how he's all like
"yeah, that's right bitches"
after he completes the lift.
The strength is real
that 2nd pull is absolutely crazy
brave Greeks
He is an Albanian
Dimas is an Ethnic Greek born in Albania, and he competed as a junior lifter for Albania. The "looser" (it's spelled loser) journalist was not wrong to call him formerly of Albania.
Source: Bryant, Cedric X. 101 Frequently Asked Questions about "Health & Fitness" and "Nutrition & Weight Control". Sagamore Publishing, 1999
He is Greek-Albanian from Albania, may anyone like it or not. Greek minoriity people have intermarried since ages with the local Albanian orthodox population (which are larger population than the greek) in southern Albania, so the overall herritage background of christian people in the south is Albanian dominated. Even the city of Himara, southern Albania, where he/his parents come from, is full of northern Albanian family names (Gjoleka, Ndrenika, Gjondeda) along with southern albanain and greek ones. The old inhabintants of Himara are 100% orthodox, but they are far from being 100% ethnic Greek.
85kg class.
Classes go 56, 62, 69, 77, 85, 94, 105, 105+ for men, and 48, 53, 58, 63, 69, 75, and 75+ for women now.
beast mode ON
Wow that pretty damn cool. Haha. You're one lucky guy.
He's so Explosive with his lifts
Polish PZU in the backround... I'm dying :')))))
Well there's a cut off point for improving max strength lifts. Squats and front squats always come secondary to explosive training in olympic lifting, as they train you to move a lot of weight, but slowly. Of course, squats greatly improve strength and stability needed to transfer power through the core and the strength to catch and lift the weight once it's been tossed in the air. However, they don't overdo it if you know what I mean.
Thanks
"I guess the only lift they're doing now..."
*puts sunglasses on*
"...Is the deadlift."
YEEEEAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!
2:45 "Dimos has raised the bar." that's the point, isn't it?
We love you Pyrros and by the way, he's a Hellene...not an Albanian!
***** he was born in albania and both of his parents were albanian... wtf are you talking about? in fact that wasnt even his name until he changed it when the greek team told him to change it (they also did this with other albanian athletes). his birth name was Pirro Dhima.
andrew g Pirros sounds Greek, Dimas sounds Greek too...
andrew g LOL freaking idiot he was born in Albania,Ximara BUT BOTH his parents are Greek so shut up with your nonsense.
Stavros Man if youre going to call me an idiot at least get the name of the place he was born right, moron. He is from Himare, which is no where close to the greek border.
if he was greek then why did he change his name when he joined the greek team? why? surely an ethnic greek wouldnt need to do that... google greek weightlifters, none of them look like him. why? are they not greek?
google piro dhima and on the first page you will see an old newspaper with his picture and his name on it, "Piro Dhima". when he lifted for albania he was given the highest award for "sports" in albania "master of sports". and was very well respected by albanians.
did you ever think that he lied about being an ethnic greek and "racism" he faced in albania being an ethnic greek so the greek people would more easily accept him, seeing as he is a politician?
***** Aλβανος ειναι.Μην βγαζετε Ελληνες οσους σας συμφερουν..
he's not working out, he's maxing for a competition. if the form is accepted then its good.
Thats beyond incredible!