“In the physical education department at the university some academics wanted to find out what was behind [Gullich's finger training]. They called in some rock athletes, had them hang on flat holds right on their fingertips and loaded them down with more and more weights. One after the other let go and fell off. Only Wolfgang kept hanging on the board. The professors dragged out more weights but at 175 kilos they broke off the test. They had no more weights to add.”
— from A Life in the Vertical the biography of Wolfgang Gullich
METRIC CONVERSION August 20th: 175 kilos is equivalent to 385 pounds…
