hey Stunt do you have any Bertil Fox stories? he was one of my favorites from back in the day.
I'm not Stunt but I have my Bertil story I told here before. It had to have been either 79' or 80' I was training at the original World Gym. I was with Kal Skylak(?), Tony Nowak and several others. This huge black guy comes in and everyone looks at him walking across the gym floor towards the street side where the windows were. Kal starts to go crazy telling everyone that is Bertil Fox.
This guy is HUGE! So he stands there and is kind of strectching while looking out the window, Kal is continuing to tell everyone it's Bertil Fox. The bench presses were over in front of the windows. Back then the mindset was, if you can't lift what is on the bar then take it off yourself. Unlike today, where they like you to take the weight off the bar when you are done.
Well not sure who had just finished but there was 500 lbs on the bar even. Bertil sits on the end of the bench and starts to stretch more. Now I would say 90% of the gym is looking at him. Well he lays down on the bench and does a little more stretching and then grabs the bar.
He pulls himself up a couple times and then hangs his arms down to stretch some more. Now just about everyone is looking. He grabs the bar and lifts it off the rack then lets it down. I'm sure everyone was thinking like me, no way is he going to do that with no warm-up. Then he does it again. But this time he lowers and I swear to god he did 4 or 5 reps and racked it like it was nothing!
You how people stare at you at the gym when you are lifting allot of weight but when you turn around everyone looks away like they weren't looking at you. This was so funny cause that what happened. But, now I am thinking (cause I have done this) I think he saw us all looking at him in the reflection of the window. Anyway, that is my only Bertil srory. He trained there several times I'm sure but only remember this time.
Hey Onlyme, I was on another site and they had a thread about the Barbarian brotehrs. One guy posted that Lyle Alzado beat up both of them at the same time...do you know anything about this? You ever see Alzado in the gym? Basicaly he said that Barbarians were house sitting for him and had parties and things got stolen so he confronted them and asked them to come into parking lot and one endedup knocked out
Now with this Lyle story. But first is is another. I grew up in Manhattan Beach where Lyle lived two blocks down from me. The Raider camp was in El Segundo, the next town over. He bought a Rolls Royce identical to a friend of mine. Max Rep you know who I am talking about. He came into Tequillie Willies almost everyday. Always wore bermuda shorts with sandles and a nice dinner jacket. he was filthy rich. he lived in Manhattan but I saw his house in Camelback, AZ and it was huge! Anyway, the Rolls was special color blue convertible. Lyle used to like to go to Rolling Hills by the haunted church and hike the hills and go down to the ocean. Well one day he came back to his car after his walk and his Rolls was gone. I remember in the interview he said he would go their to hike cause he felt no one would bother his car since everyone there had a Rolls.
It was all over the news and in the papers. A long story short (if that's possible for me). After the incident, My friend used to get pulled over, he told me, sometimes 5 or more times by the police thinking it was Lyle's car. ANyway, that was that story.
Remember Max all the Raiders would come into the club all the time. Matt Millen was huge. I also got to be kind of friends with Howie Long. Howie used to hang with this guy who was the husband to Lindsay Wagner the six million dollar girl. he was a famous stuntman. Howie used to tell me I was the craziest guy he had ever met. I felt good about that compliment.
About the twins story. I was not there. But the story I heard from Bob Sear or Ron Gibson or Jim Flarety (I can't remember, maybe all three). They told me the twins were mistreating the equipment at the gym (Gold's). Lyle was very close to Pete G. I guess Lyle got pissed off and they said something to him and he went ballastic and knocked out on e of them. I heard the other just stood there, then left. He didn't want no part of Lyle. This is what I heard, so I don't know if true or not. Bob was the twins best friend back then.
