James "Traps" Ayers..who is this guy?

[bic_staedtler]

Anybody who reads FLEX knows that this guy chimes in on the reader's feedback page about three dozen times a year!...who is this guy?...what's his connection with FLEX?...the guy is ALWAYS gettin' his stuff published...no joke.


Anybody have a clue?

[Old-Skool]

Used to be in Musclemag all the time to with either reader training tips or an editorial.....must have spent all his time writing to all the rags back in the day...

[Bastygone]

You read FLEX?   

[Pollux]

You read FLEX?   

Me too. 

[gordiano]

I remember that asshole. Always complaining about some shit.......always having his letters published, for some fucking reason....

[slaveboy1980]

who the fuck buys bodybuilding magazines these days? you got everything you need online, for free.

[allpumpedup]

who the fuck buys bodybuilding magazines these days? you got everything you need online, for free.

yeah, but it'd be nice if i could browse the internet while on the shitter.  If you are doing that, than more power to you.

[The.Giant]

yeah, but it'd be nice if i could browse the internet while on the shitter.  If you are doing that, than more power to you.

if you take your laptop to the shitter you need serious mental help, lol.

[Dballn247]

if you take your laptop to the shitter you need serious mental help, lol.

What?  You can check out porn, sports, etc. while on the crapper...what more could you ask for?  I use my smartphone when on the crapper at work.  Damn firewall blocks out all the sports sites especially during playoffs and march madness.   

[YoungBlood]

I used to see his name in all the mags (when I actually picked them up and bought 'em) too.
I'm guessing it might be something like in the movies with Allen Smithy or however that name is spelled....if someone doesn't actually want to claim the information in the article, or it's just filler, they'll throw the "Traps" name on it?
 

[The Ugly]

Anybody who reads FLEX knows that this guy chimes in on the reader's feedback page about three dozen times a year!...who is this guy?...what's his connection with FLEX?...the guy is ALWAYS gettin' his stuff published...no joke.


Anybody have a clue?

Excellent observation, bic. I've pondered this, too.

[WhiteCastle]

I always assumed that the average Getbig poster has a laptop and a foreman grill within reaching distance of said shitter.

[wes]

Ayers has been sending in letters and 'tips' to the mags since the 1970`s.

He is well over 70 years old.

[Joe Roark]

I have filed who wrote which letters to Strength & Health, and some in other magazines.
James wrote to Muscle Builder in July 1957. Not certain, but that may have been his first letter.
As I recall, no one has had more letters-to-the-editor published than he has.

[The Ugly]

Can't help but hate anyone nicknaming hisself after a muscle group.

[bic_staedtler]

I have filed who wrote which letters to Strength & Health, and some in other magazines.
James wrote to Muscle Builder in July 1957. Not certain, but that may have been his first letter.
As I recall, no one has had more letters-to-the-editor published than he has.

70 years old?!!?...surely someone's shitting me here...I thought it was some guy in his late teens, early 20's!

If an article in FLEX needs to be written, maybe they should highlight THAT guy.

Seriously, this guy has been around that long?....I can't argue with blue stars after all..!

[Beener]

yeah, but it'd be nice if i could browse the internet while on the shitter.  If you are doing that, than more power to you.

Thats why i love...excuse me while I go to the shitter and finish this sentence...my laptop. 

[Hedgehog]

I have filed who wrote which letters to Strength & Health, and some in other magazines.
James wrote to Muscle Builder in July 1957. Not certain, but that may have been his first letter.
As I recall, no one has had more letters-to-the-editor published than he has.

When did 240 or Bust write to Flex? (just checking if you really do have it all filed )

[YoungBlood]

He is well over 70 years old.

A couple of years younger than you huh?

[Joe Roark]

My S&H listing is at the cyberpump paysite under these headings:

07/01/2004: 7/02/2004:Chronological Listing of Strength & Health Letters to the Editor (Part V - 1961 to 1965)
06/24/2004: 6/25/2004:Chronological Listing of Strength & Health Letters to the Editor (Part IV - 1951 to 1960)
06/24/2004: 6/18/2004:Chronological Listing of Strength & Health Letters to the Editor (Part III - 1946 to 1950)
06/10/2004: 6/11/2004: Chronological Listing of Strength & Health Letters to the Editor (Part II - 1940 to 1945)
06/03/2004: 06/04/04: Chronological Magazine Listing of Strength & Health Readers Who Wrote Letters to the Editor (1930's)

I do not have all letter from other magazines filed, but some

[suckmymuscle]

Ayers has been sending in letters and 'tips' to the mags since the 1970`s.

He is well over 70 years old.

  I don't know if since the 1970s, but I have issues of FLEX from 1995/6 with his letters in the feedback part. He is one annoying fuck.

SUCKMYMUSCLE

[Deicide]

yeah, but it'd be nice if i could browse the internet while on the shitter.  If you are doing that, than more power to you.

I do; get a lap top.

[bic_staedtler]

  I don't know if since the 1970s, but I have issues of FLEX from 1995/6 with his letters in the feedback part. He is one annoying fuck.

SUCKMYMUSCLE

...well there you have it.  While I don't really consider the guy annoying, it does make me wonder just how in the hell he manages to get printed so often....If I were really that interested I'd go back into my FLEX collection to see how many times he's written in.

He's gotta be one of the biggest fans in the 'sport', in all truth.

[knny187]

Rumor has it....

James "Traps" Ayers is none other.....


Ron Avidan



(but you didn't hear it from me)

[slaveboy1980]

James Ayers real name is Nathan Billborne and used to own a couple of gyms down in Texas. strong bencher.