Gripboard
The Gripboard has the most extensive library of grip strength information available anywhere. Grip masters from across the world discuss the latest in training techniques, contest results, and grip strength feats. Training guidance is available to anyone who asks. Members range from high school students to professional strongmen. The forum does have a relatively strict set of rules designed to keep conversation on topic, productive, and work appropriate
Pit of Suffering
http://pitofsuffering.blogspot.com
Pit of Suffering blogs on current events in the grip community. Often blunt, yet insightful, the anonymous author posts consistent updates.
Grippermania
Gripboard gone wild! If the Gripboard’s rules are too strict for you, Grippermania is the place to go. Community is the focus of this forum, with a number of grip masters heading up the conversation. Discussion is more casual, often focused on reaching out to to spread the benefits of grip training to new groups.
Arizona Grip Strength
The site dedicated to all things grip strength in Arizona.
Aussie Strength
http://www.aussiestrength.com/index.html
Aussie Strength contains information on grip contests in Australia. There is also a forum for discussing grip training.
Bender’s Page
http://www.geocities.com/ltgodfrey/home.html
The two most popular grip activities are closing grippers and bending steel. Eric Godfrey covers them both. Read an extensive tutorial on short steel bending, including step by step pictures for performing reverse style bending. Learn how block weights helped Eric succeed in his quest to certify on closing the Ironmind #3 gripper. In the event the site is unavailable due to exceeding bandwith limitations, try back later. It is worth the wait.
Big Steel
http://www.bigsteel.iwarp.com/
Tom Black offers a wide range of pictures, videos, and articles related to grip training. In addition to the standards of grippers and thick bar, material is offered on levering, bending, and old time strongmen. Read about Tom’s encounter with Slim the Hammerman, as well as his success performing strength feats for charity.
Climber 511
http://www.stylesdevelops.com/climber511/
Climber511 offers pictures of his homemade gym equipment, as well as an article on getting started building home equipment. Good ideas for the grip trainee on a budget.
Cyberpump!
Cyberpump offers grip training e-books. Most famous is the KTA training program for closing heavy duty hand grippers. Also available is a course on lifting the blob (half a 100lb York dumbell) and a course on bending short steel using the double overhand style. Proceeds of Cyberpump e-book sales support the Gripboard. Making a direct donation to Cyberpump provides access to over 10 years of training articles, including extensive libraries of information by Dr. Ken, Arthur Jones, and Iron History Guru Joe Roark.
David Horne’s World of Grip
http://www.davidhorne-gripmaster.com/
David Horne offers an adjustable tension device to train volume on reverse style bending without using any steel. Simulate bending for reps with no re-wrapping. He also provides a destination for training advice, contest records, hand strength history, and all things grip. Learn from one of the best.
Diesel Crew
Rely on the Diesel Crew to aid you in “Achieving Beyond Potential”. Jedd and Smitty show how to combine grip training with real world athletic performance. The extensive video collection of Diesel Crew strength feats is unreal. The articles section includes guest articles from proven strength athletes, covering everything from Grip Training for the Poor Man to Advanced Kettlebell Techniques. After a few hours draining bandwidth with all the free material, consider purchasing a few of their high quality products. Diesel Crew offers e-books, DVD’s, and training gear.
Farm Strength
Farm Strength is the place to go to get farm strong! A grip crew from Ohio hosts a number of impressive strength videos. Also be sure to check out the excellent articles section, including one of the most comprehensive guides to hand gripper training available anywhere.
Fight Training
http://www.geocities.com/fightraining
Fight Training offers plans for building a wide selection of low cost grip training equipment.
Gorilla Hands
http://geocities.com/hannibaldave/RillaTOC1
Gorilla hands was one of the first guys to totally dominate the COC #3 gripper. He provides an insightful article on the gripper sweep, close, and negatives – as well as pictures of his #3 domination.
Gripper Hell
http://gripperhell.blogspot.com
The most entertaining grip duo on the net. Gripper Hell is home to blogging by Greg Amidon and Dave Morton. These two guys have each bent 100 Ironmind Red nails in a single session. Dave’s a certified #4 closer and the current king of the Mash Monster pyramid. Greg’s closed the #3 and is excellent at helping other grip enthusiasts maximize their training. The unbelievable stories he tells about Dave are all true. Read the archives. Not safe for work.
Grunt and Shen’s Workshop
http://www.angelfire.com/ny5/shenandoah/Grunt/grunt.html
Grunt and Shen’s Workshop offers plans for building a wide selection of low cost grip training equipment.
Jim Gahnfelts Web Site
Swedish grip site. It’s not in English, but there are some cool pics.
Mash Monster
Homepage of the Gripboard’s Mash Monster certification pyramid. Read profiles and view certification closes of several dozen of the most accomplished grip athletes in the world. This certification program resolves a number of the complaints about the Ironmind certification. Upon qualifying to certify, a standardized gripper is mailed to the athlete’s witness. The close is captured on video, and the gripper is then sent back for the next certification. Progressively harder levels of certification grippers are offered until one man is left at the top.
New Mexcio Strongman
Website of Clay Edgin, one of the few men to ever close a #4 gripper. The articles section contains a comprehensive piece on phone book tearing, as well as information on grip training for strongman. Strongman competition in New Mexico is the primary focus of the site, with contest information, results and photos available.
Powerschmiede
Powerschmiede has the latest on grip events in Germany. While primarly in German, it does includes English interviews with several grip masters, including David Horne. There is an excellent collection of grip pictures.
Strongman Feats
http://www.strongmanfeats.com/Page1.html
Strongman’s Page
http://home.insight.rr.com/strongman
Home page of Terry Duty and a bender’s paradise. Terry’s got animated gifs of the slim, reverse, and double overhand styles of bending. He provides tables of yield strengths for a wide range of steel, sorted by both length and yield weight. The full text of his article on bending, previously published in Iron Grip magazine, can be found. And to top it all off, there are some great gripper modifications. Learn how to make an adjustable gripper, or even one that times how long the gripper has been held shut on a close.