Chris Binnie: „I thought I could be good at this” 16:00 01/17/2014 He dreamed of being a trucker, seeing the whole country. He became… a corrections officer. Life had other plans for him than he had for himself. Not what you were looking for? Search for other text. He dreamed of being a trucker, seeing the whole country. He became … a corrections officer. Life had other plans for him than he had for himself. He started training sports when he was 8, he has been in armwrestling for 26 years now. I've been Armwrestling since 1988. It started when I was working in jail, and met Sargeant, Joe Leonardis, who was a weightlifter, and an armwrestler. He won 5 world titles in the early 1970s. I had stopped competing at bodybuilding, and Joe said I should try armwrestling. Chris first chose right hand … I ’ ve never trained for armwrestling before, just weightlifting. So the beginnings were painful – says Chris, laughing. Binnie switched to left hand in 1995, after some problems with the right.