Russell Jodrey: "The nearest strong guy lives some 200 miles away" 09:00 11/06/2013 Straight from the plane to Zloty Tur in Gdynia and training with Igor Mazurenko, Łukasz Obłuski and Dawid Bartosiewicz Not what you were looking for? Search for other text. Some technique, a bit of sparring – tells us Russell Jodrey, American armwrestler. – Quite demanding trainings. I don’t have the kind of equipment back home that they have at Zloty Tur. Mostly I just do weightlifting. Russell has his own gym in USA, where he coaches children. He has no one to spar with. There are a couple thousand people in my neighborhood, and not one strong man. – Russell tells us. – The nearest strong guy lives some 200 miles away. I haven’t managed to convince any of my neighbors to start armwrestling, everybody thinks this is an injury-risk sport. I think my career suffered a lot for the lack of a club and sparing partners. I hope to raise a couple of boys to be good armwrestlers. Russell is coaching his