When is a picture worth a thousand words? NOW!

My name is Chris Comstock, I am eighteen years old and live in St. Albans Vermont, which is only 15 minutes from the Canadian border. Although, I live in a small state I have the opportunity to attend tournaments with some of the biggest names in our sport. Bill Sinks and Karen Curavoo live in the southern part of the state. I am pretty close to New York, so I see people like Ray Darling, Benji Dwyer, John Ruggerio. From New Hampshire I see Harry Bean, Josh Stark and a guy named Eric Guevin, who will be a very powerful force to reckon with very soon.

Since I live close to Canada, I see great names like Denis Dubreil and Paul Mauris. Just a couple weekends ago I got to see Denis Dubreil pull Gabe Accardi at the Can-Ams. It was the first time I ever saw Denis lose, and probably one of the best matches I have ever seen. The great "Stormin" Norman Devio also had a great day. As for me I have only been armwrestling for about 2 years now, with very little success. That is okay though, I am still a newcomer and I know it will take time and I have the patience to wait for it. Nobody wins his or her first tournament and every time I pull I get stronger and smarter, so with a little bit of patience I will progress.

I began arm wrestling sophomore year in high school. I have always been a heavyset guy and although I am short at 5'9, I have a decent set of shoulders on me. The thing that got me into armwrestling was a good friend of mine named Steve Lareu. I always was a lot bigger than him, I outweighed him about 2 to 1 but he would always crush me in armwrestling. I went out on a limb and told him that by the time we graduated I would beat him and I did. Now we train together, he is a little ahead of me by starting to place top 4 in a couple statetournaments. I currently am attending college at the University of Vermont, where I am a music education major. I am lucky in that along with school I have plenty of time to train. My gym lifts are about average but my hands have really started to get a lot stronger, I have closed the #2's and got the #3's to parallel a couple of times. I am also really into the Ironmind strongman nails. I am at a point now where I can easily bend the level three's and I am about to order the 4's to give them a shot. Another strong point of mine are my forearms. I have a solid 17.5" forearms that allow me to easily curl a 80lb dumbbell.

Once again, thank you very much for this wonderful opportunity, I tried to close those grippers for a long time, and now that I have did it I feel it is definitely worth the time and effort.