Our leader board is populated with such diverse individuals, it’s always interesting to look deeper into the lives of each and every one of them. This week, we have a guy who seriously fits the nickname I gave him. And before anyone asks, no, I did not know what he looked like prior to my assigning him the nickname.
If anyone could give the leader board elite a run for their money, it could very well be this guy. He’s determined, he has the technique and he’s built like a brick. That’s normally a winning combination.
7-11 asked Argie “Strongman” Samson a few questions and here’s what he has to say.
In war, and cartoons from the 80’s, they say that knowing is half the battle. In competitive eating, or any race for that matter, you’re only really going up yourself and your time, but it still pays to know your competition. More than that, however, 7-11 wants to pay homage to those who have really taken this competition seriously and have honed their skills to almost utmost perfection.
Recently, 7-11 got in touch with the reigning king of the ring, Kyle De “The Beast” Guzman and asked him a few questions about his techniques and competitive eating. He was happy to let us in on his inner most thoughts. Well, at least as far as eating hot dogs with a passion goes. Here’s what he has to say.
The brain trust, the geniuses behind this competition and website, did a little research and found a whole lot of videos of people doing their challenges. Some of them are quite disgusting, others educational. Some are so dragging and long that when you fall asleep, you’ll feel as if you’re still watching them. One common thing that spreads across the videos is that they are all unintentionally hilarious. Let’s have a look at the first video.
This is Anne Kristelene Rivera Año, eating it out over at 7-11, Sta. Lucia branch. The video was uploaded by edrah.
Now, the key thing to note here in this video is her unerring look of determination as she forces down hot dog after hot dog. You almost kinda feel sorry for her. Almost. I mean, look at her struggle. Okay, she doesn’t look to be in much pain. She even looks like she’s thinking about other things. Like, how the hell she got talked into doing it.
Every time I post a video, I encourage you guys to post your own videos of your time trials. Fortunately for me, since I am running out of things to write really fast, our very own Gladiator, Mr. Ryan Santelices, sent in his video. Thanks for sharing this, man! Here it is:
Dude, you’ve got a lot of fans. I know you did much better than this. You had what? 3 minutes? And is that guy screaming in the background your coach? He’s a real motivator. I wonder, does having someone do that to you helpful or does it become more distracting?
You can see him utilize some professional eating techniques. Awesome stuff.
Up next, we have a couple of videos shared to us by Armi, a commenter on this here site. Thank you very much for bringing this to our attention. I’m not entirely sure, though, if we have permission from the guys who uploaded these videos if we can use them. Armi, do we have permission? Meh, either way, they’re on youtube so they’re free game, but if you want them down, we’ll take em’ down, is everyone cool with that? Okay, great.
This one’s from Revolution X. Apparently, he’s from the Rockwell branch, and he kinda failed badly. WARNING: He kinda swears here a little bit. If you’re under 18, don’t watch the next video. Parents, do your job. I’m not entirely sure I’m allowed to put that there, but I’ll take it down as soon as I get in trouble for it. Here it is:
The competition is heating up and it is getting extremely intense. To cleanse our palettes a little bit, I decided to just do something for fun here for a change. Let’s all cool our heels and enjoy looking at cute animals, such as this one, while we learn more about our hot dogs.
In keeping with the tradition of professional eaters and their nicknames, I present to you Speedy G, Boy Dilim (love that name, bro) and Abibay. They’re here to give us tips for winning this competition. These are, unsurprisingly, extremely helpful tips. Here we go:
This video debuted at the official launch last month, and I think Speedy G is that speed talker I missed. I am thoroughly impressed. And I thought I couldn’t shut up. Also, there’s really something I thoroughly enjoy about seeing a girl wave a hot dog around. Thumbs up, guys.
Oh, and this is also a shout out to anyone who may want to post a video of their runs at the stores. Send the links over so we can feature them here. It doesn’t matter if you broke into the leader board or not. Just have fun and send us the vid. If we like it, we’ll feature it.
I’ve been searching around the internet for hot dog eating techniques and I think I may have found something that might help those who want to join the contest. It is apparently known as the Japanese hot dog eating style, maybe because the Japanese originated it, like most things in this world. I am really trying to not sound accidentally racist here.
As we know, right now the top two hot dog eating champions are Joey Chestnut and Kobayashi. These guys are legendary, yeah, but Kobayashi isn’t the only Japanese professional eater. One of whom is Gyaru Sone, a cute 95 pound girl. Read more about her here. These guys are definitely much smaller than their Western counterparts, but they still dominate? Of course, training, physical conditioning and discipline all help, but read on to learn a technique they utilize. Not only does it make scientific sense, it’s practically proven in its effectiveness.
Last July 4, 2009, at the Rockwell Tent, 7-Eleven officially launched the Big Bite Match. Even though I was late for the event, I still managed to have a great time. The food was free, the music was good, the show was awesome, Goose was incredible, and oh, the food was free. Man, the food was good, too. I missed quite a bit, but I was told there was some speed talking or something, and some guy in a hotdog costume, making jokes packed with hot-dog-esque innuendo. Now, that’s something every man needs to see at least once in his life.
Crowd
There were a lot of people at the event, mostly supporters and media, but because the space was pretty big, it didn’t feel too stuffy, and I wasn’t exchanging bodily fluids with strangers, thought that might actually be fun. (more…)
While we prepare ourselves for the gorge fest that we will thrust ourselves into on the 26th, I thought it would be nice to look back and see how our favorite meat product, the hot dog, came into existence.
Using my awesome google research skills, I have tracked down what seems to be the origin of the hot dog that we all enjoy today. Now, most of my sources (read: wikipedia) says that there is absolutely no way one can be sure of the exact origin of the hot dog because it is simply too awesome and awesomeness like that has no beginning and will definitely have no end.
Some of you might think that some time in the past, maybe around the 1930s, some guys got together and they found themselves faced with a conundrum.
Man 1: “What should we do with this huge sack of meat and this partially edible sack of intestine lining?”
Man 2: “Ooh, I know! Maybe we can stuff everything inside the other thing and see what happens from there?”
Man 1: “You’re an idiot. It won’t work.”
Man 2: “Sure it will. Here, give me that.” *stuffs meat into intestines* See?
Man 1: “OMG! You’re right! LOL! This roxxorz!”
Man 2: “But wait, that’s not all!” *whips out a piece of bread*
The first meeting to create the most beloved meat product.
7-11 Brings to you the first ever hot dog eating challenge in the Philippines, The Big Bite Match!
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Big Bite Final Match
Schedule
Go to your nearest 7-Eleven store from Monday to Saturday starting June 26 until August 15. The Final Match is on September 26, Saturday, 5PM at the SM Mall of Asia Music Hall!
Speedy G and Abibay
Battle II: Manny Paksiw
Battle I: Katarina VS Dicky
Technique #31: JumpStuffing
Techniques in Professional Hotdog Eating involve stomach pumping, cabbage digestion, water and a lot of jumping around. Serious business.
