Brian Oldfield, World Record, 1975

[keckvan66]

what's 75 feet in 'normal'  meters?

[TheBruiser012]

@keckvan66 22.86m

[OptimusRhymePrime]

What a great video...track needs more fun performers like Oldfield these days

[smurfhunterguy]

I went to John Powell's throwing camp a while back. Brian was there. The years have not been kind too him. But he made up for it by getting drunk, driving his car drunk around campus, driving me drunk around campus and just generally being one of the funniest motherfuckers I have ever met.

[ohedd]

The reach!! virtually never letting the shot go! His hand is like 1,5 meter out of the circle before he lets it go! That is beautiful!

[Milligan618]

Brian did not ask for a steel tape. he fucking Demanded that shit

[4inches4u]

@Milligan618 What is a steel tape?

[Milligan618]

@4inches4u its a steel measuring tape they are more accurate and don't stretch with use. They are used predominately when someone may have broken a record.

[1134BlackLabel]

Im confused... why was the throw not counted?

[JAVMAN83]

@1134BlackLabel

For all of you youngsters here, here's the scoop on the that era:

The throw was not counted by the IAAF (governing body for world athletics (track & field)) because Oldfield was competing on the ITA circuit, a professional organization, and a rogue one at that time in 1975. The ITA was around from 1973-1976, and American choosing to compete on the circuit automatically gave up their "amateur status" under AAU & IAAF rules.

Google the subject and you'll understand more.

[1134BlackLabel]

@JAVMAN83

Thanks for the response! Kinda stupid not to count it, but I guess its understandable.

[Endevor3]

It's stupid that his records didn't count cuz he was a paid athlete. A record is a record

[Bermin8a]

@Endevor3 wat do u mean paid athlete??

[bigjm4]

my throwing coach throw against him and he showd up with u ciggerate in one hand and a beer in one. then after that my coach was a bouncr in a bar and we was in there he said he was a cocky mother fucker and a dick

[Opie852]

last year he asked one of my thrower friends for a lap-dance.. she was a junior in high school lol

[kornfan140]

I knew i read some where that he smoked but i cant remember where

[futuremarine1812]

0:33 to 0:54 is the best part of the video lol

[xxfattxmattxx]

Just had Brian Oldfield come in and help us with throwing shot. I throw at Lake Park in Roselle under coach Nihells. They are good friends. Overall great guy and really helped out. Unfortunate to see him in a wheel chair.

[riley501111]

Don't listen to the negative stuff about Brian, really. I met him once and he's really a nice guy.

[cdeavellar1]

i argee. he pretty nice guy.i met before.

[ssassasinx80]

damn is he that much of a dick?

[genghishan]

He's a fucking dick

[riley501111]

He is still a legend, and to Godmanguy - all men are perverts, lol!!! And unfortunately, everyone has to get old, but what we do while we're getting there is the adventure.

[vatonaught]

I threw against Oldfield and smoked a cigarette with him between throws. He was skinny and hadn't started weights yet but he was obviously gonna be a world beater. He had the magic even at 56 '...I like guys like him but he ain't Englebert Humperdink. Englebert never offered me a cigarette ese.

[freebirdjoe]

cool story,

[procleanthrow]

He does not have a world recorded and he is a dick. He punched out one of his female athletes.

[jray899]

shotputters have to be dicks to be good at wat they do

[19Ranger99]

Yeah he is. I went to his throwing camp and he is a DICK

[goatherder92]

my friend went to one of his camps

[GODMANGUY6969]

Now He Is A Perverted Old Man. lol. Still A Legend Tho!!!