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Stand Strength Team presents feats of strength, positive message

Ripping phone books into pieces, lifting a 300-pound log, breaking wooden baseball bats, bending a steel bar — the burly Stand Strength Team clearly had Holly Academy students’ attention. Oh, yeah, and one of them blew into a hot water bottle until it broke apart.

Members of the team drew applause from students as they talked about making the right
choices, respecting others, showing responsibility and avoiding drugs and alcohol. The team began 19 years ago, when the founder noticed a young audience talking and passing notes during a speaker’s presentation. The founder came up with feats of strength as a way to get young people to pay attention, said Scott “Bulldog” Miller, a member of the team.

Holly Academy’s Positive Behavior Support (PBS) Team sponsored the two assemblies for kindergarten through eighth grade. Teacher Stacy Price, co-coordinator of PBS, said Stand has a great message. The assembly for the older students was geared more toward choices they have to make in their daily lives.

Students eagerly accepted pieces of the phone books and hot water bottle, and the three broken baseball bats, from Stand. Seventh-grader Stephanie Lyskawa, who received a broken bat, said, “Some of the things they did were outstanding.” The message, which included anti-drug statements, was very good as well, Stephanie said. “That was cool.”

Austin Clear, also in seventh grade, got his ripped phone book signed by members of Stand after the assembly. “I thought it was awesome how he broke the bat in half with his back,” Austin said.

Bryan “Ironman” Dorsey, who performed this show of strength, flexed his biceps for the audience. He is a two-time Mr. Michigan bodybuilding champion and set a state bench press record. Dorsey, who can bench press 615 pounds, has never taken steroids, he said. Instead, he eats right, rests and works hard in the weight room. “I’m no different from you,” Dorsey said. “To be big and strong, you have to be dedicated.”

Holly Academy students also watched eagerly as Kyle “Bruiser” Bruder puffed with 800 pounds of pressure per square inch to explode the hot water bottle. This is dangerous, because if the air goes back into his lungs, the lungs would explode, Miller said.

A student in the audience caught the torn hot water bottle, for a souvenir. “It’s full of spit and slobber,” Miller said, deadpan. “I guess I should have told you about that.”

Source - Tri-County Times

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