CIRCUS

Circus Strongman Experience was the child of John, Paraskevi and Quarantine. When Greece's lock-down due to Covid-19 happened in 2020 these two were desperately searching for a place to keep training.

Soon they found a tire shop near their house, borrowed a log from Comradery in Kallithea, forced George Spithourakis to forge for them a safety bar, went on an adventure with Nikos Protogiros to Partnitha and stole heavy-ish stones and invited Chris Kostas to come up with ideas and programs in order to make the best use of what they had.

Eventually, they had collected enough Strongman related equipment and since they found that many of their friends, including Vaggelis Karzis, Amaryllis Koukoulerou, Aggelos Stamatopoulos and others had shown interest in training with them, they decided that they should invite even more people.

After some time, they did an open call and organized trainings every weekend on the summer of 2020. They called it their "Strongman Experience". During those Strongman Experience events, more that 100 different people attenteded their trainings, resulting in a small but funny, loving and determined community wanting to keep doing what John and Paraskevi envisioned Strongman to be. Along came the super mechanic/engineer/entrepreneur/philanthropist/playboy Socrates Rizos, who fell in love with Circus and built most of the gym out of good will. Soon, he became the third parent of Circus.

Circus is their initiative to promote Strongman in Greece, making it possible for everyone to understand how strong they really are and...