Grant Higa

A cross-country flight was in store for me this year when competing at Raw Nationals in Orlando, FL.

A few weeks before the expo, I asked my friend Steve Slater to make me a stone. He is a local from Ohio who makes the famous "Slater Stones" that are used for the Arnold Pro Strongman contests.

Saturday's lifts are historically STACKED every year. This year was no different when Richard “The Ant" Hawthorne, a mainstay in The Cage, deadlifted 600 lb x 5 reps.

Some of the best lifters in the world congregate every year in March to put on a real show inside The Cage (Columbus, Ohio).