Grant Foreman of Marysville competes in a timbersports event. Foreman will participate in the national event in Virginia Beach this weekend.
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A Marysville man will put his timbersports skills to the test against some of the country’s best.
Grant Foreman, who is an engineer affiliated with Honda, will compete on Saturday during a national competition that will be held in Virginia Beach, Va.
“I got started in timbersports seven years ago during a Paul Bunyan Show,” Foreman said during a recent telephone interview with the Journal-Tribune.
There are several “disciplines” or events in timbersports competition.
Those timed events consist of, among others, the underhand chop, the standing block chop and the spring board chop.
“You stand on a log and chop it during the underhand chop,” said Foreman. “The standing block chop is like simulating the chopping down of a tree and the spring board chop is where you jump on various heights of board to chop at a nine-foot pole.”
Foreman said he has won a number of local and regional competitions, but this is his first trip to any type of national event.
He qualified to compete in Virginia Beach by placing high during a regional event.
The competition will feature 12 U.S. male lumberjack sport athletes competing in a relay-style endurance contest that consists of several different styles of chopping.
The winner will advance to the World Competition that will be held May 28 in Vienna, Austria.