{"id":18243,"date":"2026-10-18T09:10:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-18T09:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wildgreenquest.com\/?p=18243"},"modified":"2026-10-18T09:10:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T09:10:10","slug":"we-crashed-a-steinholding-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wildgreenquest.com\/?p=18243","title":{"rendered":"We Crashed a Steinholding Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"justify-start\">\n<nav class=\"align-left col-span-full mb-base\" data-pom-e2e-test-id=\"breadcrumbs\"\/>\n<p>The latest Long Read on the Outside Podcast takes a deep dive into competitive steinholdilng, the event where athletes raises their glasses of beer and then hold them until their arms begin to shake. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--$?--><template id=\"B:1\"\/><!--\/$--><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"article-body\">\n<p>Published October 18, 2026 03:01AM<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Raise your glasses!<\/p>\n<p>Now, hold them up until your arms begin to shake. That\u2019s the challenge that athletes take on at a steinholding competition, which is the focus of this week\u2019s Long Read on the Outside Podcast. In 2025, writer Martin Fritz Huber attended the U.S. national championships of steinholding, held during New York City\u2019s annual Oktoberfest celebration in Central Park. Huber enjoyed himself so much at the event that he took a deep dive into the competition\u2019s shaky German roots, the training and technique employed by athletes, and the bizarre backstories of some of its greatest athletes.<\/p>\n<p><span hidden=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\"\/><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outsideonline.com\/outdoor-adventure\/environment\/steinholding-podcast\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest Long Read on the Outside Podcast takes a deep dive into competitive steinholdilng, the event where athletes raises their glasses of beer and then hold them until their arms begin to shake. Published October 18, 2026 03:01AM Raise your glasses! Now, hold them up until your arms begin to shake. That\u2019s the challenge<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18244,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wild-living"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildgreenquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildgreenquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildgreenquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildgreenquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildgreenquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wildgreenquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildgreenquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildgreenquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildgreenquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildgreenquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}