163.4kg (360.2lbs) Rosehearty Stone to shoulder. Scottish natural stone lifting. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🪨👍

Got this stone around a year ago and have been attempting shoulders for a while. The weight was never the issue but the rough, unbalanced, pointy, and blocky nature of the stone. It's also quite wide, which means not a lot of room on the shoulder for it.  However, I reviewed my technique slightly and made it more like the Basque lifters would do with the big rectangular blocks they lift. It was counter intuitive and I hit my chin a few times, but by keeping the stone as much in line with my spine as I could and directing it up towards my face more so than my shoulder, I was able to stay more balanced and allow the stone to get higher up and then allow gravity to more or less take it to shoulder instead of relying on my 1 arm flick and press up to shoulder.
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