Competitive Eating Training

So I thought I should do a post on food eating competitions for you to understand what is going on. I haven’t done anything like this in a while, so you can get involved.

Niko Niko’s Gyro-Eating World Championship – 05/16/2009

Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest – 05/16/2009

Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest – 05/17/2009

King’s Dominion Funnel Cake Eating Championship – 05/23/2009

Peter’s Clam Bar Clam Eating Contest – 05/25/2009

Most of the spactacular growth in competitive eating has been happening in the United States and in Japan. I can understand how it would fit in the United States, but not really in Japan. It is what it is though.

The good news for competitive eating as a profitable market is that there are a lot markets to step into, one of which is Canada. For the most part you have practically the same type of people in Canada, so theoretically you’ll have the same kind of fan base.

It’s also adjacent to the United States, so it’s not like there is very far to travel to have a competition there. Competitors from both countries can easily travel to competitions on both sides of the border and compete quite easily.

I think within the next year you’re going to see a lot of the growth in competitive eating coming from Canadian market, and some of the European countries – rather than the traditional United States and Japan markets.

I just saw a man from Pennsylvania that ate a 15lb burger in only 4hrs 39 minutes. Brad Sciullo the only man to ever finish this massive burger. It is actually over 20lbs when you include the buns and other toppings on it.

This wasn’t exactly a competitive eating contest, but it does demonstrate that ordinary people that push themselves could be entering this great sport with some ease. That’s what it’s all about. You could start tomorrow and be the champ. Brad Sciullo maybe looking to get into the profession of competitive eating.

When asked what possessed him to eat a burger that big, Sciullo said: “I wanted to see if I could.”

For completing the challenge in the under-five-hour time limit, Sciullo won $400, three T-shirts, a certificate “and a burger hangover, as I call it,” Liegey said.

It’s important to note that we are at the dawn of a new thing. Right now this is still extremely small. A few years ago this was nothing more than a side show at the carnival. Where will it be in a few years now? We can only guess.

The first competition on television was in 2002 on Fox. As well, the Discovery Channel did a documentary on some of the competitors and their eating. This was the first glimpse that people really saw of this.

Over the last few years there has been much more media attention. Both with Spike and ESPN – big networks with big audiences. From this point competitive eating will be reaching more and more households.

Another area for this competition to grow is in other countries. Right now the United States and Japan are the only countries that seem to be giving this attention, but this will soon change. Europe will eventually open up and this sport will grow to a monster size by then.

If you’re thinking about getting into this – now is the time. Growth will only make it harder for people to make their name in this sport. The good news is that growth will bring bigger prices and more money to the competitors.

Hello readers,

I thought it was important for me to keep you up to date on some of the competitions out there. We have the Battle at the Big Apple World Pizza Eating Championship in Fort Pierce, Florida. What you’re expected to eat is a big apple pizza. I’ve never heard of this kind of pizza, but I’m sure a lot of you have.

The price is a good one. You get $2500 plus a cruise for two. And if you set a record you get another bonus of $500. Pretty sweet.

Here’s a summary of what is going on…

On November 8th, the nation’s finest gurgitators will once again go cheek to jowl in the pizza discipline in the Battle at the Big Apple World Pizza Eating Championship in beautiful Fort Pierce, Florida.

Festivities will begin at 11:00am. The contest will be held at the Big Apple Pizza location:
2311 S. 35th Street
Fort Pierce, FL 34981

If you’re interested in participating, you can apply here.