The Sweaty People: Farewell, But Not Goodbye

Team Philippines afterpull at The Sweaty People after SEA CUP: UNFINISHED BUSINESS (11/30/2024)

On May 15, 2025, co-founder of The Sweaty People (TSP), Jasper Chan, announced that after four years of nearly weekly practice sessions at their club headquarters in Tiong Bahru, they have sadly closed their doors for the final time, citing difficulties in managing the growing crowd of arm wrestling enthusiasts and changes in personal goals as the main reasons:

Many of you supported this scheme, but a noticeable number, chose not to pay, sometimes even boasting about it. That situation made the sessions harder to run fairly. At the same time, our own training needs have changed; at the level we now compete at, we gain more from focused strength work in the gym and occasional technical table practice than from high-volume pulls every week.

Having worked alongside TSP on multiple ventures over the past four years, and forging close friendships between both groups, Eastside Arm Wrestling is saddened to hear about the closure of one of the biggest arm wrestling communities in Singapore. Alongside Eastside Arm Wrestling, TSP was one of two major weekly open practice groups in Singapore that had formed the bedrock of Singapore's fast-growing arm wrestling community during the post-covid boom.

Outside of their weekly practice sessions, TSP had also introduced local competitions such as "The Sweaty People Underground" that had even attracted overseas competitors.

Eastside Arm Wrestling wishes to express our deepest gratitude to the executive team over at TSP for all their efforts to bolster the growth of arm wrestling in Singapore all these years, and we will continue to support them in whatever endeavors they choose to pursue moving forward.