Anyone seen the video of this dude

[Tyek]

http://www.ivygateblog.com/blog/tags/aleksey_vayner/

Not sure if this has been posted yet, but the video is hilarious. Watch him lift 495 while the 3 "spotters" are struggling to "spot"spot for him. Watch him and his amazing tennis skills.

If this is all real this guy needs to be in a jail or insane asylum.

[Ogbar]

Prediction: a character very much like this will be worked into a "Law & Order" franchise episode within 12 months

[Lalanae]

The stories about him from various people who know him at Yale are even creepier. He's told some pretty amazing lies, so this guy isn't joking in this vid. He's a total weirdo.

From IvyGate:

But that's only the tip of a huge and hilarious iceberg. Turns out Aleksey is somewhat infamous among Yalies as the "Crazy Prefrosh" profiled in 2002 by Yale's Rumpus tabloid. If you thought Vayner's credibility was shaky after seeing the video, wait til you read the profile. It is devastating. For starters, his name back then was Aleksey Garber. He claimed to have spent much of his childhood in a Tibetan monestary in post-Soviet Uzbekistan before moving to the United States, where he was employed by both the Mafia and the CIA. He was also a tennis instructor whose students include Harrison Ford and Sarah Michelle Gellar. And oh yeah: he met the Dalai Lama along the way and is the second greatest martial arts fighter in the world.

Other tidbits we've culled from Yalies: He failed out second term of freshman year (which explains why he's now class of '07). He claims to have recently represented himself in a court case in the Supreme Court of Westchester County.

[Fairweather Pure]

He looks like a younger Rocco Siffredi, a porn star known as the Italian Stallion.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocco_Siffredi

There's a pick of ol' Rocco on the right. You can find more if you really want to, but they definately look alike IMO.