{"id":513786,"date":"2026-04-05T06:45:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T06:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/513786\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T06:45:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T06:45:11","slug":"portsmouth-firefighter-to-compete-for-uk-strongman-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/513786\/","title":{"rendered":"Portsmouth firefighter to compete for UK Strongman title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said: &#8220;I&#8217;m excited to be taking part in this elite event, where I will be up against some really tough competitors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;ve had to work incredibly hard to qualify for this competition, but I know it will be a fantastic experience and well worth the long hours spent in the gym.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;To be a firefighter you need to be strong and resilient, and this led me towards discovering this passion.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Orr, also known as &#8220;Jake Velocity&#8221;, added that his crewmates had been &#8220;really supportive and encouraging&#8221; in helping him prepare.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;They fully understand the focus and the drive that I have applied to this for the last few years,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Colleagues from Cosham Blue Watch said they were &#8220;confident&#8221; he would perform well and wished him luck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He said: &#8220;I&#8217;m excited to be taking part in this elite event, where I will be up against&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":513787,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-513786","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-greatbritain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=513786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513786\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/513787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=513786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=513786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=513786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}