--- title: Strongman Brian Shaw on Airplane description: Watch Brian Shaw, two-time 'World's Strongest Man' winner, try to board a plane canonical: https://time.com/3772876/brian-shaw-strongman-travel-video/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-04-06T19:50:11.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:18:25.745Z og:title: This Video Shows How Hard Traveling Is When You're Really Tall og:description: Watch Brian Shaw, two-time 'World's Strongest Man' winner, try to board a plane og:url: https://time.com/3772876/brian-shaw-strongman-travel-video/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: This Video Shows How Hard Traveling Is When You're Really Tall twitter:description: Watch Brian Shaw, two-time 'World's Strongest Man' winner, try to board a plane twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # This Video Shows How Difficult Traveling Is When You're Really Tall by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Apr 6, 2015 7:50 PM UTC by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Apr 6, 2015 7:50 PM UTC At 6-foot-8-inches and more than 400 pounds, Brian Shaw is obviously a big dude. He won the World’s Strongest Man competition in both 2011 and 2013, and once bench pressed 525 pounds. So, yeah. Pretty big dude. The above video reveals some of the challenges Shaw faces being such a massive guy. In particular, the challenges he faces while traveling. Watch as he attempts to navigate his way through an airport and onto a plane, having to duck his head and try to contour himself along the way. Sure, being that tall and strong would mean you’d have major advantages in life, like always being able to reach the top shelf and never having to ask anyone to open a jar for you. But at what cost? ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3772876/brian-shaw-strongman-travel-video/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3772876/brian-shaw-strongman-travel-video/"},"headline":"This Video Shows How Difficult Traveling Is When You're Really Tall","datePublished":"2015-04-06T19:50:11.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:18:25.745Z","description":"Watch Brian Shaw, two-time 'World's Strongest Man' winner, try to board a plane","url":"https://time.com/3772876/brian-shaw-strongman-travel-video/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Travel"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3772876/brian-shaw-strongman-travel-video/","name":"This Video Shows How Difficult Traveling Is When You're Really Tall"}}]}] ```