[quote]T3hPwnisher wrote:
[quote]heavythrower wrote:
[quote]DixiesFinest wrote:
[quote]fattymcfatso wrote:
springs surgically implanted behind the knees, etc.
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lol…
Side note - seriously, what is everyones problem with the monolift? Seems to me it decreases risk of injury and makes things run a lot smoother. Yes, I know, “BUT BUT BUT TEH SRS LIFTERZ WALK IT OUT EVERRRRY TIME,” cool story bro, but what does that have to do with increasing safety for current lifters who want to lift big without their leg bones snapping in half while trying to walk it out? (I am at work, someone find that video for me)
FTR - never used a monolift, lift single ply, walked out 675 in gym[/quote]
i see what you are saying…I lifted with a monolift at Diablo Barbell for a while a few years back, and LOVED it. it was nice if you had training partners, and setting up and squatting in a monolift with a box to me was very efficient and made me feel much safer when I took big weights.
but what purists like myself would argue is that the walkout is part of the lift.
remeber when there was all that controversy over that golfer, who had a physical handicap of some sort, he had trouble walking, and he had qualified to compete in the masters, but at the masters, they would not let him use a golf cart like he did at the smaller less important matches.
the reasoning is that the physical toll of walking of the course for hours was PART OF THE GAME.
so if you young guys who never have known PL life without a monolift, well, there it is:
IT IS PART OF THE FUCKING LIFT!!!
haha, I am not really shouting…just having some fun…I understand that the sport has changed…I am an old purist, and I have an opinion, I just find it more interesting to follow the RAW feds and the big deadlifts nowadays.
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The concept of being a purist strikes me as odd, for if I remember my powerlifting history, cheating has always been a part of the game, to include stuffing tennis balls behind your wraps and squatting in cut off jeans that were like 6 sizes too small. The whole “RAW” revolution is kinda new really, whereas before it was always a numbers game.
That said, I only lift unequipped because I train by myself and I’m too stupid to figure out gear. I bought a pair of knee wraps 2 months ago and they’re still sitting on top of my squat box unopened because I don’t know how to properly wrap my knees.[/quote]
this is a red herring that i will address once and not again. what you are talking about occurred at one infamous meet, cant remember year…but it was NOT the norm for the time. the big meets like the worlds stuff like this did not happen.
another thread a long time ago, i pretty much debunked this, as i posted tons of pics and links to videos of world championships from the late 70’s to mid 80’s where no such foolishness was going on.
like this:
