Just want to share this in case anyone is interested in going. Men and women are encouraged to apply:
…every single one of those girls is stronger than me…
I quit
If I only had the disposable income . . .
[quote]usmccds423 wrote:
…every single one of those girls is stronger than me…
I quit[/quote]
You can’t let it get to you, man. If you really want to be humbled, look up Tatiana Kashirina on youtube, she’s done a 151kg snatch and a 190kg clean and jerk at no more than ~104kg bodyweight. Faaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrkkkk.
China’s the new Russia. haha.
[quote]TheJonty wrote:
If I only had the disposable income . . .
[quote]usmccds423 wrote:
…every single one of those girls is stronger than me…
I quit[/quote]
You can’t let it get to you, man. If you really want to be humbled, look up Tatiana Kashirina on youtube, she’s done a 151kg snatch and a 190kg clean and jerk at no more than ~104kg bodyweight. Faaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrkkkk.[/quote]
I don’t understand why people compare themselves to athletes on PEDs that have been training for years. Especially on technical lifts that require a great deal of flexibility and sport specific skill.
I’m more impressed at how Kashirina is dominating her competition despite being 29 kg lighter than the silver medalist at the WWC. If the women had 94, 105, and 105+ classes Tatiana would hold records at 94 and 105, and the 105 records would be higher than the 105+ ones…
She totaled 303 and 90.9 bodyweight at the 2009 WWC…
The problem with chinese weightlifting camp is after an hour and a half you just have to do it again.
[quote]amayakyrol wrote:
I don’t understand why people compare themselves to athletes on PEDs that have been training for years. Especially on technical lifts that require a great deal of flexibility and sport specific skill.[/quote]
Why shouldn’t you compare yourself with the best? Not necessarily as a measure of your own success, but to keep a realistic measure of your own standing and as something to aspire to. I compare myself to myself and my immediate competition domestically first and foremost, but keep one eye on where I stand compared to the international elites. Either that, or you’re shrinking your pond to make yourself the bigger fish.
[quote]amayakyrol wrote:
I’m more impressed at how Kashirina is dominating her competition despite being 29 kg lighter than the silver medalist at the WWC. If the women had 94, 105, and 105+ classes Tatiana would hold records at 94 and 105, and the 105 records would be higher than the 105+ ones…
She totaled 303 and 90.9 bodyweight at the 2009 WWC…
[/quote]
She is a freak amongst freaks, but that’s like saying “well what if there were 125, 140, and 140+ weight classes for the men.” There’s just not enough athletes at the upper end of the bodyweight continuum to justify that many weight classes. Although really, she’s not “dominating” the competition, she only won worlds last year by 4kg, and came up short in London and at worlds in 2011; though to be fair her and Zhou Lulu are on another level compared to the rest of the superheavyweight women.
The real scary thing is that Kashirina is only 23 years old, and should still grow and continue to get bigger and stronger moving forward. Even right now, if she could put together 5-6 good lifts she’s looking at a 340+ total. That is ridiculous, and absolutely devastating to my goal of lifting more than every woman in the world.
For those of you in Canada and cannot attend the camp, Coach Ma and I will be teaching the Chinese approach to the lifts at Hybrid Fitness.
http://chineseweightlifting.com/london-ontario-technique-clinic/
[quote]GqArtguy wrote:
For those of you in Canada and cannot attend the camp, Coach Ma and I will be teaching the Chinese approach to the lifts at Hybrid Fitness.
http://chineseweightlifting.com/london-ontario-technique-clinic/[/quote]
Wrong side of the country.