I don’t see why you’re getting all excited as this has nothing to do with you, but that’s another story. He’s telling me things that conflict with what I’m reading elsewhere, so based on that either there are better approaches than what I’m looking at or maybe I’m better off to disregard his advice. If he was pulling 800 and coaching elite lifters then his opinion would be worth more than that of some guy named Chris who competes now and then and does ugly sumo deadlifts in his basement.