Apparently he walked under a ladder on the way to the meet, because it was just one of those days. The guy who dumped the weight before Goldie’s second attempt warmed up with his opener (mid 500s) for several sets. I knew something was wrong when I saw that. Then he decided to walk his squat out of the monolift. That kid was messed up.
We would be remiss in not filling you in on one of the best lifters there - a 19 year old kid who totaled 1394 at 121. Yes, those numbers are both in pounds. It was sick to watch a 121 pound teenager squat and deadlift over 4 times his body weight. Freak.
This was the first meet that I’ve attended, and it was a lot of fun. I was able to help Goldberg out a bit, and learned a lot from the experience. And to dispel any rumors, he did not ride in on a high horse. That I could see. Seriously, though, he’s a quality guy, and it was an honor to have helped him in any way that I could.
My sport psych prof is an amazing man, he would talk to you for five minutes and you would go from thinking you were the worst athlete ever to thinking you could conquor the world.
One of his favourites (yeah I’m Canadian so there’s a “u”) when people would complain about mistakes was this:
Everyone makes mistakes, that’s something important that you need to realize. Every champion has made more than their share of mistakes in becomming a champion. What you need to realize is that all champions have two things in common. The first is that they’re not afraid to make mistakes, they don’t spend their lives avoiding the hard moves, the tough plays. They go out there and try, and often fail.
The second thing they all have in common is that they don’t want to forget about their mistakes. Non-champions come off a defeat just wanting to forget about it, champions come off a defeat and try and figure out why it was a defeat. Then they take the necessary steps to ensure that they don’t make the same mistakes again. Eventually they just run out of mistakes they can make and achieve victory by default.
STU
PS. For anyone who’s ever wanted to know how a champion thinks click on this link and read the story:
That’s Kimura, one of the few men to ever defeat Julio Gracie, the founder of Gracie Ju-Jitsu and according to Gracie as soon as he knew he was fighting Kimura it was no longer a question of whether he would win but how he would lose.
The second thing they all have in common is that they don’t want to forget about their mistakes. Non-champions come off a defeat just wanting to forget about it, champions come off a defeat and try and figure out why it was a defeat. Then they take the necessary steps to ensure that they don’t make the same mistakes again.
Ive already started doing this. This started on the drive home from the meet. It wont happen again regardless of what bad luck i have in the future.
ive had help at all of my meets. If i had held onto that 600 deadlift i would have had prs on squat and deadlift. 352 was a PR in that shirt. but its not what i wanted. in my book 2nd place is the first loser and i took second place to me. i could have done much better. Can you tell i hate losing, even if it is to me?
Goldberg, you will break 700 on the squat in no time, mishaps like those at your meet can definately be detrimental to your performance. Do you use wrist wraps when you pull, i used to lose my grip on heavy pulls due to my disproportionately small hands, but now i use extra tight wrist wraps on max pulls and did a 725 pin pull saturday and grip was not a factor, give it a shot.
no i didnt use wraps. Ive heard of people doing that before and now i wish i had tried it because i only needed a little bit. Im sure i could have pulled enough to win had my grip held up.
