[quote]superscience wrote:
apwsearch wrote:
Superscience, I don’t know if you are trying to miss the point or just have a disdain for powerlifters, but as RickJames stated, nobody give a shit about training lifts.
I would wager there is not a PL on this forum that has not taken a confident triple training weight into a meet and never made it out of the hole with the same weight.
Using your approach to this we might as well have someone chime in with pictures of their cousin’s brother in the basement.
Repeat after me, objective vs. subjective.
And by the way, I have nothing but respect for the indivduals you posted. Definitely some strong ass dudes.
ok, the reason i post oly squats is because their real proper squats. see these powerlifting squats to paralell with suits and wraps dont make sense to me unless i hear wat they do raw ATG. thats why i post about oly lifters squats. i cudn care if a man squatted 2000lbs suited with belt and wraps.i also feel the same for bench gear and deadlift gear. id rather hear of a guy at a gym benching 300 raw than gene rychlak doing 1005 suited. if you were to develop some kind of suit for sprinters that benfited them like powerlifting, records wud be lik 6 seconds but its not real its fake.
awell ill shut up now cause this is a touchy subject for powerlifters that use gear. i just hope to hell powerlifting gets in the olympics and they take over and get rid of these suits.
ps im not an oly lifter this i just how i feel. [/quote]
There are many ways to do a squat. Olympic squats are not necessarily better, just different.
I have squatted both ways, and in my experience, using gear has increased my raw olympic squat better than raw olympic squats have helepd my powerlfiting squat.
Olympic lifters squat deep to catch the bar on a clean in a lower position. Powerlifters squat to below parallel to meet rule requirements. This is why they do it differently. They use biomechanics to make their chosen lift more effcient.
I can appreciate heavy, raw olympic squats and the powerlifting squats. Using gear does help you lift more that is true.
Maybe think of it this way, what if olympic lifters were required to catch their cleans in a position just below parallel and were red lighted for excessive depth because they were trying to make the clean easier?
If this was the rule, the clean and jerk records would be much lower than they are. this is the same as the powerlifting squats higher than they should.
As for legal depth. I watched many suqts from the floor with my eyes level to the hip joint. I saw some squats that appeared high from the front break parallel according to the rules. this is from an ex usapl national referee. It is not well know to a novice, but gear makes it impossible to tell a close squat from the front.
You need the side judge vbiew. This is not to say that there are not high squats passed, I’m just showing a different perspective.
