anyways ill try the other things out, also if i powerwash it, can i just use normal washing powder?
You can do the sleeve alteration in about half an hour with a needle and thread. Just use nylon core cotton button thread.
What Steel Nation said. Order up a bottle
for sleeve idea, where do i sew if I want to do it myself? im thinking at the shoulder area pinch the shirt and just sew the folded area? to make it tighter? would i need a machine also to sew it? please give detailed advice on what to do as I have no clue please,
much appreciated
No. At the bottom of the sleeve, where you insert your arm.
Lay it flat and fold the sleeve in half at the seam. Then, hand sew in about an inch long stitch starting just inside (towards the center of the sleeve) of the area where it is the thickest due to the extra material around the seam.
I will get a pic of a shirt I have done and post it shortly.
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anyways ill try the other things out, also if i powerwash it, can i just use normal washing powder?
You can do the sleeve alteration in about half an hour with a needle and thread. Just use nylon core cotton button thread.
What Steel Nation said. Order up a bottle
for sleeve idea, where do i sew if I want to do it myself? im thinking at the shoulder area pinch the shirt and just sew the folded area? to make it tighter? would i need a machine also to sew it? please give detailed advice on what to do as I have no clue please,
much appreciated
No. At the bottom of the sleeve, where you insert your arm.
Lay it flat and fold the sleeve in half at the seam. Then, hand sew in about an inch long stitch starting just inside (towards the center of the sleeve) of the area where it is the thickest due to the extra material around the seam.
I will get a pic of a shirt I have done and post it shortly.
Will this pass inspection for single ply feds?
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Yes. I lift USAPL/IPF exclusively and have coached dozens of lifters as will within the fed. We all do the same alterations.
[quote]Hanley wrote:
Haha don’t be like that. One of us owes the other a reply to a PM, not sure who tho. Any ideas???
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I’m not sure it matters, man. It’s great to see the progress you have made and watching you move on into the professional world is cool, as well.
I think I hit you with an email a while back. If you dig it up give me a shout. Otherwise I will send you one later this weekend. Would love to catch up.
[quote]apwsearch wrote:
Hanley wrote:
Haha don’t be like that. One of us owes the other a reply to a PM, not sure who tho. Any ideas???
I’m not sure it matters, man. It’s great to see the progress you have made and watching you move on into the professional world is cool, as well.
I think I hit you with an email a while back. If you dig it up give me a shout. Otherwise I will send you one later this weekend. Would love to catch up.
Be well.
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I may have responded via pm here…? It’s all kinda hazy to be honest. Have a look at your PM’s and if ya don’t have one let me know and I’ll get onto ya!! I owe ya alot
[quote]Hanley wrote:
apwsearch wrote:
Hanley wrote:
Haha don’t be like that. One of us owes the other a reply to a PM, not sure who tho. Any ideas???
I’m not sure it matters, man. It’s great to see the progress you have made and watching you move on into the professional world is cool, as well.
I think I hit you with an email a while back. If you dig it up give me a shout. Otherwise I will send you one later this weekend. Would love to catch up.
Be well.
I may have responded via pm here…? It’s all kinda hazy to be honest. Have a look at your PM’s and if ya don’t have one let me know and I’ll get onto ya!! I owe ya alot
[quote]Ruggerlife wrote:
Hanley wrote:
apwsearch wrote:
Hanley wrote:
Haha don’t be like that. One of us owes the other a reply to a PM, not sure who tho. Any ideas???
I’m not sure it matters, man. It’s great to see the progress you have made and watching you move on into the professional world is cool, as well.
I think I hit you with an email a while back. If you dig it up give me a shout. Otherwise I will send you one later this weekend. Would love to catch up.
Be well.
I may have responded via pm here…? It’s all kinda hazy to be honest. Have a look at your PM’s and if ya don’t have one let me know and I’ll get onto ya!! I owe ya alot
Who doesn’t?[/quote]
Fair point… PL knowledge pretty much halves around here when he’s not posting!
[quote]apwsearch wrote:
aaron_lohan wrote:
Boil the shirt in sugar this shrinks it and is similar to adding starch
I’m sorry but that is a stupid fucking idea. Why would you want to boil a polyester shirt?
If you want to stiffen it up get powerwash.
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Buying powerwash is a stupid idea, have you ever boiled a suit in sugar? my training partner does this before every comp and he is an international lifter in IPF and he was given this idea by Phil Richard 2009 european champ
Buying powerwash is a stupid idea, have you ever boiled a suit in sugar? my training partner does this before every comp and he is an international lifter in IPF and he was given this idea by Phil Richard 2009 european champ[/quote]
Buying powerwash is stupid. That’s cute. You sound like my 9 year old. Great argument.
If your training partner skull fucked a kitten before every comp would you be on here telling us to do that too? How about sharing some of your own experience (which I would wager is a pretty short list) as opposed to posting something this childish.
I don’t give a shit who he got the advice from (Phil Richard is a strong lightweight, no doubt)and I give less of a shit where he lifts.
Phil Richard is sponsored and doesn’t have to worry about what boiling a shirt does to the material. A lot of guys out there don’t have that luxury. I bring it up as an issue of affecting the integrity and life of the material. I have many shirts that have stood up to significant alteration as they have been handed around so I think I will stick with what I am doing.
Not to mention I’m surrounded by IPF/USAPL world ranked lifters and World Team coaches. Big fucking deal. Most powerlifters will help anyone who asks so it’s not much of an accomplishment.
I have learned something from every single one of them. That doesn’t mean every now and then one of them doesn’t says something I find really stupid.
Point being you don’t strengthen your position with what you said. You just look desperate and childish.
Buying powerwash is a stupid idea, have you ever boiled a suit in sugar? my training partner does this before every comp and he is an international lifter in IPF and he was given this idea by Phil Richard 2009 european champ
Buying powerwash is stupid. That’s cute. You sound like my 9 year old. Great argument.
If your training partner skull fucked a kitten before every comp would you be on here telling us to do that too? How about sharing some of your own experience (which I would wager is a pretty short list) as opposed to posting something this childish.
I don’t give a shit who he got the advice from (Phil Richard is a strong lightweight, no doubt)and I give less of a shit where he lifts.
Phil Richard is sponsored and doesn’t have to worry about what boiling a shirt does to the material. A lot of guys out there don’t have that luxury. I bring it up as an issue of affecting the integrity and life of the material. I have many shirts that have stood up to significant alteration as they have been handed around so I think I will stick with what I am doing.
Not to mention I’m surrounded by IPF/USAPL world ranked lifters and World Team coaches. Big fucking deal. Most powerlifters will help anyone who asks so it’s not much of an accomplishment.
I have learned something from every single one of them. That doesn’t mean every now and then one of them doesn’t says something I find really stupid.
Point being you don’t strengthen your position with what you said. You just look desperate and childish.
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Well your saying something is stupid even though you haven’t tried it, I have tried powerwash and i know a lot of people who have tried it and it did nothing. Swearing doesn’t make your argument any better, you just look like another internet lifter hiding behind a username.
Well your saying something is stupid even though you haven’t tried it, I have tried powerwash and i know a lot of people who have tried it and it did nothing. Swearing doesn’t make your argument any better, you just look like another internet lifter hiding behind a username.[/quote]
Oh boy. Seriously, how old are you? You sound like a child.
You could boil it in bull semen for all I care but if it still doesn’t fit right, you haven’t addressed the problem.
The bottom line is I don’t have to boil a polyester shirt to formulate an opinion that it’s a stupid idea. Heat is hard on poly. Bench shirts cost a lot of money and I’m not going to get on a forum and tell somebody to do something that has a good chance of ruining the shirt.
Quit being such a lemming.
Like I said, make alterations to the shirt so it fits right and then powerwash it to stiffen it up a little and make it last longer.
Well your saying something is stupid even though you haven’t tried it, I have tried powerwash and i know a lot of people who have tried it and it did nothing. Swearing doesn’t make your argument any better, you just look like another internet lifter hiding behind a username.
Oh boy. Seriously, how old are you? You sound like a child.
You could boil it in bull semen for all I care but if it still doesn’t fit right, you haven’t addressed the problem.
The bottom line is I don’t have to boil a polyester shirt to formulate an opinion that it’s a stupid idea. Heat is hard on poly. Bench shirts cost a lot of money and I’m not going to get on a forum and tell somebody to do something that has a good chance of ruining the shirt.
Quit being such a lemming.
Like I said, make alterations to the shirt so it fits right and then powerwash it to stiffen it up a little and make it last longer.
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The fact is boiling it in sugar does make it tighter and stiffer, the original poster wanted advice on how to tighten a bench shirt, sugaring it does indeed make it tighter. Being abusive on a forum whilst hiding behind a username is childish.
The fact is boiling it in sugar does make it tighter and stiffer, the original poster wanted advice on how to tighten a bench shirt, sugaring it does indeed make it tighter. Being abusive on a forum whilst hiding behind a username is childish.
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Great. Thanks for sharing.
Not gonna be “sugaring” my shirts anytime soon. Like I said, I will stick with what I have been doing successfully for 20 years.
