Marin Vlahovic, Croatian PLer

Training Powerlifting
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[quote]jumper wrote:
marinvlahovic wrote:
The stupid thing after all this threats, insults, accusations … I dont think that Jumper is a bad guy. I am smiling and lafing when I read and answer some of these posts. I no longer feel hostile. Its become pointless. How much do you bench raw with no spotters jumper?

Who cares what I bench? This thread isn’t about me! You started it about you. If I started a thread bragging about how strong I was, put some videos of myself lifting, blamed America for ruining the sport, and made some of the brash comments you made degrading American soldiers and others, then we could all critique me. I’m not a world class powerlifter and never claimed to be!

And Threats? You are the only one on here threatening people, who threatened you, no one. For the record, I never said anything bad about your country or countrymen, except for you and your buddy luburic. I am glad that you don’t think I am a bad guy, so you say, I’m not. Anyone that knows me personally knows I am not, no matter what country they come from.

My last piece of advice to you is, don’t hate the U.S.A so much, we don’t hate your country, and some day you may need us. I mean if it is such a bad place, why are millions upon millions of people trying to get in? Of course we have our problems too, but it is the land of freedom and opportunity and there has never been or will ever be(hopefully) any argument againist those facts.
I will put it like Gary from Team America:

We are dicks, people like you, luburic and balkanboy are pussys and people like Saddam, Zawahiri, Kim Jong IL,Bin Laden and the rest of the extremist are assholes. Dicks just want to fuck all the time and assholes just shit on everyone. Pussys don’t like dicks, pussys sometimes get fucked by dicks, but dicks also fuck assholes. I don’t know much in this crazy, crazy world, but I do know this- If you don’t let us fuck these assholes, then we are all gonna have our dicks and our pussys all covered in shit!

P.S. I’m not saying your a pussy, I had to use it for the example.[/quote]

and you need to start using your brain!!

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[quote]jumper wrote:
marinvlahovic wrote:
n3wb wrote:
marinvlahovic wrote:
I know the all history of the second world war, and I know how people like Hitler come to the surface, partialy because of U.S.A. America was a big sponzor of Hitlers Germany, just like it sponsored Sadam, they do that untill things get out of hand.

Bush can be considered worse only in the sense that his only goal is to fullfeel the wishes of his industry and companies while Hitler is simply a complete madman with only goal to kill all jews, make arian race, and spread Germany as an empire worldwide.

Yeah! George Bush kills innocent people because of thier race and wants to take over the hole world…

No, he kills for money, for the benefit of his friends and his family. And he uses the poor american class, latins, afroamericans and others to do this job, while rich anglosaksons enjoy the comfort of his economic sistem.

So the American military is all poor, latinos or african-americans?
Funny, I don’t fit in that category. Are they also the ones that rape and torture Iraqies like you said I did? Last I checked we were an all vounteer force from all walks of life; economic, cultural, and racial, I guess that changed, you would know better than me, you are the genius here.

Funny, in my last squad we were all white except for one hispanic soldier, and in my platoon we had 3 hispanic soldiers and no african american soldiers, most of us came from different economic backgrounds and most of us joined for patriotic reasons. Things must have changed since I got out, 3 years ago, without anyone knowing, but you, the genius, Marin.

Did Bush start drafting minorities without anybody in America knowing? How do you get all of this information? Oh I forgot, you have a 148 IQ. That must be how you figured out Bush kills for money too, you are so smart, how did we all miss it! Everyone knew how poor the Bush family was before Iraq so he had to have done it for the money. I guess he didn’t have enough money to put the girls through college after selling the Texas Rangers, so he had to divise a scheme to frame Bin Laden for 9/11 and then invade Iraq to make more money because he and his friends just didn’t make enough to pay the light bill in Crawford, Texas. You are so smart Marin, I was wrong about you, you are trully intellectually elite!

You said you have your own theories about 9/11, would you please enlighten us with your devine knowledge once more with your grand theory on this event, please, we are all so stupid and you are so smart.[/quote]

5 1/2 years after and you still haven’t gotten it??

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[quote]bull-dozer wrote:
marinvlahovic wrote:
Fake name bullshit. Ok. And for your information you are a true nazi because you are proud of kicking down doors in Irak, a country wich has a civilazation much older and more culturale the yours. Ever heard of Mesopotamia? So you are a Nazi. Find yourself a civilian or an Iraki women to have fun, raping and torturing. Your no soldier. Your just a coward wearing 100 000 dollars worth equipment, bulling civilians and hiding behind tanks.

Leave the politics and go back to wood and hay business![/quote]

you have to use your brain as well !!

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[quote]marinvlahovic wrote:
Hello everyone. When i was looking some thing on the internet i found my name on this site. My name is Marin Vlahovic. I am 25 years old. I have competed in many powerlifting drug free events. For the last 2 years I was only training. I also was for a short time in MMA but due to problems with local organisations I was decided to leave the sports. I have never used steroids. I know that this sounds stupid and no truthfull but I believe that I am one of the worlds strongest drug free athletes.

My current weight is 118 kg and i can squat and benchpress easiliy over 300 kilograms. I am also studiyng for my MBA degree in a Tempus project wich is founded by the European Union. My expertise after that woud be agrobuisness. I am writing all this to you because I am not able to acomplish my goals here in Croatia. I have no sponsors, because powerlifting is not even a regular sport in Croatia. I also train people.

If anyone has any idea of how to help my promote myself and find sponsors outside my country it woud be very helpfull. Regerds, Marin Vlahovic[/quote]

Maybe,I could help you out to get sponsorship here in US, but you talk to much trash about America.Why is that?

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[quote]willow8 wrote:
marinvlahovic wrote:
Hello everyone. When i was looking some thing on the internet i found my name on this site. My name is Marin Vlahovic. I am 25 years old. I have competed in many powerlifting drug free events. For the last 2 years I was only training. I also was for a short time in MMA but due to problems with local organisations I was decided to leave the sports. I have never used steroids. I know that this sounds stupid and no truthfull but I believe that I am one of the worlds strongest drug free athletes.

My current weight is 118 kg and i can squat and benchpress easiliy over 300 kilograms. I am also studiyng for my MBA degree in a Tempus project wich is founded by the European Union. My expertise after that woud be agrobuisness. I am writing all this to you because I am not able to acomplish my goals here in Croatia. I have no sponsors, because powerlifting is not even a regular sport in Croatia. I also train people.

If anyone has any idea of how to help my promote myself and find sponsors outside my country it woud be very helpfull. Regerds, Marin Vlahovic

Maybe,I could help you out to get sponsorship here in US, but you talk to much trash about America.Why is that?
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I responded very badly on some comments that were against me and my country. My defense was completly wrong and I insulted people without wanting to do that.

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[quote]dinamozagreb wrote:
marinvlahovic wrote:
Soon I will post a video from croatian tv where i lift huge amount of weight without a spotters help , doing lockouts an the all movements regulary. I have it on dvd, I just need to convert it to some other format so I can put it on youtube.

people ,like jumper, should have respect for you, you really are strong otherwise you wouldn’t be a Europian champion and two time world champion;)

So tell me, what’s you’re schedule in 2007?

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Sorry, for not answering you sooner. All these posts that are made to discredit have distracted my attention from the normal posts. My first goal is Competition i Croatia,the Labrada Open wich will be in April, in Bjelovar. There I want to finally make result wich is in my true limits. I expect more 280kg in bench press, if I get a normal tight bench shirt probably over 300kg.

After that we will try to organise the powerlifting community in Croatia and finally get the recognisen of us from sport institutions in Croatia. Other sport goal is IPF bench press world or european championship were I wish to compete. I hope to get some sponsors for this cause their competitions are of the highest value, many of them brodacasted on eurosport, dsf… Dinamo!

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Farken hell, this ladies and gentlemen is y peace love and understanding in Eastern Europe is so far off.

Congrats on getting bak to the original point, maybe we can try and keep it that way. Politics and religion are a shitfight that can be argued till ur blue in the face, there must be better things to do…

like training …

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[quote]nthnbeachesguy wrote:
Farken hell, this ladies and gentlemen is y peace love and understanding in Eastern Europe is so far off.

Congrats on getting bak to the original point, maybe we can try and keep it that way. Politics and religion are a shitfight that can be argued till ur blue in the face, there must be better things to do…

like training …[/quote]

I agree. This is my old video made after only two months training. Before this I was injured and without weight training for more than a year. Lot of assisting, bounce bench press all for the goal of getting power as quicly as possibe. The video was made a year ago for my girlfriend. The words say: Believe in God, Believe in yourself, believe in love and miracles can happen.

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[quote]marinvlahovic wrote:

Lot of assisting, bounce bench press all for the goal of getting power as quicly as possibe. The video was made a year ago for my girlfriend.

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I am sure your girlfriend liked it.

But you do not impress powerlifters with a video like that. You break almost every rule there is in the book.

  • Spotters hands on the bar.

  • Bouncing.

  • Not complete ROM on the 100kg repetitions.

  • Blurry and difficult to see filming at times.

When that is said, there is also some positives to be told:

  • Nice video editing.

  • You are strong.

However, clean lifts where you lift yourself is much more impressive. You can bitch as much as you want about the fact that you lifted heavy weights. But as long as you have a spotters hands on your bar, and the 350kg lift (3 spotters touching the bar?), we powerlifters will not be impressed.

You complain about crappy equipment, and no sponsors.

I tell you your equipment is perfectly fine.

You do not need sponsors to attend meets and lift heavy.

Give us some real lifts in sanctioned meets, then we will be impressed. And at least give us some proper lifts in your videos as well.

There is no other point with this video than brushing your EGO.

Good luck in the future, and happy lifting!

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There were three spotters but two touched the bar only when they were returning the bar in the rack. See it again. I have some new clean lifts but i neeed to convert them to a format wich is viewable on the internet.

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[quote]dinamozagreb wrote:
people,like jumper, should have respect for you, you really are strong otherwise you wouldn’t be europian champion(2003) and two time world champion(2004):slight_smile:

tell me, what’s you’re schedule in 2007?[/quote]

I apologized to Marin and we put our differences behind us a long time ago. I said some inappropriate things and made some accusations I shouldn’t have. It turned into a pissing contest that was going nowhere. He also apoligized to me, I respect him more for that than his lifting. People make mistakes.

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Marin, I thought you may enjoy this.

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[quote]jumper wrote:

Marin, I thought you may enjoy this.[/quote]

I havent been for months here. I am trying to study, work, train and spend time with my girl so I am of the net… But this made my day much better! Its sick humor in the best way! Thanks Man!

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[quote]marinvlahovic wrote:
jumper wrote:

Marin, I thought you may enjoy this.

I havent been for months here. I am trying to study, work, train and spend time with my girl so I am of the net… But this made my day much better! Its sick humor in the best way! Thanks Man!

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Glad to see you are back. Keep us posted on your training and any new videos.

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Hello,

first of all as far as I know Croatia is not even an IPF member so how do you plan to go to IPF international meet as a croat (except you have some other passport maybe, closest members are slovenia and serbia)…

second, I’m a TITAN sponsored, 22 years old, did 551 (250kg) IPF bench weighting 190lbs (87 kg) (RAW BENCH IN LOCAL MEET 210kg at 87kg)…

it is very hard to find sponsors, serious ones… sponsored people in PL are Scot Mendelson, Ron Palmer, Ed Coan was I think… and you know what caliber of athletes they are…

Your best meet bench is 240kg, it is great result for your weight, but there are many people out there capable of that, which will make finding sponsors even harder… Since that 260 hasn’t passed it isn’t lifted…

And, I don’t think you will get any sponsors by posting here you need them, you at least have to be freak or to know someone… maybe some local sponsor in croatia can help, but as far as bigger PL sponsors it is very hard like that…

I wish you all the best i finding them just don’t post such things like you think you’re the future of powerlifting and one of the worlds strongest man, you’re still far from it to be honest… there are many people capable of your numbers… I met 75kg guy with RAW 240kg bench on European IPF championship, and thats 50 kilos lighter than you… and he has no sponsor…

gavra

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[quote][gavra] wrote:
Hello,

first of all as far as I know Croatia is not even an IPF member so how do you plan to go to IPF international meet as a croat (except you have some other passport maybe, closest members are slovenia and serbia)…

second, I’m a TITAN sponsored, 22 years old, did 551 (250kg) IPF bench weighting 190lbs (87 kg) (RAW BENCH IN LOCAL MEET 210kg at 87kg)…

First of all, thank you for good wishes. Now I woud like to inform you of some simple facts wich I have written already on the net. I already had sponsors in Croatia, from financial ones to the ones wich sposored me with suplements but things changed in the last years when I started to compete in some other sports like MMA.

Now I am back but its much harder to gain trust from the sponsors again… First of all I am a DRUG FREE POWERLIFTER all my life! My teenager result was 200kg on IPF sanctioned championship in Wienna. I train now with no suplements, no sponsors studying on International Buisness MBA study i doing some projects wich are in the starting phase.

Second , I am unique in my country and thats why I have a lot of media attention in Croatia regardless of my only solid results, but then again I am drug free, have off season testings and if you want to be honest you know that IPF controls are only on competitions wich means…

I am trying to organise a croatian federation in IPF? Do you have any idea of how hard that is when you have no base, and no lifters no powerlifting clubs? You in Serbia have over 30 clubs, trainers, equipment, tradition. We dont. Its all up to me and my collegue. So as a drug free powerlifter with such conditions in my country I think I am doing pretty good??!!

I am also not looking sposnors as s profesional powerlifter, but as a project manager of several ideas wich can help to promote a healthier nation of croatians. So you got it all WRONG.

And in the end what ever you say, the fact is that with drug testing before and after competion I am the strongest powerlifter in ex-Yugoslavia area, but my objectives go much further then pure physical strenght.

Also with a good IPF aproveed bench shirt I woud do 300kg easily. You dont have to believe but I know its truth because I competed at last competition with a broken titan fury shirt wich gaved me no support. Well, shit happens. You are right the offical result is offical!

So when I get better eqipment I shall compete and make better results but before that I will promote myself and my work in anyway I see fit, and as a educated person with good knowledge of public relations I am pretty sure of the effect of this and other types of advertising in long therm. I wish you all the best!

This is a girl from Norway, she is an armwrestling champion in -66kg cathegory. This was here first tyre flip attempt, now she is doing 10 of this per training. I have invited her to Croatia one of the most beautiful countries in the World.

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Fucking hell… I really don’t think anybody cares man. Sorry to break it to you.

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[quote]Hanley wrote:
Fucking hell… I really don’t think anybody cares man. Sorry to break it to you.[/quote]

Yeah thats why this thread has over 16 000 views… Nobody cares about you, little irish drunk boy…Kaufman

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I see there is a lot of hate on the internet towards me personly. In response to that I once more must say that I dont hate any nation, and that a part of my writing on this topic was pure humor wich some get it , some dont. There were also many attacks and negative posts about my county and people. The history data shows that the biggest anti-nazi movement in Europe was in Croatia, also the youngest after only a couple of months of German invasion. The serbian propaganda on the internet is aggressive and it counts on your lack o knowledge. They celebrate the slaughters on their youtube videos. They have songs about cutting peoples throats, raping women and other atrosities in Srebrenica. America was a logistical allie of Croatia at the end of our war for freedom. I dont hate America. I dont hate americans! If I ofended you with my bad humor or aggressive writing in answer to some of people who were provocators I am sorry. Many regards from Croatia to every normal citizen in America, Marin Vlahovic

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As I said before, nobody cares. Get over it and stop your little desperate bids for attention.

The reason your thread has so many views is because you insulted so many people.

I was willing to let the “little Irish drunk boy” thing slide in the hopes that this thread would die AGAIN. But once again you’ve bumped it.

Nice sterotyping dude. You don’t “hate” any country but you sure as hell like insulting nations.