Do I even Powerlift? Pfffft.
Apparently your reading comprehension skills need a little work. Consider this a tune-up.
You sound like you have spent way too much time on the internet reading/participating in gear debates and not enough time talking to people who actually compete.
Tell you what, by the powers vested in me, I hearby name you T-Nation gear expert.
Good luck with that.
…You completely avoided my question and my entire post by trying to burn me… again. Gear expert?.. get over it bud, 25% is exaggerated, peroid. I don’t know how you don’t see this being a powerlifter, correct?
I’m not trying to avoid anything. If you reread my original post you will see that even on our High School Powerlifting team we train a 17 year old girl who pulls sumo and is getting an easy 20 percent increase out of a freakin z-suit. We haven’t even put her in a Centurian yet.
I really have no difficulty believing 15-20 percent because I have seen it and that is what we aim for in altering DL suits.
Bottom line, it’s not much of a stretch up to 25 my friend.
The conversation about why DL records have not increased at the same rate as the other lifts is not a new conversation for anyone who has done a meet, and I don’t really see why it is so f’in relevant.
Maile, who coaches Ribic has spent years observing Soviet lifters including training methodologies and gear alteration not to mention his tenure in the sport as a coach and lifter.
If you attend one of the training camps they put on, gear alteration is covered and you will begin to understand the extent of the man’s knowledge relative to tweaking gear (in addition to everything else).
We tweak the hell out of our single ply gear, based alot on what we learned from Maile, and we aren’t even close to the things his lifters are trying/doing.
Now maybe you propose to know more about gear alteration and performance than these folks, but I gotta cast some serious doubt there.
Again, I personally do not struggle much with her getting 25%. At the end of the day if it’s only 20, or perhaps 22.67%, who gives a rats ass?
She has achieved the highest Wilk’s coefficient in IPF history for a female lifter. Give her a little respect.