[quote]AnytimeJake wrote:
Thanks for the kind words, though I’m not 100% sure they weren’t sarcastic.
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AJ, Nope, no sarcasm.
I’m chasing you and Jed right now in bench land.
Jed, I may pull 500 like it’s nothing (not true, it is heavy and it hurts and seems like it takes an hour when you do them, then you watch the vid and it looks light, easy and shoots right up)but I want bench numbers because I don’t have them.
AJ: Good speed to your Grandfather.
All the motorcycle talk has me, once again, on the fence about selling mine (I thought I had finally decided to let it go).
(Nice DL, by the way, someday I’ll be able to pull half that 
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[quote]RozS wrote:
All the motorcycle talk has me, once again, on the fence about selling mine (I thought I had finally decided to let it go).
(Nice DL, by the way, someday I’ll be able to pull half that )[/quote]
What do you ride?
re the Deadlift: Great, then I’ll pull the other half and save my back. Thanks for wanting to help!
[quote]emskee wrote:
What do you ride?
re the Deadlift: Great, then I’ll pull the other half and save my back. Thanks for wanting to help![/quote]
Yep, I grew up around motorcycles and have been riding my own since I was 10. I have a 1980 XS400 in the garage that hasn’t been getting enough attention the last couple years.
Deadlift: No problem, I do what I can to help 
[quote]RozS wrote:
[quote]emskee wrote:
What do you ride?
re the Deadlift: Great, then I’ll pull the other half and save my back. Thanks for wanting to help![/quote]
Yep, I grew up around motorcycles and have been riding my own since I was 10. I have a 1980 XS400 in the garage that hasn’t been getting enough attention the last couple years.
Deadlift: No problem, I do what I can to help [/quote]
A vertical twin!!! Nice. I used to imagine chopping an XS650.
Picture?
I always wanted to chop an xs as well, nice simple bike, and RozS congrats and goodluck with the meet, most of the guys around here don’t have the parts to do a meet, but your steppin up, and thats awesome. The point is to compete against yourself, and set some PRs Goodluck !
[quote]AnytimeJake wrote:
I always wanted to chop an xs as well, nice simple bike, and RozS congrats and goodluck with the meet, most of the guys around here don’t have the parts to do a meet, but your steppin up, and thats awesome. The point is to compete against yourself, and set some PRs Goodluck !
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Good mornin AJ.
An Roz, sorry, I’m a dique, yes, forgot, no manners: good speed to the meet.
And, as always, AJ is right, stay inside your self at the meet, look around in there and find the most you have. Surprise yourself. Stay calm, don’t waste energy, then put it all into the bar.
[quote]emskee wrote:
[quote]AnytimeJake wrote:
I always wanted to chop an xs as well, nice simple bike, and RozS congrats and goodluck with the meet, most of the guys around here don’t have the parts to do a meet, but your steppin up, and thats awesome. The point is to compete against yourself, and set some PRs Goodluck !
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Good mornin AJ.
An Roz, sorry, I’m a dique, yes, forgot, no manners: good speed to the meet.
And, as always, AJ is right, stay inside your self at the meet, look around in there and find the most you have. Surprise yourself. Stay calm, don’t waste energy, then put it all into the bar. [/quote]
As long as I don’t get grumpy before I lift, I’ll be fine, it’s when I start to get pissed that I start making stupid mistakes and missing lifts. And yep, first meet with 4 more planned for the year
The bike is bone stock with less than 6000 miles, all original and in desperate need of a carb cleaning, but I’m lazy, so it hasn’t been done. And yes, all my gear is pink, and that’s something people just have to deal with
[quote]RozS wrote:
As long as I don’t get grumpy before I lift, I’ll be fine, it’s when I start to get pissed that I start making stupid mistakes and missing lifts. And yep, first meet with 4 more planned for the year
The bike is bone stock with less than 6000 miles, all original and in desperate need of a carb cleaning, but I’m lazy, so it hasn’t been done. And yes, all my gear is pink, and that’s something people just have to deal with [/quote]
That’s my point. No reason to be grumpy or at worst look and act grumpy. That wastes energy, it changes the subject.
Even if you blew a single attempt somewhere, sometime ago, it happened in the past and the past is gone, it doesn’t exist, it is just pictures in your head and you don’t have to look at them. It is a waste of time to look back and what you need to do, as long as you are looking at pictures in your head, is see your next attempt.
Go all Zen, get all tunnel visioned, see your next attempt, imagine everything, imagine the set up, the hand off, imagine your descent, your pause, the press. Even see it go off trajectory and see yourself adjusting like the monster lifter you are, see a solid lockout, listen for the rack signal. That is how you should be spending your time at a meet, not thinking about grumpy stuff. Waste of calories and nerve.
Ooooh, nice bike. A palette. Pour some Sea Foam in the tank and give it hell. I took 3 seconds and got used to the pink garb so I’m OK.
[quote]emskee wrote:
That’s my point. No reason to be grumpy or at worst look and act grumpy. That wastes energy, it changes the subject.
Even if you blew a single attempt somewhere, sometime ago, it happened in the past and the past is gone, it doesn’t exist, it is just pictures in your head and you don’t have to look at them. It is a waste of time to look back and what you need to do, as long as you are looking at pictures in your head, is see your next attempt.
Go all Zen, get all tunnel visioned, see your next attempt, imagine everything, imagine the set up, the hand off, imagine your descent, your pause, the press. Even see it go off trajectory and see yourself adjusting like the monster lifter you are, see a solid lockout, listen for the rack signal. That is how you should be spending your time at a meet, not thinking about grumpy stuff. Waste of calories and nerve.
Ooooh, nice bike. A palette. Pour some Sea Foam in the tank and give it hell. I took 3 seconds and got used to the pink garb so I’m OK.
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You’re good at this whole pep-talk thing
I’ve done the Sea Foam thing a few times and it’s helped, but it still floods the left cylinder fairly regularly, which is annoying and has made me that person on the side of the road, working on their bike. It’s not fun.
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You’re good at this whole pep-talk thing
I’ve done the Sea Foam thing a few times and it’s helped, but it still floods the left cylinder fairly regularly, which is annoying and has made me that person on the side of the road, working on their bike. It’s not fun. [/quote]
Oh, yeah, twin Mikunis, forgot, I had 1-into-2 in my head.
Yeah, time to strip the heads off some screws and split some rubber stuff. Sigh.
re pep talk: I know I am right because I always agree with myself. Stay focused on the next play. It really is the trick. Your choice what you want to think about. Practice thinking that way. It does not come naturally.
even a girl could figure it out
I lol’d
Wow…looking and the little maniac in the background made me feel really old. He outgrew that bike a loooong time ago.
It’s true what they say; you blink your eyes when they are toddlers and the next thing you know they’re asking to borrow the car.
[quote]The_Jed wrote:
Wow…looking and the little maniac in the background made me feel really old. He outgrew that bike a loooong time ago.
It’s true what they say; you blink your eyes when they are toddlers and the next thing you know they’re asking to borrow the car.[/quote]
I had that exact feeling when I posted it this morning. So little, and so much less attitude.
/threadjack
This is a weight lifting and motorcycle thread and you two are making me sick to my stomach, ya I got a whiney kid, and a bitchy wife, and I’m on line trying to forget about that, so stop pretending like you two like each other, we’ve all been married, and we all know thats bullshit, and if it is true, then your just rubbing our face’s in it.
My son’s 20 this year, and I’m still trying to figure out how that happened, had a baby, got drunk, woke up and he was 20, fuck !
Trying a little harder to be present this time around, and enjoy the whole process a little more, but I don’t remember my son being this whiney, mabey it’s a girl thing, or the whole being spoiled thing. It’s funny, my son practicaly had to raise himself, because of my substance abuse issue’s at the time, and he turned out to be a straight A student ‘’ perfect kid ‘’ This time around I’m sober, since my daughter was born, I give her every little thing she wants, my whole life’s about her, and she’s alittle fucking monster. Trying to figure out this whole parenting thing, and it almost seems, as with women, the worse you treat them, the better they are.
Life’s fucked up, just like with lifting, the harder you try, the more dificult it seems. mabey I should relax, and try emskee’s method’s, only lifting, and parenting twice a week. Anyway thats my morning rant, off to the school bus, so I can have some peace and quiet. Later
[quote]AnytimeJake wrote:
Life’s fucked up, just like with lifting, the harder you try, the more dificult it seems.
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It is more difficult the more you try. That’s because the people who try are the one’s keeping this planet running for all the fucks who just hang on and go “weeeeeeeee”.
I’m thinking about starting a ‘‘Putin’’ fan club, got a respect a guy with balls that big, making all the other world leader’s look like little girls, thats fuckin awesome, sorry to go off topic, just watching the news, it’s usually depressing, but now I got someone to cheer for
[quote]AnytimeJake wrote:
I’m thinking about starting a ‘‘Putin’’ fan club, got a respect a guy with balls that big, making all the other world leader’s look like little girls, thats fuckin awesome, sorry to go off topic, just watching the news, it’s usually depressing, but now I got someone to cheer for :)[/quote]
1.) Powerlifting
2.) Bikes
3.) Putin
check…
[quote]emskee wrote:
1.) Powerlifting
2.) Bikes
3.) Putin
check…[/quote]
4.) Disgusting couples who actually like each other
