Let’s keep it going. Confess away. Couldn’t sleep last night and dug through some old classic threads. I confess that I am actually curious to where Professor X is this days. Trolling up another forum? Mastering his lunges? Who knows.

Nope. Wasnt even mentioned in the lifters’ brief. PL rules are any contact of bar with bench structure at any point as far as I’m aware, and of feet likewise. The novice rules are close, I guess that’s why they have them. The funny thing was, the judges were super vigilant on butt coming off bench.…

Yer feet is also in the novice rules here. Weird they called a little but lift and not this. Go figure !!

I have mix feelings In novice divisions when free passes are given.

My feelings about it aren’t mixed. It’s a disservice to the lifter and the sport.

Surely the question is whether it was in the rules or not. The issue then is with the rules themselves not the judging.

IPF changed their rules a few years ago i think, now they say “Deliberate contact between the bar and the bar rests support” is reason for disqualification of a bench attempt. I like it this way, as others said, typically touching the rack makes it harder to finish the lift.

[image] Frank_C: I’ve never been assisted by hitting the rack. The result is quite the opposite Much like hitching a dead or a loading event, you can press the bar into the rack, regroup/rest and then reattack the press.

When I’m dieting or cutting I like to play little will power games with myself, “I’m hungry, but I’ll bet I can push this meal out another 30 minutes, if you can make it 30, you can make it another 15.” Really does kill time, surprisingly.

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But why is that a rule? I’ve never been assisted by hitting the rack. The result is quite the opposite.

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