[quote]rrjc5488 wrote:
WhiteFlash wrote:
First off, I meant to write 25%. Guess I hit the wrong key.
Who the fuck cares how much you get out of them? If you lift in a geared competition, every lifter has the opportunity to wear the same gear.
Secondly dickhead, that’s not a “sweet tribal armband tattoo”, it’s my deceased sister and grandmothers names.
My bad.
I’m not butt-hurt at all that people can hit more in gear.
You certainly seem like it.
I’m impressed with anyone who handles over 800lbs in anything in any fashion.
Then say “wow, that’s impressive.” NOT “Wow, that’s impressive, but the gear… ehhhh”
I just think relying so much on gear or attentive spotters is playing with fire.
Like I said, that’s what you think. And well, it’s a pretty pussified opinion. In my opinion, of course.
Why don’t you stop worrying about what YOU think is safe/unsafe for OTHER LIFTERS who want to lift in gear? Every powerlifter who competes knows full well something could go wrong under any amount of weight, regardless of what gear they’re wearing or not wearing.
You ask what my point is about the wr bench/dead comparison? I already expressed my point moron.
Your point is that the WR bench is bigger than the WR deadlift? That’s it?
It’s that the gear is getting out of hand. The nascar/sprinter comparison makes total sense, you’re just too fucking defensive to acknowledge it.
No, it’s a stupid fucking comparison because there aren’t races where 100m sprinters race against nascar race cars in official, governed competitions. There ARE races between 100m sprinters in sneakers and 100m sprinters in spikes. Check out any HS level meet. Not everyone wears them, but they have the option to.
On a more relevant note, there are competitions between geared lifters and other geared lifters, as there are competitions between raw lifters and other raw lifters. OP decided to lift in an equipped meet and lost because he was competing raw. The others weren’t cheating, they were well within the rules. I mean, fuck, was he expecting to win a geared competition raw?
And, if you don’t believe me about the origin of the bench shirt, look it up.
First of all, I never said you were wrong. Secondly, I don’t give a flying fuck about the origin of the bench shirt. It’s evolved to what it is today.
The origin of the automobile was to get from point A to point B quickly. Now we have 250+ mph cars. Are you going to complain about those, too?
Have you ever even competed in a meet? Why don’t you just let the people who do compete and govern the sport decide “what’s getting out of hand,” instead of sitting behind your computer desk and making that decision for us. Fuck, maybe PL equipment will get so out of hand that we’ll all get hurt and die from it. There’ll be less of us to have this argument with you.[/quote]
First off, thanks for apologizing about the tat thing. It probably seems otherwise, but I’m not against gear at all. I’ve yet to use [and honestly probably never will] but I understand the time and work that goes into getting technique down so you get something out of it, and the balls it takes to get under that much more weight. I just think there reaches a point where the lifter has to ask him/herself if the risk is worth the reward. But, you’re right. That’s entirely dependant on each individual lifetr and I guess I don’t get it. Good luck with the pl’ing everybody.
