After watching the side view video a few more times I take back what I said earlier, it looks like he cut it right on the borderline which while technically not depth and wouldn’t pass with stricter judging it’s close enough considering a lot of other squats that pass. They should have shown the side view at the time of that lift because a lot of people online (and not just retarded social media trolls) were complaining that it was high, and from the front it definitely does look much higher than it is.
And yeah you can’t really judge squat depth from the front but sometimes it’s obvious that it’s high. Here, his proportions are a bit unusual so it throws things off.
These squat depth debates are worse than partisan politics.
Every squat world record should come with a side view vid. Everyone has a phone/camera these days. Side judges can still judge just need to film at the same time and review footage with they want.
I wouldn’t go that far, but for the questionable ones it’s definitely a good idea. Or film all lifts from the side and let the judges double check if there is any doubt. A lot of good lifts have gotten red lights and a lot of shitty ones have passed.
Yury and Ashton will both compete tomorrow at different meets. Assuming (and very likely) they are in the same weight class i.e. 100/110 kg, who would you think will have a higher total? My prediction is 340/235/430 for Yury and 360/220/390 for Ashton
Rouska result for those that don’t want to look it up 793/457/844, looked pretty easy. I wonder where he missed a lift. For the KG people 360/207.5/383 for 950.5 https://www.instagram.com/p/CHlj29SghyR/
His squat looks like he has at least another 50lbs in him, that’s ridiculous at that weight. If he bulked up a bit and cut to 242 he could break Oak’s squat record.
He’s still a junior too apparently. Either he’s going to become the greatest lifter of all time or fail a drug test, or maybe both. Some guys out there are so strong it doesn’t even make sense anymore.
He only competed deadlift only and managed to break the 242/110 deadlift ATWR with his first deadlift attempt @ 981/445. https://www.instagram.com/p/CHnjoKQqnju/
He kept failing anything close to a WR deadlift in meets so maybe this was also to help him get over that issue and build some confidence. Failing over and over can mess with your head.
After he hit the 440kg on the phat bumpers he had like 2 DL only meets where he missed 461kg. Don’t really hear about that at all but ye must be a boost to confidence to get things moving again and in the gym too albeit with a deadlift bar loaded right to the end.
As a big follower of Yury, I’m quite certain he didn’t do any sanctioned deadlift-only meets since WRPF World 2017 where he pulled 440 kg, until last weekend. In 2018 & 2019, he competed at the Us Open (twice), Boss of bosses (twice), the Tribute (once), Big Dogs (once), and WRPF World 2018. He competed full power in all of them, winning every meet, except for Big Dog (podium finish) and the Tribute (not much preplan).