IDFPA Single Lifts

COH wrote: »

Any results?

You c*nt. I was opening this hoping you were giving results.

http://www.idfpa.plus.com/Irish_Single_Lifts_2012.pdf

I see Anto only got pipped because he didn't play it safe and chase another medal. Fair Play to him for attempting to pull the trigger on something huge!!

Nervous Wreck wrote: »

Squatted 210 and benched 160. I didn't see them but the deadlift really was great to see. Made it look easy.

Dammit.. I was hoping he’d at least have a sh*t bench with a good DL.

daveyc21 wrote: »

Normally I wouldn't bother but this is a thinly veiled attempt to belittle Rob's achievement in the single lifts because he is a member of Ironside. I'm not trying to play down Anthony's talent he is a super lifter and of course I admire him going for the 302.5kg record but that 285kg was clearly supposed to get him the medal. Even by his standards it wasn't a modest opener. I'm sure on the day Anthony could have beaten him but he didn't on the day and I think this is a testament to Rob rather a blot against Anthony.

Dave, please keep that tinfoil hat on. Any lad pulling 285 as a 20 year old at that weight has my respect and envy.

Its also hypocritical that someone who has referred to himself as one of Ireland's top young powerlifters on boards in his first competition at the same age and in the same weight class as Rob lifted nearly 100kg less yet can't recognise how significant the lift was.

Where did I say it was insignificant? But thanks for trying to paint me as the bad guy. And I didn’t lift in my first comp at that age, or weight. But hey, if you’re gonna try and paint me as something I’m not, may as well go at it with both barrels.

The fact is that Rob has buckets more athletic ability than you, me or pretty much anyone else in the population. He doesn't take his training too seriously yet is under 10% bodyfat all year round, runs a sub 11 second 100m squats mid 200's deadlifts close to 300 benches around 150, has a 58" box jump and can do burpee backflips of all things!

That’s brilliant. He’s obviously a very talented lad. There’s few fantastically talented lifters and athletes knocking about at the moment.

Nervous Wreck wrote: »

Just on this part, I don't really know Anthony but I've seen him train in Raw plenty and I genuinely don't think that's true. Especially recently, I've seen him lift huge numbers and I'm pretty sure he was aiming to just outdo himself more than anything else.

I would have said this tbh. I won’t speak for him but I know he’s pulled significantly more than that in competition and probably didn’t just want to play it safe for a medal.

daveyc21 wrote: »

I dont pretend to know what Anthony was thinking but in general if your specifically targeting a record especially a world record you generally wouldnt lift 93% of it as your opener. Taking James Hickey as an example. He pulled that 320kg world record as his second attempt the same attempt as Anthony. His opener was 280kg. I did reasonably the same when going for my world record. I pulled 220 as my opener and 242.5 as my record attempt. My thoughts would be and again I'm not saying your argument is any less plausible is that Anthony had a look at the openers and who was there and said right 285 to win it and then 302.5 for the record (which was impressively close btw). Could be completely wrong and wait to stand corrected!

Or maybe he wanted to have a reasonable jump to the record attempt. Maybe he didn’t want to waste energy warming up and take his last warm up on the platform, maybe there’s a million and one different reasons for it. Would you disagree that 7% between attempts is a reasonable jump to make? We’ve all seen Anto smash 290+. I’m sure 285 wouldn’t normally kill him. Maybe the long day played into it. Maybe, maybe, maybe.

Skull wrote: »

You posted the results.

I did, but I didn’t fully examine them or commit the results to memory.

gymfreak wrote: »

I find this whole 'record' obsession really really odd. I'm ALL for PRs...absolutely LOVE beating MY numbers..but really couldn't care less about records. Reason being, that there are faaaar too many powerlifting federations out there..which creates faaar too many records...which means that generally the records for each federation are going to be mainly different numbers cos of different members...which means...essentially a WR isn't really a WR if someone else can lift heavier???? Makes absolutely no sense to me!

Hell, if I wanted I could run around all the feds and see how many records I could clock up myself. Thing is..cos there are hardly any girls competing, it's pretty damn easy to get a record...so one really needs to be realistic...just cos you have a WR it really means F all..Anto is right..it's all about getting stronger, beating your own PRs and not getting hung up on this whole record malark. That's why I'm absolutely shocked how this thread blew up..and that Anto had to come on and kinda 'explain' his bad day when it really is none of our business'.


/Rant over...I apologise

You're like a little mini me. So proud.

You've pretty much nailed the difference between the actual lifters and the glory hunters.

The records and all that are nice, but the talent pool is so shallow that a lot of the time it's not actually representative of any real standard. There's literally hundreds if not thousands of lifters out there worldwide capable of breaking the "world" records people celebrate. Anyone claiming to be the best in the world in that situation and using it to boast is pretty pathetic and is srsly lacking in perspective IMO.

And before anyone starts bitching, you can f*ck off. I've dedicated more time and effort, and given up more than over 99% of the population posting on here for PL. I've been moderately successful competing, and done an ok job coaching so far, and have done as much as possible online to make the sport more popular in Ireland, even if that wasn't a lot.

I've perspective here so before ppl start accusing me of cheapening others accomplishments, get over yourself. I respect anyone with the guts to train and get on the Platform. I do not respect ppl who cherry pick events and records to be a legend in their own back yard.

I care about it and where it's going as a legitimate sport, not somewhere for pumped up trainers to write cool things about their athletes records on their website, and if anyone doesn't like it, they can kiss my ass because I've seen how its gone in the last 7 years and it's only getting worse.

And believe it or not, I do love PL and am not specifically talking about Ironside or any individual lifter above. If I wanted to call out anyone specifically, I would. Anyone posting here more than a week knows that. And for those who still choose just not to believe me, Please review the "kiss my ass comment" above.