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Sounds like some outstanding lifting, Abe! We did ours back in August the same day we did the world Postal. Is the reverse snatch just a regular snatch with your grip facing the opposite way?
ET

Hey Abe, that’s some awesome lifting. If watching you wasn’t like giving Bill a caffeine injection, nothing will wake that boy up.

Sorry to hear about the stiff-leg DL. I had a Forum discussion about how horrible a lift it is a few years back. You felt what every exercise physiologist and functional anatomist knows—DON’T DEADLIFT THAT WAY! I have to admit that it bothers me deeply when I hear/read things like your story because it just doesn’t have to be that way. If there has ever been a lift that all-round should retire it’s that one, followed by the good morning (at least the way the rules read it must be executed—EXECUTE THAT MOTHER, TOO!).

Thanks for sharing and I hope your injury will heal quickly so that you can continue to set new records.

Hope your knee heals quickly as well.

Most of the lifts I would like to see gone are due to their silliness factor. Lifts like the Steinborn and Zercher are part of what makes all-round all-round, but there is certainly an element of danger to both of them. Probably the closest I came to see someone die or sustain SERIOUS injury on a lift was on the Travis lift, when they almost pulled around 1200 pounds over on themselves (if memory serves). I believe that lift is named after the great Warren Lincoln Travis, who was a true all-rounder. I dislike the silly lifts such as combine a hodgepodge of different lifts to name after someone. Or anything where you wear a plate on your head. Might as well lift in a jester costume… Or a lift like the inman mile, which has never actually been done, so it can truly not have any records, since no one has actually completed a mile as such. It is not called the inman 200 yards.

Geeez ET, thanks for nothing!

I’ve been giving some thought to the Wagman-Todd lift where you combine the multiple Wagman lifts with the multiple Todd lifts…