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Heavy Lift Championships

By Eric Todd. USAWA Secretary/Treasurer

Dave Hahn performing a Hand and Thigh lift at the 2018 USAWA Heavy Lift Championships.

Dave Hahn performing a Hand and Thigh lift at the 2018 USAWA Heavy Lift Championships.

In an effort to not go 2 years without a heavy lift championship, we will be holding this years Heavy Lift Championship in the fall this year.  We will hopefully move back to May for next year.  So, here we go.

Date: November 13, 2021

Place: ET’s House of Iron and Stone

Events: Neck Lift, Hand and Thigh, Hip Lift

Awards: Yes

THIS WILL BE A DRUG TESTED EVENT.  For anyone who does not feel broken after doing the heavy lifts, we can do some record breaking after the event.  This is one of the longest running historic events in the USAWA.  This will be the 3rd time that KCSTRONGMAN has hosted this championship event.  The previous times were 2015 and 2018.  We were scheduled to host in 2020, but that meet had to be cancelled due to the covid pandemic.  So we will host this year instead.  I picture it moving to another territory next year, if anyone else is interested in hosting.  I always add the disclaimer to my meet announcements that we will not be lifting in a pristine facility.  Climate control is an open garage door and windows when it is hot (with an industrial fan that sounds like an airplane in extreme conditions) and wood burning stoves when it is cold.  No running water, so we will have some water available, but feel free to bring you own if you are concerned about running out.  There is an outhouse in the back.  But on the flip side of things we have 24 100 lb plates and boat loads of change to do some massive lifting in the heavy lifts.  I have a hip belt and a neck lift harness that were made for me.  You guys are welcome to use those, or to bring your own if you are more comfortable with that.  This is an opportunity for all of you to lift poundages that are heavier than you realized you had the capacity to lift.  I hope to have a good turnout of heavy hitters. Sign up now so that you can add your name to the list of heavy lift champions to go down for the ages.

Heavy Lift-Entry

Sweet 16/Elite 8

By Bill Clark

What had been planned as a new dimension in all-round competition proved to be a total failure.

Not a single call concerning the unique competition/record day was received, turning the day into a gym meet and assorted other competitions – including the record day.

The knockout meet (Sweet 16/Elite 8) became a normal meet with competition in all four lifts won by John Carter and Janet Thompson.

Final standings:

MEN

1 – JOHN CARTER

Bwt – 216 lbs.
Age – 62.
Jefferson – 350
clean and press (heels together) – 115
Bench press (feet In air) – 180
hip lift – 1810 .
Total – 2,455
Weight and age adjustments – 2,581.01

2 – DAVE DEFOREST

Bwt – 192
Age 61.
Jefferson – 300
clean and press (heels together) – 125
Bench press (feet I n air) – 180
hip lift – 1180.
Total – 1,785.
Adjusted points – 1,988.70.

3 – TONY HOSE

Bwt – 230
Age – 52.
Jefferson – 350
Clean and press heels together) – 180
bench press (feet in air) – 300
Hip lift – 1,005.
Total – 1,855
Adjusted points – 1,805.33.

4– BILL CLARK

Bwt – 207.5
Age 89.
Jefferson – 205
clean and press (heels together) – 0
Bench press (feet in air) – 75
hip lift – 565.
Total – 845
Adjusted points – 1,124.89.

WOMEN

1 – JANET THOMPSON

Bwt – 170
Age 63.
Jefferson – 125
clean press (heels together) – 22
Bench press (feet in air) – 65
Hip lift – 515.
Total – 727
Adjusted points – 922.56.

 

RECORD DAY

JOHN CARTER – Carter lift – 1,200 lbs. (squat 100; hip lift 1,100).

DAVE DEFOREST –
Neck lift – 470
dumbbells clean to shoulder – 132
LH dumbbell cheat curl – 70
LH Thomas Inch  deadlift –  77
Kennedy lift – 405.

OFFICIALS: Dave DeForest and Bill Clark.

 

OTSM FIELD IS SET!!

By Eric Todd, USAWA Secretary/Treasurer

 

Since today was the last day I would be accepting entries, the field of competitors for the Old Time Strongman Championship is set!  9 lifters will duke it out for the title of Old Time Strongman Champion.  Competitors for this year’s championship will be the following:

Clint Poore

Dean Ross

Lance Foster

Greg Cook-

Leroy Todd

Chris Todd

Everett Todd

Phoebe Todd

Eric Todd

It looks like it has the makings of being a good one!

Becoming an Official

Susan Sees performs a Trap Bar Deadlift at the 2016 IAWA Gold Cup in Abilene, KS.

Al Myers dutifully watches on as a certified official while Susan Sees performs a Trap Bar Deadlift at the 2016 IAWA Gold Cup in Abilene, KS.

For many years, the USAWA has had a procedure in place where prospective officials would have to take and pass an exam in order to become a certified official to be eligible to sit in the official’s chair and judge lifts in sanctioned meets.   Then, to prevent individuals from taking and passing the test with out having any real idea of how a meet in conducted, a procedure was implemented by which a probationary official would have to go through a series of three practical training sessions alongside a fully certified official before being a truly certified official who could judge independently of other officials.

While I believe the three practical training sessions was a grand idea to ensure that we have as competent of officials in our organization as possible, I have come to understand that it is perhaps limiting our capacity to grow the organization into new territories.  We have fantastic representation in the Northeast, the Midwest, and the Ohio/Pennsylvania areas.  Any aspiring official would have no problem completing their practical training sessions in any of these areas; however, and one outside of these 3 areas would have to take a vacation like trip on 3 separate occasions in order to complete there certification.

Here I am officiating Lynda Burns at an OTSM Championship

Here I am officiating Lynda Burns at an OTSM Championship

I took this issue to the executive board, and it was determined that we will start allowing individuals to complete their practical training sessions virtually if need be.  As we found out during the pandemic, we can do many things virtually.  We hope that this will allow us to get certified officials in other territories so that they can officiate postals, record days, and other meets.  It would be the responsibility of the prospective official to contact a certified official to set up a time for those practical training sessions via zoom or some other reliable online platform.  This will allow them to discuss procedure, rules of the lifts and what they mean, commands. etc.

So, anyone who has been hesitant to take the official’s exam because they thought they would have to take three cross country trips in order to fulfill their practical training sessions, it is so no more!  Take the test, send it back to Joe to receive your passing mark, then get a hold of one of us to guide you through the practical sessions virtually.  It is as simple as that.

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