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Glad to hear the nomination count is strong

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Al-missed having you there.

Thom-as always, great to see you!

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Missed you Den. See you next month!

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I remember my first strength meet was the show me games. was supposed to do push/pull, but sprained my ankle, so did bench only. The guy who I was training with at the time was a former national level USAPL lifter, and he was surprised by the inordinate amount of time it took for me to get the press command. I guess this was a lesson for me in attending any of Clarks meets. On the flip side of the coin, I had been asked for a few years to officiate a high school powerlifting meet. They always put me on squats. Lots of kids bombed out for depth (and many of those were Kearney kids). The head coach told me he loved having me there, as kids would get to experience what national judging would be. a couple months later at a track meet a kid told me I made lots of kids mad at that meet. What did they want, a gift?!?!? I have always tried to be fair, but ere on the side of the lifter. Walk the fine line between being Johnny red light and Johnny green light. Aint going to please everybody, just do the best that we can…

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Sounds like a fun day, Abe. KCSTRONGMAN did our lifts that same day. Me, Lance, big Leroy, Stacy and the kids all participated. The kids were the most impressive. Phoebe has some slick technique. much slicker than her old man…

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I can see where you guys are coming from in limiting the number of lifts at a record day. Like Thom said, we have lifts with few records in them at all, and certainly holes in our record list. I do wish you guys could understand the amount of work our record’s director has to put in to keep our list current. I am overwhelmed at times with my part in it, which I am sure is minimal compared to the work Johnny has put in. It is not infrequently that I get communication about mistakes (whether it be on our end or that of the meet promoter) that we have to fix. And please do not mistake this as complaining, because I absolutely think it is important for the organization, and the lifters in general that we keep our records accurately. I can imagine what it would be like to have trained to achieve something like that, only to not be credited with it. I know that when Al was records director, I contacted him more than once about errors I identified. Allowing unlimited amount of records on records days would certainly overload our director, and would potentially lend itself o further mistakes using the current method we have. I would be opposed to going back unless there was a method by which to streamline the process (say someone figured out how to automatically update a records list from posted results and such).

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You know, Randy, i forgot all about that picture. i should watch it myself, as I also never have.

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Thanks Denjamin!

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200 pound plates? Think I would want to leave those on as base weight. Those would be fun to move around multiple times a workout…

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I just had the local metal fabrication shop weld me up a couple ends to bolt to a couple 2x4s. Will see if I can find any pictures.

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The picture looks like the old Tom Tyan of all-round fame. Must be a trick

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Here is that link, Randy:
https://www.reddit.com/r/weightroom/comments/t9ncr4/the_odd_the_old_and_the_original_a_case_for/

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Thom, on your number 3, I think it is a tricky line to walk to stay true to our roots, but also interest new lifters in giving it a shot. I know the whole knee sleeve debate years ago was a pretty heated one with very strong opinions on both sides.

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It was something that was posted on Facebook. That is about all I have seen about it, so maybe it is make believe?

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Thanks Den!
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