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That is cool, Den. I wish the OTBS was still thing. I always dreamed of going when I was a pup, and now it is gone.
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Glad you are back, Dave. I am not much good with them either…

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Was a fun meet! Thanks to all who came out to compete.
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Going to be cool tomorrow. Wear what you need to wear between attempts, but we will be enforcing USAWA dress code tomorrow.

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Got some of the awards today. They came out pretty cool. The rest are supposed to be here Monday. Lineup is final:

Dean Ross
Lance Foster
Eric Todd
Chad Ullum
Greg Cook
Dave Deforest
Dave Hahn

Going to be a good one
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HAHA! You get my vote!
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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.

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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?
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You joke, but perhaps you are right…

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I am opposed to doing anything retroactively. That would be a huge amount of leg work, and not even feasible, I doubt, unless one kept every issue of Clark’s newsletter.

I'm the lyrical Jesse James

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Awards are in. look pretty keen

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Hey SJ, is there any reason NOT to merely use the grid only, and not use the spreadsheet? I guess that would potentially make tracking the century club much more difficult perhaps?

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Thank you so much Al. Appreciate all of you effort over the years, and you tolerance for my incessant questions. Enjoy retirement (LOL)
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Well Al, you are correct. I truly had no idea how much work this entails. Maybe creating a standardized method for results reporting would be a start. SJ, do you have an idea of what that would look like? At first, if we were not doing so retroactively, I thought “well, why not?” After reading al and SJs posts (both gentlemen who have done the job) I am quite hesitant to do anything that would add to the job.

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Dan-
Are you suggesting adding the senior level to the rulebook without eliminating the open? I am not sure how we would go about doing this retroactively. I, personally was more about winning meets than setting records, but I do get the allure of it.
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