Denny Habecker
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It won’t let me create a new topic, so I am asking my question on here. I have a lifter contacting me that wants to lift in the USAWA. He lives in Fort Myers, Florida. Does anyone know if we have any lifters in his area that he could connect with? I told him his only option right now is remote lifting unless he is willing to travel.
This is not on topic, but I was unable to create a new topic.
When did we pass the “BENCH PRESS FOR REPS IN ONE MINUTE” LIFT? i was just lokking at the lastest update of the record list and saw there are records in that.I voted against giving the Canadian lifters full benefits to the USAWA. I am happy to have them as part of the organazation as provisional members, but I feel they should form their own organazation in Canada. Then they could set their own Canadian records and make their own rules and expand the IAWA to another country.
One rule that was passed at the National meeting [allowing form fitting pants or leggings] is going to upset some people when they realize they won’t be able to set an IAWA record without video proof that they did the lift without leggings.
I was going to enter Habecker’s gym in the Club Champs, but I waited too long to decide and it was after the entry deadline. I can’t do a turkish get-up anyway, so that would have put my team at a disadvantage.
I am planning to be there.
Clint, in yuor post about the National Championships you state that the Nationals should have lifts that can be done at local gyms, yet you put the Dinnie lift and the Saxon Deadlift in this year’s Nationals. I don’t have the equipment to train on those lifts, nor has any gym I have trained at in my area, have it either.
I think something like that would give us good exposure, but the cost is the limiting factor. Besides the $1500, each lifter would have the expense of probably 4 nights in a hotel plus food expenses.
The USAWA was founded to keep the Old time lifts, that are rarely done, alive and done the way they were in he past, with no wraps, super suits, bench shirts, and drug free. I think the OTSM lifts are great, but the should be contested at the OTSM Championships or Record days. I agree the National Championships should be the premier event, and if you can only make one event a year, that should be the one. The other championships we have help with their variety, to keep the interst in the sport going. I do not think we have too many championships.
I like a lot of the OTSM lifts but I do not think they should be contested in meet like our National Championships, Because many of the lifts take too long to set up. We used to have a rule that we had to have at least one heavylift in the National Championships. That rule was changed because someone that was exceptional on the heavylifts could win the meet on the strength of one lift. I can see the same thing happening with the OTSM lifts. We have an OTSM Championship every year and the OTSM lifts can be done on Record days or meets like the Hackendinnie.
I agree that we have more than enough lifts. When I was asked to be on the Technical committee, I said I would do it, but I would vote against most new lifts because we had too many already. And that was years ago! I think we should eliminate some lifts that rarely done anyhow, or are just variations of other lifts.
Karen Gardner – November 14, 1958 – July 27, 2023
Karen was a very special friend to all USAWA & IAWA families. She fought an intense battle against Brain cancer, but lost her battle on July 27th. She will always be remembered in our hearts & memories. May God Bless Steve, Jon, Diane, Dom,Grace, James, Zoe, & Sonny. Rest in Peace Karen. I will love you forever.
Judy HabeckerI bend my knees and push the DB’s away from my feet with my legs.
Great article Eric.
Your argument about if we are limiting record days to 5 lifts, then we should limit all meets to five lifts does not make sense. In a meet like the world’s or nationals that has more than 5 lifts, it will rare that someone will set a record in every lift.
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