Sanjiv Gupta
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Looks like the dual venue option worked really well. 13 lifters is a great turnout and should keep the tradition of chain lifting alive for the future. There were plenty of records broken with Jessica and Chad competing in lighter weight classes. Impressive performances by all.
Congratulations to Ben Edwards for winning the USAWA Grip Championship! Full results will be posted on the website.
Good luck to all of the athletes in the USAWA Heavy Lift Championships! I am excited to read the meet report with the dual venue.
If you do make it down, you should definitely compete in the grip competition in addition to the push/pull. I was surprised at how many of the other events had some pretty decent prize pools (between $1000 and $5000).
I would love to get out to Louisville for this event sooner rather than later. I am not particularly concerned with the big brands (Rep, Rogue, Titan), but love the smaller players like Belt Fed Strength, Arm Assassin Strength Shop, Darko Lifting, Bearfoot Shoes, Mutant Metals, etc.
However, like you I should probably be getting rid of things.
I thought I could do a Turkish Get Up until the load got heavy. After Dino Gym (10/10) and Ledaig (7/10), Habecker’s (5/10) had competed in the most club championships. Hopefully your club can be on the platform next year!
Congratulations to Clark’s Championship Gym for winning the 2025 Club Championship!
I could set up the Bavarian Deadlift for you. My set up is a little sketchy as I set up 12 inch plyo boxes on stall mats. The loading pin and 1″ handle is safe enough, but as you go heavy in a sumo stance elevated on blocks that are not bolted to the floor you can see the potential for hamstring/groin injuries if anything shifts.
The Nemesis grips “fat dumbbells” have a full 2.5″ diameter and take standard axle bar collars. I do not see this size on their website anymore. The handles take chalk very well and I expect records to be broken.
The FBBC Final Form V-Bar does not take chalk as well as it is unfinished steel. In a few more years with some seasoning I think that will improve. Expect your lifts to be lower than they would be with 1.9″ pipe or other painted implements.
For those who may be wondering about implements:
Pinch Grip, Strict – Will use 1980’s York Plates
Deadlift, Inch DB – Will used Nemesis Grips loadable Inch dumbbell handle
Vertical Bar, 1 Bar, 2″ – Will use custom height Fat Bastard Barbell Company Final Form V-bar
Hack Lift Fulton Bar – Will use IronMind Apollon’s AxleHope everybody’s training is going well.
Wow, this is get is getting exciting. I was afraid that it would just be Kim, Jarrod, Nisha and myself. Then Ben reached out and I took a sigh of relief. With Denny throwing down, this is going to become a fun championship. If we get a few more people, I will be thrilled to find a larger venue.
Congratulations to the Ed Zercher Memorial Strength Classic Lifters. All of the lifters put up some really good numbers whether they completed 1 lift or all 13 lifts. While Jeff Wenzel did have the highest absolute total (6972 pounds), I calculated Nick Frieders having the better total by age adjusted Lynch (6175 vs 5653 pounds) and the fewest point by reverse strongman scoring (20 vs 26 points).
The reverse strongman storing gets interesting since not all lifters completed all of the lifts. I choose to have everybody who did not perform the lift tie. In the case of the harness lift, 3 of the 8 men did not complete the lift and therefore 6th, 7th and 8th would tie and all get 7 points. 1st through 3rd were the same as the top 3 men by age adjusted Lynch also that the fewest point by reverse strongman. Nick Frieders had 8 1st place lifts and Nick’s “worst” lift was the Neck Lift which Dave DeForest dominated with a 350 pound lift.
I love to see meet directors continue to test different scoring systems, especially when the Harness Lift (1st=1502, 3rd=1150 pounds; difference 352 pounds) are tested on the same platform as the Clean & Press, Heels Together (1st=180 pounds, 3rd=125 pounds). Another idea would be % of max. If first place had a 1000 age adjusted lynch they would get 100 points for that lift, if second place had a 900 age adjusted lynch they would get 90 points.
However Bill did state that there was more “pressure put on the scorer” which is already a tough job.
Love all of the comments regarding Championship Events. Also great to see that Nationals, Postal, Grip, OTSM and Presidential Cup have already been scheduled. Hopefully, we can have a Heavy Lift, Club and Team Championship in some form or maybe even a different championship event proposed.
Lift choice is an interesting rabbit hole. As I was researching the National Championships, it has been a 1-2 day event with 5-10 lifts including cleans, presses, snatches, deadlifts, squats, misc lifts, dumbbell lifts, Fulton bar lifts, Heavy Lifts and Special Equipment Lifts. Surprisingly OTSM lifts have never been in the National Championship. Part of the reason is that they were only introduced in 2011 and meet directors often choose to do repeat lifts.
Meet Directors propose lifts and those are approved by the Executive Board. I think that is a nice check and balance so our National Champions are not decided by the Back Lift, French Press and Lano Lift. There is also a fairness to the National Championship moving around the country and being promoted by different Meet Directors. Future events could be all squats, all misc lifts or anything else, but they will have be approved by the Executive Board which has traditional been pretty open to whatever meet directors propose. To date 61 different lifts have been part of the National Championship.
To help your negotiations, any registered athletes with the last name Edwards, can stay for dinner
I will be hosting the Grip Championship in Denver on May 3. Hopefully we can get a good turnout from Kansas and the rest of the country!
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Pinch Grip, Strict
Deadlift, Inch Dumbbell
Vertical Bar, 1 Bar, 2″
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