Thread of awesome

**hbriem** · 10-16-2011, 07:45 AM

Originally Posted by Callador

Nah. I have faith you could hold your own at the Power Pit! :-) Actually, I was suprised how much that one guy was getting out of his single ply Katana shirt. It had a closed back and everything. Some of the single ply stuff must be getting pretty good.

No kidding! The IPF world record, single ply, is 752 lbs, so he's 65 pounds over the world record.

**Tamara Reynolds** · 10-16-2011, 07:51 AM

Originally Posted by skipbeat

I always wondered why anybody would choose weightlifting over powerlifting. Than I thought a little harder, and weightlifters actually throw weights around, whereas powerlifters move larger weights very slowly. That earned WL a few points in my book. Plus, I'm pretty sure you can jerk a higher weight than one could press, and possibly push press, but then again my knowledge is.. non-existant.

Wow, maybe this could have went unsaid, reading it over.

You're funny.

I personally think that Klokov is reason enough for anyone to choose Olympic weightlifting, but I'm biased.

How about:

**Les Hahn** · 10-16-2011, 08:26 AM

Originally Posted by hbriem

No kidding! The IPF world record, single ply, is 752 lbs, so he's 65 pounds over the world record.

It was off a 2 board though. I have the video in my log, check it out. There were some strong guys/gals there. His shirt was funny, it said "Titan Katana" and then it had a little symbol below it that said "IPF Approved" on it.

**hbriem** · 10-16-2011, 09:06 AM

Pretty much all my teammates use Titan Katanas now.

**Les Hahn** · 10-16-2011, 09:36 AM

Originally Posted by hbriem

Pretty much all my teammates use Titan Katanas now.

Yeah, it seems like a real solid single-ply shirt. Is it hard to get that shirt over the head?

**hbriem** · 10-16-2011, 10:05 AM

From what I've seen, the difficulty lies not so much in getting it over the head as getting the sleeves up. That's very hard and requires iron fingers and a lot of sweaty work.

**skipbeat** · 10-16-2011, 10:14 AM

Originally Posted by TBone

You're funny.

I personally think that Klokov is reason enough for anyone to choose Olympic weightlifting, but I'm biased.

How about:
(video)

I like the konstanovs (sp) guy with the distended abs. I've never seen him lift, he just looks manly as hell.

That video was impressive. He actually made the split look manly there at the end. I think that might be a first in my book, heh. *runs* Any reason why he squats sooooo low?