Originally Posted by
Zee-man
For the record, putting your feet up on the bench when benching is a pretty common/known technique. It isolates the upper body and removes the driving some people will do with their legs to cheat up the weight. I know this because I used to Bench that way (I don't any longer as I'm following the Technique recommended by Rip). Also, Captain Kirk at the seminar I went to mentioned it, and my father, who used to compete in bench competitions in college (and often won) did them like that quite often.
I think its good to expand ones knowledge of different techniques before claiming everything someone does outside of SS is wrong. Different people have different goals and different methods of achieveing said goals.