If you drop the bar, i.e. let go of it at the top and let it fall unimpeded from the top without your hands on it to guide the descent, you are being a histrionic fool. This is disrespectful of the gym and its equipment, and lazy to boot.
If you drop the bar, i.e. let go of it at the top and let it fall unimpeded from the top without your hands on it to guide the descent, you are being a histrionic fool. This is disrespectful of the gym and its equipment, and lazy to boot.
It's not enough to just drop the bar after a deadlift/clean/snatch/jerk.
What you want to do is actually throw it down so it makes as much noise as possible, so everyone turns around at the noise to see just how terribly strong you are.
Now that's elite.
Damnit Rip for once would you stop equivocating and give a clear answer? Reading between the lines here I am going to go with "don't drop the bar".
I don't think Rip is telling you NOT to drop the bar, he's just saying you're an obnoxious, disrespectful bastard if you do. The choice is yours, just as it's the gym owners choice to kick you the hell out of his premises.