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Sad State of Powerlifting II: Get Low!

wrestler125 Posts: 4,619 Joined: 2004/01/27	2005/08/18, 03:24 PM I recently saw a video of a 1005lb squat. The guy suits up, gets under the bar, unracks, and squats down, missing parallel by a couple of inches, and comes up. I am sitting there thinking, what a shame, all that for nothing, when it becomes apparent that he just got 3 green lights. In the squat, an inch is a mile, and those last few inches in the hole often make or break a squat. It is not acceptable for a powerlifter to not even REACH parallel let alone break it, and then call it a record breaking squat. If someone wants to see a real 1000lb squat, check out a video of Shane Hammon before he started doing Olympic lifting, or of Captain Kirk when he was still competing. That is deep. Some people call it a half squat, I call it half a squat. Why not just have a quarter squat or lockout contest? -------------- The best feeling in the world is the feeling you get after a tough set of squats after you step back from the power rack and throw up all over the floor.
wrestler125 Posts: 4,619 Joined: 2004/01/27	2005/08/18, 03:26 PM Here’s one of Shane’s 925lb squats. http://www.irongame.com/videos/20021117/shanehammond925@319.rm -------------- The best feeling in the world is the feeling you get after a tough set of squats after you step back from the power rack and throw up all over the floor.