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I was looking over the last TSC numbers and thinking about the event. I compared everyone’s numbers to there BW. Mike Hanley the winner of the Men’s division weighed in at 173lbs, His numbers were DL 467.5lbs @ 2.7% of BW, 18 pull-ups, Snatched 132 reps equaling 7128lbs and 41xBW. His DL & Snatch were the highest compared to his BW and he did the most pull-ups. Great numbers! However if he weighed as much as the lightest competitor and kept the highest DL & Snatch BW% numbers and the most pull-ups he would have gotten 4’th place. To look at the DL more Justin Qualler (183lbs) DL 1.9xBW@365lbs Steve Pucciarelli (138lbs) DL 2.5xBW@345lbs. Justin got 8’th in DL and Steve got 11’th (he would of gotten 2’nd in DL by BW%). For Justin to get the highest DL number he would have had to DL almost 3.5X his BW. Now lets look at the snatch. We can use Justin & Steve again as an example. Justin snatched 100 that’s 5400lbs@29.5xBW Steve snatched 4428lbs@32xBW. Justin got 9’th place in snatch and Steve got 13’th. So what does this tell us ? Well if you want to do well and win the event it pays to be heaver. The more competitors that you have in competitions that are heavier then you are make it that much harder to win. It pays to be heavier for the DL and the Snatch that’s two out of 3 events. In Training, Samuel A. Jones  

While i neither endorse nor criticize steroid use, except in a drug tested environment, the issue is entirely based, IMHO, on the very strong tendency of our culture to attack anything masculine. Take a breath. Get a Coke. It will get worse. While you get the Coke i will unwrap the foil from under my beanie... On one hand, women can get plastic surgery, take female hormones for youthfull skin or birth control, and can be anything on the scale of extremely feminine to boderline masculinity. Sensitive, new age men, as long as they are skinny and demure, are embraced for their insight, intelligence, and caring. However, if a man displays or pursues classic masculine pursuits, he can quickly become the focus of our cultural scorn. Look at Barry Bonds, Jason Giambi, WPO Powerlifters, Ted Nugent, even President Bush. Bush, politics aside, is critiqued for cutting wood on his ranch and not reading the New York Times. Porqoui? The others have done nothing against their organizations rules, but are vilified for basically being too masculine, too successfull, and enjoying it too much. If a woman can take estrogen, which has known side effects, to improve her quality of life, why can't testosterone be made available to men? I submit it is because our society discourages masculinity. jmo jack  

While i neither endorse nor criticize steroid use, except in a drug tested environment, the issue is entirely based, IMHO, on the very strong tendency of our culture to attack anything masculine. Take a breath. Get a Coke. It will get worse. While you get the Coke i will unwrap the foil from under my beanie... On one hand, women can get plastic surgery, take female hormones for youthfull skin or birth control, and can be anything on the scale of extremely feminine to boderline masculinity. Sensitive, new age men, as long as they are skinny and demure, are embraced for their insight, intelligence, and caring. However, if a man displays or pursues classic masculine pursuits, he can quickly become the focus of our cultural scorn. Look at Barry Bonds, Jason Giambi, WPO Powerlifters, Ted Nugent, even President Bush. Bush, politics aside, is critiqued for cutting wood on his ranch and not reading the New York Times. Porqoui? The others have done nothing against their organizations rules, but are vilified for basically being too masculine, too successfull, and enjoying it too much. If a woman can take estrogen, which has known side effects, to improve her quality of life, why can't testosterone be made available to men? I submit it is because our society discourages masculinity. jmo jack  

Seriously, I'm a little ignorant on this issue here. Is this an "informal" team set up by comrades from this forum and/or workshops? Do you guys enter specific meets? If there are people in my area or near me and there are competitions I would love to tug on some weights. I won't be competing in Olympic lifting until sometime next spring or summer, maybe even later and I need some competition! Thanks for any info. Dano 

5 days ago when called out to prove a Col wrong, demoed Jerks for one minute. Doing somewhat under par in Moscow is an understatement and is neither here nor there. 28 Jerks in 10 minutes when doing doing 35 in 7 was best. Until post Russia, technique needed improvement. (whos didn't) and it always will to some degree. measure a 10 minute Jerk test catered to a one minute through 5 minute Jerk test but I won't start that until feb/mar time frame. Anyways, with no equipment and at the end of a work day did 10 Jerks in one minute rather easily for a demo with no belt. Then proceeded to do it again at another request for 14 in one minute also no equipment(half of 28 in Moscow). Technique has undergone a significant improvement. Anyways its off to deadlifts but there is a plan to do well. Thought about offering a GS seminar(hosting Federenko) but have the audacity to assist or at least host. Thoughts. Public criticism I don't give but don't affront to those who give it esepcially when I ask for it. So give it . BTW, 50 dollars Time: 9:30 through 1:30 Dec 10th Place: 2683 Timberbrooke Place Duluth, GA 30097 Material will include mostly training cycle for powerlifting, GS and TSC(technique). FYI. Marty  

Thanks for the reply. I live in Spokane, WA. I know there's some comrades in Seattle so maybe it would be possible to host a TSC somewhere in Washington(if people are interested). I'd have to get to work on the KB snatches(I could probably get 15 reps each arm w/ 32kg bell w/o any training but thats it) and I'd have to get back on the pull-up bar. The deads wouldn't be a problem. Thanks again, Dano 

I was just curious if the TSC challenge you wrote about a few pages back goes out to senior instructors as well. I have noticed that there are only a few(cotter,lawrence,jones) that actually partake in the fun of friendly competition. These guys have consistently competed whether it be in the TSC or GS. I commend them for that. It would be great to see more participation from the guys who are looked at in high regard and are considered the cream of the crop. If the challenge does not include them I would like to personally invite them to participate on january 7th. It is a great event for all. I had so much fun last TSC. It was pure energy throughout the room with guys like Even-Esh screaming words of encouragement at the same person he was competing against. I am getting chills as I think about that day in September and am getting more excited for the one coming up. Competition IS what keeps me moving foward. Competition has molded my life from an early age and I am grateful to have learned the art of competition at an early age. 

I always thought that there was alot of crossover between the guys here at Dragondoor and the guys at crossfit. It appears now in a recent thread about SF selection at crossfit that Coach Glassman has resorted to personnal insults. Check out what he calls Nate Morrison. I wonder what combat and SF experience Glassman has to start dishing out these type of unfounded insults. http://www.crossfit.com/discus/messages/21/16823.html 

I've recently being using the crossfit WODS as it seems this is the program of choice for people in my line of work (LEO). My problem came when doing high rep deadlifts as part of a WOD. I injured my back! so to the chiropractors I went. He scoulded me for doing high reps and said exercises like the deadlift are safer trained low reps for strength. Has anyone else had this type of problem?Lesson learnt. When I'm better I will stick to 3 to 5 reps PTP style, and high rep KB ballistics, never got hurt doing that and I'm sure I can get as fit as if I was doing the WOD. 

Couple of Posts Down: "which was 3x week practice with DAY 1 80% RM, 40% RM DAY 2 60% RM, 60% RM DAY 3 70% RM, 50% RM Do this for 2 weeks , then take a couple days off - test your max then apply your percentages to your new max and repeat." Questions: 1. Do you have no rest between sets? If not, Suggested time? 2. Can you do other work on the same day? Or simply as above only? 3. Can you do other work inbetween the Days? Im a stickler for working 5-6 days a week. I feel Lazy otherwise. Thanks! Will S 

We have so many bad gym thread I think its about time we take a look at the lighter side of dojos. What are some of the mulletesk experiences you've had with a dojo? What signs have you learned to recognize as a red light telling you to get the hell outta there? Here's a few good ones I learned from my first teacher (worst teacher too) If he's reading a lecture about the art he is teaching you off a paper he printed off the internet. Thats a warning sign. If you look through his martial arts book and 90% of the book is highlighted yup another sign that something isnt right. If he always seems to have something to do when you ask him about his teachers. RUN FOR THE DOOR! Those are a few I've learned to watch out for.