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Getbig Main Boards => Gossip & Opinions => Topic started by: Matt on November 27, 2020, 11:34:22 AM
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I'm just posting this because I noticed a few things:
[1] Who is Kevin Oak? Never heard of him. It's amazing that there are lifters out there these days lifting this type of weight who aren't even widely known.
[2] Covidiots wearing face diapers. I had the police threatened on me yesterday at Indigo/Chapters [a big chain bookstore in Canada] for refusing to wear a mask, including the ones they provide customers. When the female security guard came back to talk to me after "going to call the police", she once again threatened to call the police, LOL. I was like "Didn't you just do that?" How many Getbiggers are talking a big talk about standing up for your rights regarding COVID, but doing nothing? I would rather GO TO JAIL than to live in the type of society that will happen if we continue on this road to economic destruction caused by COVID measures.
[3] Could that spotter be any more useless?
[4] It looks like some partial block of wood on the ground to the left was impeding the useless spotter from doing nothing anyway. He would have probably done nothing anyway, but without having this path blocked.
[5] That wooden junk to the left deserves its own thread "Blocks Your Path".
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He's a #242 lifter that runs a gym in New York. To be fair to the guy who ran over, Oak squats out of the rack with no spotters at all a fair amount, so everyone probably just thought it was just another day. He's almost a #1000 squatter in comp. The wooden thing looks like a heel elevator for squats or a slant board.
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Needs more Jeffries tull
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He's a #242 lifter that runs a gym in New York. To be fair to the guy who ran over, Oak squats out of the rack with no spotters at all a fair amount, so everyone probably just thought it was just another day. He's almost a #1000 squatter in comp. The wooden thing looks like a heel elevator for squats or a slant board.
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Very impressive knee-grow lifter!
I agree with you about the spotter - he was jut a bystander to the situation, and did at least attempt to do something about spotting the squat.
When I see people lift weight like that, I keep an eye out, and I do intervene if I think the situation could be dangerous, or definitely is already dangerous. And I'm pretty good at making quick decisions in those situations, but it would be unfair to expect any given bystander to be the same way. I have a lot of experience in the gym in situations like this, and I generally don't have blocks of wood blocking my path.
I think you're right about it being a slant board! I've seen them before, and it just so happened to be in a bad spot at the time, in addition to the squat rack being too high in the first place. This was bound to happen, given all that.
That being said, 800-lb is NEVER to be taken lightly. Even if the spotter who came to Oak's aid saw him do that same lift dozens of times before, he should have taken what was happening more seriously, despite being impeded by that slant board. When he came up to help rerack the weight, he wasn't even using both of his arms, and not even the full strength of the one arm he was using. You could do that if the weight was maybe 225-lb, but that's about it. Again, I just don't think he took it seriously.
I guess 800-lb is light weight for Oak, so the spotter didn't think much about it. Combined with the slant board being in his way, which didn't help either. But regardless, he didn't really try at all there.
Oh well - on the plus side, no one was hard [hopefully, the bar wasn't hurt/bent either].
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Strong dude no doubt.Like I always say the strongest guy isn’t famous for being strong and the toughest guy isn’t fighting on tv.Most don’t have the connections to do such things and a lot don’t care about fame. So you never really see the best of the best you just see the best of famous people in a certain arena.
Good for you not wearing the mask. I wear mine in every store cause if a someone says shit to me I’m just gonna haul off and smash them so I’ll avoid the security starting with me. But when I’m walking or just outside I won’t wear one but everyone I see walking is wearing one and driving their cars too that’s weird shit. Also I don’t want to get it again so I think mask in public stores is no big deal.