How many of you know people who know how to spot correctly?When I ask somebody in the gym to spot me while max benching it's only because I need somebody to lift the weigt of my chest when I maxed out... I have no faith in anybody "catching" the weight if it slips.
It's called a suicide grip for a reason! It'll make your nuts shake everytime going thumbless! I've seen a few near misses in my local gym already. Guys see me using it so they try it and bounce the bar around all in the cage and shit. I tell them to either use their thumbs because their lil bitch hands are too small to do it well enough or chalk up and ignore the no chalk sign if they think it's more comfortable.
i'm so used to going thumbless that i wouldn't know how to train wrapping my thumbs around.
They make the cage and the smith machine for this very reason. You can go balls out without worrying about a spotter.
First thing like all of you have already said Thumbless is very very dangerous. So why use it when doing that kind of weight. My guesstimation is that was around 300 pounds, my God you know that hurt!!! But the blame is not all on the kid, the spotter was fucking pathetic!!! The first thing he does on the first hand off is throw his damn hands in the air. WTF is that about? And then on the second the stupid fuck does it again, looks like a highschool gym and he is prolly there strength coach, NICE real FUKK'n Nice!!! Stupid fukks like him piss me off badly!!!!
i would have thought you were a thumbless grip guy, Mike.
they're both douchebags.
I prefer the "thumb's up" grip where you keep the thumbs running along the barI think I saw Ronnie doing it once . . .
