Spotting at it's finest.

[Anglo]

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Coach approved

[MORTALCOIL]

This might have something to do with the fact that the event was held in Texas.

[Anglo]

This might have something to do with the fact that the event was held in Texas.

It was a "world championships"

[MORTALCOIL]

It was a "world championships"

To a texan, sure is a word championship as long as it's held in Texas. Anyway, I doubt they flew in the spotters.

[Simple Simon]

its what happens when people try and lift things that are too heavy for them.

[mass243]

Most of them spotters don't even look like they have ever been in the gym.

[mass243]

Uncle Sam went to local disabled people house and hired spotters by promising them potatoes as compensation.

Painful to look at those twinks. Gay as can be.

[Danimal77]

Most of them spotters don't even look like they have ever been in the gym.

^^^^^^
This

[HTexan]

Most of them spotters don't even look like they have ever been in the gym.

what the fuck happen to the fat Canadian? Why did he start shaking?

[Simple Simon]

so they see these shitty spotters being appointed, what do the coaches and competitors do on the day?
...Fuck all except whine on the internet, they get what they fucking deserve.

[Dokey111]

I think having weak spotters is a good idea, it's more motivation for the lifter ffs

[Meaningless]

IPF care only about money, the kids they had spotting were probably just happy to be off school for the day.

[HTexan]

so they see these shitty spotters being appointed, what do the coaches and competitors do on the day?
...Fuck all except whine on the internet, they get what they fucking deserve.

I bet they just ask who would do it for free.

[chaos]

its what happens when people try and lift things that are too heavy for them.

Not everyone wants to be complacent like you.

[moty]

Can someone please explain what was wrong with the permabulking Canadian? Why did it look like he started seizing?

Can't believe some people look up to those obese pigs,,,let alone call them 'athletes'

[mass243]

Can someone please explain what was wrong with the permabulking Canadian? Why did it look like he started seizing?

Can't believe some people look up to those obese pigs,,,let alone call them 'athletes'

Lol, they compete in Olympics, have professional trainers and training teams+facilities... heads of governments meet and greet them if they earn medals, governments give them cars, houses, land etc. when they win....

But yea, I rather be a bodybuilder 

[Beefjake]

Lol, they compete in Olympics,

They don't.

Spotting: Didn't the other competitors or their trainers watch the event. I mean it takes a while to go they all the weight classes and all...
Awful, just awful.

[edit.] Re-read your post Mass243. Sorry, never mind 😀

[Thong Maniac]

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so a spotters supposed to catch 900 lbs? lol, how about if you cant lift 900, dont try it. didnt seem like the spotters fault.

[gib]

its what happens when people try and lift things that are too heavy for them.

An idiotic comment from someone who clearly doesn't understand the sport of powerlifting.

[phreak]

so a spotters supposed to catch 900 lbs? lol, how about if you cant lift 900, dont try it. didnt seem like the spotters fault.

Spotting really isn't that hard. Even 900 is fine if the team knows what it is doing. Caught a wayward 400-Lb bar with only 2 skinny side spotters two weeks ago. Spotters just need to know where to be, and who to listen to.

At these IPF worlds it was so horrible, I watched a live stream of one weight class (men's 84 I believe) and switched it off before the squatting had even ended because the spotting was a disaster waiting to happen.

So yes, the IPF sucks. It should be disbanded for being the inept and corrupt organisation that it is. It's so bad I actually competed in a foreign country, just to not have to go to the IPF.

[Hulkotron]

BDB is 10x undefeated champion of the raw championships.

[BB]

This was the IPF Worlds, a major event too. But that's what happens when you just accept any old body that's willing to volunteer. Spotting should be a paid or comped position at these meets. Also, the IPF should do away with the walk out from those type of racks, and let folks walk out from a Monolift or similar, where chain or strap safeties can be affixed.

[Simple Simon]

why not use a power rack and if they fail it just hits the rack?

[Rusty Trombone]

I hate british comentators or narrators.

And lol at vagina chicks powerlifting,what a useless concept.

Overall,that competition seems pretty shitty and uninteresting.

[BB]

why not use a power rack and if they fail it just hits the rack?

Generally, the argument against that over the years was/is -

1) The rack interferes with judging, by blocking certain things.
2) The time it takes to adjust the racks for each lifter is prohibitive. Many of the larger meets can last the better part of a full day.
3) The smaller meet directors don't want to pay for new equipment. All new equipment has to be federation certified, and can add hundreds, perhaps reaching into the low thousands in new equipment costs so they don't want to pay it.
4) There is a faction of lifters that want the danger of lifting, so they argue that anything but spotters and those racks devalues the sport.

Even catch racks like Blaine Sumner uses would be a step in the right direction -

http://www.instagram.com/p/BJ_kY5ejr_3/?taken-by=thevanillagorilla92&hl=en .