If your spotter touched the bar fuck no it doesn’t count again bench it clean and I will congratulate you and move you to the top of the board but stop talking about what you have done with video evidence when you haven’t done it yet
This is an utterly moronic statement because it's clear from my 315 post that 325 was going to go up at exactly the pace it went up. I also got through the notoriously hardest sticking at the bottom portion of the press before my spotter intervened. And I edited out the portion of the video where I explicitly told him not to even touch the bar unless I explicitly instructed him to. I can upload that portion of the video tomorrow.
Which means I obviously felt confident that it was still going up, which would have been the hardest part of the press.
Meaning, on a balance of probabilities analysis, any rational observer would say "Yeah, he would have gotten it regardless of the spotter doing anything, in all probability."
But you don't count my 325 - which I will easily surpass on literally my NEXT bench workout next week - because you are PETTY.
And stuff like THAT - unbeknownst to you - is one of the reasons why people are annoyed with you on here. Because rather than just saying "The spotter shouldn't even come in contact with the bar by way of an accidental flick, so remind him of that next time, but it looks like you had that", you completely discount the lift.
AND you are too stupid to have the foresight to predict that going from a 295 bench to a 325 bench in 34 days that OBVIOUSLY I will get more than 325 NEXT WEEK. Thus making your petty discounting of my lift look even more moronic.
NOW - if this was my December 31st entry into this contest [final eligible date to enter a lift], and that finger touch made the difference between you beating me or me beating you, then SURE, you would want to technically disqualify my lift, with that on the line - whether you acknowledged I could get it or not.
But that's NOT what's happening. You are just trying to diminish a lift that I clearly got because you are petty - and as I said, apparently too stupid to see from my current trajectory in regaining my strength that I will vault ahead of 325 in one week's time.
If this was me claiming a lifetime PR, I could see why you would discount it. But you are discounting a weight I have lifted literally DOZENS of times in my life, and will EASILY get again - and fast.
So there is no reason for you to do that.
It's also possible you are projecting your own weaknesses on me. I think on some level you know you ain't getting over 315 ever again, so you may be assuming that was a hard weight for. I can assure you, that was NOT a heavy lift compared what I will get soon, and it's a weight I have done for four reps in the past.
And like I said - I will be getting 330+ literally next week, with no spotter movement to be seen.
So there is no reason for you to disqualify that. You will see me add 20+ pounds to that before this contest is over.
