His other squats were of good depth.
Have you had 1100lbs on your back? I'm guessing it is tough to pay close attention to if he was parallel.
I'm assuming he went downt, tried to find the perfect blend of hitting parallel and stopping at the exact point where he would get the most power out of the hole, and ended up a bit high.....which he supposedly told friends after the fact.
You're into grip training...right?
Imagine you're at a grip comp, and you attempt to close the COC #3, you've already closed a #2, and something like a #2.5....it's your third attempt. You go for the #3, and don't touch....but the judges pass the closure.
You tell people "I'm pretty sure I didn't touch."
Someone videos it, puts it on the net under the title "epic tool using the COC $3" and you have pages of people on the internet bashing you for "calling that a closure."
Have you watched the video?
You claiming he is "a bit high"... Mate, I don't know what to tell you to be honest.
It doesn't even resemble a squat in my opinion.
Graals lift in a very liberal fed to start with, the APF. They got the "parallell" criteria, instead of the tougher "below parallell" that USPF and USAPL uses.
Your comparison to a CoC#3 closing doesn't hold.
If I would've been allowed use both hands, and pushed the CoC# into my leg or something to force it together, but still didn't close it, and got it counted as a one-hand closing, that would be a fair comparison.
TBH, I don't see why anyone with some kind of dignity would compete in these feds, when USPF (non-tested) and USAPL (drug-tested) are available. There are no excuses.
Captain Kirk, Ed Coan, Wade Hooper and other big lifters all lift in serious feds.
Ed Coan did some WPO contest, with a monolift. He still walked the weight out, and did a below parallell lift, in a single-ply suit and 2 meter long wraps.
-Hedge