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The Southside Babell Bench Blast was held in Lantana, FL- Palm Beach County yesterday on April 27th 2002.
The meet director was Bob Youngs. Others from Southside Barbell and the community did a fine job of helping out Bob in running an extremely well done meet.
Here are my stats
6'2 1/2
242 pounds
26 years old
Powerlifting for about 12 months
1st official competition
I benched in the 242 lb class and here is how it went:
375 opener- no good- red light! The weight was easy as planned but I forgot to wait for the "PRESS" command from the judge
2nd attempt- 375 easy sucess!
3rd attempt- 407 green light fairly easy although mild shirt problems and bad form/setup
I am happy to get the numbers in the books altough I could have done more but I feel I did ok for my first meet. I learned a lot too.
I got to meet 1-dawg and The Mann
1-dawg did an excellet job judging. He is an expert powerlifter. He also conducted the rules meeting and handed out the trophies.
The Mann lifted in the 181 lb class and was totally STRONG! He won his division and had great explosion off the chest along with a tremendous lockout.
There were also Southside Barbell t-shirts that were for sale and they were so popular-they sold out. I will get the logo posted here.
The meet director was Bob Youngs. Others from Southside Barbell and the community did a fine job of helping out Bob in running an extremely well done meet.
Here are my stats
6'2 1/2
242 pounds
26 years old
Powerlifting for about 12 months
1st official competition
I benched in the 242 lb class and here is how it went:
375 opener- no good- red light! The weight was easy as planned but I forgot to wait for the "PRESS" command from the judge
2nd attempt- 375 easy sucess!
3rd attempt- 407 green light fairly easy although mild shirt problems and bad form/setup
I am happy to get the numbers in the books altough I could have done more but I feel I did ok for my first meet. I learned a lot too.
I got to meet 1-dawg and The Mann
1-dawg did an excellet job judging. He is an expert powerlifter. He also conducted the rules meeting and handed out the trophies.
The Mann lifted in the 181 lb class and was totally STRONG! He won his division and had great explosion off the chest along with a tremendous lockout.
There were also Southside Barbell t-shirts that were for sale and they were so popular-they sold out. I will get the logo posted here.
I have to first say that cytomel is one big dude !!i'm standing there talkin to him when i first get there and i'm thinkin' damn this guy has some big freakin arms!!serious shit,then another friend of mine says "this guy posts on elite board too"(meaning cytomel) and we're surprised cause we're already sanding shootin' the shit......he's cool as hell.anyway for his first meet he whooped ass,looked strong and explosive every attempt to me.this guy has alot more in him trust me,and those numbers will go up big time.as for me...i weighed in at 179.... ,i opened with 391,nailed it...went to 407 nailed it....went 418 couldn't lockit to save my life.i had a really good time and the meet was very well run.good to meet ya cytomel..........
