Please Scroll Down to See Forums Below I agree, people wear them for gains. It has gotten a little out of hand, lately. I would prefer if it was all raw. Not even a belt. Let the strongest lifter win. But if you want to compete against the best, you have to use equipment, because the best guys are in equipped federations.
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BigBadBootyDaddy29
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Personally, I feel powerlifting is a shadow of what it used to be, much like boxing has become. it is so watered down with so many different federations with so many different rules and so many different records, hell, anybody who can flat bench a 45 lb olympic bar can probably go online and find a federation they can be a world record holder in.
For anybody except a select subculture to ever give a flying fuck about powerlifting and for the sport to ever be put on the map, there needs to be unification......one main governing body.
The equipment issue will never end, there needs to be 1 federation with 1 set of rules.
Personally I wish equipment and steroids were never invented, but they were, so if you want to be the best, you have to get with the program. Companies came out with lifting gear because they said they want to prevent injuries, they actually want to cash in, and in doing so have damaged the sport greatly.
I feel powerlifting is in bad shape, I'd like to see everybody with some pull in the sport put their fucking greed aside and do what is best for the sport, not their wallets.
As far as equipment, I think it is too late, people are used to seeing equipped numbers, the bar has been raised, there is no going back. I do think it is pathetic when people are more worried about cutting the back of their shirt, getting weight to touch, wrapping their knees, finding a brand of shirt to it, and breaking in a shirt, than they are lifting the fucking weight. To me a lift is a lift, plain and simple, a lift is not playing a fucking chess game with your equipment.
I am not knocking lifters who use equipment, they have no choice but to do so unless they want to compete in a meet with 1 other lifter that nobody cares about, I am knocking the current state of powerlifting that I feel was arrived at because of greed. I think it has forever ruined the sport and a person's chance to make money as a powerlifter, unless they get involved with supplements and/or equipment sales.
For anybody except a select subculture to ever give a flying fuck about powerlifting and for the sport to ever be put on the map, there needs to be unification......one main governing body.
The equipment issue will never end, there needs to be 1 federation with 1 set of rules.
Personally I wish equipment and steroids were never invented, but they were, so if you want to be the best, you have to get with the program. Companies came out with lifting gear because they said they want to prevent injuries, they actually want to cash in, and in doing so have damaged the sport greatly.
I feel powerlifting is in bad shape, I'd like to see everybody with some pull in the sport put their fucking greed aside and do what is best for the sport, not their wallets.
As far as equipment, I think it is too late, people are used to seeing equipped numbers, the bar has been raised, there is no going back. I do think it is pathetic when people are more worried about cutting the back of their shirt, getting weight to touch, wrapping their knees, finding a brand of shirt to it, and breaking in a shirt, than they are lifting the fucking weight. To me a lift is a lift, plain and simple, a lift is not playing a fucking chess game with your equipment.
I am not knocking lifters who use equipment, they have no choice but to do so unless they want to compete in a meet with 1 other lifter that nobody cares about, I am knocking the current state of powerlifting that I feel was arrived at because of greed. I think it has forever ruined the sport and a person's chance to make money as a powerlifter, unless they get involved with supplements and/or equipment sales.
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BigBadBootyDaddy29 said:
Nice post BBBD, and if you can't find a fed you can be a record holder in just start your own! In fact, last night I squatted a new WR in the fed I started this morning, the NAPLA (North American PowerLifting Assoc). Sound good? I just have to order up my trophy...
