speed bench=emergency room?

[mjaym]

I have read Mike Miller and other Metal Militia guys talk about not doing speed bench because it is not advantageous to be quick out of the bottom when you have a bench shirt on, because the shirt will shoot the bar back towards your head if you don’t control it. I never realized that until today. I was doing a shirted 2board with my shirt pretty low, I lowered the weight and the bar shot of the board real quick, and back to my face where I could not control it. Well, the bar landed on my face gashing it open above my eye. I had to go to the hospital to get it stitched up. Thankfully, KG18 caught the bar before it crushed my skull, so I thank him for pretty much saving my life. I also thank my other friends for being concerned, and taking me to the hospital. So I am probably going to go ahead and NOT do speed bench anymore and see how that goes. I am fine, and pretty friggin lucky. We have video and it is pretty nasty. I just thought I would share that with everybody.

 

[sausage]

i dont see what the bands have to do with that it sounds like you just fell out of your grove and lost control of the weight.

 

[spatts]

Hope you're ok, M.

One of you guys needs to call me...I have news.

 

[dg21]

Sausage, he didn't say anything about bands. He said being explosive off the chest without control can cause the bar to drift back quickly.

Spatts, I'll give you a ring tomorrow.

 

[mjaym]

Thanks dg. I am not saying i think speed bench as a concept is completely flawed, I am just going to give not doing it a whirl.

 

[spatts]

I could see where the shirt and AR at the SAME TIME can be dangerous, but not individually all that scary.

I'm just glad you're ok. With your arch, I don't see how you kept from breaking your nose....alot of decline there.

 

[mjaym]

oh yea, i was prettttty lucky.

 

[Hannibal]

Sounds kinda like me dropping the bar out of my hands while doing CG 4 Board. I was still working up and it was only 185, but if the board had been a couple inches lower it would have rolled off it and landed on my neck and I would of died, or wished I did. I still have the 4 Board Tattoo on my chest.

Glad to hear you lived to fight another day. Damn this is a great sport....

 

[genemachine]

M - You gotta send me that vid. I'll post it on the web if you want. Props to kg18 for keeping you from certain death.

hmmm... might revise my view on speed bench.

Are all 3 of you guys replacing speed day with MM raw day?

 

[dg21]

Gene, we don't do speed day unless we're feeling real beat up. When preparing for a meet, I like to really push up the lock out. If I don't have a meet for a while, I do speed bench more often.

Gene, give me a call sometime soon.

 

[genemachine]

I'll call you tonight.

 

[genemachine]

One more thing - Did you say that you guys have a digital camera?

I bought one last night. So we're going to start taking vids of all our workouts. Do you, KG18 or MJM have high speed internet? Looks like I might be able to have a half-ass site up soon, and I can show you guys how to post your vids.

 

[mjaym]

gene-

do you really want to see the video? I don't know how to put it on the web.

 

[genemachine]

M-

Was the video taken with dg21 and kg18's digital video camera? If so I'm calling them tonight, and I'll walk them through it. If you have it, just PM me with your number and I'll call you tonight.

I think it will be really good if we can post our workouts to the web, so we can see how the other groups are doing, offer critiques, etc. We're working with Spatts, Hannibal, and Project to get a Midwest Site built. I'd like to include videos from them, you guys, Benchmonster (he told me he was going to start video taping his workouts on suggestion from Sebastien), and us. We can post anybody else's vids also...

 

[spatts]

M-
We're working with Spatts, Hannibal, and Project to get a Midwest Site built.

Gene, we haven't heard from you at all, so we started assembling pages on our own. If you still want to work together on this, please get with me cause we're moving on it pretty fast.

 

[genemachine]

Oops... Sorry, we've been moving slow until a week ago. Drop me some links, and it may be easy to tie them together. If you guys want to do your own site, that's cool too.

I PM'd you back