Thanks everybody. It was a good meet overall, I had about half my team place top 3, and one of our lifters taking best overall and junior male lifter.
I destroyed the single ply 198 open class, by about 50lbs, for first place, didn't really care too much about this. Watching the raw 198 open men, I would likely have won that too but really glad I didn't do a full power and gave my body a break.
After handling some of my lifters, then deadlifting myself, I did side spots for one of the head judges who does bench only. Huge 275 guy, setting some raw records with shoulders that have been repaired surgically a thousand times. So I had to lift off half of the bar weight, bring it to him, release on time, allow him to bench, then return 100% of the weight back to the rack to protect his shoulders. Very taxing day. Think he benched 430 raw and 480 in the shirt.
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Still great pulling! If you did that at the meet I'm at right now, you'd get four white lights. The hitch festival I'm attending makes me want to take the damn head judge's seat so I don't have to watch any more awful pretend deadlifts.
lol I wouldn't have even given myself that lift if I was judging, very clear downward descent. No thanks brah, lol.