2nd Annual Northwest Grip Exegesis and Realisation

[twig]

Or A.N.G.E.R. for short

I will be hosting another Grip Meet on the 3rd Saturday in January at my house, my toys, my rules.

Will Savage retain his title?

Will Fred show the improvement I hope for and take it from him?

Will I place better than last?

All these questions and more will be answered at ANGER!

Who's in?

[Steve Gardener]

First Paul needs to get his ass out of bed early enough ha ha. Then maybe.

[Paul Wood]

I reckon I'd be up for that.

[twig]

[glow=red,2,300]Events:[/glow]

Grippers.

Rolling Thunder.

VBar.

A levering event to be decided.

A N Other event. Possibly IM Little Big Horn.

Sofa medley...but this time...BOTH sofas! One sofa has my stuff, the other sofa has your item, but you have to lift your item first.

Then tea/cakes/beer/pizza.

[twig]

Just a reminder that everyone will need to renew their subscription (or take out a new one) as they expire on 31st December.


QUOTE (twig @ Nov 11 2008, 03:59 PM)
Grippers.

Rolling Thunder.

VBar.

A levering event to be decided.

A N Other event. Possibly IM Little Big Horn.

Sofa medley...but this time...BOTH sofas! One sofa has my stuff, the other sofa has your item, but you have to lift your item first.

Then tea/cakes/beer/pizza.
Should mention it's an LGC VBar, not a 2"

Grippers are no set but will be choked to 2" spread.

Levering's going to be Weaver to the reverse again

Still working on the 5th event.

[Steve Gardener]

More names needed to make this a Northern success. If people buy the deluxe renewal package they get their BHSA shirt included.

[twig]

So? Anyone? PW's dropped out due to injury but I'm doing this even if I'm the only competor! Here I am, people, come get me.

[Steve Gardener]

I'll ask Paul S again.

[twig]

So far it's: an injured me, Fred, and Rick Harris.

Maxwell Thompson might be in too.

Paul S has apparently welched and isn't going to come, but he hasn't told me yet.

Just a reminder that wants to compete needs to be a member of the BHSA; you can join on the day if need be. I will!

[twig]

Well, we're all done and dusted now the final line up was...me and Fred! Mike had already told me he couldn’t make it due to the distance, I’ve had a very apologetic Max tell me he got his weekends mixed up and thought it was next week, and as for tricker383…well, after all his bold claims he just didn’t show, read into that what you will.

I’d already said that most of my lifts would be token ones, because with tennis elbow before New Year, and sciatica since, I've only trained one or two days in about 5 weeks, and the sciatica still isn't fully gone, but with just the 2 of us, I decided to grit my teeth, ignore the pain and carry on regardless. We did the events just how we would have done if there had been 10 of us, results as follows.

Grippers: C.O.C. #1.5, #2, #2.5, 2.8 GM, #3.1 (calibrated), #3.5.

We were both stymied by the 3.1, which we both should have got, so we were both worried it was going to be a bad day. Result: a draw.

2.5" FBBC Crusher. Starting weight 40Kg moving up 5Kg per attempt

I made it up to 55Kg, Fred got 60 with loads left in the tank, a win for Fred. The crusher is a sweet piece of kit, and MUCH harder than the RT.

1" vbar. Starting weight 80Kg moving up 5Kg per attempt

I just barely failed on 135Kg, Fred failed twice but on his last attempt got it to full deadlift, Fred won, but considering last year I maxed out at 80Kg I can't be too disappointed! (whoopie!), plus I feel I officially have my vbar wings now, cos I left skin on the bar lifting 130Kg.

Weaver stick to the rear

Because there were only 2 of us competing we were knackered by this point (less time to rest between attempts), so we went pretty briskly, I got a PR of 3KG, after my first attempt (2.5Kg) my lower back, which had been getting steadily worse, caught fire, so I had to take the pain meds I had been prescribed, so rather than try and push my PB any further I left it at that. Fred (who was always going to win this event) pulled 6.5Kg like it wasn't even there!

Sofa Medley Blob30, HGT's 15Kg blob(33lbs), 37.5Kg legacy blob(39lbs), PDA blobette loaded to 42lbs, HGT's 20Kg Blob(45lbs), HGT's 67Kg "adolescent" Inch(152lbs), 56lb scaleweight, HGT's 25Kg Blob(53.5lbs) Inch.

Which looks like this: www.gripboard.com/index.php?autocom=gallery&req=si&img=8349

My attempt: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZsQzha6XOc

Fred: www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOdBhYscizc

[Paul Wood]

Well done guys, sorry again I couldn't make it. Sounds like you've improved quite a bit since last time despite the injuries.