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Posted by Obama Ben Lawden
on October 15, 2009, 5:20 am, in reply to "You have a very good point Job, but"
I can get it done!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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: This sport is so fragmented and split right
: now it will probably never work. I can't
: think of any one organization that would be
: willing to admit they need improvement at
: this time. Some organizations are so hungry
: for lifters they are willing to simply
: ignore all of the rules of the sport simply
: to get a new lifter. A very sad situation
: indeed.
:
: Personally I believe it is up to he lifters
: to decide where they want to lift. They will
: realize they have been mislead by some of
: these so called organizations once they
: finally decide to pick up a real rule book
: and read it. If these lifters want to
: believe their 1/2 squats are real Squats, so
: be it. If they want to believe cheating on
: the BP and making up rules of the sport for
: their own benefit makes for a good
: organization and lift, they will believe it.
:
: I do appreciate your independent effort to
: point out the need for better rules
: enforcement in this sport. But the bottom
: line is this, until the lifters actually
: want to clean up this recent circus
: sideshow, nothing will change. If they are
: satisfied with doing trashy lifts and
: calling them "records" you or
: anyone else won't change their minds as long
: as they are on the long end of the stick.
: Only when they get beat using the same
: trashy judging and lifting will they finally
: complain. This will happen soon, trust me. I
: have witnessed this attempt to hi-jack the
: sport several times in the past. It doesn't
: last long.
:
: NASA has always followed the basic IPF Rules
: of Performance since we started in 1992, 17
: years ago. My meets have always enforced the
: these rules since I started promoting meets
: 35+ years ago. We don't plan to change
: simply to attract a few lifters who refuse
: to obey the rules of real powerlifting.
:
: I wish you the best on your effort to draw
: attention to this very serious problem in
: our sport.
:
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