Deadward
Eeeeeexxxxcuse me! What's all this snuck in late talk, I made up for not doing the dumbells by doing the military press. You remember it was the same time that you absolutely positively had to go downstairs to train something or other 
Oh and I have just tried on the wraps that I brought from the powerlifting meet, sweet jesus they are tight. They should definitely do the job and they had the added bouns of giving the missus a laughing fit as she witnessed me waddling out of the bathroom in them 
Those wraps are nuts, you'll be needing at least 180 on the bar to squash you down to make depth.
The missus won't be laughing so much when she sees you in your birthday suit and those TITAN powerlifting socks (I hope)
I'm sure Deadward will agree with me that a great day was had in the Accrington road trip. We arrived a tiny bit behind schedule due to a slightly timid lorry driver who crawled along a no-overtaking road behind a cyclist for several miles before finally deciding to venture into the on-coming traffic on a blind bend....on the brow of a hill...possibly over a hump-backed bridge. Mrs. SatNav also threw us a bitof a curve ball at the 'you have reached your destination' - 'no we fkkin haven't' stage in the proceedings. As a result we missed most all of the ladies' squats and also missed VicMasters4 checking in and finding that most of his kit was thrown out for illegality. Being a true competitor, he didn't let it phase him and in fact barely mentioned it again
I have to say that it did seem a bit pernickity to reject his singlet (which looks very much like a Victorian bathing costume) on the grounds of age and being made from a material not recognised in the industrial age. But hey, roolz iz roolz. The fact that they also chucked out his boots for squatting and his wrist wraps for bench, was however, in my humble opinion, "fkkin ridiculous."
As I say though, he didn't let it get to him and barely mentioned it
To be fair the lack of a decent heel probably cost him in the squat where his last lift 155 was failed for depth. It pains me to say it but perhaps rightly so. He already had a solid 140 in the bank and you can't be too hard on the judges for calling squats that are borderline when other competitors are taking the trouble to bury themselves to make sure. Again, the lack of wrist wraps probably didn't help his bench but he locked out a solid 95 last lift, which was awesome work considering he'd had his previous effort ruled out for foot shuffling
Nothing was ever going to stop him hoisting a magnificent 200kg deadlift -at 70 years of age- to take the title though. Brilliant stuff.
There was a lot of the brilliant stuff on show to be fair.
80year old George who failed a 180 deadlift and made a bit of a comedy of it so you thought perhaps he was only mucking about. A thought dispelled inthe next rotation when he came back for another go ...with his serious face on. He cracked it off the floor to knee height and then, with the crowd going noisily beserk, he hoisted it home. One hundread and eighty kilos...at eighty years of age...I don't know why i was surprised given that earlier he had squatted something very similar
Other highlights were watching John Mitchell (I think that's his name) from the West Mids. compete complete RAW and destroy some incredible weights -just missing a 300 squat.
Brilliant, brilliant day, watching the effort that went into grrrrrrinding out some of the lifts with the crowd going absolutely mental in their support made me want to get into a gym immediately and attempt PB's.
To be fair after about 6 RedBulls in the pub later I might've backed myself
