Hes laid down a base of muscle that doesnt just dry up when the drugs do. He got his little finger caught in a sliding door. The power lifts are the bench press, squat and dead lift. Just the fact that the TPB is 45lbs makes it not meet all requirements for use. Reports have surfaced that the IPF will take those records from Bridges due to the fact that Texas Power Bars were used at the event instead of IPF approved equipment. George Hechter (Birth date: august 14, 1961). Power bodybuilding requires you to re-learn technique and reach new movement standards. When he first saw Vince hecould tell he had dropped down to 198,then he saw me all bulked up and ready for battle. Gaynor said most powerlifters think PEDs give them about a 7 to 12 percent increase in strength. And they'd be American records. its not the fault of the ipf, but the stuff up of the meet directors!!! [quote=Roger Ryan]I agree Buddy. The movement standards of powerlifting competitions are going to be a significant challenge. .4kg is way over the allowed variance of weight. the knurling is LOUSY, and some are even slippery for the deadlift. It is one thing to beat someone by all those he beat, so we want to remember him too. They called Mel the king of the bench press. Then Ronnie Ray from Texas and a guy they called Mel Hennessey of Minnesota. [quote=An IPF member]I have a Texas Power Bar and it weighs 20kg. $29.95. It's NOT a 45lb bar. 6. USAPL, was it "modified rules" which were in effect this time? This is powerlifting not Olympic weightlifting no need for some Broz type of nonsense. I couldn't sleep on the flight. But it will inevitabably follow the same process. He said, "I will be in a minute." Mike Bridges - 755 lb Deadlift @ 181 lbs (342.5 @ 82.5 kgs) Lexington Plummer 1.59K subscribers 3.8K views 6 years ago Mike Bridges deadlifts 755 lbs on his third attempt to consolidate a. Bridges' squat of 711 pounds, bench of 512 pounds, and total of 1,896 pounds are all new 198 class World Records. I slept on the flight down and drifted in and out for the next eight hours, but I was able to watch most of the operation not only mine but both of the other two as well. All times are GMT-5. On the morning before the meet we opened 2 brand new shipping tubes from an IPF approved manufacturer and they contained bars that did not have center knurling. What Powerlifting Tells Us About The Effects Of PEDs. When we discovered the mistake we did the best we could and used the bar that was available. Who cares what brand of bar it was loaded on?! all of the sheiko guys seem to do well in these feds. This happened to Mike Bridges. Jeff King: An update on a Bodybuilding Legend, Consent Management Platform by Real Cookie Banner. (course they also did drug tests on mike but odds are those won't be a problem). Fantastic story. Come on, guys.Mike LIFTED the f***ing weight! Whats more, nearly every powerlifter who competed at the U.S. competition and went on to the IPF event saw a significant drop.2. All Rights Reserved. No one expects any more of you. This will be different for different people as we are all genetically different as to how we age. If this is how the IPF treats their lifters it's no wonder that the WPC Eurasian Cup has 635 lifters pre- registered to lift! Dr Mike lives in st Louis and I know he has some. It's unfortunate that an error like this had to happen, but the bar we were using was just fine!! Tony Carpino agreed to fly in and ref and help out. Place Fed Date Location Competition Division Age Equip Class Weight Squat Bench Deadlift Total Dots; DQ: USAPL: 2010-03-05: USA-OH: Con-Cret Raw Challenge: MR-M: 53: Raw: 90 And your team Power Elite with your lifters including Topsogov Studer.Larry: We had a great team back then and I will always look back to the early days without so much politics. [/quote] 5. But when you can squat 1000 anytime you fell like it, who cares about a poor deadlift. Deadlift: 272.5kg/600lb. I was the Meet Director for this event and I would like to put to rest this issue (if possible). Copyright 2023 elitefts. screw it. Mike Bridges, age 50, captured multiple IPF Master's 2 (50+) World Records last weekend at the USAPL Men's Nationals. Raw Unity lifters outdo IPF competitors by about 3 to 4 percent and USAPL competitors by 17 to 18 percent. Ivanko bars are awfulthey are outrageously whippy and the non-standard knarling makes setting up for the deadlift quite confusing. I heard from a reliable source that a lot of effort was made to remedy the situation but it was what it was. Everything at this meet was ran by the guys in the uniforms! mike is right. Trying to figure this out with the same type hip replacement as Rickey Crain. Squat: 455kg/1003b Bench: 280kg/617.29lb They've been a nuisance for years, the smaller knurling center causes people to line up too close in the DL and it hardly grips your back at all, some of the even brand NEW bars have NO KNURLING. I drove it back over my head, I guess to keep it from tearing my pec worse, and to keep the bar from sinking in my chest. But there is one man that comes to mind that was contested by the fact he could be beaten on a bad day if someone else had a great day. Bridges missed three squats of 562 pounds. oh yeah and IPF who gets the SPONSOR FUNDING EVERY YEAR for keeping them APPROVED. they're listed as pending cause someone turned in teh record forms and until ipf looks into this, they're pending. Mike Gansey's . Sam is a world record holder in the 275lb class with a lift of 639lb in the bench press. And Don Reinhoudt the SHW world champ. [quote=Brian Mc][quote=Travis Werner]I really hope the IPF overlooks this and lets the record stand. Records should not have to be sacrificed because of this. XTREME SQUATTING-book, XTREME DEADLIFTING-book, & ADVANCED POWERLIFTING TECHIQUES-DVD. Mel has benchpressed 535lb, squatted 535lb and deadlifted 600lb. There was a two-hour weigh-in and no round system. What gives? Harold, your meet was excellent!!!! TPB makers stood to gain by keeping the sponsorship fee up, after all, it's a BUSINESS.[/quote]. ive read about mike bridges and his records. Youve probably never heard of him, but hes one of the strongest men whos ever lived, and he was a powerlifting god in the early 1980s. I'm sure if anything does happen like records being reversed, the people who are invloved will only use this as motivation to exceed their previous lifts. Thats what makes powerlifting such a great sport. Really, then what would you have done if the meet director, technical sec were standing together when they opened the box from Ivanko to find the wrong bar had been sent? I guess he got too much publicity and I wanted to crush him. So when we landed I told Mac that I needed to find a place to sleep. Most guys at the USAPL meet, on the other hand, tend to not do steroids, he said. My first personal observation of Mike was at the Heart Of America Powerlifting Contest, an annual event hosted by St. Louis gym owner and bodybuilder George Turner. For example, 7 sets x 3 reps at a lower percentage (50-60%) of . And Don Reinhoudt the SHW world champ. All of Mel's lifts are done in extremely strict style. As promised, I left with Mac to coach him at the World Masters in Victorville. I drove it to within an inch from locking it out. Third, to the IPF, if you do take the records away, ask yourself why there are all these feds and why lifters are constantly jumping from fed to fed. this meet director, the ipf (USAPL) refs who inspected the platform and weights, and the USAPL EC members present, tech sec, all of these should be held directly responsible for what was discovered thursday and they did not work to correct. Mike won the second most prestigious national powerlifting in 1977 when he won the Junior National Powerlifting Championships. KT Tape is the first-ever kinesiology tape to come in pre-cut strips specifically designed for consumer use. Lou: There were other super stars from England. Use was rampant, but that didnt mean every lifter wanted to pump himself full of chemicals. John has totaled just around 2300! I checked my watch and I had only 10 minutes to make my flight. Nothing worked. We assumed that the manufacturer sent us the approved/correct bars. At 198 he went 450-315-440 to win. He bench pressed well over 400, squatter more than 700 and deadlifted close to that. And some new research shows that they help you better activate the muscle, increasing strength.. So, after the 1983 IPF event, he and others formed the American Drug-Free Powerlifting Federation. [/quote] I've never really changed anything. Good post, ya old fart! ive seen a little on his training also here it goes. I recall weighing less after a meet back in those days. liane blyn, jessica o donnellyeah that's a group to want to have after you to slap you upside the head! By the time they could react, I had fallen off the bench and went to feel my eye where the bar hit. At meets a certain aura surrounded you.Larry: My first rival was Joe Weinstein. I envied Larry for having such good training partners and a coach like Bob Matz. Dr. Fred Hatfield (october 21, 1942 Died may 14, 2017). HOWEVER, if you're the meet director and you're running an IPF qualifier with potential world records, YOU are responsible for making sure the bar is good. I bought it in the park and it was the "official hat of the team" and part of the money I payed was toward the license fee the hat company payed the baseball organization. If you looked at Freds height (58) and consider what Fred has accomplished, its simply outrageous!!!! Blood started flowing and I started to stand up, but I passed out and rolled back on the platform. Lou: What happened when you lifted against Paul Jordan of Austraila?Larry: Paul was talking about winning the world against my friend and fellow Ohioian Vince Annelo the greatest deadlifter. 1. I checked the rules on the USAPL site and they just referenced the IPF rules. I was a gymnast in New York where I grew up. And in some years at Raw Unity, a weight class might only have two lifters (an athlete has to be very strong to qualify for the event). Didn't he check up the rule-book? the fault is with USAPL and its referees (IPF ones) and its meet director, who should have KNOWN better than to hold a MEN's NATIONALS and that women's record breaker event WITHOUT THE PROPER BARS. BUT, as a lifter at the meet who is not capable of setting world records, I was very happy when I learned that we would be using a Texas Power Bar. Raw Nationals is drug-tested, and the Classic Worlds tests but perhaps not as strictly as the USAPL event. It's NOT a 45lb bar. Larry: We had a great team back then and I will always look back to the early days without so much politics. The problem was discovered on Thursday. he did this for 10 years and kept progressing but he's unreal. Prior to any National meet, there is a meeting held by the Technical Secretary to ensure compliance to rules. fed ex, several people with bars in ATTENDANCE who could have had fed ex deliver them, there's NO EXCUSE in this day and age. Several people in the area had Ivenko Bars--within 2oo miles I bet there were four available. Lou: Was there somebody you loved to beat?Larry: Yes. Source: As told by Larry Pacifico from Pacifico Power Systems (July 2017) On October 4, 1980 I lifted at a meet in Dayton, Ohio that I promoted. After the last time you would think they would be extra careful to see it didnt happen again. Why should IPF bend rules for 1 fed in its group rather than for another.(and since they only do that for rus or ukrwellthere's your answer). it matters what the rules actuially are!!! When we talk about how PEDs improve performance in sports e.g. [/quote] The division between the drug-tested and non-drug-tested competitions makes powerlifting a unique window into what effect todays PEDs have on an all-important athletic skill: strength. To this day 37 years later, I don't know why I tried to bail out from that bar. the lousy knurling on ivanko bars is now a serious problem and despite their paying of the fee, ipf should seriously consider kicking those bars out UNLESS they can be corrected to have more sufficient knurling. Wow! About 45ish I began to realize that I couldn't recover from that frequency any more. We took off and I told him what happened. It wasn't as meteculous years ago when the USAPL was first cutting their teeth after becoming the IPF affiliate. Some powerlifters compete in divisions in which they can wear squat suits and bench shirts, which can put them in better form and help increase lift numbers. Tragedy struck again on our way back to Dayton. that'd just be the cherry on the top of this disaster! [/quote] Mike Bridges Training ? Can you imagine a man that tiny hoisting a dead lift of nearly 600lb. I realize that rules are rules but, don't shoot the horse because the jockey was overweight. In fact, the folks in Missouri have always done a great job. Well, finally the final chapter to this event: As I mentioned, Mac Richards came back down to pick me up in Louisville. I have three kids: Jimmy who works with me at Pacifico Power, Pat who lives in Coco Beach, and daughter Theresa Nelson. why someone running a meet like this waits to the last second anyway is a damned good question. In the meet Paul tore a quad and broke an ankle. That's total that maybe one other lifter has approached. Both of us totaled 1,815. Some powerlifting meets drug test, and some dont. I lifted my hands up and that's when I saw it. I have a Texas Power Bar and it weighs 20kg. Or will the USAPL overlook something again? then on the other days he would go between 50-80% of his max for extra volume. Worlds Strongest Man Bill Kazmaier has referred to him as a god in powerlifting, and world-champion powerlifter Don Reinhouldt has said, Larry will always be a legend of all time to us.. they say he found out thursday. @Michael_Easter, Steroids (6 posts) Every so often an athlete shows an exceptional talent in his sport that baffles the mind. The TPB was usewd because it DID have center knurlings. BUT, as a lifter at the meet who is not capable of setting world records, I was very happy when I learned that we would be using a Texas Power Bar. way to go!!! BUT, as a lifter at the meet who is not capable of setting world records, I was very happy when I learned that we would be using a Texas Power Bar. 2023 Westside Barbell. We both didn't try to make weight. He did break the record. I was married three times.Lou: How many world records did you break in your illustrious career?Larry: 54Lou: I know you had rivals along the way. The events just bring in two different powerlifting cultures. IPF did not return requests for comment. Welcome to the club, Mike. Now all the anonymous guys can come on here and bash the IPF for requiring approved equipment for records. I'm fine Jesse! I think it'd be more like shooting the jockey because he was wearing the wrong silks lol! The distinction between the groups histories with strength-enhancing drugs is important because these drugs dont just flush out completely they can leave a lasting impact. Following this mind set I've won 10 Masters World Championships and broken 14 World Master's Records; and am also one of only 11 men over 50 to bench over 600 in competition. Mike Bridges Steroids split us into two federations. Over time, more groups broke off from both the USPF and drug-free federation, splintering the sport further. The meet director did the best he could given the circumstances and the pass given with the equipment presented for inspection. ivanko bars suck. People need to have a reality check, as if Harold thought ..hey, let me sabotage this meet and give them a non-approved bar. Mike Bridges The Peoria Powerhouse as told to POWERLIFTING USA by Herb Glossbrenner Great Form from the beginning. Then he came and got me. And at 51 I expect to take it even higher next week at the APF Georgia. I would think you would have everything ready to go at least a week out. Hahahahah!!! 4. I just went to a baseball game and payed $18 for a lousy $10 hat. In that meet there were four men who would become IPF World Champs: Milt McKenzie, George Crawford, Vince Anello and, last but not least, Larry Pacifico, the subject of this article. Here's my finger today. Show Printable Version; 04-21-2012, 04:33 PM #1. The next day I called Dr. Kunitz and he said to call my doctor. [/quote] He lifted like what he was, a world champiom. Do guys in anything-goes competitions regularly hoist heavier weights than guys in drug-tested meets?3 Why allow PED use at all? A man who can get into slick clothes and not sacrifice his size or strength. He was and is the strongest man under 200 pounds I ever saw. Steroids have been clearly shown to increase muscle mass, and theres a direct correlation between muscle cross-sectional area and the ability to produce force, said Brad Schoenfeld, an exercise scientist at the City University of New Yorks Lehman College. Tests are cost prohibitive. Mike Bridges' DVD series. Interesting!If you actually do train at maximum intensity (many think they do) there are some changes that you will have to make as you get older (no set age). I had plenty of ice packed around my hand. You can train as hard as ever; but there will be a time that you have to allow more recovery time. 1980 IPF Men's World Powerlifting Championships. WAS THE PAPER IT WAS WRITTEN ON WAS THE RIGHT SIZE! Just lift it! My boyfriend was in the area on Thursday afternoon when several referees told the Technical Sec that something was wrong with the bar and they were told it was OK, it was an old Ivenko Bar. they had TIME TO FIX THIS. Be it football, hockey, basketball etc, all the organizations have license fees payed to them for everything from clothes to what glove, stick etc will be used, and in return they are the only vendors allowed to sell or have equipment used. Mike Bridges ( Birth date: february 1, 1957) Who is that? HOWEVER, if you're the meet director and you're running an IPF qualifier with potential world records, YOU are responsible for making sure the bar is good. The bar we used was 45lbs plus the collars. It is sad and pathetic that people have to jump on board and bash someone who has busted their butt to pull off one of the best meets. I lowered it, but too slow. 1984 Honolulu, Hawaii I invited several well-known lifters of that time: the great Mike Bridges, Terry Dillard, Dave Waddington, Steve Wilson, and Mark Chaillet. Michael Bridges. He also would tell others if they wanted to get a bigger bench gain weight. Ted did 705lb., a record! 1983 Mens Senior Nationals There was also another little boy who came in from Tennessee. if you're meant to be in this sport, you are already more durable over the years than most gym lifters. LARRY PACIFICO "Mr. Powerlifting" set 54 world records in an 18-year career. Although he seldom works them, he has pressed 300lb from behind the neck and military pressed 325lb. USAPL, was it "modified rules" which were in effect this time? Most will remember the latest and greatest like Hoff, Frankel, Conan and Bridges. There was a period when the IPF decided to do drug testing. Just as we assume that every athlete in other drug-tested leagues isnt clean, we shouldnt here, either. Show me where the IPF as said anything? Ivanko bars are awfulthey are outrageously whippy and the non-standard knarling makes setting up for the deadlift quite confusing. Jim It is the one meet I would EXPECT to see someone do a good record break! Deadlift: 320kg/705.48lb, Lee Moran (Birth date: may 17, 1955 Died july 15, 1999). Now that is damning testimony if I have ever heard it. Ivanko pays them a lisence fee to approve their stuff and Texas Power Bar doesn't! So in a desperate effort, I rolled to my left and the fucking pin pulled all the way out. In total, the lifters at Raw Unity put up about 17.44 percent more weight than the lifters at the USAPL competition and 3.46 percent more than those at the IPF meet. Since then Mike has competed in multiple weight classes and won every competition he has entered. Had Wade Hooper eclipsed his squat record, for example, which was also QUITE possible, then what would this meet director say! the lousy knurling on ivanko bars is now a serious problem and despite their paying of the fee, ipf should seriously consider kicking those bars out UNLESS they can be corrected to have more sufficient knurling. My training as a 65er back in the day was pretty intense and with pretty good results. Bob Matz would judge meets and was down right scary to look at. Where are my safety guys screaming about that? This is the biggest USAPL meet of the year. Benchpress: 272.1kg/599.88lb This means they have to use IPF-approved equipment on the platform. I hope this does not come true. Once inside and rolling, they put the piece of finger that came off in some of the ice and stuck it in my sweatshirt pocket. Mike is going to get robbed because it's an IPF rule, tpb isn't approved equipment and so he's getting american records. [/quote] For example, at a drug-tested meet in 2002, Mike Booker squatted 551 pounds but weighed just 132 pounds. They keep raising the standard. In football, the drugs can help a fullback break through what would have been a tackle; in baseball, they can help a pitcher take a 95 mph fastball to 98 mph (and also help him recover between starts). Let's hope they get confirmed soon. No excuses! Well, if you have ever lifted with an Eleiko or Leoko bar, they are similar to a Texas, so I would state this wouldn't be that big of a deal and a DL record set on a TPB vs. an Ivanko is arguably harder to hold on to and more distance traveled. Privacy Policy. See, they cannot make an exception for a USA lifter because USA would beef huge IF a russian had an improper bar and broke records too price of having approved bars, weights, and rules. well yeah they were legal when they kept the sponsorship fee up. Try Squatting with all that weight with a smooth middle! RECENT:Joe "The Lad" Ladnier Mississippi Monster. 2023 ABC News Internet Ventures. No one ever say a word to him no matter what. View Profile View Forum Posts . Mike Bridges at the Central AAU Sr. Championshipos, April 1978, with a world record 585 squat He broke the world total record 3 times at this meet Lemenager photo The one finally Au- 27, 1978.
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