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spartacus
Well-known member
The easy way around problem is to make qualifying total occur in same year as nationals.
Perhaps an exception could be for a lifter if injured, and he or she has qualified previous year.
The other week i reffed at a novice comp in Albury; it was more fair dinkum than last year's Riverina champs overall given quite a few last year merely lifted what they needed to qualify with many 60kg lifts.
Who really wants to watch token lifts. Bottom line is gaining support, not pissing spectators off.
I had a few girls comment on how good their first comp was to watch as spectators the other week. If they saw lots of token lifts, i suspect they would just laugh.
Perhaps an exception could be for a lifter if injured, and he or she has qualified previous year.
The other week i reffed at a novice comp in Albury; it was more fair dinkum than last year's Riverina champs overall given quite a few last year merely lifted what they needed to qualify with many 60kg lifts.
Who really wants to watch token lifts. Bottom line is gaining support, not pissing spectators off.
I had a few girls comment on how good their first comp was to watch as spectators the other week. If they saw lots of token lifts, i suspect they would just laugh.
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Stonelifter
New member
Easy enough, you implement a rule you must reach a minimum total in your weight class to qualify for nationals. Whats the point of having a state competition where you can get away with token lifts.
Stonelifter
New member
This was a CAPO comp?
Sticky
Active member
That doesn't solve the issue.
Capo have qualifying totals, still token lifts on weekend.
Hoc doesn't, no tokens (that I can think of) at ours.
That said, there was a guy doing tokens at GPC WA.
IMO if you have qualifying totals, they should be high enough that you have to be a power lifter to meet them.
Currently the PA and capo ones are very low.
NAPARM
New member
Yeah but if you're a teenager, junior, master or woman you only have to post a total. If you're an Open man you need to hit the qualifying total to lift at Nats.
Personally I think there should be qualifying totals applied to every lifter.
Sticky
Active member
Lol.
This isn't a dig at capo Dave, it happens in all Feds unfortunately.
No need to jump into defense mode.
Sticky
Active member
strong enough?
Member
PA is
open - B grade
junior - C grade
subjunior - D grade
masters - any total
I agree they are fairly low and could afford to be open (A), junior (B), subjunior (C), masters (B). It's a balancing act between quality and the size of the comp. When you get enough people, you make it harder to qualify.
open - B grade
junior - C grade
subjunior - D grade
masters - any total
I agree they are fairly low and could afford to be open (A), junior (B), subjunior (C), masters (B). It's a balancing act between quality and the size of the comp. When you get enough people, you make it harder to qualify.
NAPARM
New member
Think they might have mate, can't even remember what they were last year.
It's tricky when you've got an injured lifter but, I'm not sure if CAPO make any allowances for injuries. I'm a bit broken at the moment & will only be doing the bare minimum to qualify on Saturday.
Stonelifter
New member
Still going to pull 300+?
NAPARM
New member
Haha not even close mate! Back is fucked so just pull what I need to hit the minimum qualifying total.
Stonelifter
New member
You hurt it again, or is this an ongoing thing? I screwed my shoulder at Giants Live, causing me all sorts of greif
Bench Polkov
SIR BENCHALOT
PA's were meant to go up this year but apparently they left it too late the make the announcement. So things might be different next year.
Sticky
Active member
That's the issue with qualifying.
I'd have a 630-650 for 90kg class which is a good 80kg higher than capo and a shit ton higher than PA, but then you cut the number of lifters from 150 to 60 odd.
That means everything gets down scaled.
As a meet director and competitor, I'd rather have no qualifying total at all, and loads of lifters so I could put on an awesome event.
NAPARM
New member
You hurt it again, or is this an ongoing thing? I screwed my shoulder at Giants Live, causing me all sorts of greif
Ongoing mate, had X-rays the other day & I have a compressed disc in my lower back & my pelvis is tilted & rotated
Soon as I go above 260ish on deads it tweaks my back. No heavy deads till Nats it looks like.Hope you can get your shoulder sorted mate, injuries suck!!!
