Well, how things change. Beginning of this year I was looking forward to competing with plenty of goals and so on, Now my association has refused my membership and therefore stop me from lifting for this year at least. Some trumped up charge of abusing a referee. When.Where, What I said or did I do not know as they do not have to tell me. I have nothing but respect for referees as they do a thankless task, I don't like being a referee as I personally find it boring, but I did not mind working on the platform, and trust me, even blowing my own trumpet I was good. The freedom from drug testing registers and so on feels good but what I am to do. In my country there is only one federation (IPF) and because of the fact that in any one year there is no more than 160 -200 registered powerlifters the possibility of another organisation in my country is slim at best. At this stage one option is to prepare for the SPF finals in the USA in 2014. That would be something different to go to a competition with all the big lifters with the big Squats, Benchpress's and Deadlifts and to be around some of the biggest names in the sport regardless of federation would be a once in a life time opportunity that would be hard to pass up.
Any way on to other things, First off my wife and I would like to congratulate a great friend of ours, Sonia Manaena on setting a world open womens 84kg+ Raw deadlift record at the Pacific International competition in Australia over the weekend. This sets her up real well to defend her deadlift title at the open world champs later on this year. At last years open champs she beat the great Russian lifter Kapova for the gold medal in the deadlift.
Also I would like to wish Steve Varga all the best at the Otago Champs on the 14th of April. I will be there helping him and supporting him all the way. Steve is coming back from an enforced year off with back problems so it will be good to see how he goes.
Did some Strongman last Saturday and am still feeling it. No power in my butt or legs for squats yesterday so I am looking at taking this week off and going in to do some singles to be able to set up training programs from there on. Once I have some thing sorted out I will get back with another post.
