Nationals

Meet Report for James

Overall this was a great meet for all of us, only his 4th one we are all still learning. With the huge improvement that he has made over the last few months, I am really excited for the next few years.


Squat-

Opened with 474, and it went up easy, but James was red lighted for not waiting for his commands. I thought no big deal and moved him up to 501 know that he has done this in training many times. James walks out gets under the bar and steps back, but they tell him to rerack because it took him to long to get set. he reracks and then proceeds to take it out again, and squats it with ease, but i forgot that in the USAPL you must touch your but to the ground and he was red lighted for depth. Well I kept him at the same weight and call him up when he was 2 inches below parallel. At this point he is 7 Kg in the lead.

Bench

The benching this week for James was a joke. He was nervous do to a warm up miss, but I told him the day I benched 525 in a meet I missed 430 in warm up. Anyway, he opened with 470ish, went to 480ish, and then I took his shirt off and pimped it for his final attempt and he did 292 so easy it though it was going to fly out of his hands. Still 7 Kg ahead.

Dead Lift

At this point we are winning, but little did we know that the current second place lift could pull a small car. We opened with 430ish, went to 450, and final attempt at 485. If James would have got his final dead and the other kid missed his James would have won by one pound, but as it was neither happened and James took second.


Total- 1243 2nd place