Month: October 2008
Nationals Results
Nationals Results
Damo 145, 155 miss, 155 got - 185 got 207 got
- Best Lifter at Nationals and $1000 Prize
Troy 125 got, 128 got, 130 got easy , 150 got, 156 got, 160 miss jerk
- Winner of a very close 85Kg Class and 3rd overall best lifter behind Max and Damo
Very well done to both!
Detailed Results - http://www.qwa.org/news/files/Results_2008AustralianSeniorChampionships36.pdf
Video Nathan 170Kg Back Squat
impressive for a 65Kg U16 lifter !
httpvh://au.youtube.com/watch?v=PvJYo7rAsI4
Gym Closed this Wednesday 29th
I will only be in on Tues and Friday this week as I am on a work course.
Team Officials for International Events
Team Officials
Memo that details Officials for International Events for the end of 2008 and early 2009.
see - Team Official Memo.pdf
Georg Hackenschmidt Article
This article from Inside Sport is on an early 20th-century strongman and professional wrestler that invented the bearhug. "His emphasis on leg power and speed meant was able to execute over 100 standing jumps over a table, could single hand deadlift 299kg and won over 3000 consecutive wrestling bouts"
He was also a pioneer in the field of weightlifting. He invented the exercise known as the hack squat, whose name is a reference to his own. Hackenschmidt also helped to popularize many other types of lifts common within the modern training regimen, such as the bench press. During his career, he held numerous weightlifting records.
see - Georg Hackenschmidt Article.pdf
Damo at QUT Olympic reps dinner
Video Luke 175Kg Jerk for 2
httpvh://au.youtube.com/watch?v=dQjYeUe2hsc
Australian Commonwealth Games Junior Squad
Australian Commonwealth Games Junior Squad
Congratulations to Luke Gardner on his selection to the 2008 Australian Commonwealth
Games Junior Squad - see
http://www.qwa.org/news/files/Memo2008AJCGSSelection14.doc
Entries for All Schools
Entries for all schools need to be in this Friday
Entry forms can be found here
http://www.qwa.org/news/files/Allschoolentryinfo52.pdf
Updated National Records and Rankings and Masters Records
http://www.qwa.org/liftstats/CONTENT.ASP
Video Nathan 120Kg Clean and Jerk at Nationals
httpvh://au.youtube.com/watch?v=OmYiQ0D10Dc
Results National U16 U18 U20 Championships
Qld won 5 out of the 6 Team shields !
Results - http://www.qwa.org/news/view.asp?id=1106
Nathan 89Kg, 120Kg PB's U16 Best Lifter in Australia and NZ,
U18 1st, U20 2nd in 69Kg Class
Mitch 68 90 PB's
Ellis 36 45 PB's
Jake 31 37 PB's
Jordan 81 104 3rd U20 69Kg
Luke 121 157 1st U20 105+
Michelle Kahi U16 59, 77 U18 Best Lifter
The Man in the Arena - Theodore Roosevelt
"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat."
Fran Video From CrossFit Level 1 Cert in Sydney
httpvh://au.youtube.com/watch?v=RWZVWfJdMcM
National U16, U18, U20 Championships
National U16, U18 U20 Championships
All the best to the lifters representing Qld at the Nationals this weekend
Jake, Ellis, Nathan, Mitch, Jordan and Luke
PB
Well done to U16 lifter Mitch for a 135Kg Back Squat a PB by 30Kg !
Mitch came in 2 years ago and could not even squat a broomstick
and through consistant training is achieving great results !
Damo
I would like to thank Damo for his support of the junior lifters in the club
and for the way he always puts up a hand to help out - he is a great role model
Working out at a Normal Gym
Have a read of this funny and poignant story by Matt http://swiftonline.com/crossfit/archives/1618
if you have ever worked out at most of the commercial gyms you know what he is on about.
Video from 1993 Senior Worlds Training Hall in Melbourne
httpv://au.youtube.com/watch?v=4N5HdkpFy2M