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Curd Hos Benches 501 Raw at CPO Meet

Submitted by Staff on June 24, 2009 - 7:48am.

Curd Hos (shw) bench pressed 501 pounds raw on Saturday at the CPO Montreal Power Wars in Vaudreuil-Dorion, Quebec. He hit the lift on his opener. Hos went on to miss 530 pounds.

Here is video of Hos' 501:

Here is Hos benching 600 pounds raw a couple of weeks prior to the meet:

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Submitted by CJY (not verified) on June 24, 2009 - 8:39am. » quote

Curd is the man!

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on June 24, 2009 - 10:04am. » quote

Why couldn't he get more?

Submitted by Steve Winburn on June 24, 2009 - 11:58am. » quote

That was a sweet bench. Although I am a USAPL snob and like the start command, it was a solid pause, strong press, and a clean lockout. Nice work man.

Submitted by OttawaStrong on June 24, 2009 - 3:41pm. » quote

NICE LIFTING CURD!!! You better put up a 300+kg bench at my meet on July 18th.

Submitted by Jim Ray on June 24, 2009 - 4:08pm. » quote

Anonymous wrote:

Why couldn't he get more?

His t-shirt was too tight and he lost the groove. Maybe he needs to go to some seminar and learn how to dial in his t-shirt.

(pssst: when it's raw and you miss, the weight was just too heavy that day. There's no other reason, so you don't have to ask.)

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on June 24, 2009 - 5:46pm. » quote

OttawaStrong wrote:

NICE LIFTING CURD!!! You better put up a 300+kg bench at my meet on July 18th.

what happened to iron works?

Submitted by Gratton (not verified) on June 24, 2009 - 6:40pm. » quote

How much did he squat and deadlift?

Submitted by Ed Kutin on June 24, 2009 - 9:19pm. » quote

Jim Ray wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Why couldn't he get more?

His t-shirt was too tight and he lost the groove. Maybe he needs to go to some seminar and learn how to dial in his t-shirt.

(pssst: when it's raw and you miss, the weight was just too heavy that day. There's no other reason, so you don't have to ask.)

He certainly had more in him than that opener. Did he go up too much for his 2nd? Did he hurt himself? Why he didn't get more is a reasonable question.

By the way, even raw you still have a groove. Being out of the groove still hurts your bench, just not nearly as much as with a shirt.

And about the video of him "benching" 600 lb. Was the purpose of that video to show he couldn't do it?

Submitted by chip big hoot edalgo (not verified) on June 24, 2009 - 11:18pm. » quote

that was an explosive 501 opener.as ray said he definitely had more in him and raw or equipped, you have a powerline that you need to stay in. and as far as the 600 goes , it was a good working set , but three reds for the spotters hands being all over it.

Submitted by Jim Ray on June 24, 2009 - 11:31pm. » quote

Ed Kutin wrote:

By the way, even raw you still have a groove. Being out of the groove still hurts your bench, just not nearly as much as with a shirt.

Really Ed? What else can you teach me about raw benching? Don't you know who I am ?

Submitted by Hank on June 25, 2009 - 9:37am. » quote

"Don't you know who I am ?"

Jim Ray, you're joking, right? Do people really say this seriously?

Submitted by Ed Kutin on June 25, 2009 - 10:32pm. » quote

Jim Ray wrote:

Ed Kutin wrote:

By the way, even raw you still have a groove. Being out of the groove still hurts your bench, just not nearly as much as with a shirt.

Really Ed? What else can you teach me about raw benching? Don't you know who I am ?

Jim, I certainly know who you are. You bench a lot more than I do, and know a lot more about benching than I do. All I was saying is that form matters for raw benching too, just a lot less than with a shirt. I didn't mean to offend :)

Submitted by Jim Ray on June 25, 2009 - 11:20pm. » quote

Hank wrote:

"Don't you know who I am ?"

Jim Ray, you're joking, right? Do people really say this seriously?

Of course I was serious - that's why clicking on the word, "am" played a Bugs Bunny wav file.

Sheesh...what a maroon ....

Ed, we're cool.

Submitted by Danmac (not verified) on June 26, 2009 - 7:33pm. » quote

Gratton wrote:

How much did he squat and deadlift?

He didn't. Bench only.

Also great film work to whoever that camera man was.