AAU Worlds Results

If anyone wanted to know how stupid RAW is and so on, this meet should explain it all, good god almighty how stupid!

RAw equipped, Raw assisted, RAw Unequipped, Raw semi, RAw RAw , Raw Military, Raw Police, now can stuff get any more bizarre and by the looks of all the numbers I would take a safe guess that they were all clean! SO throw in there RAW clean and Raw not clean?
Just plain stupid!

If anyone Raw lifter took offense to this post then too bad! You shouldn't because it is all true!

late

yea i agree i lifted there and my name isnt even included on the results i should be in the rankings now but im not bc of that... its bull how they can consider this a world meet there was maybe 60-65 lifters the first day and i competed against noone

i even entered the 18-19 and the open age groups just plain raw divisions hoping to get some competition... there was almost 20 min in between each of my bench attempts

Tim,
This is no way diminishes the accoplishments of those that lifted, however it does bring to mind that we are becoming more and more like the Special Olympics in that everyone that enters is a winner.
I know that many of you continually state that it is about the PR's but PR's can be accomplished in your gyms and we don't need a competition venue for that reason. It would sure be nice to have that aspect of the sport put back into place.

Jess

I don't ever take away from the lifter, but and I do mean but, it's really the lifter who is ruining this sport!

All these guys who cry about competition and then dodge it like they are playing a game of dodge ball! For the most part the meet directors "feel" like they need to give into this "make everyone a happy little camper" winner so they will come back for more?

Good god what a crock! I will say maybe 10% of the lifters really want to compete, and could care about any award, they just want to see who is the best ... period! The rest are nothing but wimps who want an stupid hunk of junk so they can go back to the trailer park and brag about the first place award they got and "look at me" I am somebody now!

Kinda reminds you of the movie THE JERK, when Steve martin got the phone book. People are so full of it about competition it makes me sick!

Screw all these God damn classes and go back to the way it was when I was a immature sorry ass!

Novice and Open.... thats it! Until then all you little school girls need to stay home and play with your barbie dolls!

late

Agreed.

exactly i dont care if youre somewhat refering to me i went there for competition, but and i do mean but i cant stand those little people that will complain when their lift clearly wasnt good and yea im calling out ELLEN STEIN... no need to complain about you not getting a lift or just one red light when your lift wasnt even parallel and let alone complaining about every judge there and yelling at a little 16 yr old girl youve never met before in ur lift is so unnecessary

i agree with the post of all those entering these dif divisions just to get the same award it does make the sport a complete and utter joke to just compete to receive a stupid award when who cares if you got it from not competing against a single other lifter.... this meet was a joke

wow what a retarded competition. great example of what is wrong with powerlifting today right there. 17 and under, OPEN, and 50+ should be the only divisions imo, if you cant compete tough, get a new hobby or train harder. what a joke

we need to have masters 50+

open anyone

teen13-19 if they do not win or set a record when they are 13 then they can when there 19

weight classes about 4 maybe 5 thats all

no jr no police fire, no sub masters, no novice,

This would also help buy letting the orginization have cheaper entry fees and card fees maybe, since they would not have to buy 8000 awards yeah less people would enter.

how about this

heaviest lift or best lift by formula
you can enter 1 or both no weight classes.

Bruner, even thou you are a foul mouthed loser, I do agree with you on the state of powerlifting. Too bad the AAU is the way it is now. The AAU was a decent federation until 2000 when they stopped drug testing. The AAU started with the RAW thing in the 90's. This is what got me back into powerlifting after getting sick the gear in the 80's. Now they are drug testing, they are doing the same things the other rogue federations are doing to get lifters. Classes and trophies for everyone. Do note the AAU has gotten very strict on drug testing and judging, likely contributing to the low totals.

This forum is a joke. Powerlifting is a joke. Powerlifting has become a trophy happy dirt bag sport with old timers (including me) who are bitter because they put too much effort into a loser sport and got nothing out of it. This plus the way too many for profit federations, classes, the zoot suits and shirts, and money grubbers all fighting over the bread crumbs that powerlifting spits out. Powerlifting should not be in the Olympics.

My recommendation to newbies, forget powerlifting and take up Olympic weightlifting. It is a real sport that takes smarts, skill, in addition to strength. In addition, the injury rate is much lower. Plus you will not have to spend hundreds in ridiculous gear. Do not make the same mistake I made.

Forum moderators: If you want powerlifting to have any credibility, get the foul mouthed losers and anoms off this site. Oh, I forgot, you are also grubbing for those bread crumbs.

John Polak

To Jadair0200-first of all I got all my lifts except for the one bench when my foot slipped and my last DL which I flat out missed so I don't know what you're referring to about my lifts not even being parallel. I am an experienced IPF lifter and my squats are always deep. I have never missed a squat on depth. As far as yelling at a little 16 year old that is not what happened. I was trying to cheer her up because she was crying the whole meet. I was trying to make her feel better so I am sorry if you construed that as yelling. I was trying to make her not take missing a lift so seriously. As far as the judging it was inconsistent but fair. I was not the only one who noticed it as many others were complaining about it too. I don't know who you are but you sure didn't have the balls to come up to me in person and tell me any of this to my face.

shouldn't a world meet list countries rather than states?

Too many division is true.

This is like Ryan Kennelly said, powerlifting is not a sport its a hobby.

Olympic Weightlifting is a sport. this is just something you come in to see how much you can lift for yourself. There is no real sport in the sense that you are competing in an event because there is not competition.

I have competed 5 times this year, and only twice was there any one else there to compete against. Once there was one other guy, and the other time is going to be at the WDFPF Worlds.

Its not fun, and its lame.

We need open divisions.

Congratulations to the one fella who managed to claim 8 world championships in the same meet.

That's pretty funny to read.

Simple solution: Don't let the door hit you on the way out.

How bitter can one guy be? What did you WANT to get out of it? The day it wasn't fun, you should've quit.

You're certainly entitled to your opinion, no matter how dumb it is.

NOW we're getting to the reason you're upset. All you had was strength - no smarts or skill, and you wonder why you never succeeded. What's wrong with being a raw champion?

Cry in your beer a little more, will ya? Are you using wi-fi from some honky-tonk internet cafe?

Just worry about yourself, and forget about trying to tell Jon how to run this site.

You know when a fed loses credibility? When a weak and lazy, non-squatting, non-DLing bastard like me would have taken home numerous World Championship titles. And not just uncontested ones either.

Not to say that all lifts were poor. I saw some great numbers for some people, and I assume all lifters did their best. But is this world caliber lifting? No. National caliber? No. State? Maybe. In a bad year.

Morgan

Obviously all but one of you guys were not there and don't know that there was indeed WADA drug testing conducted (AAU has not abandoned drug testing, if you believe this, come on out and try them lol - lift enough and YOU WILL BE TESTED). I talked to 2 of the three I'm aware of for sure who were tested by the way, there may have been more. That's WADA testing, not just a steroid panel - and it's a $216 full screen. Same one the Olympics uses. Same one that Mr. Matsumoto unfortunately failed at IPF - it catches a lot of things people use to cheat as well as the main substances. It also has the full WADA procedure and this means the rights of lifters are protected and it is independently conducted.

I don't see why Mr. Bruner feels a need to attack AAU - His federation (USPF) just went double ply - since when is that a good thing for PL? AAU is consistent in its support of raw powerlifting and it's just a belt, no halfway "RAW" of "knee sleeves" or other accommodations. Like AAU or not, they remain a consistent federation and haven't bent to the pressure of adding additional ply equipment. Their rules of performance make sense and there's a lot of refs who come from other federations to support them - some USPF refs too by the way?

It can be argued that double ply is more a threat to PL overall (and triple etc) than Raw is - because Raw doesn't allow anything but the lifter - and double ply is another layer - if you can't do it in single ply, then it's your equipment and not YOU!

Can AAU do some things better? sure. But no federation is immune from this criticism and the sport in general has too many "champions".

I can only conclude Mr. Bruner has felt somehow threatened by AAU's putting on a competition on the East Coast somehow? Perhaps he should consider doing an AAU competition instead of talking it down, from outside? I hear there's a nice meet next month, come on down Tim...

The times to come will test many federations and change may improve some, or eliminate others as people select which federations to support and which to abandon. AAU will change with the needs of its lifters and I believe they will survive the economic downturns and other challenges in our sport.

Congratulations to Steve and Judy Woods, and their helper Jill on a well run and pleasant competition.

Hold on Mr. Anonymous AAU lifter?

I was not attacking AAU, I was pointing out how stupid RAW and the sport has gotten! Way too many fuck ups (like Rich Peters) got many to think that meets directors need to give everyone a award for paying an entry fee!

He saw this "need" some years ago and as I said 90% of entries want an award and not competition. So it spread like fire to other feds. So to keep up then more and more divisions were created to allow more losers to become winners! AAU is just one like many feds that has gone this way!

Then the curl was thrown in for the losers of losers. So now we have RAW. Raw with knee wraps and belt and wrist wraps? I mean are some of you really that stupid or that desperate to be a "winner" even with no one in your class?

We use to tell our kids to keep raising the bar and go faster and be stronger and run faster. Now we as adults show our kids how to run from competition and to make up "new" events with no other entries to be a winner! I guess it is we will leave no loser behind.

Now our next Prez is telling us and the kids to make only so much money and anything more we will give it to the losers who are too stupid or lazy to make it on their own!

late

I also am very offended by Mr. Adair's wording. I'm sure his parents would be proud that he knows how to spell 4 letter words and that his education was well worth it. If Mr. Adair had bothered to contact me regarding his name not being on the final results I would have immediately checked into what was going on. It so happens there was a computer glitch (an extra space was before his name so the computer did not grab his results). I am truly sorry I screwed his entire life up over a simple mistake that he would rather slander us than simply call us and try to clarify what happened. This young man obviously has alot of growing up to do if he thinks bullying people will make him become something. As far as having all of the categories for AAU the lifters are the ones that reguested the multitude of categories because they did not want the competition. All they wanted was to make sure they have a first place trophy and a title. VA Powerlifting spent a solid year advertising in different magazines, had meet flyers on the websites and even posted the meet flyer on the international websites for all of the federations. We had numerous foreign lifters contact us and we sent out a number of letters of intent to the embassy's but our economy is at big time low and people are jobless and some even homeless. As a meet director we spend countless hours on the phone and computer returning calls and emails, meet expenses come out of our pockets and our family takes a back seat for several months prior to a meet just so we can accommodate the lifters and give them a decent meet. We don't do this for the money because if we did we would have gotten out of it along time ago, we do it for the passion of the sport. So those lifters who have totally bad mouthed our meets I say thank you. We are always open to suggestions to make our meets superior over others. I will approach the AAU National Board and give them your suggestions for impr ovement. To those lifters who did not have the "guts" to call us direct and voice their concerns and complaints I wish you luck lifting in other meets.

Respectfully Submitted,
Judy Wood
Virginia Powerlifting Association
Co-Meet Director

We thought it was a great meet ran by class act people. I look forward to doing it again next year, and will bring the family next time.

Great job Judy. Thanks you.

-Rodney Allmn

ok well i wasn't insulted anyone in the AAU i merely saying that i wouldve liked more competition which i know the aau has no control over and that i wouldve appreciated my name being placed in the results since i did compete in the event and all... it was run well and thank you

again i apoligize if i offended any one in the AAU or involved in the meet....

Well yeah James you did offend me. In the future you need to think about what you post before you do. I have been around this sport for many years and have competed in many federations-both nationally and internationally. I have earned my respect from my fellow lifters and my numbers speak for themselves. At 55 years old and 128 lbs I am still able to compete with the best of them. In 2009 I will be at Raw Unity (qualified) and the Arnold (qualified) with lifters half my age. Where will you be?

If anything is killing Powerlifting it is the negativity of those who do not lift at the meet. I met Ellen and talked to her for the first time in my life at the meet. She is an intense competitor who leaves everything she has on the platform.
Steve and Judy are the kindest people and sacrifice a great deal so that the few of us who are left in this potentially great sport have a venue. Through Powerlifting I have made wonderful friends and have been able to look forward to competing, win or lose. It's about getting better at everything you do. It's about seeing someone who does a 400 squat at age 60+. It's seeing kids who are interested and doing well because powerlifting keeps them focused.
This is both a hobby and a sport. You can make anything you want out of it. BTW olympic lifting has age catagories too as well as multiple meets with few competitors. O lifting is a fantastic sport and I love it too. God bless all lifting sports and those who compete in them. If more of you came a lifted, meets would get better and others would come. If you love powerlifting, no matter where you are in life, training, or 1rm, lift in a meet. Get to know people and above all else stay positive.