Competition Report: 2011 IKFF Nationals

Well I've done this last year and you think I'd learned my lesson the first time. But sadly I am stubborn and a poor learner so I had to do it again and this time with company. This around the drive was a lot easier as I had two of my students Christina and Brandon to share the load, this certainly made the 3am drive to Detroit a lot easier.

44reps in at 7RPM and the bells slipped.... Crap....

Long Cycle:
Well my performance was not all the stellar, poor really. I was a bit tired by I felt confident that I could get 70reps in Long Cycle, it's what I've been training for. I had the honor of having my good friend John Wild Buckley by my side for the set. I kept a good pace and things were going pretty well, I was a bit tired but nothing out of the ordinary. I didn't bother to chalk my bells as I generally don't do that in training so I didn't bother to do it at the competition, big mistake. Just after the 6min mark I felt the right bell slipping a bit but thought it would be alright. Well big mistake on the drop from rack the handle slipped out of my grip and the bell hit the other and both dropped out of my grip... Shit... Just plain shit... Very disappointing way to end several months of training, I really got nothing more say about that. Luckily I was given a half pound peanut butter cup to help soften the blow of such a crushing defeat.

Everything goes better with peanut-butter even crushing defeat.

Well it was a crushing day personally but life must move on. As for the competition, it was the biggest one in North America to date and it was very well run. I had a chance to judge once again and I have to say the both the level of judging and competitors has improved dramatically over the last year or so. Congrats to all who were involved in this past weekends competition.