... technique is that of the 'Hoi'man. I mentioned this to the bunch at Laughlin that Hoi does almost a kata of movements prior to deadlifting. Looks pretty cool. Watson does an 'arms up and dive', but lacks that eastern mysticism.
Lo and behold, Harnek Rai posts a bunch of old power lifting and there is Hoi caught in mid trance.
I shared the image with the martial artists in the dept and they fully understood how/why Hoi, or any other individual, would use such a ritual to prepare for a significant feat.
Thanks for sharing the image. ------------------------------------------- "The human genome stopped evolving thousands of years ago. The growth of our brains decided our bodies didn't need to evolve anymore. Perhaps that has now backfired."
... technique is that of the 'Hoi'man. I mentioned this to the bunch at Laughlin that Hoi does almost a kata of movements prior to deadlifting. Looks pretty cool. Watson does an 'arms up and dive', but lacks that eastern mysticism.
Lo and behold, Harnek Rai posts a bunch of old power lifting and there is Hoi caught in mid trance.
I shared the image with the martial artists in the dept and they fully understood how/why Hoi, or any other individual, would use such a ritual to prepare for a significant feat.
Thanks for sharing the image.
Hoi is a lot of fun and a totally spontaneous guy. After being in Europe for the Men's IPF championships he travelled around for a couple of minths and showed up unannounced to coach our bench press team in Finland. That guy could talk his way in anywhere. He managed to talk his way into one of the private sauna clubs (the ones where they jump into the sea in December afterwards) We were 4 Canadians walking around Vaasa in the dark with just our track suits on. He was out of powelifting for a while after taking a job as a dive instructor on a Carribiean tour boat. -- Bob Mann Help save trees. Wipe your ass with an owl.
