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07-31-2007, 08:28 AM
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Administrator
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Fabulous Fallbrook
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always trust your spotters...
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07-31-2007, 10:01 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2007
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He was lucky, 10 cm closer to the chin and he could have been dead... Reminds me of the old saying: "I'd rather be lucky than good..."
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07-31-2007, 11:18 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2006
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YIKES!
Reminds me of when I first started lifting (1979). I was working out at Rocky Mountain Health Club... Went in, started warming up. There was guy working bench (with a spotter) for multiple sets. He was probably on his fourth or fifth set as I finished my warm up and started working some MP. I wasn't paying him much attention, so I don't know how it happened, but, somehow he dropped the bar across his lower jaw, breaking it, as well as losing several teeth -- the spotter had to pull the weight off him. Blood everywhere... It was quite a mess...
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Chuck Kechter
www.chuckkechter.com
"Who cares if your "deadly art" was originally practiced in a temple in some obscure corner of Bangladesh if an ill-tempered girl scout with 6 months of boxing can knock the hell out of its practitioners?" --Mike Driscoll
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07-31-2007, 12:38 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Tucson, AZ
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Dude, benching to your throat/clavicles really emphasizes the chest...assuming you can still breathe after the accident!
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07-31-2007, 01:15 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Charleston, SC
Posts: 4,244
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Holy cow...ow.
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"And for crying out loud. Don't go into the pain cave. I can't stress this enough. Your Totem Animal won't be in there to help you. You'll be on your own. The Pain Cave is for cowards.
Pain is your companion, don't go hide from it."
-Kelly Starrett
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07-31-2007, 01:48 PM
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New Member
Join Date: Oct 2006
Posts: 29
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If you think bench pressing is
dangerous, you should hear what
people who have zilch OL experience
say about its dangers! Scary.
What is so hard about benching
in a cage with safety bars?
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07-31-2007, 03:07 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2006
Posts: 1,445
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The thumb-less bench grip almost won brother-man a Darwin award.
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"Survival will be neither to the strongest of the species, nor to the most intelligent, but to those most adaptable to change."
C. Darwin
Robb's Blog
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07-31-2007, 03:24 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2007
Posts: 1,669
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Well, that must have hurt a little bit i'd say.
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07-31-2007, 03:33 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2006
Posts: 958
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Yikes! Pretty disturbing, though I was relieved this wasn't another leg-snapping-during-the-squat vid.
btw, gold stars???
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07-31-2007, 05:34 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Louisville, KY
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Robb Wolf
The thumb-less bench grip almost won brother-man a Darwin award.
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That was the first thing I noticed too. Darwin narrowly misses. |
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