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EXCERPT FROM THE BOOK:
VINCE'S GYM
Rock
and I Force the Sandbaggers to Go All Out
As I have already mentioned, this meet was organized like I
never seen a meet before or since. Now it was time for me and
Rock to get some quick warm ups to prepare for our squats. We
had to list all of our opening attempts. These opening attempts
were listed on list that the organizers had in front of them.
The lists were available for any lifter to see. Mel and his
friends did not know what Rock and I had planned until the MC
called us up at the deck. Mel and his friends did their first
attempts before us because they were sandbagging. Mel and his
friends confronted us and they were very angry to say the least.
We both squatted close to 500 hundred pounds. This forced Mel to
squat close to 600 pounds.
Next was the bench. The entire meet was very confusing despite
the opening attempts that were listed on the sheets that the
organizers had at their tables. For some reason Tony wanting to
know how much I would bench
seemed to interest him more than what Rock was going to bench.
Neither Rock nor I was in Tony’s weight class, yet he watched me
like a covetous hawk. I got down with my last warm up and in the
confusion Tony had already perform his first and second attempt
in the competition. Both of his lifts were less than my warm up
weights, and he thought that my last warm up weight was my last
competition attempt. He seemed very pleased since He felt that
his last attempt would beat what he thought was my best bench.
When he asked
me what I had just gotten with my last attempt I told him that
it was my last warm up and I pushed out 335 pounds. This put him
in a state of alarm, because his second attempt had been at 325
which he barely got. He asked me what I would start with. I told
him I would start with 350 pounds. Tony freaked out and went
into a conference with Mel and friends.
They did the
usual snorting of smelling salts along with the slapping and
punching of each other. Tony gets down and tries 355 pounds for
his third attempt. The weight crushes him. He jumps up screaming
and kicking the bench. I go for my first attempt at 350 pounds
and I push it up easily. This causes him to kick the bleachers
and throw his gear bag across the room. I did a 360 pound bench
and then a 375 pound bench with ease.
Tony jumps up
knocking down both of the women that had been fawning on him and
screams at me, “Fuck you!!, and runs to the double doors of the
gym and slams them both open startling everyone in the gym, and
on the way out he screams, “Aahhhh!, Mother fucker!!”
Neo and Rock
calmly look at me with raise eyebrows.
Neo says, “I’d
say that bloke is a bit wonkers!”
The dead lift
went in the same manner as I out performed Tony in all three lifts, I out
performed the steroid lifters 220 pounder, and of course Mel did
better than me in all three lifts and his 275 pound friend came
in first and Rock got second place.
We forced them
all to forgo sandbagging and in the future they had to compete
in the class one meets, me included. Now people in the class two
and under could lift among a few less sandbaggers.
I managed to
come in first place in all three lifts for my weight class and I
came in second place in the category for best bencher pound for
pound with a 2.20 ratio, the guy who came in first place pound
for pound got a 2.21.
Mel got a 1.756 for his 425 pound bench in the 242 pound weight
class.
Mel and his
friends came over to express their anger and their sense of
betrayal. They were very careful not to talk too strongly to
Rock, because they knew that despite their greater strength Rock
had a reputation for being one of the biggest bad-asses in
Springfield and they saw what he was capable of on a speed bag
and the heavy bag. With Neo, they ignored him, and with me their
tone and manner was stronger. I must admit that I was a bit
fearful and as they were loudly expressing their rage, my little
ole’ sphincter and my conjoined twin with his boys, tighten
right up to prepare for a physical assault.
Mel and his
friends said, “You just lost eight members buddy!”
They marched
right out of the gym.
MOST PEOPLE TALK BULLSHIT:
One Primate's Search For Intelligent Life
(GENESIS)
MOST PEOPLE TALK BULLSHIT:
One Primate's Search For Intelligent Life
(EXODUS)
MOST PEOPLE TALK BULLSHIT:
One Primate's Search For Intelligent Life
(REVELATIONS)
MOST PEOPLE TALK BULLSHIT:
One Primate's Search For Intelligent Life
(JUDGMENT DAY)
ADVENTURES IN MARINE BIOLOGY
THE MARINES: GOD'S CHOSEN
WARRIORS
CONVERSATIONS WITH NEO
NEO TEACHES ME THE ART OF WAR
& PEACE;
His Version of The Matrix
MEMORIES OF MY FATHERS
ZEN & THE ART OF RESISTANCE
TRAINING:
A Yogic & Scientific Approach To Weight
Lifting
ZEN & THE BIOLOGY OF
TRANSCENDENCE:
The First Matrix of Psychic
Phenomena
ZEN & THE ART OF KINESIOLOGY:
The Yogic & Scientific
Approach To Movement
ZEN & YOUR ENERGY SYSTEMS
ZEN & VARIOUS ASPECTS OF
TRAINING
HOMEPAGE TO VINCE'S GYM
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