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Lu Xiaojun & Liao Hui Heavy Weighted Dips & Human Flag

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(Originally posted July 28, 2013) Meanwhile in China … You already know about the use of bodyweight /gymnastics exercises by Chinese weightlifters (see their weighted Handstands for example). In the video today you will see Lu Xiaojun & Liao Hui doing Human Flags and heavy Weighted Dips. Lu does dips with 75kg and Tian Tao (田涛) […]

Chinese Weightlifting Experience

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Here is an interesting Sunday read. Update: Also read Larry’s Chinese Weightlifting Experience Series. Yatin Parasher shared his experiences visiting China’s weightlifting gyms. Where: “My China Experience” Thread on Pendlay Forum. Read the whole thing. He even started to upload some videos to his youtube channel. So subscribe for future uploads. Here are just a couple […]

Dmitry Klokov Interviews Dmitry Lapikov

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Continuing in his “On Par” Interview series … Dmitry Klokov interviews Dmitry Lapikov. Thanks to Evgeny Filatov for translating all of part 1 for us. Also thanks to Kirill Kazakov for adding in details. Update 08.08.2013: Part 2 is translated! Thanks to Kirill. Translation [00:00] KLOKOV: Greetings to our viewers. Today we will be talking “On Equal Terms” […]

Dmitry Klokov Interviews Khadzhimurat Akkaev

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Dmitry Klokov interviewed Khadzhimurat Akkaev. Check out Dmitry’s other interviews here. Update 04.08.2013: Translation completed! 16100 words! Update 11.09.2014: Read Akkaev’s 2014 Interview on ATG. Thanks to Kirill Kazakov and Vadim Pakhutkin for translating this for all of us.   Part 1 Translation of Part 1 Everything in square brackets are explanations of idioms or background info. KLOKOV: […]

David Rigert Interview

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David Rigert answered some questions from a popular Russian site called Shatoy. This is part 1 and here are some of the highlights (Thanks to Vadim). His Opinion on Power Jerks vs Squat Jerks Power Jerks are more efficient and definitely the way of the future.On Power Jerking: He has his reservations about Squat Jerking, […]

The Price of Gold Documentary

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Documentary Time … I recently watched The Price of Gold. It is a Swedish documentary that takes a look at what sacrifices elite athletes have to make in order to push human maximums for the sake of sport. For this they followed some of Sweden’s top track and field athletes (Carolina Klüft, Christian Olsson, Susanna […]