RE: Sports Equipment - (With no mention of Benchshirts)

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Burkhardt [emburkha@...] wrote:

<All PL would have do is the same thing WL has done twice in

the 90s - change the weight categories. PL could then start competing in

all new (slightly different) weight categories without gear - a clean slate.>

Changing the weight classes is good for the sport? I'm sure there are a few

old timers would would love to see their records set in gear untouched for

ever. But that isn't going to happen . The sport of powerlifting doesn't

want to give up equipment. This whole unequipped thing only happened about 6

or 7 years ago.

It is all but dead on the vine. I believe even the IPF signed

an agreement to not sanction meets with unequipped divisions when it first

started and got sick of all the whining and crying they brought and won't even

allow the discussion of unequipped lifting on their forum. The APF and IPA

won't

run them, nor will the WABDL. The only organization left is the AAU and one of

their very insignificant splinter organizations. I know of 2 or 3 good meet

directors that have left the AAU because of their insistence to run unequipped

meets. Both pro organizations won't laugh at unequipped divisons.