Topic: Please Introduce Yourself

[dbneon]

Name: Alvaro
Age: 23
Gender: Male
Occupation: Recent graduate
Location: London, UK
Team: None
How did you get started/involved in weightlifting?: American Football lifting programme
Years involved in weightlifting: very sparingly for 4 years
Athletic achievements: UK Youth Football Champion back to back
Role in weightlifting: Not very sure... don't play football anymore but I still train like I do
Coaching/educational credentials: None
Favorite weightlifter: Right now, Lu Yong, but I don't know enough about the sport
Interests other than weightlifting: Finance, politics, American Football, aggressive inline, Christianity
Other information you would like to share: I hope I'll be able to get my technique critiqued here... Snatches and cleans, not really doing jerks at the moment.

[Simon Klimesh]

Name: Simon Klimesh
Age: 24
Sport: Weightlifting
Bodyweight: 77kg
Currently: A student at University of Wisconsin-River Falls. A future high school teacher.
A member: of Minnesota Weightlifting Federation
Current LWC: Team Spartacus, coaches Brian Derwin and Gregg Hadley
Favorite weightlifter: Taner Sagir
How I got into weightlifting: It must have been my sophmore year in high school, I saw a video of Naim Suleymanoglu doing a 190 clean and jerk at the 1988 Olympics and at that moment I knew I wanted to become a weightlifter. Prior to this I played two years of JV football and also a year of JV Wrestling and we did lift some weights. Doing the power clean for those sports really got me motivated to discover other similar lifts. And so it began.

[Arra Tonks]

Name:Yanis Michelle
Age:21
Gender:female
Occupation:student...at the moment
Location:Puerto Rico
Team:UPRM
How did you get started/involved in weightlifting?:tried out for the team
Years involved in weightlifting:3 years
Athletic achievements: 2 medals
Role in weightlifting: athlete
Coaching/educational credentials:none in weightlifting...mostly engineering
Favorite weightlifter: Dymas and Leydi Solis
Interests other than weightlifting:Aerospace
Other information you would like to share:  I'm a Christian and I've never used anabolic steroids

[ldskenpo]

Name: Robert Armstrong
Age: 37
Gender: male
Occupation: US Army Infantryman
Location: FT Hood, TX/ over here...
Team: no team
How did you get started/involved in weightlifting?: started lifting weights in '06 to relieve stress as a Drill Sergeant, first competition as a powerlifter this past February (10),want to try a local weightlifting comp when I get back
Years involved in weightlifting: 3 months?
Athletic achievements: World Record Bench press-unequipped DRUG-FREE, 2010 NASA Novice Athlete of the Year
Role in weightlifting: gym rat
Coaching/educational credentials:none
Favorite weightlifter: Grimek
Interests other than weightlifting:Powerlifting, church,family
Other information you would like to share: gonna be back stateside in 2012

[oldgit]

i am an ex-powerlift champ from the uk-i am now 43! i want to be half-decent as a masters lifter and continue into my later years if god wills it! i have access to top gb lifters and this helps alot-my technique will never be perfect but its getting better-ive been told you need 5 years to begin to be proficient! i have qualified for gb masters champs 2 years running-my 1st 2 years of weightlifting! and now just qualied for the european masters2 champs-so im not rubbish-but still only lifting 80% of the totals that win my age group euro and worlds titles. i hope by age 50-54 group to have narrowed that % so maybe i will lift 90% of the very best lifters of my age. i am a 105kg+ lifter so i do not train as frequently as lighter masters lifters seem to-i do 3 days a week! due to knee ops,i am careful not to overtrain them too much! i hope to 1 day meet some of the lifters here in international comps and gain even more knowledge

[morgan]

Name: Tony Morgan
Age:42
Gender: Male
Occupation: Personal Trainer
Location: Royston, England
Team: Train alone mainly
How did you get started/involved in weightlifting?: older brother
Years involved in weightlifting: since 1977
Athletic achievements: Olympic games 1992, 3 Commonwealth Games
Role in weightlifting:Athlete/coach
Coaching/educational credentials:
Favorite weightlifter: Yanko Rusev
Interests other than weightlifting: My Family
Other information you would like to share:

[Matt_Griff]

Name: Matt Griff
Age: 30
Gender: Male
Occupation: Finance
Location: Birmingham UK
Team: No affiliate team
How did you get started/involved in weightlifting?: After admiring the lifting for may years I decided to give it a shot following a transition from Powerlifting to strongman primarily to assist with overhead work and explosive lifting.
Years involved in weightlifting: Two months
Athletic achievements: Boxing ABA championships quarter final (junior), Played rugby in the first division, Won several powerlifting shows including setting deadlift records. St Ives strongest man 2010
Role in weightlifting: Novice
Coaching/educational credentials: Nothing specifically relating to weightlifting
Favorite weightlifter: Misha
Interests other than weightlifting: Strongman, Powerlifting, Rugby Union, Basketball, NFL, Boxing and MMA
Other information you would like to share: Just a hi there and hello to all

[Joe Diver]

Name: Joe Sullivan
Age: 54
Gender: male
Occupation: Commercial Diver
Location: Deer Isle, Maine
How did you get started/involved in weightlifting?: Started lifting in High School
Years involved in weightlifting: On and off for 40 years
Athletic achievements: At one point could bench 405 lbs.
Role in weightlifting: strictly for staying in shape
Interests other than weightlifting: Hunting, Fishing, Foundry

I work on the road and when business is good I have to pretty much stop lifting. When it slows down I start lifting again.
I love lifting but Im finding it harder to get started these days. Olympic weightlifting is new to me, in fact I've never done it
at all. I have a 134 kg oly weight set, a bench, curl bar, dumb bells and "home brew" chin bar, dip station and row machine.
I have a lot of questions. Thanks in advance for baring with me.

Joe Diver