Coast Barbell at The Nth Island PL Champs

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North Island Powerlifting Champs at Tauranga

Well run by Warren and his crew and a pretty good venue. This association really has it going on when it comes to recruitment, hospitality (other than the usual cold shoulder from a couple of up themselves masters) good venues and prizes, trophies and lifter recognition in general. Well Done WBOP Powerlifting Association.

Coast Barbell Club fielded 7 of the 40 lifters (not bad for a small non profit club in Whangaparaoa that has been running for 3 years) and made up over 1/2 of the Auckland Team!

We fund raised with sausage sizzles, the club donated all its profit from drink and supplement sales and we were sponsored by some great people (you know who you are) so that we could afford to take 11 members down with mini bus and trailer, put them up in accomodation for the night before and pay all entry fees for lifters. Rachel and I also sponsored a sum into the fund to square away all the little loose ends.

So without further ramblings here's how the team went:

Women

Rachel Master 1 - 2 records (bench and deadlift) and

Best Overall Master Female Lifter

Emma - Sub Jnr - 4 records (Squat, bench, deadlift and total)

Best Female Junior and only just beaten by Sharnell Duncan for Best Overall Female Lifter

Rachelle - 1st place Master 1 63kg Class and a good 240kg Raw total.

Rechelle - Sadly after squatting and benching superbly (very fast 70kg bench press at 55kg) she was retired injured with a strain in the upper back on her first deadlift attempt. Everyone was gutted as she was having a great day and was looking like it was going to be a very good total. She will be OK with a little rest and recovery work though and will be back!

Tina - a new lifter with CBC and a real trooper posting a 235kg raw total.

The girls combined effort also meant they took home the

Womens Team Trophy (Donated by Cathy Millen and Graeme Fong)

Mens

Rikki - Man has he improved! Awesome to watch his progress this year. 255kg squat, 155 bench and a 240kg deadlift and a 650kg total at 92kgs. Well done mate!

Greg - Greg has been lifting for over a decade and after powerlifting with us for about a year now has made some real improvements in technique and strength. He posted a 285kg squat, 227.5kg (500lb) bench and pulled a 252.5 deadlift with a 765kg total at 117kgs -He came 2nd. Nice job big fella! Now lets get back in the gym and sort out an 800+

Special thanks has to go out to Robbie, Harley and John for helping out and assisting our lifters. Without good support you you can really struggle and the time and effort that goes into our lifters really shows.

Other Notes:

We (support crew not lifting) did a train in a commercial gym while we were away. Needless to say we are looking forward to getting back into our usual training dungeon! Although I do have mean quad DOMs from the leg pressing.

Cider sucks.

Those of you that gave us the "cold shoulder" because we made a legitimate complaint against a referee a few months ago suck too. You are not ambassadors to the sport like you probably think you are. I know what Alf Stewart would say....

The Crazy Banana Van rulz...K! This mighty steed carried about a ton a humans, dragged a full luggage trailer and had enough windows to let Harleys farts escape without anyone suffering full blown lung disease. Shut up your arse!

The KFC pie is a let down.

7 powerlifters can share 1 toilet...just not at the same time.

Craig Ebborn gets our most consistent referee award. He also has a good crop of hair as the footage has revealed.

June Johnstone (sp) is very helpful.

Big Dan from Kiwi Strength...cheers for the supps we won bro!

You tank!

I'd never thought I'd see the day there was a CAPO shirt on a NZPF platform.

Brett Gibbs is the next Ed Coan

Reuben Simanu will squat 390kgs soon.

I wont.

Quotes of the trip

"Hes one hell of a great technical lifter but hes also one hell of an areshole"

"Oh myyyyyy God!"

"I'll bite your face *&%$"

"Is she on facebook? Lets hook him up!"

"Is the Cul-de-sac full"

"Shut up!"

"We should've got another box"

"Where have Jess and John gone?"

"There's a difference between being a F&$%#*n phaggott and being being a gay"

"Do you feel that cold draft in here"

"You can get a $10 blowjob round here"

"Make sure you weigh you underpants separately"

Transmission ends.

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Video will follow....

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Congrats to the CBC team

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Congrats to the CBC team

Thanks G 8)

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Team CBC going from Strength to Strength every competition, hard work makes the Coach very proud. :clap: :clap: Keep it Up TCBC