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Downward motion offers no advantage whatsoever. Hitching does however and we've seen in strongman dudes get it to the knees and either fail or hitch it up when it's a maximal pull.

Conveniently forgot to mention that he was caught using a squat plug…

Ayo. That's me! Thanks for answering the question bro.

Red lighting for downward motion in the squat and bench makes sense to me. It gives the spotters free reign to come in and rescue the lifter without worrying that they're stealing a potentially good lift away. But, yeah, that's not really a concern for the deadlift.

It’s tough to not ramp when you’re in a heavier weight class.

Some hitching videos are just downright painful to watch. Like the ones where people lean back 90⁰ to wedge themselves under the bar.

Bro, you look jacked. 💪

This is what everyone says when they can’t break the 500 mark

I just love seeing people do their best. Contests with judges no longer interest me, would much rather watch people work out at their home or gym. Who can deny a great lift when not expected? We must promote healthy ego lifting , if we can't have fun once in a while,.,.....

Lol matt looks big and shredded as fuck with that lighting😂

I tbnik hitching only should be banned

Hitching is tricky cause people will max out their technique and it will become “a different lift” like sumo. But the “downward motion” is kinda weird tbh, if you save a lift it was probably harder to begin with i don’t see what kind of advantage you would get from that.

Look at the adductors going crazy on our boy tho

I think hitching and downward is good in strongman. Vicious strength destruction of your body a total war. Powerlifting it's not really necessary

I’m not gonna consider that hitching the part where it makes contact with your thighs barely noticeable and it moves like an inch after that that’s just moving into lock out after contact with your thigh this is going to happen if you have big muscles it is inevitable so let’s not red lining it it would be different if he started dragging directly from the knees but he was pretty much At lock out by the time the bar touched his hip

I think hitching shouldn't be allowed because it makes the lift easier. I don't understand why downward motion is banned though. If anything it is even more impressive to work through a downward motion likely caused by some sort of misgroove and still complete the rep.

Suddenly I don't feel so bad about my 500lbs with a hitch

Thats because he did SUMO 😓

I kinda think hitching should be banned, but not downward motion. Although tbh, I’ve never had a deadlift max that I’ve felt hitching would’ve helped. Either it’s failing a couple inches off the floor or so, or once it passes the knees it’s going up. Might be different once you get into the 500s tho? Idk hitching never looked helpful, but does look horrible lol

Bro your arms go down to your knees that’s insane

But when you hitch you give your muscles a break by resting a portion of the weight on your legs. Taken to the extreme, what if you gave them a ten minute break?

Alternate grip sumo…the ultimate nerd.

I would be down for allowing downward motion, but not hitching personally

Downward motion makes it a harder lift that shouldn’t be banned

I can understand why hitching is banned but I agree with moving down being not being banned

powerlifters will make any excuse to ego lift and still have it "count"

Shows how big Matt actually is, he just always wears t-shirts lol

Do a poll which says which sport is better strong man or powerlifting I am curious what people say

I have no idea about lifting and health stuff but the ramping looks like it could be really bad for your knees or legs I don’t know tho

Naw he saw your sweet squat plug and got jealous

Downward movement definitions need to be changed, because I’ve seen a view where the bar comes up uneven and it gets red lights. Hitching with a certain intent is bad, but it’s hard to define that with words. Ramping maybe don’t allow positions where the weight is supporting you entirely. Or just look at the actual lift instead of just going by the textbook definition of the rules

Hitching AKA the "slide of shame".

It's not about whether it's an impressive lift it's about safe lifts

I wanna be so strong that the camera shakes like that.

Matt is jacked

Motion stopped at knee!

Every sumo lift should be red lighted

This guy flexes his neck and a foreign economy just crumbles, (nice neck dude).

I understand hitching because it is what happens when you’re unable to lock out smoothly, so it’s a strength issue. But downward motion makes absolutely no sense. It’s significantly harder. If you fight through accidental downward motion and bring it up to a clean lockout you literally had to do more work. Not that it should be rewarded but sure as hell not punished imo. At least not with a no lift

I saw a vid and the comments all said squat plug

Won’t both of these fuck up your back?

Damn this guy looks like Joji but jacked.

Isn’t this like kipping. Which is a way of muscle compensation

I understand hitching being banned but downward motion seems idiotic to me

Can some one tell me what sumo lifting is

When did joji start powerlifting?😂

ramping is ok in my opinion the heavy weight class boys need it with the extreme pulls

It was because hit but plug was to big 😉

Hitch straight up looks like cheating

Is this why joji disappeared? To pursue weightlifting?

Is Hitching a fair lift yes is it a good lift no hence why it's banned in comp

I don’t get why downward motion is banned, as if it would some how make the lift easier lol. Unless some extreme like slamming the weight down to bounce it back up like that one guy did.

Sumo is cheating so

Ur a literal bot complaining about the rules. Matter or fact powerlifting needs an even further standardization. We either pull sumo or conventional, 3 deadlifts need to stop so I think ban sumo but that’s just me

Weird how 1 cm bench ROM is allowed but not hitching

thats cheating!

Sumo doesn't count!

Power lifting gay

Ayo why tf u look and sound like joji

Yeah if downward motion occurs that doesn’t mean it’s a no lift as long as you go from top to bottom with the bar being in contact with just your body it counts I could go up and down 30 times and then finally decide to lock out on the 31st time and it still counts I could shake and have one side fall over but if my arms eventually lock it out it counts

Nah its not impressive because its NOT a deadlift lol Its like getting mad bcuz during a curl comp some guy swung the weight. Duh. Its not a curl.

Straight up, lifting sumo because you can not dead lift. Do it properly or save your back for old age.

Downward motion should be fine as long as the lift locks out. A small hitch should be fine as well but ramping shouldn't.

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Hitching is cheating. Downward motion shouldn't matter unless it touches the ground

What? That’s ridiculous. Struggling to push that bar that last bit is one of the most impressive parts of the lifts and shows how hard they are working to lift it.

I don’t agree. It not strength that making the lift. It’s technique making the lift. If they were strong enough to lift it. They would have lifted it

if you had to lift a car to save a kid, nobody's gonna care it touched your leg, i don't think it should be banned

It's all cheating!

Your still lifting tons of fucking weight why does it matter

Let them deadlift the way they want. Eventually we won’t see at the gym anymore due to fucking us a disc or similar. Problem solved