What? Olympic squatters? Sth like this doesn't exist, unless u mean olympic weightlifters who do squat, but there was none of them. And btw, olympic weightlifters don't need a spot in squat.
well,i bet there are regular 14 year olds who can help you spotting(not eddie hall weight ofc),in fact i've seen some at my gym it shouldnt be any problem but those in the video are some vegan kids or something,i think i was stronger at 11 than them
The strength of the kid isn’t the problem, at least for the first squat, the real problem is that he doesn’t actually know how to spot in the first place
That kid as well as other "spotters" could have seriously messed themselves up, that horrible form and approach to lift the weight so desperately. I'm sure more than one of them teared something.
"Let's watch the slow-mo and see what happened here" What happened was you put a fuckin 12 yr old on one side of the bar and two full grown adults on the other side. Who plans this shit
Because these were the only poor chaps that volunteered. The majority of people don't volunteer to spot for comps as it is very physically and mentally demanding.
I've seen this video so many times and it never fails to blow my mind that they let a small child spot by themselves. Why would you have two people on one side and a kid on the other. Genuinely don't understand how no one stopped that from happening.
Why the hell would they put children who have never even lifted as spotters???? Really shows the level of intelligence of the staff that makes these decisions.
i don't understand why they don't have a hydraulic spotting system or at least safety arms at these levels of competitions. these are the heaviest lifts of the world - protect them.
For anyone talking about the last clip where he fell out. The guy behind him is actually spotting correctly. You’re supposed to get under him and lift him up. It’s the guy on the right he had the bar to low he wasn’t strong enough. That’s why they switched him out.
Only one spotter was doing his job half right. You can't stand on the end of 400kg and bicep curl it up with your wrists, you need to hug the weights themselves not the bar. The inner left spotter was half right. Needed to be closer. Rear spotter should have followed the lifter down completely instead of halfassing it at the end. Absolutely pathetic
@Victor Zhan huh? So having 3 guys blocking the view offers more visibility than a tiny bar? Plus they only need to put it there once and they need to go there to setup the rest anyway.
Assuming that you have good spotters there wouldn't be a need for that, in most powerlifting meets if someone fails a lift the spotters help him rerack the bar. Dropping it in the middle of the room would be messy, probably dangerous for people around and I guess it would be expensive to have to constantly switch bent safety bars and barbells.
For anyone wondering what the last guy was doing, there was nothing wrong with him. He thought the bar was going down so he tried to lunge forward so as to avoid being crushed. The back middle spotter was completely oblivious to this for some reason and kept a grip on him. That "convulsing" was him trying to break free from his own spotter. Absolutely horrible job by these spotters. Management put the lives of all of these competitors at risk at this meet. Personally if I would've seen this sort of spotting happening before I went up I would've never gotten under the bar.
at 3:15 the spotter directly behind him fucked up. He trapped the guy under the weight of the bar, thats why the guy was trying to bail from underneath because he was trapped, it looked like he was convulsing. at that point you step out from behind him and just let him drop the bar on the ground
@@darren561 the body naturally has to send many signals to stabilizing muscles to keep stable in a lift, as well as recruiting all the main muscle fibers. During heavy lifts, the brain sends uneven trigger signals to the muscles which creates that little shake that happens in these heavy lifts. It worsens with time under that heavy tension. When the dude failed, he was in a bad position to squat, he had been under that extremely heavy weight for a long time, the spotters were lifting the weight in an unbalanced manner, he was probably scared af because he could injure himself, and the spotter behind him pulled him off balance All in all, just leads to a very scared and plain stressed nervous system which cant control the body well, with almost 1000 uneven pounds on it's back, and someone pulling that body, all in a quick manner that would be hard to react to. Its surprising how he shot out spazzing like that but he had no control of his body at that point, it was his brain just firing away
Literally have CHILDREN spotting for PROFESSIONAL POWER LIFTERS. I’m quite a big guy but my no means the size of these guys, and not moving nearly the same weight. My spots in the gym are bigger, stronger and more competent.
Spotting at this level requires legitimate expertise. It’s the organisers fault for just throwing together a bunch of guys who work out a little and expecting it to be safe.
This makes me so mad to watch. Not only are the spotters obviously not strong enough to be spotting the weight, they don't care at all about doing their job either. I'd be pissed if my gym partner acted like this, let alone at a meet of this level.
you would think it’d make sense for the spotters to first test bringing the weight down and back up to test if they can do it comfortably, before the actual lift
@@user-zz7wh5ls7j yes, but it makes no sense to actually count on it…what if the lifter can’t help (something snaps/they pass-out etc)? the spotters need to be fully able to take over the full weight
Do they pay their spotters by body weight or something? I don't see why they would hire literally the smallest kids they can find for a fucking POWERLIFTING spotter
“ we’re short on spotters today. Any kids with severe ADHD and a body weight of less than 60 kilos want to volunteer to risk injury and death of everyone on stage tonight?”
Yo dude i know that this comment is old,but you are kinda stupid, i'm 16 and a half and you can clearly see that i'm pretty big,i have like 46-47,5 ish cm arms something like that and ive seen manny people like you,who looked like sticks or fat all their life and thinking that you have to be 20+ to be big while on gear and this is straight bs,if you go to gym at like 14 to 20 and knowing what you doing you will look better than people that take steroids(well atleast for my genetics) and i'm not that impressive look at Larry Wheels at 18- th-cam.com/video/uRca6khflrw/w-d-xo.html
Why the fuck do they have spotters that look like they can't even lift a 10 pound dumbbell. If I was a competitor I would want someone who looks like they can handle it if shit hit the fan. This was frustrating as hell to watch.
I once was squatting 585 lbs (265 kg) and i looked at my 19 year old maybe 160 lb left spotter thinking, how is this kid supposed to help me? I talked with the director and he said, "youll be fine, your spotters were trained and know what to do". I was confident that i could get it being below my max but i leaned forward too much and the weight fell on me, the right side went up but the kid (i dont blame him, he was giving everything he had) couldnt get it off. My two friends ran up and got the weight off after a solid 10 seconds. I got up, walked to the director and yelled as loud as i could "I FUCKING TOLD YOU YOU NEEDED TO CHANGE THE SPOTTER, THAT KID PROBABLY COULDNT DEADLIFT HALF OF WHAT YOU TOLD HIM TO FRONT SQUAT! ARE YOU ALL THIS FUCKING STUPID I COULD HAVE BROKEN MY BACK!" I got dq'd for that.
Andrew Jatib I would compete elsewhere. Who cares about drug free, we're freaks. ORDER 66 THE USAPL. I'm glad I never competed in any of their meets. I've heard nothing but bad things. They seem like a bunch or robots with no personalities. Can't stand that.
Isn’t it weird how people tend to ask someone who they think can handle the weight they’re about to lift when at the gym? When I’m benching my 305 max, I usually won’t ask a 90lb woman to spot me.
well, that 50 kilo kid is not at fault here. who the FUCK hired HIM as a SPOTTER? man, just make him offer water to the athletes but dont put him there to potentially lift 3 times his weight at the end of a bar
Everyone is a volunteer at a powerlifting meet. High school boys are usually the most readily available supply of spotter/loaders. Usually anyone who's big enough for the job is lifting in the meet.
This shouldn't even be an issue in the first place. How is there no safety equipment, like a metal rack that the weight can rest on if the athlete can't handle it??? Most modern gyms have that.
Nobody gets it with last one. The guy forces the lifters lower back to bend more by lifting him up against the weight...... which is going down. Hence the spastic display
These "spotters" dont even know how to squat.. It is impossible to lift such weights the way they do.. like the guy at 2:55 .. And why the f*ck do they have a KID spotting these heavy lifts?
I'm not sure. Not long ago they put rules in saying you can't have anyone but whos provided as a spotter. Its kind of a bullshit play because safety should be the most important thing. A lot of people are more comfortable going all out on the lift with people they know can spot. Thats not always the case but i've seen more people hurt over this bullshit
"hey kid, you been to the gym before?
"Yeah, one or two times"
"Great, spot this lifter next"
The kid actually answered like Homer: "GYM? What's a GYM?"
Kid: Pokémon Gyms?
That's what happens when u pay minimum wage lol
"Hey, kid, c'mere. You know what a barbell looks like?"
"Uhhhh, yeah. I guess."
"You're hired!"
also works like this:
"Hey, kid, c'mere. You know what a barbell looks like?"
"Uhhhh,, no?"
"You're hired!"
These spotters need spotters.
The spotters have skinny legs.
Jajaj
bruh I have the same name, super confused at first lmao
So true, the spotters are so thin!
Hahaha 😂😂
They literally have kid as a spotter??? Bullshit.
i tried to fart but accidentally shit myself
💀
They’ll be having fetuses under the bar soon
I am using air as a spotter, noob
@@Ema-fm5zy well if the air touches your bar...you fail the lift
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Commentator: "The spotter having a hell of a hard time getting the weight up"
The spotter: literally a fucking child
Why is a 14 year old boy spotting Olympic squatters
Cost cutting I think
Read intro.
What? Olympic squatters? Sth like this doesn't exist, unless u mean olympic weightlifters who do squat, but there was none of them. And btw, olympic weightlifters don't need a spot in squat.
@@bartek4836 this^^
@@michaelelder6182 thx, english isn't my first language but I'm trying to do better
You CAN’T convince me that there are a shortage of strong potential spotters AT A POWERLIFTING EVENT.
There’s a guy in blue, bald with a beard in the crowd that’s as big as the powerlifters 🤦♂️
it's so nice to have all these spotter fails in one place
You are welcome, enjoy and use them well :)
Thanks, Alex. Hopefully I can help raise awareness of this problem.
+Infinite Elgintensity haha fuck yes.
+Infinite Elgintensity another fake
+Alexander Daniel G. Larsen (AlexanderDGL) good luck get them next time champ..
The kid on the right isn’t even strong enough to curl a 20... why’s he getting forced to be a spotter?
Who's forcing him exactly?
@@denxx56 not forced but common sense if you are 70kl dont spot a guy that lift 220 kl in a squad is stupid
@@brayanivan9253 exactly, it's the kids fault as well
@@denxx56 He only had the power to fuck up because he was put there. I doubt he was the only person to sign up
@@solitaryconfinement1975 well he signed up didn't he? It's both of their faults, the kids and of course the organizers too
someone please explain to me why a weak kid is a spotter? this actually angers me
Someone from the organizer's family, that's how it works
well,i bet there are regular 14 year olds who can help you spotting(not eddie hall weight ofc),in fact i've seen some at my gym it shouldnt be any problem but those in the video are some vegan kids or something,i think i was stronger at 11 than them
@@eugenegrindfor5090 no way. They can’t even deadlift there on body weight lol.
The strength of the kid isn’t the problem, at least for the first squat, the real problem is that he doesn’t actually know how to spot in the first place
That kid as well as other "spotters" could have seriously messed themselves up, that horrible form and approach to lift the weight so desperately.
I'm sure more than one of them teared something.
why’d they have a 100 pound 12 year old spot a 400+ squat im gone
especially while two guys twice his age are spotting the other side. 😶
Black dude was like “ who’s man’s is this?”
Why wouldnt they just use a power rack with safetys and not even need spotters? This is like a circus
@@Discipleofthelordandjesushuh
@@Andrew-iq5udare you talking about a smith machine? That’s not the same as back squats
How about putting guys who lift weights as spotters
That makes too much sense for the IPF
"Pfff nah how bout my 12 year old nephew? He'd definitely love to do it"
So they are squatting 500 pounds and they have a kid spotting that can’t even lift 50, brilliant
Chili 💀💀😂
You know, cheap..
Not the kids fault. The fault goes to the manager that thinks the kids can help in those situations.
the manager never been inside a gym
wtf is he doing with his ear tho? Also, how stupid can you be to not pay attention for 10 FUCKING SECONDS. Kid is ill or something.
Yes the fault lies with both of them. No such thing as just following orders. The kid should have declined.
-edit: it's also the lifters fault...
Some of them weren't even paying attention tho, so I guess we can add their parents as well.
@@M60gunner1971 how is it the lifters fault tf?
why the fuck there is some 15yo kid spotting hundreds of kilos LOL
The fact that they have children spotting at all is a joke
They could have randomly chose some people from the crowd and got better spotters
The horrible part of this is I believe at the beginning of the video the commentators are talking about people volunteering to help. Texas...
@@facetiouslyinsolent8313 What's wrong with Texas???????
Bro why the fuck are they hiring kids that probably can’t even open the pickle jar for high level powerlifting competitions lmao
Lmao I totally agree
Better question why did this get recommended to so many of us four years after it was posted
@@milesdurvasula8063 that’s a good question
"Let's watch the slow-mo and see what happened here" What happened was you put a fuckin 12 yr old on one side of the bar and two full grown adults on the other side. Who plans this shit
stupid people, stupid people who don't think to worry about the safety of the lifters.
americans
I wont allow a 14 year old to spot for me unless he looks like he does roids for breakfast lunch and dinner
😂😂😂
this dude then th-cam.com/video/kvCUkgRJv4Q/w-d-xo.html
A 13 year old boy spotting a grown man trying to squat 500lb lol, right...
Imagine squatting 400lbs and fetus comes up to spot you...
Lmao
fr, lmao.
ants
that's the company's fault. Why in the fuck would you children doing that. Not a single person had the smallest sense to stop that... smh...
Some of them look like the haven’t touched a weight in their life
lol throwing in 10 year old boys to spot?? honestly whoever is responsible for that should be arrested and jailed, not joking.
usually i would disagree with someone when they comment stuff like this but i agree with you man. Not safe at all for the lifters AND the spotters.
Why did you say lol
@@logxnn8220 bro they not only put the competitor at risk but they also put a minor at risk. it is illegal
I'm sure you could make a case for negligence, unfortunately everyone involved probably signed disclaimers.
@@Viking_Raven doesn't matter bro it's child abuse
That kid doesn't even lift wtf.
hi kira
Ikr
Hello Kira
Why are small children spotting a powerlifting competition?
Because these were the only poor chaps that volunteered. The majority of people don't volunteer to spot for comps as it is very physically and mentally demanding.
@@ShezzLuvsShadow why attend a powerlifting event to just sit in the chairs. Main thing is though that all these spotters had no clue how to spot
why is there a damn 12 year old spotting a 113kg bar??????
Idk but they should use it
Why would you put a fucking kid spotting a grown man that lifts 3 time the kids body weight when you have grown men already there?
Manager: hey kid do you wanna make 2 bucks.
Kid: say no more fam.
2:13 “wHaT hApPenEd HeRe???”
You have a 13 year old kid that weighs as much as my dog spotting at a powerlifting tournament 😐😐😐
I've seen this video so many times and it never fails to blow my mind that they let a small child spot by themselves. Why would you have two people on one side and a kid on the other. Genuinely don't understand how no one stopped that from happening.
You have a big ass dog. Edit: Yes, my bad, dogs are big
@@invalidcrazy7034 Not really, a lot of dogs usually weigh 80-100lbs or so
@@invalidcrazy7034 i mean.. there are big dog's breeds u know. Not only chihuahua and shitzu
The kid weighs 1 plate and they expect him to spot that....smh
yep so irresponsible...people might get hurt it outrageous to put that skinny stick for that kind of job
Why tf do they have little kids being spotters
Sooo bad
1:49 yeah dude like wtf they doing, like he's flying solo right here.
probably because they can work for free :/
@@RobinLundqvist 1:51 one more of this and he never has to work again
@@RobinLundqvist 1:51 one more of this and he never has to work again
i would have refused to perform my lift if i saw a 12 year old 80lbs kid as my spotter.
Why the hell would they put children who have never even lifted as spotters????
Really shows the level of intelligence of the staff that makes these decisions.
Errors like this prevent the sport from becoming great
i don't understand why they don't have a hydraulic spotting system or at least safety arms at these levels of competitions. these are the heaviest lifts of the world - protect them.
Hydraulics can fail too. That's why you use safety pins when working on hydraulics just in case you lose compression.
For anyone talking about the last clip where he fell out. The guy behind him is actually spotting correctly. You’re supposed to get under him and lift him up. It’s the guy on the right he had the bar to low he wasn’t strong enough. That’s why they switched him out.
He not only wasny strong enough. They all dont know how to hold the bar
Only one spotter was doing his job half right. You can't stand on the end of 400kg and bicep curl it up with your wrists, you need to hug the weights themselves not the bar. The inner left spotter was half right. Needed to be closer. Rear spotter should have followed the lifter down completely instead of halfassing it at the end. Absolutely pathetic
why is there some 15 year old kid who weighs 60kg, not even, spotting loooooool
Teemo4Life More like 40 kg hihi
DrGuevin u must be 60
Not even that bout 50kg
Ad4mantium 2166 u must also be 60kg
Ad4mantium 2166 ok
"Hey we need you to go hire some spotters."
"Okay where should I go to find some, the local gym?"
"No, why don't you go check Chuckie Cheese's."
Coopa Jay when people take your sarcasm seriously
4:37
"I don't know what else the spotters could have done"
Maybe spot?
@@Mykhaiel No lol
@@Mykhaiel He should have mirrored the guy on the left. He did well.
Also if you back spot you pull up with the crooks of your elbows.
I do not understand why they don't just use a squat rack with proper safety bars? Would be 1000 times more safe.
Good question.
@Victor Zhan huh? So having 3 guys blocking the view offers more visibility than a tiny bar? Plus they only need to put it there once and they need to go there to setup the rest anyway.
Letting the bar go is instant disqualification in all federations.
This is like 5 years ago.
Those bars weren't even being used apart from a tiny amount of yuppies.
Assuming that you have good spotters there wouldn't be a need for that, in most powerlifting meets if someone fails a lift the spotters help him rerack the bar.
Dropping it in the middle of the room would be messy, probably dangerous for people around and I guess it would be expensive to have to constantly switch bent safety bars and barbells.
For anyone wondering what the last guy was doing, there was nothing wrong with him. He thought the bar was going down so he tried to lunge forward so as to avoid being crushed. The back middle spotter was completely oblivious to this for some reason and kept a grip on him. That "convulsing" was him trying to break free from his own spotter. Absolutely horrible job by these spotters. Management put the lives of all of these competitors at risk at this meet. Personally if I would've seen this sort of spotting happening before I went up I would've never gotten under the bar.
Nah ... he was just a clown exagerating the situation.
@@alvaroponce709 have you ever..... Tried to lift 914 pounds?
It's like having a life guard that can't swim try and save you from drowning...
at 3:15 the spotter directly behind him fucked up. He trapped the guy under the weight of the bar, thats why the guy was trying to bail from underneath because he was trapped, it looked like he was convulsing. at that point you step out from behind him and just let him drop the bar on the ground
3:32 "Better help him out!" *Starts having a fucking seizure* "What the hell..." I know it's messed up but I just couldn't stop laughing
Same I was looking for the comment about it 😂😂
Same, I still don't know why the dude went absolutely bonkers like that.
@@darren561 the body naturally has to send many signals to stabilizing muscles to keep stable in a lift, as well as recruiting all the main muscle fibers. During heavy lifts, the brain sends uneven trigger signals to the muscles which creates that little shake that happens in these heavy lifts. It worsens with time under that heavy tension.
When the dude failed, he was in a bad position to squat, he had been under that extremely heavy weight for a long time, the spotters were lifting the weight in an unbalanced manner, he was probably scared af because he could injure himself, and the spotter behind him pulled him off balance
All in all, just leads to a very scared and plain stressed nervous system which cant control the body well, with almost 1000 uneven pounds on it's back, and someone pulling that body, all in a quick manner that would be hard to react to. Its surprising how he shot out spazzing like that but he had no control of his body at that point, it was his brain just firing away
@@joegerkrep7727 makes sense
Literally have CHILDREN spotting for PROFESSIONAL POWER LIFTERS. I’m quite a big guy but my no means the size of these guys, and not moving nearly the same weight. My spots in the gym are bigger, stronger and more competent.
Spotting at this level requires legitimate expertise. It’s the organisers fault for just throwing together a bunch of guys who work out a little and expecting it to be safe.
Yeah, a lot of them are kids. What were the organizers thinking?
This makes me so mad to watch. Not only are the spotters obviously not strong enough to be spotting the weight, they don't care at all about doing their job either. I'd be pissed if my gym partner acted like this, let alone at a meet of this level.
Today for detention children you will be spotting at IPF worlds. I don't want to hear ANY complaints!
Underrated comment
you would think it’d make sense for the spotters to first test bringing the weight down and back up to test if they can do it comfortably, before the actual lift
If someone is failing there rep theyre still helping the spotters
@@user-zz7wh5ls7j yes, but it makes no sense to actually count on it…what if the lifter can’t help (something snaps/they pass-out etc)? the spotters need to be fully able to take over the full weight
One dude could barely lift one side of he bar like why the fuck is he even there
@@dr.chopper3804 his dad's probably some big shot so this 100lbs kid was allowed to spot a 550lbs squat. That's usually how it works.
Wtf did I just watch???? Did they get random kids from the audience and a couple guys from a gaming convention to spot +500 lbs
Do they pay their spotters by body weight or something? I don't see why they would hire literally the smallest kids they can find for a fucking POWERLIFTING spotter
They probably weren't hired at all. Free admission to the event. This is just disgraceful.
Just because it's free doesn't mean you should taste it
“ we’re short on spotters today. Any kids with severe ADHD and a body weight of less than 60 kilos want to volunteer to risk injury and death of everyone on stage tonight?”
LOL
I’d be furious if that happened to me. I’m not huge, but that kid on the left doesn’t even appear to have a bicep at all, let alone any strength in it
Aha no biceps
Hey! Let's cut costs and try to get 12 year olds to spot!
hey lets incur costs in the first place and encourage weak idiots to lift weight they have no hope of lifting
3:42 "He tried to stay with the bar". Looked more like one of the spotters forced him to stay with the bar to me.
Of course it's the black guy that tried to hold him hostage there
@@hariJAJAJA bro wth
@@hariJAJAJA HQHAHAHQHA
@@hariJAJAJAthe fact that you’re accurate 💀👍🏻
You sign up to squat the weight, you squat the weight. There is no escape.
In order to be a spotter at the IPF Worlds you must be under 18 and no more than 160lbs.
Tim TimerDimDime and not be able to curl more than 25lbs.
Yo dude i know that this comment is old,but you are kinda stupid, i'm 16 and a half and you can clearly see that i'm pretty big,i have like 46-47,5 ish cm arms something like that and ive seen manny people like you,who looked like sticks or fat all their life and thinking that you have to be 20+ to be big while on gear and this is straight bs,if you go to gym at like 14 to 20 and knowing what you doing you will look better than people that take steroids(well atleast for my genetics) and i'm not that impressive look at Larry Wheels at 18- th-cam.com/video/uRca6khflrw/w-d-xo.html
Why the fuck do they have spotters that look like they can't even lift a 10 pound dumbbell. If I was a competitor I would want someone who looks like they can handle it if shit hit the fan. This was frustrating as hell to watch.
Yeah, they have sticks spotting them.
I once was squatting 585 lbs (265 kg) and i looked at my 19 year old maybe 160 lb left spotter thinking, how is this kid supposed to help me? I talked with the director and he said, "youll be fine, your spotters were trained and know what to do". I was confident that i could get it being below my max but i leaned forward too much and the weight fell on me, the right side went up but the kid (i dont blame him, he was giving everything he had) couldnt get it off. My two friends ran up and got the weight off after a solid 10 seconds. I got up, walked to the director and yelled as loud as i could "I FUCKING TOLD YOU YOU NEEDED TO CHANGE THE SPOTTER, THAT KID PROBABLY COULDNT DEADLIFT HALF OF WHAT YOU TOLD HIM TO FRONT SQUAT! ARE YOU ALL THIS FUCKING STUPID I COULD HAVE BROKEN MY BACK!" I got dq'd for that.
Andrew Jatib I would compete elsewhere. Who cares about drug free, we're freaks. ORDER 66 THE USAPL.
I'm glad I never competed in any of their meets. I've heard nothing but bad things. They seem like a bunch or robots with no personalities. Can't stand that.
It seriously looks like they just got some kids off the street to spot these pros
WHY ARE 12 YEAR OLDS SPOTTING
2:07 wtf is a 10 year old doing spotting with that much weight
Why do all the spotters look like they were at this event to get extra credit in their PE class
fr 😭
Notice how you can always tell which spotter is gonna fuck up?
Fr you can see them not paying attention and not setting up for the spot correctly
Every single time
Isn’t it weird how people tend to ask someone who they think can handle the weight they’re about to lift when at the gym? When I’m benching my 305 max, I usually won’t ask a 90lb woman to spot me.
why do they have a 12 year old who probably plays video games all day spotting
Deaquan Jr *why do they have a 12 year old spotting for adults lifting far too much weight for a kid.
Texas is stupid like that
well, that 50 kilo kid is not at fault here. who the FUCK hired HIM as a SPOTTER? man, just make him offer water to the athletes but dont put him there to potentially lift 3 times his weight at the end of a bar
Everyone is a volunteer at a powerlifting meet. High school boys are usually the most readily available supply of spotter/loaders. Usually anyone who's big enough for the job is lifting in the meet.
3:41 "He's trying to stay with the bar"
Nope, a guy behind him Full Nelson him with the bar!
You wanna lift some heavy weights do ya.
Well ive got the perfect spotter for you.
*12 year old kid emerges from darkness*
peter kennedy 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂lmao
Whoever let those 5th graders work as spotters should be thrown in jail
I would refuse to have a spotter that weighs less than my dog
This shouldn't even be an issue in the first place. How is there no safety equipment, like a metal rack that the weight can rest on if the athlete can't handle it??? Most modern gyms have that.
Nobody gets it with last one. The guy forces the lifters lower back to bend more by lifting him up against the weight...... which is going down. Hence the spastic display
Nobody:
3 year olds in public: 3:35
Mr Nebbercracker I’m dead bro😂😂😂😂
No stop lmfao
I don't know why competitions like these just don't do this shit in a squat rack with the safety bars set to the correct height.
" he go up to the playground and get 4 of the smallest kids you can find.. tell em we will pay them a couple of lollipops" - these people
Why tf are they putting a kid as a spotter!?
If the guy is squating 300kg and your spotter cant even squat 100kg... You cant expect much
1:46 let's have two guys on the left and the smallest kid on the right by himself.
TH-cam algorithm: "he'll literally watch anything"
Have some originality
@@yujirohanma203 I dont feel like it right now
Why the fuck are there kids spotting...
Samuel Lee ikr
Probably some meet directors son fucking idots
2:25... just ridiculous. Wheres the logic to get someone who has clearly never lifted a day in their life hahah.
This very easily could have killed someone, whoever coordinated this event should never be allowed to do so again
These "spotters" dont even know how to squat.. It is impossible to lift such weights the way they do.. like the guy at 2:55 .. And why the f*ck do they have a KID spotting these heavy lifts?
How hard is it to get some other powerlifters to spot them?
Can someone explain why such an offical event has children spotting?> l;ol
Banjo Jo cause it’s America
I'm not sure. Not long ago they put rules in saying you can't have anyone but whos provided as a spotter. Its kind of a bullshit play because safety should be the most important thing. A lot of people are more comfortable going all out on the lift with people they know can spot. Thats not always the case but i've seen more people hurt over this bullshit
Who the fuck is hiring 14 yo spotters who weight no more than 100lb??
these spotters look like completely random people pulled off the street....
Lol
Are you implying the existence of partially random people?
@@morgard211 partially random people fall much closer to expectations, so yes
Why is a literal 13 year old spotting for some of the strongest men on the planet
they really got that lil kid spotting 4 red plates...
Why was my 13 year old cousin spotting on the right lmaoo 💀💀😂😂
Some of the spotters haven't even reached puberty
Why is a kid spotting 125
tbh the black dude probably saved his ass 3:33
No he grabed him and almost gave him spin damage
A bony ass kid spotting a professional lifting event? I don't even know much about professional lifting but I know that's absurd and irresponsible.
This is when you need a spotter for the spotter
bro you deadass could've drove to each bus stop around the city and found more qualified spotters
The spotters need spotters
Lmfao are those like 13 year old kids in some of those clips spotting?
Man the grammar two years ago was terrible
Using an 8-12 year old kid as a spotter. Wtf is wrong with these people.
Wtf are little kids spotting 100s of pounds