Equipment
One of my friends collects miniature cars. He may spend hours discussing details of a certain model and he attends collectors meetings. Well, I love powerlifting equipment. You may say “yeah, ok, but you ARE a powerlifter, so you like the equipment because of the performance advantage it provides you”. Wrong. I like equipment, period.
I like to read about them, look at them, touch them, understand how they work, materials, cuts, sewing, groove, stretch – EVERYTHING. Whenever I receive new equipment, I feel exactly as a child unwrapping presents at Christmas. I counted the days until my package from Alan arrived with a collection of new knee and wristwraps for me to test and use.
Yesterday, I got a new Titan Katana from Erica. I gave her a Fury, which works better for her (I also got two Fury shirts, two F6, different numbers, and one Hades). Will it give me a stupendous carry-over and big numbers? I don’t know! I want to understand it, talk to it, listen to it, learn it’s potential and explore all the possibilities with it. One of my friends is a bench shirt manufacturer in Brazil: Kleber Caramello, owner of HADES bench shirts. I have a red HADES which I still didn’t get to use in meets and I still must take time to learn how to use. It is a very good shirt, special for low groove, arched BP. I often bug him about making shirts from alternative materials. Sometimes I see a weird fabric in a waiting room couch and wonder how it would behave being cut for a bench shirt. And I picture Caramello dressed with an impressive open back shirt all patterned with pastel flowers and light green leafs, benching 700lbs.
My next adventure will be a denim shirt. Some day.
