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Not the weekend i had planned but definitely an experience.

As i arrived at the hotel a guy i met at westerns was going out for dinner and asked if i wanted to join them. Just so happens he was going with christine girard (the top female lifter in canada) went for breakfast with her sat morning while the boys were getting ready to lift and dietr (the semiamooh coach who was coaching me for the weekend) walked by and commented on how i sure know how to pick my company-first i fall into the hands of a world class coach (dan) then i become friends with the top lifter in the country.

I was glad we got to watch the guys on sat to be able to get a feel for the place. It was crazy. People actually had to pay admission to watch and there were 100 +people and reporters and everything.

I Weighed in at 930 sunday morning. Must have been tossing and turning all night because i Weighed in super light at 56.63.

Warmup area was kind of crazy-there were a lot of lifters in our session so it was a free for all for the bars and weights. The quebec coaches were quite rude-at one point i was about to pick up the bar to do my Last warmup and one of them grabbed the bar from underneath me took off the weight and gave it to his lifter. I needed dan (my nigerian coach with arms the size of my legs) there to fend them off. Despite that warmups went well-did a perfect 57kg snatch for my Last warmup and then went out to do my first attempt at 58kg felt like i was shaking as i walked over to pick up the bar and completly rushed it shorted the pull and couldnt control it. Video of the second attempt is bellow:

But then between my second and third attempt there were 5 lifters and it seemed like they took for ever. Id never waited longer than 2 minutes between lifts before and again rushed the snatch and sent 62kg flying over my head (i snatched 61 2 weeks ago). What sucks about it was the bar seemed light i just started with the weight too far back on my heals shorted it and couldnt control it. A better video is to come but this will do for now:

Warmup for c+j went great. I was even jerking in straight lines i did a perfect 72kg in the warmup area and then went out to do my first attempt at 74kg and did a beautiful clean jerked it a bit out front but was able to bring it back in but relaxed the muscles to soon and let one of my elbows rebend on the way up so 2 of the 3 refs said no lift. Second attempt again real nice clean but jerk was out in front again but atleast it counted this time. But between my second and third attempt i had a crazy long wait again-let my muscles get cold and spent way to much time thinking about my jerk so third attempt at 78kg i was thinking of the jerk as i was doing the clean and…ended up with a bruised tail bone and made a mental note to my self that i must complete the clean before i do the jerk:)

So no were near what i wanted to lift and i was pretty disappointed with it yesterday but guy greavette put it in perspective by ponting out that in terms of experience i was the youngest lifter by far and in my ”bad day” still posted a total high enough to qualify for nationals which i would have been happy with 5 weeks ago at westerns. My response was ‘but that was 5 weeks ago. ‘

But the session after me had christine girard in it and she lifted 2 new canadian records. Absolutly amazing to watch. Check out all the fans clapping after her clean and jerk record (and just think this is only panning about 1/2 the gym)

And then after she invited me back to her celebration party at the hotel. Pretty Cool. About 15 family memebers rented a bus and drove 9 hrs to watch her so i spent the night drinking way too much with them.

This video of Jeans canadian Record snatch is also pretty cool:

And thats my nationals experience. Feeling much better about it today than i was yesterday. And now im all psyched to go to seafest end of june (which is in whiterock if any one wants to come and watch) and post my 63/82.

But ill post more and better videos when i get them sent to me.