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| Blake,
Ben, and Laramie recruiting at Quad Day at UIUC, August 2005. Ben
is demonstrating Blake's excellent hand-built bench. |
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| Blake
and Laramie manning the excellent ILPL display. That's a 6th place
team trophy from the 2004 WABDL Worlds. |
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| Blake
and Laramie keep watch for potential recruits . . . |
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| In
September of 2005, Ben Cantrell and I made the trip over to Fort Wayne,
Indiana where members of our sister club, the Okayama Powerlifting Team
from Okayama University in Japan, were competing in the IPF Junior World
Championships. It was MOST unfortunate that we couldn't get
more ILPL members to make the trip. In fact, it looked very bad
considering how the Okayama team throws out the red carpet for Ben and
me when we are in Japan. |
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| With
Ben and one of Japan's strongest junior women . . . and the
inescapable Japanese "photographic peace sign," or PPS. |
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| Ben
was so popular with the Okayama lifters that they were trying to figure
out how to pack him into a carry-on (note the ubiquitous PPS). |
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| .
. . then the thought of how much I might fetch by-the-kilo on the
Japanese market put glints in their eyes and smiles on their faces. |
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| Ben
and the Okayama contingent of Team Japan (with more PPS's). |
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| Ben
shows his support for Toshiteru Okamura. |
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| A
PR for this boy by any stretch of the imagination. |
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| With
Okamura-san and Japan's Super Girl. |
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| Illini
Powerlifting threw a surprise party for me on my 40th birthday back in
2005. Here Andrew Kim says some nice things about me. |
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| I
was a tad buzzed. |
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| Super-deadlifter
Laramie McMasters to my left. |
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| Brett
Faught giving an impromptu speech. |
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| With
Brett and Laramie. |
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| Cake
. . . I love cake! |
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fact, I can't take my eyes off cake. |
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| Blowing
out candles: for powerlifters, an aerobic activity. |
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| Ryan
Harth has the floor. |
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| As
Reverend John, I officiated their wedding. |
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| Brett,
formerly my favorite teen lifter and now my favorite junior lifter, got
me all choked up. |
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| I'll
never forget these guys! |
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