Hello, this is Ben from Illinois. Last weekend I deadlifted 242.5 kg at a competition in Tennessee. Here is a video:

http://media.putfile.com/BenDL

Good luck with all your training!

Your deadlift is very strong!

hello, my friends, i am from guatemala my name es hugo herrera, i thing you not remenber mi, i estate in in the champeon ship competicion junior or fort waine indiana. i say hello to kubo or the japan team

Illini Powerlifting - Team Illinois won the 2005 WABDL World Team Championship! There were more than 640 lifters for this competition in Reno, Nevada. I will post more video soon. Here is my video. Bench attempts were 245 kg, 260 kg, and a miss at 290 (couldn't touch). Deadlift attempts were 275 kg. and a miss at 307.5 kg. I was injured on the 307.5 and had to be carried off the platform. After one month I will begin lifting again. I placed 2nd in Bench Press and 3rd in Deadlift.

http://media.putfile.com/John2005

Hello Okayama Powerlifters! Greetings from Illinois!

On October 1st, I lifted in the 140kg. weight class at Bench America 3. This was an amazing meet, with many crazy strong benchers. I was using a very new and very tight Titan F6 size 50 which required ALOT of weight to touch. I opened with 290 kgs., but the weight crashed back into the rack, cutting my right hand open. On second attempt, I did better, but my right arm was just a centimeter away from lockout, so I missed the lift and was out of the meet.

It was a good experience, and I hope to do better next year.

In November, the members of Illini Powerlifting will lift in the WABDL World Bench Press and Deadlift Championships in Reno, Nevada.

Here is how close I was to locking out 290 kg!

Is your right hand safe?
The second attempt of 290Kg Bench was regrettable.

Last sunday,Japanese National Sports Festival was held in Okayama.
Miyake established the Japanese National record of 229Kg by bench press.
http://okayama-power.homeip.net/2005/20051023/P1020733.wmv

229 kg is a fantastic bench! Contratulations to Miyake! The video is very impressive. I wish he could teach our lifters to have such a good arch and excellent technique.

Thank you for coming to Fort Wayne all the way with Ben for John Hudson and the other day. I think that it is possible to make the bench shirt work well if the stretch of and the scapula of the technique of bench press is done and it is flexible. And, I think that the arch rises, too.

Here are some highlights from the Word Association of Bench Pressers and Deadlifters (WABDL) U.S. National Championships in Portland, Oregon:

Laramie McMasters - Illinois record 230 kg. deadlift at 75kg. class. Laramie only weighs 70.5 kgs. He won 1st Place and Best Deadlifter for Teen 16-19 year old men.

Alex Kang - Maryland 192.5 kg. deadlift at 60kg. class. Alex won 1st Place and Best Deadlifter for Junior 20-25 year old men.

John Hudson - Illinois record 275 kg. bench press at 140 kg. class (weighing 133 kg.). 2nd Place in bench press. Illinois record 318.6 kg. deadlift. 1st Place and Best Deadlifter in Submaster 34-39 year old men.

Here is a picture of my 272.5 kg. bench press from the July 9th competition.

Congratulations!
Laramie McMasters and Alex Kang are very strong deadlifers!
Your bench and deadlift are wonderful.

Illini Powerlifting competed in the APF/AAPF Chicago Summer Bash II on July 9th. Here are some highlights:

John Hudson - 272.5 kg. Bench Press at 140 kg. - Illinois State Record
Ben Cantrell - 160 kg. Bench Press at 90 kg. - Illinois State Teen 18-19 Record
Lee Mateer - 282.5 kg. Bench Press at SHW (143.5 kg.) - American Junior Record

We will have pictures soon!

Congratulations!!
You are very strong.

We have a good news.
Okamura got qualify to participate in the IPF World Championships on Novemver in Miami in the United States.

That's great news! Congratulations to Okamura! He must be very excited.

The Japanese national junior powerlifting championships was held today.
As a result,the following four members got qualify to participate in the world junior powerlifting championships.

Woman -60kg Kamada
Man -67.5kg Himei
Man -82.5Kg Miyake
Man -90Kg Okamura

That's great news! Congratulations to your lifters! Ben and I will look forward to greeting you in Fort Wayne. Please let us know your schedule for Jr. Worlds. It would be wonderful if you could visit University of Illinois while you are in the U.S.

I found the time schedule in the homepage of IPF.

Yes, I found the schedule there, too: September 5 through 11. I'm looking for a more detailed schedule that would tell us on which days the different weight classes will lift.

We hope to see Okamura deadlift 300 kg.

We can won the All-Japan Students Powerlifting
Championships.
Please look at the following about details.
http://www.ouwtc.com/HISTORY/2005/20050529/index-e.html
http://www.ouwtc.com/mov-e.html


When I know the schedule of the World Junior, I will tell you.

Congratulations on your Championship! We enjoyed reading the results and seeing the two videos.

Our next competition is July 9 in Chicago. We will let you know how we do.

Hello Okayama Lifters!

Your friend Ben Cantrell won the AAPF Illinois State Powerlifting Championship for Teen 18-19 at 90kg. His lifts were:
squat - 205kg
bench - 152.5kg
deadlift - 222.5
total - 580kg

Congraturations Ben and John.
It is a very wonderful record!

The all-Japan students powerlifting championships will be held tomorrow.
We will do our best to win the championships.

We are afraid that Okamura can't go to Hawaii in June.
He will participate in the All-Japan Junior Powerlifting championship on June 19 and be qualified to join the World Junior Powerlifting Championships.

We are looking to forward to meeting you on Septemper in USA.

Good luck to the Okayama lifters at the All-Japan Students Powerlifting Championships! We will be eager to hear about your performance.

Good luck also to Okamura at the All-Japan Junior Powerlifting Championship.

Please let us know about your schedule in Ft. Wayne, Indiana, especially if you know which day Mr. Okamura will lift. Ben and I will do our best to be there. Ft. Wayne is 4 hours from Champaign, Illinois by car. We will be very happy to have you visit Champaign-Urbana and the University of Illinois.

A few weeks after the Illinois State Championships, Ben did a WABDL Illinois State Record bench press of 165kg. At the State Championships, Ben set all the records for Illinois at his weight class and division: squat, bench, deadlift, and total.

Because of a serious injury, I only participated in the bench press at the Illinois State Championships. I benched 255kg for an American Record for the Submaster Division of the 140kg. weight class.

Five members of Illini Powerlifting lifted in the APF/AAPF Windy City Ironman in Chicago on Jan. 8. We raised money for Asian Tsunami victims through our lifting. We gathered pledges for every pound that we lifted, and raised nearly $1000 to help the victims of this terrible disaster.

Charles West - 67.5kg - Bench Press 92.5kg.
Richard Derengowski - 75kg - Bench Press 160kg.
Laramie McMasters - 67.5kg - Deadlift 205kg.
Andrew Kim - 82.5kg - Bench Press 192.5kg - Deadlift 240kg.
John Hudson - 125kg - Bench Press 240kg - Deadlift 322.5kg.

John Hudson Bench Pressed 240kg

Andrew Kim Bench Pressed 192.5kg

He is Korean-American.

It's wonderful to contribute the Tsunami victims.
You know,tsunami is Japanese.
The earthquakes often happens in Japan.The severe
earthquake happened in Niigata last year.
We are also gathering the money in our powerlifting team to contribute the Tsunami victims.

I've uploaded some video clips of a few of our lifters at WABDL Worlds in Reno. You can see them at http://jh4933.tripod.com/illinipowerlifting/galleries/gallery12

Hope to meet some of you in Hawaii!

Happy New Year from Illini Powerlifting

I made a mistake. Please go to the homepage first, http://www.uiuc.edu/ro/illinipowerlifting

Choose Photo Galleries on the top menu, then 2004 WABDL World Championships near the bottom.

Sorry. :-)

A Happy New Year.

I saw the video clip. It was very exciting.

Mr.Okamura would like to go to Hawaii.
However, his schedule is very hard, he is thinking whether participate or not.

IPF World Junior Powerlifting Championships will be held in 05-11 September Fort Wayne-Indiana USA this year.

Fort Wayne is a little over 3-hours drive from here. If Mr. Okamura goes to IPF Junior Worlds, he can count on having Illini Powerlifting members there to cheer for him. We would be glad to host him here in Champaign after the competition as well.

If Mr. Okamura comes to Hawaii, I think we can help him with his hotel costs. He can share a room with Ben Cantrell.

Dear Okayama Friends,

I've heard from Ben Cantrell that you are considering traveling to Hawaii for the June WABDL competition. That is good news. I have a suggestion: Let's combine our teams and enter as the Okayama-Illini Powerlifting Team. We are trying to send at least six members (and I hope more) to Hawaii in June. We would be very, very glad to join you there for lifting and fun.

By the way, you can see the WABDL World Records here:
http://www.wabdl.org/men's_world_dead_lift.htm#Men's0World0Dead%20Lift

Kansai student powerlifting championships
I will upload the detail result later.

Woman
52kg
Yamasaki 275kg 1st
Machida 262.5kg 2nd
Kuroda 167.5kg 4th
60kg
Kamada 275kg 2nd
Ito 205kg 4th

Man
52kg
Ozeki 315kg 3rd
56Kg
Masuda 407.5Kg 1st
Kawakami 325Kg 4th
60Kg
Koyama 395Kg 3rd
Sannomiya 395Kg 4th
Shigehira 390Kg 5th
67.5Kg
Himei 535Kg 1st
Yoneyama 482.5Kg 4th
Yoshioka 430Kg 6th
75kg
Miyake 570kg 1st
(Bench 180.5kg Students record)
Ishikawa 507.5kg 3rd
Ohtani 482.5kg 5th
82.5Kg
Okamura 732.5kg 1st
(Dead 287.5kg Total 732.5kg National Junior Record)
Maki 415kg 3rd
90kg
Iwahashi 630kg 1st
Watanabe 510kg 2nd
100kg
Hiramoto 535kg 1st
Azuma 530kg 2nd

Congratulations to all the Okayama lifters who competed in the Kansai Championships. Congratulations especially to Mr. Miyake and Mr. Okamura for their records. Mr. Okamura's deadlift is incredible!

On June 11 2005, some of our team members will be lifting in a WABDL meet in Hawaii. If any of you like Hawaii, please come and lift with us in Hawaii. Mr. Okamura can aim for the WABDL Junior World Record deadlift: 320 kg. at 82.5 kg.

Illini Powerlifting members had a wonderful time at WABDL World Bench Press and Deadlift Championships in Reno, Nevada. With 27 lifters, we placed 6th as a team. Our lifters won 15 individual World Championship. We set 33 new Illinois and Maryland State Records, 3 U.S. National Records, 3 World Records, and won 4 Best Lifter Awards.

Ben Cantrell placed 2nd in the 82.5 kg Teen 16-19 Bench Press with 152.5 kg. Ben was World Champion in the 82.5 kg Teen 16-19 Deadlift with 227.5 kg.

I was 2nd in the 125kg. Submaster and Open deadlift divisions, with 330 kg. I missed on 3rd attempt with 337.5 kg.

I will post pictures below.

Ben Cantrell deadlifted 227.5 kg.

Ben is Teen World Champion in Deadlift!

Illini Powerlifting President John Hudson successful with 330 kg. 2nd Place in Open Deadlift.

This was the largest powerlifting meet in history. More than 700 lifters took part! Unfortunately, there was no team from Japan, although there were many Japanese-American lifters.

Congratulations to all the Illini Powerlifting lifters and many wonderful records.
Thank you for your report and photographs of the World Championships.
It was very exciting to see the deadfit of Mr.Ben Cantrell and Mr. John Hudson.

Thank you very much to all of the Okayama Powerlifting team for the congratulations. The WABDL world competition was very exciting and I would like to see Japanese lifters there next year. Good luck with all of your training and competing!

This is the T-shirts that Mr. John Hudson of Illini Powerlifting team sent.
Thank you very much.

You are very welcome! We look forward to a good relationship with the Okayama University Powerlifting Team.

The WABDL World Championships begin this week in Reno, Nevada. We have 27 members entered. We will let you know how we do!

I upload three pictures when Ben came Okayama.

Original file is below.

http://image5.photohighway.co.jp/se-bin/MyPhoto.dll?Vi?p1=j007_796&p2=611028142828f1&p3=0jpg&p4=1878741&p5=

Original file is below.

http://image5.photohighway.co.jp/se-bin/MyPhoto.dll?Vi?p1=j007_796&p2=621028142828f2&p3=0jpg&p4=2878741&p5=

Original file is below.

http://image5.photohighway.co.jp/se-bin/MyPhoto.dll?Vi?p1=j007_796&p2=631028142828f3&p3=0jpg&p4=2878741&p5=

Thanks so much for sharing these pictures! We will be sure to post pictures of Ben lifting in two weeks at the WABDL World Championships in Reno, Nevada.

I want to congratulate all the Japanese sub junior and junior lifters who competed in Pretoria, South Africa on their results and also on their exellent behaviour. It was a pleasure to have you here and I hope all of you will carry on lifting into the senior classes. Hope you had a good stay in South Africa.

Thank you for coming this site!
That I experienced by South Africa grew up me greatly.
It is thought that future more good results
can be achieved.
I wish each other shining future. Thanks!

A postscript and Ai is waiting for the letter from you truly.

Congratulations to Mr. Okamura on his finish at the IPF Jr. World Championships. IPF World competition is very difficult. Lifters must contend with long travel, jet lag, very strict judging, and many other circumstances that can affect performance. So we at Illini Powerlifting have the highest respect for Mr. Okamura. We expect to hear even more great things about him in the future.

Mr.Okamura was 7th.

Squat 225Kg,Bench 175Kg,Dead 240Kg Total 640Kg

http://www.powerlifting-ipf.com/worlds/worjun04/juniors.htm