Post by McLifter on Jun 4, 2017 21:54:03 GMT -5
2017 Provincial Summary
First and foremost this will not be a detailed accounting of the day of lifting. I have too many duties and responsibilities that prevent me from going into my overly detailed accounting of the meet. Let me make note though that this year’s MPA Provincial Championships was a success. We had fewer competitors from last year but I had predicted that. It was a calculated risk when the decision was made to move the Provincials to June. This has several purposes that were highlighted by the MPA successfully winning the bid to host the CPU Western Powerlifting Championships. Our competitions should progress and provide a stepping stone for the members to move up the competitive ladder as they gain experience, strength and increase their totals. Local competitions first, succeeded by more events and perhaps travelling to our sister provinces for experience, then qualifying for the Provincials which are now scheduled with enough time for a newly qualified lifter to complete another training cycle and progress to the Regional Championships i.e. Westerns, Centrals or Easterns. Once a lifter has obtained a qualifying total for the Nationals and have fulfilled the expectation of competing at a Regional championships they can plan and train to test themselves against the best in the country at Nationals the following year.
I do feel quite proud of our membership today, and after having a good sleep from yesterday’s competition I’ll share the reasons why. Well, the MPA is demonstrating a wonderful sense of community that has been fostered by the members and executive since I first became involved back in 1987. What I mean by that is that after going through a period of time where we were the smallest provincial association in the CPU by numbers our membership has increased (as has the overall membership of the CPU) but we have not lost our sense of community. That is, the sense of helping each other with spotting or loading, loaning a newbie your belt or sharing training ideas and talking powerlifting until the wee hours over some burnt coffee at our favourite restaurant of the day.
In particular yesterday I was very happy and proud of the number and quality of volunteers that were there to help make the meet a success. Rob Snow and I made arrangements to pick up the MPA equipment before he had surgery over a week ago. Mathew Bowen took on the task of organizing volunteers for the set up and the day of the meet including recruiting some tired but happy lifters to assist with the tear down and loading of our new trailer. Believe me this made my post meet workload a lot lighter. Rob Snow and Sue will gladly tell you of the numerous occasions in the not too distant past where Rob and I or Bruce Markham and I would load the gear, take it to the venue, set up, lift or officiate the next day and then tear it all down with only a couple of extra hands for help only to unload and carry the gear to its’ resting place until the next meet.
Friday we had the aforementioned MPA Vice President Robert Snow and Liam Snow along with Susan Haywood, David Gurvey and his daughter, Shawn McCarthy, Alyssa Burg, Janet Loesel Sitar, Mathieu Kuhn, Mike Armstrong, and two MPA members who happen to work at the Victoria Inn but whose names escape me (sorry gentlemen). Now I may have missed someone but this was a huge help for the set up.
On Saturday, Mathew was well organized and he provided me with the following list of members who helped out throughout the competition:
Russell Salada Nhan Nguyen Jessa Nguyen Krista Sanger
Alyssa Burg Hailey Kostynuik Ace Gervacio Janet Loesel Sitar
Shawn McCarthy Margo Morberg-Berry Sophia Morberg-Berry Vince Green
Kurtis Tallaire Nolan Novotny Christian Palapuz Christian Lozano
Tyler MacInnis Mathieu Kuhn Han Tang Robert Snow
Susan Haywood Mike Armstrong
Now this is a fantastic list of help and as I’ve stated before a successful powerlifting meet cannot be done well without a solid core of volunteers. Thank you to you all for taking some time out of your Saturday to help with the various tasks that you did. There were also numerous competitors who picked up weights and helped to load the trailer and clean up the venue before we all went our separate ways. Thank you to all of you as well.
The event was a test run for when we host the Westerns in September. I think we can work together to make this another fine MPA hosted event. I realize many people who helped yesterday may be lifting in September but you can still find ways to assist the MPA in hosting this very important Regional event. I look forward to working with you all again.
At Provincials our lifters can make an attempt to break a CPU National Record. That is the reason why we brought in our good friend the Secretary of the CPU Mike Armstrong. Mike also generously allowed us to use the new light system he purchased for the IPF Classic World Championships that he is the Meet Director for next year in Calgary. These lights worked very well indeed! They have a built in clock that counts down for the lifter’s attempt as well as programming for getting in subsequent attempts. It eliminates the use of the card system by having coloured lights to indicate the infraction when a red light is chosen for a “No Lift”. A fine piece of equipment.
Now back to the National Records….two of our lifters attempted and were successful at breaking National Records yesterday. Olimar Gutierrez broke the Junior 93kg Men’s Bench press record with a huge 183kg on his third attempt. Trevor Winfield decimated the previous Master’s 2 120+ Benchpress record on his opening attempt with a 240 kg press. Trevor was successful on his second with 242.5kg for a 32.5kg increase over the previous record. Congratulations to Olimar and Trevor on their success!
I am sure that there were some Provincial Records broken yesterday as well. With our Records Chairman Shawn McCarthy heading west for an employment opportunity we have an opening for somebody to take this on. We will update the records and get the certificates prepared.
If I have missed anyone or misspelled your name please let me know. Thank you to everyone who contributed to making this event happen.
Yours in sport,
Brock Haywood
MPA President
IPF Category I Referee
First and foremost this will not be a detailed accounting of the day of lifting. I have too many duties and responsibilities that prevent me from going into my overly detailed accounting of the meet. Let me make note though that this year’s MPA Provincial Championships was a success. We had fewer competitors from last year but I had predicted that. It was a calculated risk when the decision was made to move the Provincials to June. This has several purposes that were highlighted by the MPA successfully winning the bid to host the CPU Western Powerlifting Championships. Our competitions should progress and provide a stepping stone for the members to move up the competitive ladder as they gain experience, strength and increase their totals. Local competitions first, succeeded by more events and perhaps travelling to our sister provinces for experience, then qualifying for the Provincials which are now scheduled with enough time for a newly qualified lifter to complete another training cycle and progress to the Regional Championships i.e. Westerns, Centrals or Easterns. Once a lifter has obtained a qualifying total for the Nationals and have fulfilled the expectation of competing at a Regional championships they can plan and train to test themselves against the best in the country at Nationals the following year.
I do feel quite proud of our membership today, and after having a good sleep from yesterday’s competition I’ll share the reasons why. Well, the MPA is demonstrating a wonderful sense of community that has been fostered by the members and executive since I first became involved back in 1987. What I mean by that is that after going through a period of time where we were the smallest provincial association in the CPU by numbers our membership has increased (as has the overall membership of the CPU) but we have not lost our sense of community. That is, the sense of helping each other with spotting or loading, loaning a newbie your belt or sharing training ideas and talking powerlifting until the wee hours over some burnt coffee at our favourite restaurant of the day.
In particular yesterday I was very happy and proud of the number and quality of volunteers that were there to help make the meet a success. Rob Snow and I made arrangements to pick up the MPA equipment before he had surgery over a week ago. Mathew Bowen took on the task of organizing volunteers for the set up and the day of the meet including recruiting some tired but happy lifters to assist with the tear down and loading of our new trailer. Believe me this made my post meet workload a lot lighter. Rob Snow and Sue will gladly tell you of the numerous occasions in the not too distant past where Rob and I or Bruce Markham and I would load the gear, take it to the venue, set up, lift or officiate the next day and then tear it all down with only a couple of extra hands for help only to unload and carry the gear to its’ resting place until the next meet.
Friday we had the aforementioned MPA Vice President Robert Snow and Liam Snow along with Susan Haywood, David Gurvey and his daughter, Shawn McCarthy, Alyssa Burg, Janet Loesel Sitar, Mathieu Kuhn, Mike Armstrong, and two MPA members who happen to work at the Victoria Inn but whose names escape me (sorry gentlemen). Now I may have missed someone but this was a huge help for the set up.
On Saturday, Mathew was well organized and he provided me with the following list of members who helped out throughout the competition:
Russell Salada Nhan Nguyen Jessa Nguyen Krista Sanger
Alyssa Burg Hailey Kostynuik Ace Gervacio Janet Loesel Sitar
Shawn McCarthy Margo Morberg-Berry Sophia Morberg-Berry Vince Green
Kurtis Tallaire Nolan Novotny Christian Palapuz Christian Lozano
Tyler MacInnis Mathieu Kuhn Han Tang Robert Snow
Susan Haywood Mike Armstrong
Now this is a fantastic list of help and as I’ve stated before a successful powerlifting meet cannot be done well without a solid core of volunteers. Thank you to you all for taking some time out of your Saturday to help with the various tasks that you did. There were also numerous competitors who picked up weights and helped to load the trailer and clean up the venue before we all went our separate ways. Thank you to all of you as well.
The event was a test run for when we host the Westerns in September. I think we can work together to make this another fine MPA hosted event. I realize many people who helped yesterday may be lifting in September but you can still find ways to assist the MPA in hosting this very important Regional event. I look forward to working with you all again.
At Provincials our lifters can make an attempt to break a CPU National Record. That is the reason why we brought in our good friend the Secretary of the CPU Mike Armstrong. Mike also generously allowed us to use the new light system he purchased for the IPF Classic World Championships that he is the Meet Director for next year in Calgary. These lights worked very well indeed! They have a built in clock that counts down for the lifter’s attempt as well as programming for getting in subsequent attempts. It eliminates the use of the card system by having coloured lights to indicate the infraction when a red light is chosen for a “No Lift”. A fine piece of equipment.
Now back to the National Records….two of our lifters attempted and were successful at breaking National Records yesterday. Olimar Gutierrez broke the Junior 93kg Men’s Bench press record with a huge 183kg on his third attempt. Trevor Winfield decimated the previous Master’s 2 120+ Benchpress record on his opening attempt with a 240 kg press. Trevor was successful on his second with 242.5kg for a 32.5kg increase over the previous record. Congratulations to Olimar and Trevor on their success!
I am sure that there were some Provincial Records broken yesterday as well. With our Records Chairman Shawn McCarthy heading west for an employment opportunity we have an opening for somebody to take this on. We will update the records and get the certificates prepared.
If I have missed anyone or misspelled your name please let me know. Thank you to everyone who contributed to making this event happen.
Yours in sport,
Brock Haywood
MPA President
IPF Category I Referee