New IPF Rule

Motorbiker said:I reckon IPF Classic rules are good. Belt/Knee sleeves. Same as the weightlifters basically. That makes sense.

And there would be nice strict judging and a proper world champion not 1000 different world champions in every federation.

milsy said:I remember when everyone said bmx would never make it into the Olympics


The sport was massive in the 80's the push was made for the Olympics then and didn't go anywhere sport pretty much died out until the early 2000's when uci supercross made it into the xgames and hit tv screens around the world roll on 13 years and it is now an Olympic sport

AdamC said:its a stupid rule

It seems the IPF have banned metal music too now?

Steve said:
I wonder if powerlifting would have a better chance of getting in the Olympics if it was being put forward as another type of weightlifting by the IWF, rather than by a separate governing body, in s similar manner to bmx or snowboarding

milsy said:
When did that happen I'm sure they were blasting out metal at the worlds this year and the defiantly were at the classic

AdamC said:
they didnt have any when i watched the 120+ class all the lifters came out to either silence or some s**tty chart dance track
one of the commentators also said that a lifter the day before had asked for black metal and was refused it

polkovnikostin said:
The music needs to be crowd friendly. I'm sure track and field athletes don't like some of the music they play in stadia inbetween events, but it's to pump the crowd up, not them.

AdamC said:
they didnt have any when i watched the 120+ class all the lifters came out to either silence or some s**tty chart dance track
one of the commentators also said that a lifter the day before had asked for black metal and was refused it

AdamC said:
the sport needs to be for the lifters, not some boring old fart in the audience that doesnt like the lifters choice of music

aaron_lohan said:
That's not as simple a request as you think, AFAIK the music is played from CD's that the organisers compiled prior to the comp so to play another song they would have to stop one CD to play the request, which is assuming they have the song that is requested. In my experience of lifting in internationals they seem to play the same cd over and over again so I don't think its the case that they won't play black metal but its a case they can't.

AdamC said:
theyve played lifters requests before, i was always under the impression you gave them the cd with what you want on it and that was that
most other feds manage to do it...

Tom_Martin said:
At my last international, the DJ just goes on youtube when you make a request...

Tom_Martin said:
At my last international, the DJ just goes on youtube when you make a request...