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Meanwhile in Russia …

Folks I am in Moscow for the Klokov Power Weekend!

Arrived here, dropped the luggage off, ate something and went straight to the competition venue to film a little tour. This is the place they built for the 1980 Moscow Olympics. It’s quite impressive from the inside and outside too. Lots of history in this place. Dmitry’s father, Vyacheslav, became world champion here in 1983 [video].

Competition Exercises for Klokov Power Weekend:

  • Saturday: Hang snatch, Snatch Deadlift, Thruster!
  • Sunday: Rack Jerk, Front Squat, Power Clean + Press.

Update 19.06.2015: Part 2 of Dmitry’s footage, with his final speech.

Translation of the Speech

(Thanks to Sergiy for that)

Like Misha Koklyaev said, I didn’t make it. It’s too late.

Well, these 2 days have come to the end. I am very happy. When I just started thinking about all of this, I had this athletic anger to do better than my dad, just like in my weightlifting career.

I beat him in weightlifting by getting a higher total than his best. In 2005 there was a competition here hosted by him as a president [of the RWF]. And I wanted to do better than him. I wanted to host a better competition.

Now I understand how unimportant this was.

This holiday was done for all of us, for you. Today they told me that everything was organized professionally. What will we take from this day?

We will take the emotions that were given to us by my friends who came here from different countries. They made this competition alive. They gave an international status to it. All these guys who stepped on the platform today, as well as many other people, made this competition successful. Thank you, athletes. Thank you, other assistants.

There was a lot of work for the loaders during these two days. Judges… Audience, thank you too. You give us emotions.

There are 10 most courageous guys in front of you. It was very hard to make athletes come here. Nobody knew what to expect from this. But you [athletes] did it.

I am very happy that you are leaving this place without injuries. The biggest injuries here were Vasily’s calluses and Demanov’s toe. His foot doesn’t even fit in a weightlifting shoe. I think this is nothing for such a challenge.

Finally, as I promised, I will announce whether I will end my professional career or not.

All these stars that came here knew for a long time that I am finishing. They came here to support me. Thank you for that.

This is the day I announce that I am ending my weightlifting career and will never compete at Worlds or Europeans. Even if I didn’t want to say this, it would have to be done one day.

Today I feel that I am more needed outside of the platform. We have enough guys to lift and win medals at Worlds and Olympics. I am going to a place that is meant for me, so I will stay there.

I will try to make a not very interesting sport of weightlifting cool, popular, safe, and loved by everyone.

I wanted to do it long ago, but was waiting for this competition to do it here.

[After the speech, Dmitry asked all the guys to sing a final song with him.]

Update 13.06.2015: Klokov has started to post videos of the weekend, brilliant footage!

Update 08.06.2015: Power Clean and Press!

Update 05.06.2015: Part 2 from Oleksiy Torokhtiy.

Update 04.06.2015: Here are all Front Squats!



Update 03.06.2015: Here are all lift from the Rack Jerk event.

Vasiliy got really close on his 245kg attempts. The night before we were talking about this exercises and how he hasn’t done it in like 8 years.

Update 02.06.2015: Here is Dmitry’s 192kg World Record Thruster.



and here are all Thruster attempts, finishing with Vasiliy Polovnikov’s attempts at 200kg. He told me during dinner (we ate borscht and lamb shashlik, very tasty!) that he was ready for 200kg. That day it just didn’t work out due to problems in the warm up area.

Update 02.06.2015: Andrei Aramnau in the Klokov Power Weekend Warm Up Area.

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Right before the Max Jerk from the Rack event I asked him about his best result in that exercise.

His answer: 260kg!

During the whole weekend Andrei was a lot of fun. He is just a really cool, down to earth kinda guy, like all the big names I met.
Currently he is injured (hip) and doesn’t get any financial support from the Belarus federation.

He currently plans to visit the US later this summer, to do seminars along with Vasiliy Polovnikov. This is still in the planning stages

Update 01.06.2015: 3 long nights and endless karaoke sessions later I am back home. Videos of all the lifts follow during the next days.

Here is the Snatch Grip Deadlift Session.

Results After Snatch Deadlift:

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Update 31.05.2015: Day 1 Video from Oleksiy Torokhtiy.

Sunday

After he announced his retirement from professional weightlifting, Dmitry Klokov was celebrated for the great man that he is.

With pride he can look back on 20 years in the sport for which he has done so much. I am sure he will continue to be involved in it in some form or another.

Thank you Dmitry for being such an awesome dude!

Dmitry Klokov Flying

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The last lift of the weekend!

@klokovd Power Clean + Strict Pressing 162kg to end the first of hopefully many Klokov Power Weekends! #klokovpw

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Saturday

Awesome day!, I just came back from dinner with Vasiliy. Super nice guy. I had my first borscht and lamb shashlik.

Hang Snatch Video:

Vasiliy Polovnikov won with his 190kg opner (missed 195 and 200). Ibrahim Bersanov also did 190kg.

Results after Hang Snatch:
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Video Tour:

Dmitry doing the First Lift on Platform

Full Results:

D1 D1 D1 D2 D2 D2
HANG SNATCH SNATCH DEADLIFT THRUSTER RACK JERK FRONT SQUAT POWER CLEAN & PRESS
NAME COUNTRY WEIGHT D1/D2 1 2 3 1 2 3 1 2 3 1 2 3 1 2 3 1 2 3
Rinat KIREEV RUS 104.9 / 104.5 170 180 185 230 250 270 160 175 180 220 230 240 260 280 290 110 120 125
Andrey DEMANOV RUS 118 / 118 160 170 175 205 230 250 150 160 170 200 220 230 225 230 240 120 125 130
Ibrahim BERSANOV KAZ 128 / 128 180 180 190 230 240 250 160 170 180 240 250 260 250 265 275 125 132 137
Anton MAZEIKO BLR 117.4 / 116.7 145 155 160 200 225 245 150 160 170 190 210 230 225 240 265 110 120 130
Vladimir YAKUTA BLR 89.6 / 89.2 140 150 155 190 215 237 130 130 143 180 190 195 210 225 230 90 100 105
Arsen KASABIEV POL 104.5 / 101.6 140 150 155 190 210 230 140 155 160 150 160 170 210 220 230 105 110 115
Vasily POLOVNIKOV RUS 110.8 / 111 190 195 195 235 250 275 190 197 197 220 235 245 270 280 290 130 140 150
Albert KUZILOV GEO 114.3 / 115.4 170 180 185 220 250 270 160 175 185 210 220 230 240 250 260 110 120 125
Krzysztof KLICKI POL 177.4 / 178 160 170 175 250 250 280 150 160 170 230 230 240 260 280 280 120 130 135
Oleksii PONOMARENKO UKR 114.6 / 115.1 150 160 165 215 230 250 155 165 165 200 210 215 230 240 255 100 110 120
Dmitry KLOKOV RUS ? – – – – – – 175 185 192 – – – – – – 150 160 162

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Comments

    • Sergiy says

      Oleksiy Torokhtiy, Rinat Kireev, Andrey Demanov, Arsen Kasabijew, Albert Kuzilov, Vasily Polovnikov, Krzysztof Klicki, Ibrahim Bersanov, Oleksii Ponomarenko, Anton Mazeiko, Vladimir Yakuta.

      • Gregor says

        and I just ran into a sweaty Andrei Aramnau. nur sure if he went on a morning jog before breakfast. But he will not be competing.

          • Sergiy says

            Misha said he was invited. Doesn’t mean that he accepted. Koklyaev competes in Super-Cup of Titans tomorrow in St.Petersburg. I doubt he would go to a different event in a different city the day before his meet.

            • Nyah-nyah says

              That’s today? Right. I didn’t know the date for that. In that video it sounded like he was going to this thing.

              • Vitaly says

                At the Titans Misha Squats 380kg, bails on bench press 240kg, deadlifts 400kg

        • wlift84 says

          Will he lift again? Asking the important questions here, I know.

          And is Demanov retired?

          • Nyah-nyah says

            Demanov is not retired. Going off several videos of Klokov’s, he is perpetually preparing for something with the national team.

    • Phil says

      Gregor said on facebook he doesn’t think there is but will have recordings from it up soon after.

    • wlift84 says

      118 according to the chart.

      Lapikov on the other hand looks like he just ran the Moscow marathon.

        • wlift84 says

          He’s not lifting, but on location. There’s a pic on the ATG IG, maybe it’s just the angle but he looks skinny and below 100kg.

    • Leon says

      @GregorATG:disqus: It would have been nice if added the weight lifted in form of a caption. I know it is possible to count the plates, but I really appreciate the convenience of not doing so.

      • Gregor says

        Yeah, but I have limited time. So it’s either get a video as soon as possible or wait some weeks until I have time to sit down and do captions for a couple of hours.

        • Leon says

          I can understand that. Would have been nice if the organizers hat put a screen with the current somewhere behind the lifter.

  8. Li Ro says

    i think the german weightlifter almir velagic did a 192kg thruster in a seminar of him. i believe the video of it is on facebook. can anyone confirm this?

  10. Kawi says

    The results for the clean and press are intriguing By historical standards of the sport they are shockingly low. I wonder how much this is due to a) a lack of pressing technique; and/or b) a lack of upper-body pressing strength.

    • wlift84 says

      I would absolutely agree that today’s lifters are weaker in this regard, mainly because they don’t train it.

      At the same I wouldn’t call what Klokov did here – since he’s strict – all that comparable to what happened in the last years of the press era. This is a great site to compare the styles:

      http://www.chidlovski.net/liftup/web_external_modules.asp?s_module=mod_press_techniques

      The huge weights (200+) came as much from training more as from leg impulse and back lean.

      • Kawi says

        Thanks for the link. That is a great site.
        To be sure, the huge results in the press up through 1972 came through use of the legs and back, but they still astound me. Of course, alleged;y they dropped the press because it had ceased to be a good test of upper body strength and was causing too many low back injuries.
        Klokov’s press, because it was strict, was impressive. What surprised me were the number of lifters who only managed slightly above bodyweight. No doubt within just a few weeks of training the lift most of them would all have those results up. They are phenomenal athletes. But still, I would have guessed 115% as the lower limit.

        • Leon says

          Most of them probably rarely ever press. The correlation of press results and the jerk are very low. Thus the press is just a very general assistance exercise and most athletes use their time and energy for other more useful lifts. Useful for weightlifting results that is.
          Klokov on the other hand trains the press and the thruster a lot. So it is not all that surprising that he did very well in these two lifts.

          • Kawi says

            Agreed. Certainly it seems that rarely do they press, and perhaps never. Kashirina on one of Rashid’s YouRaiseRussia videos said she had never pressed when asked, and her coach dismissed the press as entirely irrelevant. I get that, but there are some who think that some pressing has prophylactic benefits; i.e. strengthening the shoulders would protect against injury. Whether or not that is true, I don’t know.
            Still, I would have expected occassional pressing and somewhat higher results

  12. lifter says

    thanks for the vids so far, just the power clean and press left to go, ohhhh ya

  13. Didier Montrobert says

    Thanks for the covering, Mr Gegor.

    The “AF Klokov Bar” has been really tested during this week-end. Someone has used or tested one ?