weightlfting is not a matter of life and death its more important than that.... rip sos

yes i did rip off bill shanklys quote.....
its been quite a while since my last big of blogging because i have had very little to say and i still have very little to say.

Weightlifting in ul has seen many people come and go. I got into the sport nearing the end of my first year in college a long time ago. Back in those days the club was made up of sull, eamonn costello (great beard), cross yes a lady lifter back in those days, pie man flanagan and the enigma that will live on forever the one and only jamesie daughton. I started with a bunch of other hopefuls barry, ronan, ainle, ray and a bunch of other people i cant remember their names ah well...these were the most frustrating days in any sport i have ever experienced. when i started i didnt exactly posess the most amazing potential to become a weightlifter i had rubbish flexibility, lower body or upper body, i was embaressingly weak in the upper body and lower body, not very explosive, not very quick, a cartload of bumps, dislocation, breaks and bruises from every field sport imaginable. Not the best beginning to weightlifting but fuck it once i started i was hooked.

long ago in these times a one hour slot in the elite gym with platforms, decent bumpers coaching of sull and the holy grail for all weightlifters the eleiko weightlifting bar was not far off the highlight of my week. back in those days there was no such thing as a platform or a weightlifting bar down in the normal gym. When you went to train in those days you had to enter the zoo and part the sea like moses in order to have a relatively safe place to train. You would be snatching or clean and jerking within cms of the bicep curl brigade and more often that not you would have the bar overhead and you would look down only to see a poor fresher cluelessly walking under the bar.

Just before the platfrom came to the normal gym or around then my memory plays tricks on me the strong skinny calfed one arrived on ul weightliftings doorstep.
This was the arrival of the one and only cathal byrd. On his arrival weightlifting we all realised weightlifting would never be the same in ul. The level of addiction and commitment to reading and talking about and training and pretty much everything weightlifting related took on a whole other level

other arrivals and departures in ul weightlifting glorious history include crazy horse or the human salmon, sinead the gaffer, jimmy ill power snatch for 6 weeks and pack it in quinn, glassy eyed shit everyhwere nat, adam, cairbre, joe and many other sports science heads that have gone onto greener pastures.

Few have stayed submereged in the sport of weightlifting. I have engrossed myself in weightlifting and became addicted this happened to the rest of the beginners i started with but this addiction has long worn off my fellow beginners who have gone onto other sporting realms.

When some one stops weightlfting in ul they are referedd to as " ah remember ..... he used to be ....." these fallen comrades are spoken about as if they have passed away. that is the addiction and ability of weightlfting to take over your life.

Five ul weightlifters have remained until recently this five has become four rest in peace sull.