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I R O N E S S A Y S athletes on an overseas trip is boisterous, raucous, profane and good-natured. Our squad appeared barbaric contrasted to the somber Swedes. It seemed that in this particular culture smiling was frowned upon and laughing out loud in public was considered very bad manners indeed. Well here came the American Barbarians and you’d have thought we were Jack Palance in Shane. Maybe we were. Every one wanted to see the cocky Americans whipped: unfortunately for them the only whippings administered were administered by us. The competition was run with precision and great care…I coached Phil Hile, a dwarf PhD who at 114 pound bodyweight could squat 520. He took 4th. I then had the honor of coaching Dan Austin in the 148 pound class. Dan was the strength coach at UNLV at the time and was so dominant that the foreign guys were moving to other weight classes to avoid him. He did not disappoint. Dan not only won, but set a World Record Deadlift (688) and captured the ‘Champion of Champions’ award given to the single most outstanding lifter amongst the eleven weight classes. We didn’t have a 165 pound lifter since we had decided to double up our entries in the 242 pound class. I remember seeing Karlo Virtanan (Jarmo’s younger brother) warming up back stage. He did a series of standing broad jumps that were incredible…he would squat down and then leap forward three times in a row…bang, bang, bang! A good athlete can perform a standing broad jump of 10 feet and I swear this guy covered 40 feet in three leaps…he did five “three-jump reps” as he felt it helped his explosiveness in the squat and deadlift. He was the deadlift World Record holder so maybe there was something to it. In the 181 pound class Dan Wagman, an army Ranger/Paratrooper with a PhD, took 4th in his 1st World Championships. Dan later became the health and science editor at Muscle & Fitness magazine after some hard lobbying on my part. Jim Wright had left Weider to go to work for Scott Connelly at MetRx and Tom Deters, the editor in chief at Weider, was ringing his hands and agonizing, unsure if Ranger Dan would fit in with the fem-man staff at M&F. Dan got the job and had a great long run at Weider before moving on. George Herring won the 198 pound class, going nine-for-nine, nine attempts and nine successes. George was a free thinker and didn’t believe in the jet-lag theory: “Foreign food sucks and I lose strength by showing up a week ahead of time—the hell with all that!” Herring showed up less than 24 hours beforehand and proceeded to lift perfectly at what would have been 3 AM for him back home in Georgia. He did a fabulous job. At 242 Steve Goggins bombed out when he insisted on opening his squats at 832. We tried to warn him how strict the IPF judging was, but he was beyond coaching. Bip, Bang, Boom…he was out of the competition. I worked with Dave ‘Superman’ Jacoby, the defending World Champion. Sean made a rare coaching mistake by jumping Dave from an 804 second attempt squat success to a third attempt with 832. He had a close miss. Sean called the lift without consulting Dave or I and I will never forget the look of surprise/anger/shock For complete information on Marty Gallagher’s The Purposeful Primitive, or to purchase the physical book, visit http://www.dragondoor.com/b37.html now 70
71 T H E P U R P O S E F U L P R I M I T I V E on Dave’s face when Sean told him his 3rd squat would be 832, “Damn that’s a BIG jump Sean! Can you change it to 819 or 826?” Too late. Dave’s close miss would later come back to haunt us. Dave tore a pectoral muscle on his opening attempt bench press and came off the platform holding his limp arm, “We got a problem.” He said. Our team doctor, Dick Herrick, looked him over and the prognosis was not good. I remember the tense huddle with myself, Dave, Doctor Dick and Sean. Scully looked at Dave and said, “Can you lift or not? Tell me yes or no right now.” Dave thought for a minute and said, “Yeah, let’s do it.” The doc said, “Are you sure?” He was immediately cut off by Sean, “The man said he can go – so we’re f#@*ing going to GO!” No deadlift warm ups. I dropped Dave’s opening deadlift to 704 and he pulled it with great pain. As soon as he came off (in agony) we iced the pec and inched him up to 733. He made that lift, but a Norwegian, who couldn’t touch him with a ten foot pole on a good day, seized the lead. Every time Dave pulled a weight this guy would pull 4.4 more to maintain his lead. After Dave made 733 the other guy made 738 to take the lead again. Dave went out for his third and final lift in front of a packed house. Dave went out for his third and final lift in front of a packed house. The Europeans were mad/crazy with their cowbells and air horns. They’d whistle at us, their form of booing, and clap in syncopated fashion for their Scandinavian golden boy who was about to upset the Seven Time World Champ. Dave pulled 744 pounds 7/8’s of the way to completion before it fell to the platform. No lift. I remember seeing the Norwegian jump five feet straight up in the air and yelling in ecstasy when Dave failed. The auditorium, packed to the rafters, exploded with joy. The heavy favorites, Goggins and Jacoby, had been upset. I glared at the guy. Dave was upset and in real pain as he held his damaged arm. I didn’t know what to say so I hugged him. Paybacks are hell and the next year a righteous and vengeful Jacoby lifted at the World Championships in England. He decimated the field one final time. He retired on top. In the 275 pound class my protégé Kirk Karwoski destroyed the best competition the world had to offer. He dispatched the others with such ridiculous ease it was anticlimactic. This would be the 1st of ten straight IPF Titles for him. It was fitting that I was there: his win was the culmination of six years working together. We truly collaborated over the years: he was the ideal student. Engaged and inquisitive, he was never defensive or entrenched. Karwoski was always receptive and willing to try new things. His home brewed training had taken him to a certain level, a high level to be sure, but he knew that if he were to leap into the Big Leagues he would need to up his game to an entirely new level. The methodology needed to accomplish that lay outside his knowledge base. I told him upfront that all his exercise techniques would need to be revamped, his training template would be tossed in the trash can and his nutrition would need to be “squared up.” He wanted it bad enough to comply. I started him off on what I would call “Modified For complete information on Marty Gallagher’s The Purposeful Primitive, or to purchase the physical book, visit http://www.dragondoor.com/b37.html now
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