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Yes, I tried not to, but I totally fan-girled Tommy Kono at the TK Open - VIII last weekend at the meet.

For those of you who do not know this man, check out www.tommykono.com and learn the history that is legend.

Tommy Kono, now 83, still travels from Hawaii to the mainland once a year to host this event and then holds a clinic the day after.

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TGIF!

What does Olympic lifting, a curious soon-to-be sports psychologist, Dan John and whiskey picklebacks all have in common?

Read this to find out:

http://coachstevo.com/blog/last-at-first

Photo cred: StevO

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Andrea Searby snatch technique work 85%x1x8.

We’ve been working hard at getting Andrea to stay back during the finish of her pull. Things are really starting to come together putting her on the fast track to some larger numbers in the not too distant future.

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Will Rawlings, owner of Superior Athletic Advantage, visits us from my hometown in Barrington, IL.

Here he is clean pulling 505lbs/230kg. He does a couple bonus shrugs to finish. NBD.

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D’Angelo Osorio (@ooosorio), age 20, snatching just 3kg under the junior American record (341lbs/155kg) at the Jr. Pan American Championships.

D’Angelo is a resident athlete at the Olympic Training Center and a 2016 Olympic hopeful.

Let’s show him and fellow teammate Ian Wilson (@iwilson1894) some love. You can follow these two on their IG feed where they like to post about their on-goings in world of weightlifting.

Ian Wilson, USA Team Member, snatches 341lbs/155kg and clean&jerks 418lbs/190kg at the Tommy Kono Open this past weekend in Sacramento, California.

Here he is taking his last few warm-ups before stepping out onto the big platform.

Oh, btw, did I mention he’s 19? Rockstar.

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Highlight reel from yesterday’s Tommy Kono Open in Sacramento, CA.

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A little late on the post today, but team FuBarbell just got done at the Tommy Kono Open - VIII in Sacramento, CA.

Everyone did a great job today fighting gravity. Congratulations goes out to StevO and Brandon for their inaugural meet. A huge thanks to Captain Pat (@paddygriffin) for doing a fantastic job co-coaching. And last, but not least, congratulations to Kristin Newman (@dancefightlift) for qualifying for The American Open and doing it on her first meet back!

FuBarbell seminars are up for the remainder of 2013!

For an event near you, check out:

www.FuBarbell.com/Events

We are in process of coordinating the first quarter of 2014. There will be more events heading out towards the East and Northeast as soon as we solidify some dates.

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Here’s a follow-up to yesterday’s hook grip post. We had a lot of good feedback regarding the information and also had a few questions that popped through enough times that I felt warranted a post in and of itself.

The questions were:

1. Hook gripping with smaller hands — is it possible my hands are too small?

2. Hook gripping while dead lifting — yay or nay?

Here are my responses to both: