USAPL NATIONALS 2022: RUSS VS SEAN

[@barbellbrigade]

Hope you guys enjoy vlogs on the channel! We will be filming a lot more meet ups with friends and events in a more personal way for y'all!

[@sarthakchavan8613]

This is awesome, thank you for covering the event

[@TimC19]

Thanks man we really enjoyed it. 45 min of great content

[@jettaletta]

man this feels like some OG barbell brigade vibes. need more !

[@DaOtisElevator]

It’s not a rivalry when the same person always wins lol

[@bigmike0000000]

Sean doesn’t even come in second place most of the time

[@convstar2433]

Fr, Sean ALWAYS underperforms at his meets or whenever we are told to prepare ‘for something big’, he’s no longer second place anymore either

[@shhitstheazn]

wish there was more USAPL content like this. this literally happened last night and you already uploaded 40mins of content today. thanks so much guys!

[@alexl9330]

those start and press commands for Sean were insanely long

[@Aguynearu]

They were waiting for Sean’s arm to straighten before the down command

[@Aguynearu]

@@scumxixprobably cause it was sinking a bit I have to slow down video to see

[@stephen_nicholson_iii3549]

The amount the bar has to travel on the benxh for Russ compared to Sean is kinda crazy. Almost feels unfair but I get that's just how it is

[@AnthonyCuocco]

agreed the difference is mind blowing!

[@williambittner4601]

Amazing how it only gave hime a 16.5kg advantage on bench.

[@offthewall9467]

deadlift too lolll

[@markyelwell995]

@@williambittner4601 16.5kg is huge

[@khailephd]

Well it comes with a trade off. Because of how technical Sean is everything has to be just right and it rarely is

[@J0EMOMMA62]

Put respect on Angelo. He clutched a third deadlift to take second place!

[@catedoge3206]

ye mans deadlift really skyrocketin with his frog stance. YUH

[@joelbailey7402]

He wasnt giving the start command for Sean bc his butt wasnt down. you can see it clearly in the second attempt. And in both the 2nd and the 3rd you can see that the side judge still hadnt signaled that he was good to start. And those are the judges that are looking to see if your butt is on the pad. Not the judges' faults.

[@rexlabis146]

Should be renamed "Instigating at 2022 USAPL Nationals" lmao

[@nathannguyen6683]

bart is the biggest instigator 😂😂

[@RedmonBorinezAlt]

Ohh I'm hyped to watch this. Getting the popcorn out 🍿

[@BasementBrandon]

I ENJOYED THIS

[@JohnSmith-lf9fi]

30:06 you were so off I was laughing not even close in any regard

[@Genghisrex21]

This is probably my favorite video you guys have ever made lol. Was hyped for this meet.

[@KatieLizbeth]

naww give some love to Angelo who swooped into 2nd with his last deadlift!!

[@bryantabut]

There goes Bart again not watching any movies. How do you not know what Quidditch is? LOL. Loved the video as always.

[@djsm028]

The back of my head made it in a Bart Kwan / BB video. My life is complete.

[@boozbottle]

Unless Sean fixes his execution on his bench press he will never be able to compete against Russ. He hit 497 with a pause and was able to tempo 485 this prep but only hits 450 in comp. If he was able to hit his top end for bench he certainly woulda tried to pull for the win on deads.

[@danieltran9423]

Sean causally wearing a Versace rob and Russ pulls up in a fur coat. LOL GOATS

[@Natebodybreak]

I'm surprised no one talks about the height Russ gets at 42:44 my jaw was on the floor

[@thebarbellbackpacker]

*Russ versus Angelo.

[@ediot6969]

Very loosely quoting Daniel Cormier: Not much of a rivalry if only one guy is doing all the winning. Edit: Sean was booted out of 2nd by Fortino.

[@space1104]

the part where you talked about russ being ahead 40 pounds on squad but sean only got 628 vs 706 i was like hol up that math aint adding up

[@WafiKhanjerMusic]

4:04 "Obviously, I'm not here to take second place" Yeah you're here to take third mate😂

[@TheMLGHunter]

Looks like you left a little before Angelo pulled into 2nd with 787 lbs unfortunately. It was a great deadlift!

[@xnotmarcox]

I’m new to this sport. Why is Angelo not covered as much?

[@Ksnydes12]

​@@xnotmarcox everyone thinks about Russ vs Sean is why and they forget about Angelo. That will all change now that he beat Sean this year. If Angelo can get his bench up, he will have the ability to be number one in the class.

[@shhitstheazn]

@@xnotmarcox Until recently, everybody below Russ was far behind him.

[@NadeemHamidy]

My shirt tho 👀👀

[@stefanmccrae]

Silent mike is me 😂😂

[@slightlynsfw]

"Nadeem where are you? are you at the 2021 one?" lmfao anyways i always knew Russ gonna win, he's just a freak and i admire Seans hookgrip i wish i can pull like that, grip strength is insane

[@kylemitchell2367]

This beats the offical USAPL recording quality. USAPL looks dank af on their own posts. Barbell media incoming.

[@ziyaadsam008]

Bart recording the screen with the audio of the crowd and music , has x9000 more hype than the actual and boring stream

[@Ksnydes12]

man I wish you caught Angelo's deadlift to place second in the class

[@freshnation8114]

Didn’t realize how wide Sean’s stance is on squats till recently

[@masonromo4809]

I'm so confused on the Russ and Sean battle because Russ out lifts Sean in 2/3 lifts if I'm correct

[@ryankim9203]

look at this electricity !!! So dope to see this online yo

[@bendelgado]

The kinda content we need more of

[@jetjames420]

20:30 Elvis is in the building it's time to powerlift

[@michelle-jaelisrael3869]

Loved the commentary and vlog! Super entertaining

[@sebass4011]

No hate but Russ is light years ahead of Sean. He doesn’t have excessive arch of his back and pulls conventional😂.

[@shhitstheazn]

He is indeed ahead of Sean, but pulling conventional and no arch is irrelevant because he doesn't get bonus points in comp for doing it. If Russ was stronger sumo, he would be pulling sumo.

[@mohamadafiq1093]

Looking forward to the Jesus Olivares vs Ray Williams battle in the future.

[@alexwelch1520]

Russ had a hip injury with squatting he had to rehab with during prep from his KZbin channel. Just amazing what he was able to do

[@whoiswarejr6511]

I agree I wanted to know why they had him hold the bar too long.

[@ripthumbsies4341]

i mean he was right, he didn’t take 2nd, homie got 3rd 😹

[@daniellereading8308]

When I want to get hyped to go to the gym I'll just rewatch that part where the whole crowd goes fucking bananas after Russ' third deadlift!

[@yathesht1]

The day Sean hits 9/9 he’ll have a very great chance to get #1. I love and follow both the lifters though 🤩

[@KizaWittaker]

Not really, because Russ usually leaves a lot of weight on the platform. Also, because of Seans form, he really never will hit 9/9, and he will continue getting hurt.

[@jjds99]

Bary and nadeem wearing new bb shirts???

[@ClimbingCaed]

Yessssss I love these

[@Mr.Armstrong9999]

Russ drop the bar on the BEAT LITERALLY!!! Ain’t no comparison to Russ.

[@NadeemHamidy]

That was so hyped to watch live. When the beat dropped and everyone went crazy

[@Mr.Armstrong9999]

@@NadeemHamidy Yessir!!! We gone talk when I see you back in BB bro!

[@henrypacey7521]

my man, had him doing 3ct pauses lmao

[@liftordie777]

It’s so funny how 99% of people do not understand competition powerlifting benchpress rules… IT DOES NOT MATTER how long you hold the bar outright or how long it is on your chest. That timing is irrelevant by itself… You have to start with the bar locked out over you, MOTIONLESS and under FULL CONTROL. Same on your chest, it has to be motionless for 1-second WHILE touching your chest. It can be touching your chest for ten seconds while shifting n bouncing around but you should never get a press command until it is motionless on your chest for a full second. It’s similar at the top too, it has to be under control, not just elbows at lockout. Elbows and timing are irrelevant by themselves. Sean is an arch-bencher, not a power-bencher with full RoM. You see that issue OFTEN with arch-benchers. They cant support the weight they are trying to lift. That bar was sinking and moving at the beginning big time… That ref made the 100% correct call and I’d argue that he hardly deserved the Start command that he got for the second two attempts. Sean is A BEAST 100%, but the ref got it right. It’s not about timing in bench, it’s about the motion/control of the bar…

[@brentsie]

What an honor

[@alvinsphan]

omgggggg Brent I can't believe you're on the vlog!!!

[@jiffjifferson5365]

excellent interpreter

[@Don8088]

It’s Russ vs Angelo now 👍🏼

[@redrider132001]

Massive arch and 2 inch ROM on bench will always be lame as hell. Ik its allowed but still. Atleast Russ and the other dude had normal looking benches.

[@Protein33]

What about the sumo lift joke.

[@MarkersHunt3r]

that shirt thats the type shit i need bored of the plane ones🤤

[@andyheilmann1656]

The carpet in that conference center is way to nice I would have hosted it in a nice highschool gym or something with more bleachers on both sides

[@jesseperez-simmons2555]

Shout-out to the guy JamaRR getting some love in this video!

[@1992pv]

Did y'all meet the beast James Vang? He's a monster.

[@Doggomorph]

Only hope ipf and usapl can coexist

[@pmart1023]

34:24 man, I don’t know if Sean is doing something that I can’t catch, but the pauses that the judge make him take are way higher then the rest of the lifters…

[@pmart1023]

34:50 I’ve should have waited till the end to comment… but it was annoying me. yep definitely

[@sunnysaenngarm5375]

i was watching this live and the commentators said that sean has a tendency to actually float the bar on his chest or something like that so his left arm usually has to sink the bar a bit lower to make it look like the bar came into contact with his chest

[@spliffzombonie]

@@pmart1023 Sean has the tendency to just hover the bar, so some side judges might see it hovering.

[@andresruval]

Pause at 31:50 his butt isnt toucjing the bench

[@dorianhernandez4762]

Soooo when could we see the shirts Bart and Nadeem had on release? 👀

[@CapslockActive]

Bro Sean was shaky asf, it is nothing bad, but I understand the Referee

[@eanlum8220]

Didn’t Sean come third? Think Angelo placed second.

[@michaelroskellpl]

Yeah Angelo pulled the American record and got 2nd by 0.5kg

[@Aguynearu]

@@michaelroskellpl usapl record* overall national record is 800+

[@jareddonaldson9249]

I get that you may have a bias but Sean should really just modify his form enough to make sure it cannot be questioned by the judges. He has a habit of hovering the bar over his chest and his butt rises up. The judge is not gonna give the signal to lift if he isn't seeing what he needs to.

[@leinad95]

Where’s the girl

[@turkishdelight6032]

Is Sean going to teach Bart the rainbow arch and the full splits deadlift?

[@anthonyzhang4918]

I agree, Nori got super long pauses for some reason

[@asadhassan509]

The ending with everyone jumping and celebrating that hype was against and seeing Steven Pham yell and fan out as his dietitian is use pure joy

[@Pewdieguey]

Wow looks Hella fun…. Elvis was there also? Wtf 💥💥💪🏽🚀🚀

[@didiervassou9588]

Where is Angelo?

[@mr.biglow7674]

💪🏿💪🏿💯💯💪🏿💯💪🏿💯💪🏿💯💪🏿💯💪🏿

[@phamaaron]

I know people say sean is super technical, but that squat, genuinely looks painful, and not that stable, all of Russ’s lifts look stable and very clean

[@nosfw3305]

Sorry man but I'm on the Angelo vs Russ hypetrain

[@ThiefLlama]

How can this even be called a rivalry 😬

[@KizaWittaker]

How is this Russ vs Sean when Sean got 3rd?

[@johnsantiago8781]

yeh sean is technical and has strong squat bench n dead but his squat descent is unstable...

[@DENAwarriors]

Sean’s bench rom is booboo

[@renaereps]

This was incredible! Def feel bad for Sean with those bench commands though.

[@jareddonaldson9249]

Why feel bad? He needs to get his technique down in competition. If you look closely you can see his butt coming off the bench.

[@renaereps]

@@jareddonaldson9249 after watching Seans video it definitely makes more sense why he had such long pauses before the commands.

[@jareddonaldson9249]

@@renaereps ik it's gonna be hard because he's perfected his craft one way but he may need to adjust his technique enough that the judges have no doubt and he can just press without having to worry about waiting forever for commands.

[@jayhwang17]

Russ got that Wayne Brady hairline

[@SLouiss]

Did SSJ Bobb compete?

[@TimothyHer006]

That russ guy is pretty strong

[@striker5795]

im no top tier powerlifter, but I feel like Sean's stance is hella wide for squat.

[@kdtune33]

RO the dominator.

[@hihoian]

Oh shit. Went to school with the guy at 15min.

[@AnthonyCuocco]

RUSS THE GOAT MAN!!!!!

[@michael43567]

I still don't know why a pause on the bench is necessary. It really should be touch & go. The reason may be "to ensure there's no cheating", but then why isn't a pause on the squat required?

[@1flou3]

because there's a depth requirement on squats

[@michael43567]

@@1flou3 wouldn't it be easier to judge if they made lifters go all the way down, pause then come up? Like in bench? So my point is the Squat & bench should have a similar metric. Neither should require a pause. But if you pause one, the other should be paused too

[@1flou3]

@@michael43567 where is "all the way down" in a squat? the depth of a squat is very different for every single person. some people can barely break paralel and other ones are just shy of touching the floor.

[@michael43567]

@@1flou3 ass to grass. When your hamstring touches your calf. Why do we seem to have a lot more acceptance for depth, form etc in squat, but not in bench? For bench we ALL have to ensure the bar touches the chest. So in squat why don't we ensure the hamstring touches the calf? There should be more consistency.

[@1flou3]

@@michael43567 because there's a shitload of people that are literally not capable of doing that anatomically. just of curiosity, is noriegas squat depth fine? and for most shw guy touching the calves with the hamstrings would mean to bend the knee a little bit becausr they have so much meat there

[@CadenFrisbyyyy]

“Not him it’s the judges” shut up bro

[@Ronin-kk4bt]

Russ is a beast!!

[@mrrod6095]

Roided cheat...

[@sunnytian4765]

Sean: hits 3rd attempt Clarity by Zedd has entered the chat

[@davidasmith87]

I have the same bulls shirt and I won’t wear it cause it’s mint and worth $$$

[@gerald500]

Bro the judge be taking too long to give the go for the bench..

[@EagleHandsJonny]

Why usapl vs ipf?

[@joshv2324]

RUSSSSSSS

[@phillipdasilva1154]

Russ is just something else.... 💪🔥

[@mrrod6095]

He is roided...

[@michael43567]

Sean definitely got a longer pause than Russel on the bench

[@jxstsxint8206]

Because of his technique

[@DaOtisElevator]

What’s even funnier is Sean didn’t even come in 2nd, this ain’t no rivalry LMAO

[@cbk1286]

And then Angelo fortino pulled.

[@johnsantiago8781]

amount of yall team nori staaannss ca suck it... got beat again.. 2 white lights lets gooooo

[@thatguyt1086]

42:41 there’s always one hater in the crowd

[@jordanmccoy1099]

I definitely noticed how they fucked Sean with bench commands and I’m ma for him, but Russ caught the Holy Ghost on that deadlift man, gracious!

[@leinad95]

Lmao like 1-10