Powerlifting News
Welcome to the Melbourne University Weightlifting & Powerlifting Club (MUWPC) website. Here you will find the latest news and information about the Club and the sport of powerlifting.
Competition Preparation Session
January 23, 2010
Thursday 11th of February 2010 (8pm)
An information and preparation session is being held for all those entering the February novice competition and anyone who’s after some extra comp day tips. Topics to be covered include: general comp proceedings, what to bring, what to wear, putting on bench shirts, squat/DL suits and knee wraps, making weight and much more.
Please read the information provided by Chris Seville in our Members’ Resources section beforehand (especially if this is your 1st or 2nd comp). The session will start at 8pm sharp, so if you wish to be involved, please get to training early so you’ll be finished in time (particularly if you are doing your DL doubles in a suit as it always takes longer than you think).
Please note:
- Experienced lifters who will be helping instruct during the session: Please bring anything you think will be of use.
- New lifters: If you want us to check your comp gear before the day, please make sure you bring everything you think you’ll use.
-Dave
Australia Day Opening Hours
January 20, 2010
There will be restricted gym opening this Tuesday 26th of January 2010:
Australia Day Gym Opening Hours: 9am – 5pm
Welcome back MUWPC members!
January 4, 2010
Happy New Year everyone! I hope all those who are mid-cycle trained well over the holidays and everyone else is fresh after a good break. Training has well and truly started again and anyone who is looking to sign up or renew their membership will find the new forms and all the details up on the website soon. We are hoping to keep the website regularly updated this year so this is the first place you should look for all club and training information. I’d also like to take this opportunity to congratulate and introduce the 2010 club committee:
President – David Jame
Vice-President – Alistair Ballie
Treasurer/Public Officer – Chris Schaerf
Secretary – Chris Seville
Head Coach – Robert Wilks
Membership Officers – Andrew Clark and Michael Censori
Student MUSA Representatives – Adam Trudgen and Michael Censori
Social Coordinator – Minh Nguyen
Web Master – Noah Hannibal
General Committee – Fiore Inglese
A special thanks also to Mike Censori for his excellent work with the drinks.
Best of luck to all in reaching your goals for 2010 and I’ll see you in the gym!
-Dave
Parmas, Pots and Pool at P.A.’s!
December 21, 2009
Thanks to everyone who made an appearance at the ’09 MUWPC X-mas break-up function! After the last training session for the year a crew of 17 club members wandered down to the aptly chosen P.A.’s (Prince Alfred Hotel) to celebrate another great year for the MUWPC. Fortunately we got in just before the kitchen closed so the club was able to put on enough parmas and ‘barley sodas’ to keep everyone happy. We then made use of the pool tables to run a little knock-out pool tournament. Competitive spirits soon took over with almost everyone throwing their hat in the ring; even our enigmatic leader Robert Wilks joined in to make it a more distinguished affair.
Unfortunately as Robert rarely dabbles in the pastimes of “riff-raff”, his pool was about on par with his current squat technique and hence he was easily bundled out by Fiore in the first match. Despite there being some impressive cameos, the early favourites like “son-of-a-pool-shark” Mike Censori failed at the final hurdle and it came down to Fiore and Luke. Fiore, the wily veteran, used all his guile and cunning throughout the tournament – including drawing Wilks in the first round and getting a bye in the second – however, when it comes to riff-raff and their pursuits, there can only be one king, and, with victory to prove it, that title belongs to Luke.
I hope this was written in a suitably Wilksesque manner to match Robert’s comp summaries, but on a more serious note, I would like to thank everyone who helped out throughout the year with a special thanks to those who have put their hands up for committee positions in 2010. So congratulations to Luke Bainbridge, our current club pool champion, let’s hope we get to do it all again soon!
-Dave
Ripped Off In Sydney!
November 30, 2009
Melbourne Uni at the Matti Tikka Competition
A huge 2-day Matti Tikka end of year competition in Sydney from November 21-22 saw 5 Melbourne Uni lifters venture north to take on 50 other competitiors and tropical heat to record 4 personal bests and the one obligatory disaster.
Ripped off in Sydney
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New Club T-shirts!
August 26, 2009
To order a t-shirt contact cschaerf@powerlifting.net.au
The MUWPC nationals team wearing the new club t-shirts and displaying the ‘Best Club – Men’ trophy which Melbourne University won for the 3rd consecutive year.
MUWPC powerlifters wearing the new t-shirts
Australian Powerlifting Championships
July 19, 2009
Seventeen lifters from Melbourne University took part at the 2009 Australian Powerlifting Championships and so probability was on our side. Three winners and a host of placings meant that the club took out the Best Club Men for the third time in the three years it has been awarded (and probably the 15th plus time if the scores from the 1991 beginning of the new era of Powerlifting were all added up). However in the Women’s classes Melbourne Uni was absent bar 72 year old Sonja Rutherford pulling off third in the 67.5kg class. I wonder why it is that women don’t seem to last long in the intellectual hotpot that is the Melbourne University gym?
Chris Seville squatting his way to a win in the 82.5kg class
Anyway, in the “Classic” (ha) competition Alistair Baillie improved to 507.5kg at 75kg to win the coveted “Best LeftOver” trophy (which for some strange reason also seems to always go to Melbourne Uni). Another standout Melbourne Uni Leftover was Garish Shanker with 542.5kg at 90kg, after obliterating precious brain cells on the bar and still doing a best total despite suffering a concussion the severity of which was demonstrated by his choices later in the evening. And then we had Simon the Likeable Close with 475kg at 82.5kg. Greg Peiris also in his first comp at 100kg and ancient John Rutherford, still battling on with 437.5 at 82.5kg.
On to the Championships proper and an ignominious start with Minh Nguyen stone motherless last in the 67.5kg class – yet Minh’s 512.5kg was 20kg above his best and he did not fall over on any of his lifts, nor have to be cut out of any suits, so it was all good. Survival is the name of the game for Neville Harris at this stage and he nursed himself through to a hardy win at 75kg. The pace quickened in the 82.5kg class where Chris Seville was steady in never really being threatened for a win with 662.5kg Read the rest of this entry »
Global One Challenge Report
June 13, 2009
Vegies, Vegies, Vegies everywhere! The beginners contest at new gym Global One saw the gathering of no less than four of the world’s rarest creatures – Vegetarian Powerlifters! – in one place. What’s more, head of the Patch Noah Hannibal won Best Lifter! Noah totalled an improved 600kg, including a big 170kg bench and a slightly dubious 230kg deadlift.
Joel Kirkilis squatting
The other three of the beltless (no leather) four included newcomer Joel Kirkilis. Near-crippled by a background in bodybuilding, Joel began his journey into the light with a promising 500kg total. Luke-spawn Andrew Clark was surprisingly together on seven successful attempts, whilst tardy trainee Patrick Virtue was unsurprisingly untogether in a battling 4-success 307½ kg. Read the rest of this entry »
Competition Results
April 8, 2009
Fifteen lifters, 14 Personal Best totals and one Disaster. That was the score for Melbourne University at the Australian Junior Championships and Intervarsity on April 4th.
Best lifters for us were, firstly, Con Barbakos, who improved an overdue 40kg with 790kg at 125 and set three club records (Squat 290kg, Bench 220kg and Total). Just behind him in that class was Luke Bainbridge, who broke the one record Con missed with Deadlift 293.5kg. To confuse things even more Luke broke Con’s old Australian Junior Records for Total and Deadlift! The other worldly Chung Wai mystified again, breaking the Australian Junior Total record with 553.5kg, not that Chung would know, and setting a 137.5kg Bench Press club record.
Chung Wai on the bench
Next top performances came from Chris Seville, 9 out of 9 attempts for another 40kg jump, with more to come at the Australian Championships. Also with a top performance former Club Bad Boy Neville Harris celebrated his return to the fold with a best of 670kg at 75kg, many years after he first breached those dizzy heights. Read the rest of this entry »
Welcome
March 25, 2009
Welcome to the new Melbourne University Weightlifting & Powerlifting Club website. Here you will find the latest news and information about the Club and the sport of powerlifting.