Piece of the Platform – Volume 4
Welcome to piece of the platform. As Athletes ourselves and as Technical Officials, we’re really lucky that we get to spend time with, know, work or train alongside some really fantastic people from within the weightlifting community. We’re even luckier still that some of those people have agreed to a take part in our mini interviews, that we’ve coined ‘Piece of the Platform’.
We’ve reached out to Coaches, Technical Officials, BWL staff, Athletes and volunteers, and we’ve asked them all some variation of the same 4 questions. The answers we’ve had back have been inspiring, funny, helpful and thought provoking – so we’ve collated them here, as an addendum to the learning resources, to pool that collective knowledge and advice in the hope that you’ll enjoy reading them just as much as we did.
Khrys Speed – Coach, Athlete & Owner at Ronin Strength
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What’s your favourite thing about weightlifting ?
You can measure progress very clearly, other sports are hard to measure whether you’re truly better; especially team sports.
What one piece of advice would you give to athletes about competition?
t’s not that serious, the more pressure you put on yourself and the more you worry about what others think the less you’ll enjoy the experience. You’re there to compete to see where you’re at and better yourself and to have fun, so try to enjoy it and not take it too seriously.
What do you think BWL and the Technical Officials do well, and what could we do better?
Effort, consistency and effort, I see almost the same people at the very comp putting in a big shift for the whole weekend. It’s great to see people commit to trying to push the sport and make competitions happen. We need to pay TO’s and comps staff better and get new people into it, the sport only grows if competitions and if there are more of them. That only happens if we have more of you.
If you could ask your favourite lifter one question, who are they and what would that be?
Klokov, what motivated you to train after you finished competing ?