USAWA

By Bill Clark

This is a two day Affair with a party on Saturday night and a Sunday afternoon pigout at Golden Corral.  The weekend is being used to honor 10 or so folks who were the foundation blocks on which the USAWA was built-and a special lift that was a trademark of those being honored.

The Lifts:

1-Steinborn Lift – To honor Henry “Milo” Steinborn, who was never defeated in his namesake lift.

2-Zercher lift – To honor Ed Senior, a true strongman

3-Harness Lift-Harness lift – To honor Steve Schmidt, still the best ever in the heaviest of all lifts.

4-Hip Lift – To honor John Carter, still the best with the hip belt.

5-Hand and Thigh – To Joe Garcia, still the best ever with the knuckle-buster.

6-Neck Lift – To honor Kerry Clark, who helped design the first USAWA rule book and is still the best ever female in the neck harness.

7-Miller clean and Jerk – To honor Wilbur Miller for all he did for lifting’s every aspect

8-Heels together Deadlift-To honor Art Montini, not only for his deadlifting ability, but his prowess with the hip belt

9-Left Hand Deadlift -To honor Rex Monahan, still the best in his specialty, and the guy who saved more than one meet director with his contributions.

10-Right hand Deadlift- To honor Frank Ciavattone, still the leader in the 1 hand deadlift world and promoter of the sport since day one.

11-Rampage-All the reps you can do with a weight of your choice in the Clean and Press-Heels together in one minute.  To honor two: John Grimek, the greatest all-rounder/odd lifter of all time and Tony Cook from England who joined with me in December 1986 to organize the IAWA, the parent of the USAWA.

It will be a fun weekend. Several still active will be on hand.  Lift in all of the events for a trophy of some kind, lift in those that are fun, or just show up and visit with the crowd and don’t lift anything unless it is a fork and spoon at the food bash.

There will be no entry fee.